learn-ruby-and-cs VS Discourse

For ideas on what to study next, you could take a look at my list of learning resources that I've been building up over these two years: https://github.com/fpsvogel/learn-ruby-and-cs

Here's a list of mostly Ruby and Rails learning resources that I've been building up, using it to keep track of my own learning path: https://github.com/fpsvogel/learn-ruby-and-cs. I hope it gives you some ideas!

Set goals. Identify one or two areas where you want to improve, and focus on those. For me it helps that I already have lots to choose from in my "Learning Ruby" list, which I've been building up for the past two years.

For lots more suggested resources, see this list which I've been keeping up since I started learning Ruby two years ago: https://github.com/fpsvogel/learn-ruby-and-cs

If you're starting from zero knowledge of Rails, I think the best starting point is the Rails for Beginners video series by GoRails. Then after that you can branch out to more specific tutorials (e.g. Stripe, like someone already mentioned), and at some point it'd be good to dive deeper into Ruby and Rails (here's a list of resources that I've made for that).

Rails for Beginners by GoRails is an amazing (and free!) way to learn the basics, but as a beginner myself I've found that a lot of the content on GoRails is a bit too advanced to be immediately useful. I've been keeping a list of resources that have been helpful to me, which may be useful to you: https://github.com/fpsvogel/learn-ruby-and-cs

Rails for Beginners by GoRails is a great intro that doesn't take long. From there, googling "rails + graphql" should get you the rest of the way. If you want to firm up your Ruby or Rails knowledge after that, see the resources I've listed at https://github.com/fpsvogel/learn-ruby-and-cs.

I've been compiling a list of resources ever since I started learning Ruby two years ago: https://github.com/fpsvogel/learn-ruby-and-cs. It's long but I try to include only resources that I really liked, or (in the case of to-do items) that look compelling.

Here's my roadmap that I keep up to date: https://github.com/fpsvogel/learn-ruby-and-cs. I started learning Ruby two years ago, and earlier this year I got my first dev job in Rails.

Here are a bunch of learning resources that I've been compiling into a list, which may be useful to you. They're not organized by concept like you propose, but for me the easiest way to learn was to do a tutorial/book or two, then build a project, then repeat. That way I learned the concepts without having to map them out, though I've made lots of notes on different concepts along the way.

> Tell me another platform that is free, has realtime chat, voice and video, has stable service, allows sharing images and other media, with good ownership management... and is open source.

Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/

Rocket.Chat: https://www.rocket.chat/

Nextcloud Talk: https://nextcloud.com/talk/

Self hosting and some assembly required. I've run all of them on cheap VPSes to explore a Slack/Discord replacement, neither was mindblowing but all of them seemed okay (Nextcloud's offering was rather barebones, though).

Audio and video support varies because getting those right is challenging, at best you'd just integrate with something like Jitsi, that one's actually pretty good for meetings and such: https://jitsi.org/ and has a cloud version too: https://meet.jit.si/ (yet people still go for Zoom and it's odd UI/UX choices)

I actually rather liked forums back in the day, but I guess nobody will be setting up that many phpBB instances in the current year, though projects like Discourse also seem promising: https://www.discourse.org/

I don't think many people at all will be leaving Discord, due to how entrenched the platform is (network effect): if you want people to help you with what you're working on, you go where they are, not vice versa.

Discourse is also open source https://github.com/discourse/discourse

I disagree. Lots of communities, e.g. Julia or Stan, use https://www.discourse.org. Discourse is GPL2 and emulates old Internet forums.

Why isn't Discourse being listed here for forum software? It's open source and designed for modern communities. https://www.discourse.org/

Discourse is open source: https://github.com/discourse/discourse

You could hook it up to a mail provider and can host it yourself for less if you wanted.

I was reading mastodon.social's privacy policy, and noticed that the link at the bottom to Discourse's privacy policy links to Discourse's Github. I'm surprised because I thought it would be the privacy policy on discourse.org.

Yep. Any platform run by someone else can kick you off for any reason, and time.

You should consider looking into running discourse, which is a modernized forum software: https://github.com/discourse/discourse

Nice examples of what it looks like:

https://discourse.nixos.org/

https://forum.level1techs.com/

As a bonus, the content and community will be accessible to search engines, so it’s easy to find answers to problems that gave been already been addressed.

In general, consider combining the two, where discourse is the anchor of the community that can’t be yanked out from under you, while discord is the one that sells the data from your players in exchange for free voice and text chat.

It’s also possible to enable logging in with discord credentials https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-discord-login-for-dis...

As well as pushing content from discord to discourse so it’s not hidden and losable: https://blog.discourse.org/2021/05/discord-and-discourse-bet...

So, I'm asking myself if you would be interested in joining a good old-fashioned forum (probably using discourse as software) in order to communicate with other gifted people around the globe. And please add any ideas you might have for a platform like this.