Storyden is a platform for building communities. A modern take on oldschool bulletin board forums. Designed to be the community platform for the next era of internet culture.

While looking for Discord alternatives I came across this project which looks like a great alternative for the kinds of Discord servers centered around Open Source projects and organizations. Ones where live chat and voice rooms aren’t the focus.

It’s a combination of forums and knowledge base that would be perfect for this use case.

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
    22·
    4 个月前

    Some kind of weird WebGL error on their site I’ve never seen before.

    Doesn’t load for me.

    LibreWolf doesn’t seem to be offering to activate canvas.

    Oh well.

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        9·
        4 个月前

        You mean why does the site for a forum software need webgl, by which the only reason I can think of is tracking visitors somehow. It’s not like the background landscape on the site is dynamic or something.

        • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
          10·
          4 个月前

          But, background is dynamic. You can see it has some kind of fancy moving dots. It’s totally unnecessary, but clearly WebGL was used for that.

          • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            9·
            4 个月前

            Oh, so it is, hadn’t noticed it at first.

            And, sure enough, disabling webgl in about:config causes the page to throw the error, instead of degrading gracefully. An animation of random dots is not at all necessary to expose about a product that is a web forum.

              • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                1·
                4 个月前

                Once again, something that is absolutely not needed to explain what a forum software is and thus, should degrade gracefully. To a static png or something.

        • southclaws@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          4 个月前

          i added a dumb globe thingy and some useless effects in a mania of creative chaos, not felt a spark of creativity in ages and hate the current site, but you’re right this was stupid, i removed the useless webgl stuff and made it simpler, thanks for the feedback!

          • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            4 个月前

            Thanks!

            It’s not so much about wholly removing webgl contrasted to at least having some sort of fallback that allows the site to be experienced, but thanks again for at least tackling the change.

            • southclaws@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              4 个月前

              yeah I’m usually disciplined with progressive enhancement but not this time, should have been a .webm or .gif lol

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 个月前

      Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.storyden.org (see the browser console for more information).

      • said@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        4 个月前

        Exactly same error for me. I’m glad there are such indicators so I don’t have to waste my time on such a crappy overcomplicated design.

        • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 个月前

          Could be something everyone is blocking in their browsers. I know I use arkenfox. No joy with LibreWolf or Waterfox. I did pull it up in Opera, and it worked ok. I didn’t browse any further than the front page. I only use Opera for paying bills as Firefox, LibreWolf, and Waterfox are set up to block a lot of excess crap, and my utilities love their bullshit webpage candy.