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| ruairi:
I haven't read the whole thread but the forum is great as is. I have zero issues with it either on my laptop or phone. |
| Gyro:
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on April 08, 2020, 05:07:11 pm --- --- Quote from: Siwastaja on April 04, 2020, 07:19:44 am ---It's the classical group lynching mentality. Happens on this forum time-to-time, like it happens everywhere. Yes, it sucks. There are psychological reasons for that, too. In this case, I would theoretize that many of us have, at some point in our professional careers, been abused by incompetent micromanaging bosses with bloated egos. These bosses often work by bringing in the buzzword bingo. As a result, some have developed an allergy-like condition to such business buzzword way of rationalization. It goes like this: - You NEED to use Docker because it's hot right now. - Wat, wait, but Docker has absolutely nothing to do with anything? You can't put the microcontroller in Docker! - We will use Docker, end of discussion... The OP did show exact same paradigm of discussion, including the part with arrogance, which I think is why it gave such strong reactions to some of us. Then, when some people react strongly, possibly from understandable reasons, there always are those mindless puppets who join the group lynching when they see it happen. This is when the thing gets ugly, IMHO. I'm OK with a group getting against one if they show the reasons. When the scanvengers join, I'm out. --- End quote --- Yep. --- End quote --- Maybe you should have set the thread up as a poll. You would probably have got a very clear view of the membership's opinion of your proposal, without all the hassle. As Dave often points out though, the forum isn't a democracy. He would have the say, regardless of the outcome. |
| james_s:
It would be fun to set up a poll and see if we get 95%+ voting to keep it as-is. |
| Bassman59:
--- 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? Yes, it's not easy. This is a big forum. There are pretty much only advantages in switching platform, it's pretty much time, but there are risks in the migration also. Pros: * modern features like modern editor, better emojis, social login, --- End quote --- I just read through the ten pages of unanimous response to this proposal, and there was only one thing that was not mentioned as a total fucking no is the "social login." Facebook and Google login are privacy and security disasters. Nobody needs to link their Facebook account to other websites. Why tell Facebook everything? It's ridiculous. It's not at all hard to create accounts on the websites you use. Now that every browser has a built-in password manager, you don't even have to remember the passwords. |
| james_s:
Oh yeah if single signon was required then screw that, I'd drop the forum like a hot potato. I abandoned Facebook years ago and *never* sign into anything via social anything, nobody in their right mind would. Social media is a cancer on society. It's spam 2.0, engineered from the ground up to harvest data. |
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