Poll: Replace Discourse with the new Sveltekit-based community app

谈笑风生 489 views 1 replies
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Are you in favour of replacing Discourse with new Sveltekit-based community app?

  • Approve
  • Reject

Background:
The current xjtu.men serves a new community app based on Sveltekit, a framework for rapidly developing robust, performant web applications using Svelte.

While Discourse is a mature and feature-rich community app, we often feel it is too heavy. The initial loading time can be quite long in bad network circumstances. The deployment and configuration are quite complex, because of too many features it offer and especially because of the plugin and theme component system.

Discourse is good if you are in a good network condition and you need so many features and customization, while what we need is a community app that just works. We can develop features we need relatively easily thanks to the Sveltekit framework we use, compared to the Ruby on Rails + Emebrjs framework Discourse uses.

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