How is this forum made?

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So I like the forum and the design and features, but how is it made? PHP? .Net ? is the code open source or not?

Where can I find more info about it?

Thanks!

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Isn't it made from the mad midnight rambles of a one Wendell?

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That would make perfectly sense!

But I found out it is using in fact http://www.discourse.org/ so anticlimactic.

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Yeah, they discussed this on a Tek episode before upgrading it. The forum was formerly powered by some kind of Drupal stuff, and now it uses a customized version of Discourse. As I understand it they just tweaked it to work with the existing Drupal authentication system, but maybe @wendell can provide more specifics.

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OP it is made of cheese. MMMMMM so good!

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Basicly yes, Wendell did all the technical bits and pieces after the transition over to Discourse.
And i did most of the categories layout.

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So the "Categories" tab didn't exist at all in normal Discourse? Or you improved an existing thing? Either way that's freakin' awesome, props to you and Wendell for pulling that off.

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Did it require any coding to setup?

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Well the category tab did exist.
However wenn we tranfered over from the old forum, there basicly was no category structure at all.
Everything had to be re-organized, and that is basicly one of the things i have done.
I made all the main and sub categories, and moved everything to the right place,
adding certain new categories etc etc.

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Not for the things that i have done to the forum.
I did just most of the re-organizing part of the forum.
But i think that if you just start with Discourse its pretty straight forward.

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Wow, that's pretty cool.

Y'all should do a video on how the site works. It's cool the way Discourse and Drupal plays nice.

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You mean this?

Bit of an old video that Logan did on it.