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Refrigerator:

--- Quote from: tunk on April 28, 2021, 03:56:36 pm ---Here's another post (#1205) from the Arduino thread mentioned above:
https://forum.arduino.cc/t/do-you-like-the-new-forum/847695/1204


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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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The arduino forum has a scroll bar to the right so it's not like there's endless scrolling but it would be nice if bookmarks of sort could be placed and would show up in the scroll bar.
For example like placing notes to self that at post #256 there was this important thing the user said that you might want to check later.
Maybe like a colored bubble on the scroll bar that would expand if you hovered your mouse over it, click on it to take you to the post.
Perhaps add marks where it points out where other users replied to you or mentioned/quoted you in their post, i think this would add some useful functionality to the scroll bar.
If anyone from the arduino forum is reading this and think it's a good idea you can post this idea there, i don't have an account.

I still dislike the overall look, with no lines to separate sections i just find it confusing, but not something i couldn't get used to, yet still not something i'd feel comfortable using.
Jackster:
Just logged into the Android forum for the first time in a while...


I actually feel ill.
ebastler:
This discourse on Discourse seems full of discord.  ::)
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: wilfred on April 28, 2021, 06:03:38 am ---
I agree with TomS. Some people do not know how to disagree and move on. That is why these threads devolve into the agreement of a few who discourage others voicing differing opinions and then they stay silent.

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I have a browser plug-in that keeps track of users and works like a naughty/nice list. So I know who I can engage and who to keep at arms length.
cdev:
I greatly prefer SMF

Also, do you think consolidlidation of these forums is a good thing? I don't.
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 02:59:35 pm ---Hello,
I have had this thought for a few years. Wouldn't it make sense to migrate the forum to the Discourse platform?

Yes, it's not easy. This is a big forum.

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
* improved engagement with younger audiences (!!!)
* way better search
* Ability to easily leverage managed databases such as digitalocean's ones which I personally recommend
* Lower resources consumption
* faster website
* improved engagement with the many tools discourse provide
* ease of moderation, discourse forums are mostly self-moderating requiring only limited oversight
* modern features like modern editor, better emojis, social login,
* way way way easier management and upgrades


Risks:
* broken link during migration. new and old website could be scanned and data compared to check for broken links before migrating. The discourse importer includes generation of all redirects required in theory.
* miss of custom functions?
* grumpy users complaining
* SEO issues - this should be ok with the redirects working.
* users need to reset the password

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