Possible New Forum Experiment
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I've been working on getting this new forum infrastructure up and running, that has ActivityPub integration. Been running Invision Community for our regular, main forums for quite awhile lately. What I wanted to do was to have something that can easily share out into and from the Fediverse. This is what NodeBB is bringing to the table in a way that is actually pretty easy.
Would this help in bringing new members to the forums, I really can't say but, it could make it easier for people to make their way into the forums and create an account. Another aspect of NodeBB is shrinking the overall feeling of the forums to something more user friendly. Something that I believe that many were feeling with coming into our Invision Community forum. Could I be wrong in that? Probably but, not going to find out without at least trying this new initiative to see how things work out.
In using NodeBB as this new forum software I can and you can as well create and respond to posts and threads from Mastodon, Lemmy, and other ActivityPub homes. This is the main core in why I even started to move over to NodeBB. For this I only hope and believe that by being more involved within the Fediverse would help in bringing more eyes into the content I and everyone else makes and shares.
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