@design_RG I was a little confused on this, are we supposed to be able to log into peertube and that discourse with the same account? Or do we need to make separate ones?
@ramob You will need to create new accounts for the other services -- as there's no integration of user acccounts between them yet.
We suggest using the same username so it's easier to recognize people. 👍️
@design_RG ok thank you! I'll go make one I suppose.
@ramob You are welcome. Don't worry with the Discourse account for now, as the Forums are still broken. A bad version upgrade and everything is knocked off kilter.
Content is safe, hopefully, plus there are backups. Hopefully. 😄
@design_RG haha I'll be sure to avoid that for now then. Anything we can do to help?
>> Anything we can do to help?
Thank you for the offer, but this would depend strictly on someone with Admin permissions to the Forum -- so a very restricted group. This morning excellent news is that the Forums are Back Online.
Freemo discovered the cause was one of the installed plug-ins for Discourse, so turning them all off restored service. Which is great and a lot less work than a full restore or looking for a stable version upgrade (we seem to have the latest Stable release installed, which shouldn't have such a blatant BUG in it after Beta testing).
So, now that it is alive, Everyone can help the Forums by using them -- respond and comment on existing topics, create new ones, ask Questions, learn something new.
Forums have LOTS of features that Mastodon Doesn't have, and likely never will have.
* Enhanced Text Formatting. Bold, Underline, Italicized. Heading Sizes, inline images, etc.
* Pretty Quoted text!
* Clean links to other pages without NAKED URLS like here, which is so much neater looking.
Some of those features, like the text formatting and even the proper discreet links can be done in a MarkDown capable instance -- GlitchSocial and Pleroma ones all can do it.
But even there, you cannot insert an image in-line, in the middle of a block of text where it logically belongs. Forums and Blogs can, which makes them prettier and nicer to read.
