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--- Quote from: beanflying on April 28, 2021, 12:10:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: ebclr on April 28, 2021, 11:04:11 am ---" Dave and the members involved will never allow a move to discourse or any similar platform.  :-+"

That's a statement from someone who never tried discord, why not?

Discord Only has advantages, whats is the dow side?

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Clearly you have NO clue at all  :palm:


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Actually, I think he has rather more than first appears. He is playing 'discourse' - "written or spoken communication or debate" - as mis-type in the original, against 'Discord' - the unlovely forum software - and noting that communication is good, so what is the downside of that?

Sorry to spoil the joke by having to spell it out. Seems to be a distinct lack of a humour  bone in this topic.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: beanflying on April 28, 2021, 12:10:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: ebclr on April 28, 2021, 11:04:11 am ---" Dave and the members involved will never allow a move to discourse or any similar platform.  :-+"

That's a statement from someone who never tried discord, why not?

Discord Only has advantages, whats is the dow side?

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Clearly you have NO clue at all  :palm:

Discord searches and index's terribly within its own format and google all but ignores it - FAIL
Discord sections become like Farcebook timelines and are IMPOSSIBLE to follow a technical focussed discussion on. Ever wonder why Yahoo groups more or less went the way of the Dodo? FAIL

Discord SUCKS as can be witnessed by the complete lack on content on the EEVBlog option and the only one I have seen come close to working in the Electronics area is Jon Oxers Home Automation one as it is a very small tightly focussed niche group. Even this group is a shocker to try and follow an ongoing discussion and content gets lost.

Any other FAILS for Discord needed?

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Precisely.

Who gives a tinker's cuss about how pretty it might be, if you can't use it easily and effectively for subtle long-running technical discussions, then it won't exist.

Anything remotely like the Farcebook interface would be (pah! is) a disaster.

Ditto other online forums that discourage multi-level quoting - they are fine for asking which button to press to floggle the ditz, but crap at any interesting discussion. Yes, I'm looking at you, stackexchange and edaboard.

beanflying:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 28, 2021, 12:21:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: beanflying on April 28, 2021, 12:10:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: ebclr on April 28, 2021, 11:04:11 am ---" Dave and the members involved will never allow a move to discourse or any similar platform.  :-+"

That's a statement from someone who never tried discord, why not?

Discord Only has advantages, whats is the dow side?

--- End quote ---

Clearly you have NO clue at all  :palm:


--- End quote ---

Actually, I think he has rather more than first appears. He is playing 'discourse' - "written or spoken communication or debate" - as mis-type in the original, against 'Discord' - the unlovely forum software - and noting that communication is good, so what is the downside of that?

Sorry to spoil the joke by having to spell it out. Seems to be a distinct lack of a humour  bone in this topic.

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"Discord" was mentioned and a question asked following a 'statement' FALSELY claiming only advantages. I see nothing of humor here at all.

I have been around list and email type groups since the days of 9600 baud modems NONE of those groups exist now in any form and those that went to Yahoo Groups that were the more technically focussed discussion was a PITA.

Want to see a disaster zone of repeated rubbish newbie topics head on over to Farcebook and try and follow say a 3D printer groups content :palm:

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 28, 2021, 12:21:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: beanflying on April 28, 2021, 12:10:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: ebclr on April 28, 2021, 11:04:11 am ---" Dave and the members involved will never allow a move to discourse or any similar platform.  :-+"

That's a statement from someone who never tried discord, why not?

Discord Only has advantages, whats is the dow side?

--- End quote ---

Clearly you have NO clue at all  :palm:


--- End quote ---

Actually, I think he has rather more than first appears. He is playing 'discourse' - "written or spoken communication or debate" - as mis-type in the original, against 'Discord' - the unlovely forum software - and noting that communication is good, so what is the downside of that?

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I always get Discourse and Discord confused.
I think Discourse is pretty horrible. Why anyone would move an existing working popular bbs style forum to Discourse is beyond me.
Actually, it's ok for what it is as it's own thing, but as a replacement for a bbs style forum that's been around for generations, nope.

tunk:
Here's another post (#1205) from the Arduino thread mentioned above:
https://forum.arduino.cc/t/do-you-like-the-new-forum/847695/1204


--- Quote ---Hi there,

The odds are good that no one cares about my opinion but I’ll give it anyway.

I haven’t been on this forum for a while…
As the page loaded, my first thought was ‘Wait something’s wrong, ho no I hope they didn’t changed it to make it look like some of those other forums I’ve seen that are so horrible… wait they did…argh’.

The main page is horribly overloaded, I don’t need to see an abstract of stuff happening in every part of the forum as soon as I arrive and get a squashed tree of the different categories on the left side.

The topics aren’t sufficiently visually separated with that minimalistic BS trend. Everything kinda blends together, this is absolutely horrible UI.
Same thing for each posts inside a topic… And don’t get me started on that infinite scrolling cr*p.

And one more thing… I kind of want to annihilate that little check mark that keeps disappearing and appearing with a bazooka, that’s not annoying at all.

There is a reason why the ‘forum look’ spread to every corner of the web, it’s because it’s clear and intelligible, information is presented with clear demarcation features.

I had to severely restrain myself to keep the curse words to a minimum, I’m actually kind of surprised I succeded. Well… end of rant for me, good day / evening / night.

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