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by gaazoh 1071 days ago
The landing page (and only page, AFAICT) severely lacks information. I have a rough idea of what I'm looking at, but for the most part, all I can do is guess. The "demo" (not really a demo, but an example) can answer some questions, but not all and only partially.

What are the use cases? Forums, apparently, from the example, but what about comments for articles/blog posts? How does it integrate in my website? What license/user agreement does it use? What is the tech stack my server needs to support to deploy Muny? Does Muny handle accounts, or is that left to websites that integrate it? Do users even need an account to comment/post? What admin/moderation tools can I count on? How deep does the conversation trees go (the most active post in the example only has 13 comments, with root comments and answers to these, but can you comment on a comment?)? What does the UI look like? Is it customizable, and if so, to what extent? Functionality wise? Style wise?

"Find answers. Ask questions. Grow your community. Together!" is definitely not enough to have me considering using this product, or request early access.

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Thanks @gaazoh for your feedback! I understand the lack of information on the website, I'll answer in points here:

The use cases is forums, similar to GitHub Discussions or Discourse.org

The conversation tree consists of Discussions and comments in each discussion. You can reply to a comment and start a thread (but no nested replies)

Muny can not be hosted on your own servers at the moment, we handle accounts ourselves. You need an account to comment or post a reply. But we do support importing existing data from Github Discussions or Discourse.org (The Plausible demo for example is imported from Github Discussions)

The UI cannot be customised at the moment.

Thanks again for the feedback, the idea is still evolving and these are some really good questions for me for product direction.