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| ataradov:
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 11:00:49 pm ---Docker community is orders of magnitudes bigger than EEVblog --- End quote --- Huh? Their biggest sub-forum (General Discussions) has 156 topics per month. Most have 0 replies. It looks pretty empty to me. The community may be bigger, but the forum is most definitely not. Yeah, that thing is pretty much dead. |
| tautech:
It should not be overlooked Dave is always looking at and installed updates to how this forum works and in my time here it has changed massively for the better. Dave's also looked hard at other forum platforms and while some have features he'd like to have here there are too many negatives to want him move away from SMF at this time. |
| KaneTW:
Do you see any actual discussion in any of these Discourse forums? It all looks like tech support questions to me. |
| ataradov:
--- Quote from: KaneTW on March 29, 2020, 11:06:21 pm ---Do you see any actual discussion in any of these Discourse forums? It all looks like tech support questions to me. --- End quote --- Exactly. All of those things are 1-2 answer tech support. No actual discussion. Also, for whatever reason they compress themselves into a narrow column in the middle of the screen. And then noting fits and you need infinite scrolling. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: amyk on March 29, 2020, 11:02:27 pm ---I work mostly in software and one thing that really stands out over the years is how much more unnecessarily complex things have gotten, and the worst part of it is that it's almost all self-inflicted: all the younger ones are drawn in by the marketing wank and don't take the time to understand and think about things, they just slap a bunch of bloated libraries together. --- End quote --- Well, while I think libraries are critical (and they're nothing new in any way), what does perplex me is how the current design trend seems to be utterly oblivious to usability, despite throwing around the right buzzwords (UX! Usability! UCD! Journeys! Personas!). It's even more baffling that as usability has become an established field, with more and more universities offering it as a major, the actual real-world usability seems to have plummeted in the past 10 years or so, after decades of slow but steady improvement. Like⦠what are they studying?!? They clearly haven't learned about affordances, discoverability, UI stability (as in "things don't move around and appear and disappear", not crash-proofing), etc. And this is one reason (albeit not the main one) that I turned my back on the UX industry, and will be starting training as an electronics technician in the fall. |
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