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| MarkMLl:
My apologies for commenting to a thread which last saw activity almost exactly a year ago. For information, Arduino has just migrated from SMF to Discourse and I don't think anybody is happy. Part of the problem was managerial: apparently not even moderators or prolific and well-respected fixers-of-folks'-problems were given adequate opportunity to review the new platform. Another part is obviously "things have changed and I'm sufficiently busy that I resent having to put time into familiarising myself with the new stuff". However there are also other problems: as mentioned in the post above pages aren't fully-populated and in fact scrolling upwards two or three messages generates network traffic as that portion of the page is reloaded. Another underlying problem appears to be that- at least as used by Arduino- it uses some sort of "cloud-based" architecture. The result of that is that the server IP address changes regularly (i.e. every time you open a link in a new tab) which triggers protective software such as NoScript: if we're having to permit access to a large number of "cloudy" addresses I find myself what other services might be colocated on those same systems. It is apparently argued that Discourse is open-source (as in fact is SMF), and the description on Wp reports that it uses PostgreSQL which is arguably more expandable than MySQL (and less beholden to Oracle et al.). But the impression I get is that the user-facing presentation and network problems are sufficiently serious to outweigh architectural advantages... unless Arduino were really up against some poorly-publicised SMF limitation. MarkMLl |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: MarkMLl on April 25, 2021, 11:01:09 am --- However there are also other problems: as mentioned in the post above pages aren't fully-populated and in fact scrolling upwards two or three messages generates network traffic as that portion of the page is reloaded. --- End quote --- My overall view is it's impressive given the sheer size of their forum. They said that Discourse peeps helped with some of the heavy lifting and will help to iron out the kinks. I don't know the terms of engagement, but I suspect the SMF was costing money to maintain, Discourse maybe offered to help setup their stuff on the biggest platform, you know, cos it's there. There was always going to be quibbles and squabbles. I wish they had ditched that color scheme. |
| xrunner:
Haven't been there in a while, but noticed this on the topics I looked at the bottom - This topic will close 4 months after the last reply. Was that there before? |
| rdl:
Endless scrolling with no page breaks should be banned from the internet. |
| PlainName:
If you need to save an endless page (perhaps for archival or just to read en bloc), I can recommend a Firefox extension called Singlefile: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/single-file/ Unlike the normal page save, it puts everything in a single file (surprise) instead of a sub-folder with a file-per-resource. You can annotate, save just a selection, etc. I use it all the time to clip to a notes database in preference to using the built-in clipper. Relevant to Discourse, it captures the entire endlessly-scrolled page, kind of like the 'print' option here. Unfortunately, it doesn't capture image pastes, presumably because the image is not actually on the page but only shown if you click it. Edit: The sample I took when trying this out is attached, in case anyone wants to see what's possible with a single click. Completely unedited or otherwise messed with. |
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