I know this is old school but myBB forums can be a valuable tool for communication and community building. MyBB is good for creating a permanent knowledge base and having deep discussions that are focused on a specific topic. For example, equipment such as a laser cutter would have a separate forum with multiple threads so new users can access a knowledge base to search and ask questions. If real-time chat is needed there are several good plugins for that. MyBB runs on a LAMP stack and would need to be self-hosted.
I heard noisebridge is moving towards a self-hosted Discord replacement. Maybe that would work better if a more open design and multi-channel features are needed.
I assume you're referring to starting a Signal chat. I do use Signal but I
don't think it's anything like a Discord, and a lot of people simply won't use
it and even if they joined a Signal chat they would leave when it was
distracting them. There is a big difference between the way people use Signal
and Discord, and Discord is a much better match for what the Sudoroom
community needs.
Of course there are already a bunch of Sudoroom groups on Signal, some of
which i'm a part of, but they're hidden except to people who are in them, and
no history is kept. Signal exists to protect private conversations, and
community-building requires openness.
-jake
On Wed, 6 Aug 2025, Ethan Hu via sudo-discuss wrote:
> Let's get it started! We can email usernames/phone numbers around until the
> group snowballs. Anyways, I haven't come to any hardware hack nights last
> year either since I'm an undergrad.
>
> As an extension of that, we could revive BACH <
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/BACH> by making an inter-hackerspace
> Signal, which seems more conducive to involvement than the current Discord
> bridged setup.
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM Romy Ilano <romy@snowyla.com> wrote:
>
>> Ethan now that I think of it a big Signal chat would be pretty cool.
>> That’s how a lot of other groups do it. Let me ask around - not sure I can
>> make it to hardware hack night this week (moms in town)
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 30, 2025, at 16:41, Ethan Hu <ethanhu@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> What happened to Noisebridge's BBS? I don't like that they have a Discord.
>> Even a giant Signal chat would be better than that at times.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM Romy Ilano <romy@snowyla.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh wow, so we can use something else? Is it really hard to host it?
>>>
>>> For me I don't want to chat so I don't even want to use turtles. I'd
>>> rather have a bulletin board, the way that Noisebridge used to have.
>>>
>>> Is there a good BBS that's easy to host (I work a full time job) so I
>>> don't have time to do it all...
>>>
>>>
>>> =============================
>>>
>>> Romy Ilano
>>> romy@snowyla.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM Ethan Hu <ethanhu@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why can't we use Matrix or something else FOSS and immune to
>>>> enshittification?
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM Romy Ilano via sudo-discuss <
>>>> sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi I created a test SudoRoom server. It's not to replace turtles but to
>>>>> enhance it!
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Romy
>>>>>
>>>>> =============================
>>>>>
>>>>> Romy Ilano
>>>>> romy@snowyla.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
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