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Migrating the forum to Discourse
Gyro:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 09, 2020, 04:34:17 pm ---Google obviously does the same... for example, when you use Captcha they really Gotcha!
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Yeah, having Google sticking their nose into human authentications really stings!
MrMobodies:
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 02:59:35 pm ---
There are pretty much only advantages in switching platform, it's pretty much time, but there are risks in the migration also.
Pros:
* finally modern mobile experience
* much better readability for the forum
* faster website
* modern features like modern editor, better emojis, social login,
Risks:
* grumpy users complaining
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Grumpy users.
I tend to get a bit grumpy when I have things that I don't wont there shoved in my face, notifications (cookies or offers) that darken the rest of the page and hurt my eyes in the process and toolbars stuck there when I am trying to scroll and widgets that popup. Also I have mess about with extensions to manage these things so I can read the contents without the annoyance that also may break other functionality. I don't see none of that here at the moment.
Modern mobile experience?
I just select desktop site and my screen is filled up with lots of content and as much I can see all made small and I just pinch and zoom where I want.
much better readability for the forum
Users like me, maybe only few left or just me don't want it any more graphically bloated than it already is now and for the reasons above.
Faster website?
This website is perfectly fast even on my old stuff.
modern editor, better emojis
When I post the last thing I would want to think about are emojis or how pretty the editor may look.
It's may not be perfect but I am happy with it.
amyk:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on April 09, 2020, 01:40:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: amyk on April 09, 2020, 01:22:34 pm ---I've never used Facebook, and never will. Any sites that require it are simply not going to be visited.
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Remarkably, Farcebook still tracks people that don't have an account with them.
The keys are cookies used as UIDs, the Facebook logo on many pages, the referring page contained in the http request, and a little JavaScript.
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I have cookies and JS off by default, and all of FB's domains resolve to 0.0.0.0.
The Facebook logo on the bottom of this site's pages is actually hosted here, it's just a link to them (and I'm certainly not going to click it either.)
julianhigginson:
I quite like discourse where I see it used for tech forums, but I don't see how it would work for such a large forum like this with such wide ranging topics. I'm not sure the topic sort tools in discourse would really make it fun to navigate this forum's topics.
Normally it works for single purpose forums - a good example is the things network forum.
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/
Even though there's a range of different topics to talk about, everything in there relates back to the things network in some way. And the overall volume of messages seems way lower than here.
james_s:
I just tried again with that site and find it absolutely painful to use. The blinding white causes physical discomfort to my eyes and the navigation is difficult, I can't tell where I am. Everything just blends together and I can't see how far down the list I've scrolled because it just keeps loading more and more as I scroll down. I have the same "WTF is this shit?!?" response that I had the first time I sat down to try Windows 8.
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