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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 10:15:48 pm ---It has a structure where users progressively and automatically gain power as they gain engagement and respect from the community.

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You should include that in your lists of negatives, bold big font.

Gag me with a spoon. But then I don't seek power and since I've been married I don't seek engagement..

james_s:

--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 10:26:58 pm ---as common logic goes - if you sit on you ass for too long it becomes stiff.

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What does that even mean? The wheel was invented thousands of years ago and has not really changed much since then. There have been numerous attempts to reimagine the control scheme of cars yet after more than 100 years the basic steering wheel and pedals are still largely the same. A word processor or spreadsheet from 20 years ago is still fully usable today.

Just because some technology evolves rapidly doesn't mean that everything needs to keep up. If something isn't broken there's no reason to try to fix it. We could leave the forum as-is for another 20 years and it will likely just keep working, if something changes fundamentally making it no longer usable then it could be updated to something newer then, why muck with it now? Discourse is ugly, I don't see anyone else here pushing to change, I see no real gain from the move and I would bet a lot of established users would just end up leaving.

ddavidebor:

--- Quote from: RoGeorge on March 29, 2020, 07:27:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 02:59:35 pm ---Wouldn't it make sense to migrate the forum to the Discourse platform?

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NO!  If you want a better theme for mobile, just ask about that.

EEVblog forum works very well as it is now.
Let's not ruin it for buzzwords and glitter.

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I have seen it being asked many years ago, popping up many times since there, and never ended up anywhere. I've been following the forum since it's inception a decade ago.

ddavidebor:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 29, 2020, 10:32:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 10:26:58 pm ---as common logic goes - if you sit on you ass for too long it becomes stiff.

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What does that even mean? The wheel was invented thousands of years ago and has not really changed much since then. There have been numerous attempts to reimagine the control scheme of cars yet after more than 100 years the basic steering wheel and pedals are still largely the same. A word processor or spreadsheet from 20 years ago is still fully usable today.

Just because some technology evolves rapidly doesn't mean that everything needs to keep up. If something isn't broken there's no reason to try to fix it. We could leave the forum as-is for another 20 years and it will likely just keep working, if something changes fundamentally making it no longer usable then it could be updated to something newer then, why muck with it now? Discourse is ugly, I don't see anyone else here pushing to change, I see no real gain from the move and I would bet a lot of established users would just end up leaving.

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How many websites from the 2000s do you use daily?

ddavidebor:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 29, 2020, 10:32:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 10:15:48 pm ---It has a structure where users progressively and automatically gain power as they gain engagement and respect from the community.

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You should include that in your lists of negatives, bold big font.

Gag me with a spoon. But then I don't seek power and since I've been married I don't seek engagement..

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