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| Karel:
--- 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. --- End quote --- Please no. Discourse looks terrible. Too much white space. Default fonts too big. Graphics too big. Everything is too big. Terrible teletubbies look. |
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| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 02:59:35 pm ---I have had this thought for a few years. Wouldn't it make sense to migrate the forum to the Discourse platform? --- End quote --- I hate discourse, it's garbage, and doesn't seem at all suited to long term community forum type discussion. It's more of a chat platform from what I gather. So it's not going to happen, not point even discussing it, it would destroy this forum community. If this forum is going to move to something it will be a better and more familiar bbs style forum, like Zenforo |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: ataradov on March 29, 2020, 05:17:47 pm ---NO, NO and NO. All that new age stuff if unusable garbage for people that can't formulate a thought longer than a twit. --- End quote --- From my limited experience that's what I've seen, it's just quick zero-thought chat type content. On bbs style forum's like this people put a lot more thought and effort into a good post. Some posts are so good and technically detailed they become direct go-to pages in the internet. Discourse is such a terrible idea it's not funny. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Ranayna on March 29, 2020, 06:38:21 pm ---But on a sidenote: Yes, the forum software shows it's age, and migration to some more modern software should be considered. Modern software like Xenforo can introduce a lot of new useful features without loosing it's spirit of what a forum actually represents. --- End quote --- Yes, SMF is showing its age, and I am a member on another forum that moved over the Xenforo (from I think phpBB) and I really like it. There were hardly any complaints from users too. So I would be certainly open to moving to that, but it's got to be done right and professionally, not something that can be half arsed. I'd have to pay a professional to manage the move. |
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