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Migrating the forum to Discourse
SiliconWizard:
One example of a Discourse-based forum, so people can get an idea: https://forum.kicad.info/
Bud:
I am going to copyright the words "Disagree, Distrust and Disinform" to prevent idiots from using them for another stupid name forums.
tunk:
The OpenWRrt forum is another example: https://forum.openwrt.org/
I did contribute a bit to the old forum, but since they changed to Discourse I've hardly posted anything.
Sal Ammoniac:
--- Quote from: amyk on March 29, 2020, 11:02:27 pm ---I work mostly in software and one thing that really stands out over the years is how much more unnecessarily complex things have gotten, and the worst part of it is that it's almost all self-inflicted: all the younger ones are drawn in by the marketing wank and don't take the time to understand and think about things, they just slap a bunch of bloated libraries together.
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I work in embedded software and even that world, with its often severe hardware constraints, is heading towards more and more complexity with needless layers upon layers of libraries, abstraction layers, and other crap. Some of the tools that try to manage that crap, like ST's STM32CubeIDE and NXP's MCUXpresso are huge, bloated, and incredibly slow to the point where I don't see how anyone can use them efficiently. Kids just coming into the industry from school haven't a clue how to develop for a machine with less than a few gigabytes of memory and a 4 GHz CPU. |O
KE5FX:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 30, 2020, 04:35:48 pm ---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.
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I don't understand all the favorable mentions of Xenforo. It doesn't seem to be any better than Discourse or any number of other Facebook wannabees.
Another forum I'm on just switched to Xenforo for no reason that was apparent to anyone outside the forum's management. I'd say user engagement has dropped at least by 50%, probably more. The sponsors are pissed.
If it's not broke, don't "fix" it.
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