General > General Technical Chat
Migrating the forum to Discourse
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Brumby on March 30, 2020, 01:21:11 am ---It does take a (tiny) bit of effort navigating here and that may require some measure of thought - to understand how to package what you want to say in a post. As has been said above, there is a lot of well thought out material here. What would be absolutely crippling to the value offered here is to make the platform so "engaging" that a flood of useless crap washes in, burying the gems.
--- End quote ---
Would be interesting to compare the average post length (number of words) here vs the best example of a similar technical Discourse forum.
EEVblog:
This tells you a lot:
https://www.discourse.org/about
--- Quote ---Discourse is a from-scratch reboot, an attempt to reimagine what a modern Internet discussion forum should be today, in a world of ubiquitous smartphones, tablets, Facebook, and Twitter.
--- End quote ---
It's been "reimagined" for the Twitter and Facebook generation. Not exactly a trend I'd want to follow.
And the main site blurb:
--- Quote ---Discourse is modern forum software for your community. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more!
--- End quote ---
Jack of all trades and master of none comes to mind.
EEVblog:
And I agree with others, the continued constantly loading endless scrolling page thing is a ridiculous idea for long threads.
BravoV:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 29, 2020, 11:40:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 02:59:35 pm ---I have had this thought for a few years. Wouldn't it make sense to migrate the forum to the Discourse platform?
--- End quote ---
I hate discourse, it's garbage, and doesn't seem at all suited to long term community forum type discussion. It's more of a chat platform from what I gather.
So it's not going to happen, not point even discussing it ......
--- End quote ---
Time to lock the thread ?
amyk:
I looked at some XenForo examples including their site itself, and was a little turned disappointed when they all complained about no JS and had an advert for Google's spywarebrowser.
--- Quote ---JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
--- End quote ---
Maybe it's just the style they use, but in contrast this site works perfectly fine without JS, and I've even used it from one of my 25-year-old Thinkpads. :+1:
I think vBulletin is pretty nice; look at https://www.badcaps.net/forum for an example.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version