Is the backend for this website (elixirforum.com) written in Elixir?

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Hi Elixirians,

I am new to Elixir. This question may sound silly, but I want to know whether the backend for this website (elixirforum.com) is written in Elixir?

I am impressed with the amazing load speed of pages in this website, any link in this website loads almost instantaneously !

Thanks

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It’s using a Ruby-based, managed platform called Discourse that can be self-hosted as well.

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As @shanesveller already said, this is a discourse instance.

Though it is not a managed one, but a self-hosted, with a lot of modifications that weren’t available in a managed instance.

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Thank you guys for the swift answers !

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Sure would be cool if it was!

No point in reinventing the wheel though. Discourse is pretty dang awesome from a UX perspective.

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Yeah discourse is awesome. I still wish firestorm would have taken off more. Not just to have for this forum but also so that there’d be a good forum to add to existing elixir applications.

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There was an unfulfilled, crowdsourced attempt to write something comparable with Phoenix that was called Firestorm, but has not seen meaningful activity in a couple years and the backing business is defunct. The repo’s still kicking around if you’re curious.

It’s easy to get bummed out when I imagine how such a project could possibly evolve nowaways with LiveView in the picture.

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