Kinda off-topic, but you guys likely know: is there a "long form" friendly version of something like Slack? Something like the forums we used to have, but with, you know, modern niceties?

Discourse?

That indeed looks like the nicest option.. but it means I'd have to host it myself if I want to avoid paying 100$ per month

Are you thinking about this in terms of.. what we should do for our community, instead of using Slack? If so.. are you aware of the survey? http://bitly.com/foc2020

No, I am asking this for an even smaller community of programmer friends of mine, not for FoC. But large enough that "just use an email thread" gets clumsy, especially with adding people, code etc.

@Wouter a small community i’m part of had this discussion the other month and the general consensus was that a subreddit would get us a really long way to what we wanted, though the stigma of reddit itself would be one of the hardest hurdles to overcome

Are there any open source, or hosted, HN clones?

hah that’s interesting, a couple friends and I have been looking for something like that too

@comma I want this to be private though

@Wouter subreddits can be made private too!

and would prefer not to self-host.. but host has to be somewhat reliable, not some random unknown host

I think lobste.rs is open source.

That’s actually one of the things holding me back from just building it and opening it up to more people…I feel like if you’re going to go through the trouble of having a private/invite only community, having it centrally hosted/owned by someone else would be a downside for privacy reasons

The one thing about a sub-reddit is that it is ordered by votes.. may prefer a place where the discussion is sequential.. among friends, voting is not particularly helpful 🙂

yes and moderators can choose the default sort mode for that subreddit

For the record, a private subreddit sounds ideal for FoC, much better than Slack.

I think you’re looking for https://spectrum.chat