Codingfish
A reference on self-hosted community and marketplace software.
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Validating a feed, and what validators do not catch
Passing the W3C validator means the document is well-formed and conforms. It does not mean readers will show your posts, and the three failures that cost the most subscribers are all legal XML.
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Self-hosted forum software that takes payments itself
Paid membership is the most common reason a community outgrows a free forum. Only a few self-hosted platforms can take the money themselves, and the ones that can differ more in what they make you responsible for than in what they let you sell.
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What imports from what
Which platforms ship an importer and from where — read from the projects’ own repositories, with the cells that cannot be filled honestly left out.
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Migrating a forum without losing its URLs
Building the address inventory, mapping the old scheme to the new one, writing the redirects and proving that each one lands where it should.
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What communities migrate away from
Forty-five named platforms someone wrote an escape route from, sorted by what kind of thing each one is, and what the distribution shows.
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Single sign-on across a forum and a main site
The three mechanisms for sharing one account between two systems, which platforms support them, and the failures that only appear after launch.
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Choosing forum software for a small community
What changes when the room holds thirty people rather than thirty thousand — and why the boring platform usually wins at that size.
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How to create an RSS feed
The elements a reader actually needs, a working Rails implementation, the static-site equivalent, and the mistakes that quietly cost subscribers.