Why Forem is Special
summary
Forem is an open-source social network platform that claims to empower community by preventing data hoarding and enabling ownership; it’s built on Ruby on Rails, uses edge caching for global performance, a copy-left license to force openness, and supports Markdown and Liquid templates. The project has about 500 contributors and a core engineering team of ~20, shows concrete collaboration (a pull request with 115 commits and 155 messages), ships a browser-extension proof-of-concept, and is already hosting Dev with more forums and a meta forum rolling out.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:40What is Forem
- 3:02What is Forum
- 5:11Agency
- 7:28Community Software
- 12:26Forum Ecosystem
- 13:16Open Source License
- 14:25Ruby on Rails
- 16:08Expression
- 16:56Multiple identities
- 18:49Flexibility
- 19:40Community
- 22:21Forum
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