My school's community is looking for a humane, ideally open-source, tool for organising things like parents pitching in, school events, etc. Like a **very normal-person-friendly** message board.
Any suggestions? Something at least as easy to use as Facebook Groups. I'm able to host services on a VPS.
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Andrew (making toys)
in reply to Ben • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Ben • •@Ben I'm pretty far removed from "normal person" But Friendica does facebook-style events and supports discussion group-esque accounts. It would also allow anyone who already has an existing fedi account to participate.
Maybe it's an over-engibeered solution for what you're looking for though.
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Maddie
in reply to Ben • • •+1 for Discourse, I think it's simple enough to use without looking dated. There might be problems now, I haven't been in the loop for a while.
-1 for Mattermost, unless you'd like something like Slack. It kinda feels clunky, and the developers seem to be restricting the non-paid version, which may not be an issue for your community if small enough, at least not until a couple years of messages. (It is a problem for the server I administrate, we're stuck on an old version.)
Isaac Ji Kuo
in reply to Ben • • •This may sound silly, but since you're already familiar with GoToSocial, why not that? Or maybe Mastodon?
I'm not familiar with GoToSocial's features, but I know with Mastodon you can follow a hashtag.
So you can come up with a hashtag no one is using and say that that's the hashtag to follow and post to for organising the stuff.