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| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: ataradov on March 29, 2020, 10:19:37 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. --- End quote --- And then you get StackOverflow kind of thing where people spew garbage to get points. No thanks. Moderation by human moderators works fine. --- End quote --- Quite . Stackoverflow is mostly boring garbage like "which button do I press to display a widget of a cat?". |
| ataradov:
Can you show a Discourse forum configured as you see fit for this forum as an example? Absolutely all Discourse forums I've seen were utter garbage. May be if we had a good example, we would have a different opinion. |
| KaneTW:
Absolutely not. Discourse is hot garbage that doesn't even run with JS disabled. All the new-style forums are beyond awful for any threaded discussion. Migrating to XenForo or something reasonably close to classic forums software? Sure, whatever. Migrating to Discourse or its clones? No. |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: wraper on March 29, 2020, 10:19:18 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. --- End quote --- =Starving for gaining likes and dick length competition. We have other places for this crap. --- End quote --- Even the thanks mechanism on this forum is abused. "Woodz" seems to that every post that mentions him, even if they are implying he is an idiot. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 10:33:52 pm ---How many websites from the 2000s do you use daily? --- End quote --- I'd use a lot more of them if they still existed, the only one that's still around is http://lamptech.co.uk, I don't use it daily but I still view it as one of the gold standards of web design. High information density, simple and effective layout, quality content and there is not a single bit of irritating cruft that I need to block. There are dozens of websites that I used to use but have abandoned over the years when they were revamped and went from useful and effective to a bloated unusable mess. If you want to see an example of an absolutely horrible website spend 20 minutes browsing http://komonews.com, that used to be my go-to for local news but I all but abandoned it after several renovations left it all but unusable. Give me the Komo news website from 2001 with up to date content and I'll switch to it in a heartbeat. |
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