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Suggestion: Remove Discourse embed - and simply link to the forum instead. #505

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viktorsmari opened this issue Sep 14, 2019 · 0 comments

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viktorsmari commented Sep 14, 2019

I think embedding a whole website, inside fablabs.io is a massive overkill, making our website slower and consuming a lot of memory from our users browsers.

Problems

  • We are loading an additional website, which slows down the site and uses a lot of memory.
  • We also have a lot of issues related to Discourse integration.
  • Technical debt maintaining the integration.
  • Spam on the forum shows up on the website
  • Confusing users

Solution
Let's simply put a link to the Discourse forum, instead of including the whole website inside fablabs.io.

Benefits

  • Simpler maintenance - we can close all the issues related to Discourse.
  • Our users will thank us for not eating up their computers memory, and our website will be faster.
  • We don't need to clean up SPAM (see screenshot example below).

Here you can see all the issues we have related to Discourse:
https://github.com/fablabbcn/fablabs.io/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+discourse

Spam example:
https://fablabs.io/labs/12355Design4UFabLab
Screenshot:
2019-11-26_17-03-02

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