[HN Gopher] Thredded Forums - An engine for Ruby on Rails
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       Thredded Forums - An engine for Ruby on Rails
        
       Author : ksec
       Score  : 75 points
       Date   : 2022-03-04 12:14 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (thredded.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (thredded.org)
        
       | JOnAgain wrote:
       | Thank you. I love discovering things like this on Hacker News.
        
       | jayroh wrote:
       | Did not expect to see this show up on HN today (or ever for that
       | matter).
       | 
       | In any case, I wrote the original code for Thredded and it's
       | since had the stewardship taken on by two very smart and capable
       | gentlemen named Gleb and Tim.
       | 
       | In recognition of the 1.0 release I wrote up a short blog post
       | with a little history and background on the project, and
       | congratulating the 2 guys for their work the last 5+ years.
       | They've done an incredible job, and I only wish we'd all met 5
       | years before.
       | 
       | https://joeloliveira.com/2022/03/04/weeknotes-for-the-week-e...
        
       | animex wrote:
       | Why is it called an "engine"? Is that some new type of gem or
       | package in Rails?
        
         | tomc1985 wrote:
         | They are like gems, but larger in scope and specific to Rails.
         | You might call them plug-ins
        
         | albertgoeswoof wrote:
         | https://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html
        
         | burlesona wrote:
         | Rails has the concept of "engines," roughly small Rails apps
         | that can be embedded in / composed into larger Rails apps.
         | 
         | https://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html
        
       | donio wrote:
       | Despite the name this doesn't actually support proper nested
       | threading in the way we think of it here or on Reddit, does it?
        
         | jayroh wrote:
         | To this point I ask - are Twitter "threads" nested?
        
       | hombre_fatal wrote:
       | Heh, wonder what they used to generate the fake posts/threads in
       | the demo forum.
       | 
       | > Use the online RAM firewall, then you can override the neural
       | protocol!
       | 
       | > You can't parse the JSON without calculating the auxiliary AI
       | pixel!
       | 
       | Super clean and I always love the idea of drop-in forums that
       | integrate with your application.
        
         | nickjj wrote:
         | > Heh, wonder what they used to generate the fake posts/threads
         | in the demo forum.
         | 
         | Just by eyeballing a few of them it looks like the Ruby Faker
         | gem https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker. There's direct
         | references to it such as the Stormtrooper line in
         | https://github.com/faker-
         | ruby/faker/blob/master/doc/movies/s....
        
       | jll29 wrote:
       | Thanks - it looks pretty but in terms of usability I prefer
       | USENET news via Gnus client.
        
         | cyberbanjo wrote:
         | Where do you use USENET? Do you host your own and if so any
         | resources about getting started?
         | 
         | Edit: My curiosity regarding USENET was piqued after seeing
         | DFeed on here, a forum front end to USENET, made for and in use
         | at forums.dlang.org.
         | 
         | https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/
        
           | donio wrote:
           | Not the parent but I use aioe.org for USENET and gmane for
           | mailing list archives via NNTP.
        
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