What platform is Qt Forum built on?

JKSH

@BEEDELL-ROKE-JULIAN-LOCKHART said in How do I change my forum username?:

This appears to be a modified version of Discourse

NodeBB actually, which is a competitor to Discourse.

RokeJulianLockhart

@J.Hilk, per the apparently Discourse-specific [quote] syntax utilised at forum.qt.io/post/86078, was this domain originally a Discourse instance? That could explain my original confusion.

SGaist

@RokeJulianLockhart to the best of my knowledge, no. The first release of Discourse was in 2014 and the forum is several years older than that.

Pl45m4

@SGaist

I guess NodeBB just changed heavily since then?
Now every post/topic supports markdown language, but you can see from very very old topics that they use @<code>@ as code tags and also quotes and links from back then don't work anymore.

@RokeJulianLockhart So probably they moved to MD support at some point and had a different text format before that.
(I do not know in what style or format you use "at" characters to indicate inline or block code... maybe somebody knows or it was even something custom)

JKSH

@RokeJulianLockhart said in How do I change my forum username?:

per the apparently Discourse-specific [quote] syntax utilised at forum.qt.io/post/86078, was this domain originally a Discourse instance? That could explain my original confusion.

@Pl45m4 said in How do I change my forum username?:

I guess NodeBB just changed heavily since then?
Now every post/topic supports markdown language, but you can see from very very old topics that they use @<code>@ as code tags and also quotes and links from back then don't work anymore.

In the beginning, the forum used a platform that's basically customized PHP. See the discussion at https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTWEBSITE-137 for a glimpse.

We migrated to NodeBB in early 2015.

RokeJulianLockhart

So probably they moved to MD support at some point and had a different text format before that.

@Pl45m4, [quote] is (unstandardised) Markdown, but not CommonMark, which is a standardised subset. Discourse supports that syntax, which I've yet to observe elsewhere.

Perhaps, it was BBCode?

I do not know in what style or format you use "at" characters to indicate inline or block code... Maybe, somebody knows or it was even something custom.

Undoubtedly. Neither BBCode, nor CM, utilise that.

Pl45m4

@RokeJulianLockhart said in How do I change my forum username?:

Perhaps, it was BBCode?

As per @JKSH, no.

@JKSH said in How do I change my forum username?:

In the beginning, the forum used a platform that's basically customized PHP.

Apparently they used some monstrosity, which was utilizing PHP

RokeJulianLockhart

@Pl45m4, they didn't utilise inline PHP for markup! I presume that they're referring to the backend. They could have utilised any markup syntax they wished.