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A comment on Discourse.

Re:Discourse by karterk on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @08:38PM (#5174434)
I greatly admire what WordPress did for the web; to say that we want to be the WordPress of forums is not a stretch at all.

Going with Ruby (Rails?) is a sane choice from a development point of view, but a lot of shared hosts still only support PHP and a lot of my web design friends are comfortable only with basic FTP-ing. I remember reading some tweets from Jeff from last year, which hinted that he might be stuck with PHP for his next project (which I believe now is Discourse). Nevertheless, it's interesting that they did not go with PHP.

Edit: minor grammar

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Re:Discourse by uses on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @01:27AM (#5175184)
If Discourse takes off and becomes something people want, more and better Ruby hosting options will appear.

With a few killer apps, maybe Ruby will become the next available-everywhere language.

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Re:Discourse by Raphael on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @09:43PM (#5174630)
It's symbiotic, though. WordPress helps keep PHP relevant. People can choose better hosting if they really want to run killer apps in other languages.
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