On May 23, 2015 10:04 PM, "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>         Wouldn't it be possible to start out with one of the excellent free
> forum softwares that are available?  And then at some time, when someone
> volunteers to create a django forum, couldn't they make it so that all the
> content can be easily transferred / imported?
>         Or doesn't django already have forums or forum mods (that could be
> used until we build our own)?
>
> brynn

I hope I don't come off as too aggressive, but site coders aren't magicians.

PHP is not Python etc and while there are existing forum applications already written in Django it'd be more ideal for us to work with the existing models we have on the website than to retrofit another forum app onto the site and pray that it works, then hassle to convert model storage when we need to tweak it.

(It's not even that hard to make a forum: you'd need a backing database and two controllers: a topic controller and a post controller, that pull all of the weight. Bonus points for using ElasticSearch to index it. Only hard thing is a suitable frontend.)