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Migrating the forum to Discourse
MarkMLl:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 25, 2021, 11:38:01 am ---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.
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Allowing that every page loads something from discourse-cdn.com there has to be money changing hands somewhere, unless Discourse's sole interest is demonstrating that their platform can host large foramina and selling their services to corporates on the strength of that.
I believe that that business model can be made to work, since my business's ISP hosts email etc. using Roundcube... and the rather larger corporate that a friend works for uses it for their internal communication.
MarkMLl
james_s:
In the time since this thread was opened I've encountered several Discourse based forums, some I tried to like because I liked the content but ultimately I just hate it and abandoned all of them. It's just so... bad, there is so much wrong with the experience that it's hard to even put it into words. The fact that some people actually like Discourse suggests to me that some peoples minds are fundamentally wired differently than mine. At this point I've just decided that I refuse to use Discourse, I will not join any that are on it and will abandon any that switch to it, it just isn't worth the aggravation.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: james_s on April 25, 2021, 05:45:43 pm ---In the time since this thread was opened I've encountered several Discourse based forums, some I tried to like because I liked the content but ultimately I just hate it and abandoned all of them. It's just so... bad, there is so much wrong with the experience that it's hard to even put it into words. The fact that some people actually like Discourse suggests to me that some peoples minds are fundamentally wired differently than mine. At this point I've just decided that I refuse to use Discourse, I will not join any that are on it and will abandon any that switch to it, it just isn't worth the aggravation.
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No matter how truly terrible, God-awfully bad something is, there will always be a few people that like it!
Monkeh:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 25, 2021, 05:56:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on April 25, 2021, 05:45:43 pm ---In the time since this thread was opened I've encountered several Discourse based forums, some I tried to like because I liked the content but ultimately I just hate it and abandoned all of them. It's just so... bad, there is so much wrong with the experience that it's hard to even put it into words. The fact that some people actually like Discourse suggests to me that some peoples minds are fundamentally wired differently than mine. At this point I've just decided that I refuse to use Discourse, I will not join any that are on it and will abandon any that switch to it, it just isn't worth the aggravation.
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No matter how truly terrible, God-awfully bad something is, there will always be a few people that like it!
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The developers mothers don't count.
james_s:
They must be doing *something* right based on the way it's spreading everywhere, but damned if I know what. Maybe it's just slick marketing, or the social media junkies that I can't begin to relate to.
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