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Migrating the forum to Discourse
I wanted a rude username:
Thanks OP for teaching me the name of that forum software I've seen on a few sites.
It has a design feature that I've never been able to understand: it only loads a handful of comments at a time, and you have to scroll to load more. This would seem to break archiving (Wayback Machine or just saving to a file), search (the forum hijacks Ctrl+F to try to make up for it), and other RESTful functions.
I'm afraid I don't have the > 180 IQ required to comprehend the benefits is of such a design. Could you please explain?
Brumby:
--- Quote from: I wanted a rude username on March 30, 2020, 09:59:08 am ---I'm afraid I don't have the < 80 IQ required to believe in the benefits is of such a design. Could you please explain?
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FTFY
PlainName:
--- Quote ---to comprehend the benefits is of such a design
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Not 100% sure but I would imagine it's to prevent, say, 2000-odd messages loading before you get to see the one you want. I previously referred to Ice-T's score thread - I had to turn off notifications for that because it was just too painful loading up when a page was over half full (and that's with this forum's limited message count in a page). It would probably kill not just my PC but my entire network and the local neighbourhood broadband if I clicked the 'all messages' button :)
Anyway, on Disco that wouldn't be a problem because you'd only load what you're actually looking at, yet still be able to instantly navigate anywhere in the thread by a drag of the navigation bar.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 30, 2020, 12:28:59 am ---I don't know how anyone can tolerate the sea of whitespace thing, I know I have sensitive eyes but it causes me physical discomfort to look at, it's like staring into a spotlight trying to read some text printed on the lens.
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Same, so I like that backgrounds in this forum are not plain white.
From my experience, Discourse-based forums also show a lot fewer threads at once, it's annoying as hell when you're browsing topics.
Anyway, I don't see the point. Xenforo looks like a much better alternative, so if Dave decides to switch (and as he said, he'll need help anyway), I'm ok with this one.
Meanwhile, the current solution works. Software just doesn't rust. If it works properly, is stable and can run on any modern hosting service, why change it?
Tom45:
I'd never heard of, or seen, Discourse until this thread.
So I went to their About page and stopped reading as soon as I saw this in their list of "features":
--- Quote ---All the modern amenities you’d expect from a big social website like Twitter or Facebook are present in Discourse
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