Suggestion: Remove Discourse embed - and simply link to the forum instead.
viktorsmari opened this issue · 0 comments
viktorsmari commented
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:
