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Monkeh:

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--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 10:33:05 pm ---
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--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 02:59:35 pm ---Wouldn't it make sense to migrate the forum to the Discourse platform?

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NO!  If you want a better theme for mobile, just ask about that.

EEVblog forum works very well as it is now.
Let's not ruin it for buzzwords and glitter.

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I have seen it being asked many years ago, popping up many times since there, and never ended up anywhere. I've been following the forum since it's inception a decade ago.

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A few people have asked for an EEVblog Discord, and there is actually one. But one has ever asked to replace this forum with discord until your post, because most people realise what a dumb idea that would be.

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Wait wait wait, when did Discord come into things? Discourse and Discord aren't the same thing.
ddavidebor:

--- Quote from: tooki on March 29, 2020, 11:16:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: amyk on March 29, 2020, 11:02:27 pm ---I just noticed the OP is from Italy... maybe the stress of the quarantine is getting to him. :(

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And now suddenly changed to UK!

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I now live in the UK, my company moved with me as well.
ddavidebor:

--- Quote from: Monkeh on March 29, 2020, 11:13:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: ataradov on March 29, 2020, 11:13:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: Monkeh on March 29, 2020, 11:08:40 pm ---Elastic and Cloudflare are on similar scale (for activity, at least, not quite so much content yet). The rest are all tiny.

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Elastic has a lot of new topics, but most seem to have 0 replies. They all look like drive-by posting. The same person will never return back.

And the only people that seem to respond are actual employees, so it is again a just a support forum.

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Perhaps so, I only skimmed the stats.

Interestingly he neglected to mention one site from his magical wappalyzer which is actually an active community: https://community.home-assistant.io/
At over a thousand posts a day across the last 30 days, it's genuinely quite active. A lot of it is support requests (then again, what are electronics questions?), but it's a fairly active project with a lot happening.

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Interesting
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Monkeh on March 29, 2020, 11:59:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 29, 2020, 11:56:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 10:33:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on March 29, 2020, 07:27:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 02:59:35 pm ---Wouldn't it make sense to migrate the forum to the Discourse platform?

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NO!  If you want a better theme for mobile, just ask about that.

EEVblog forum works very well as it is now.
Let's not ruin it for buzzwords and glitter.

--- End quote ---

I have seen it being asked many years ago, popping up many times since there, and never ended up anywhere. I've been following the forum since it's inception a decade ago.

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A few people have asked for an EEVblog Discord, and there is actually one. But one has ever asked to replace this forum with discord until your post, because most people realise what a dumb idea that would be.

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Wait wait wait, when did Discord come into things? Discourse and Discord aren't the same thing.

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Oops, my mistake!
Ah, discourse, right.
It's still meh. And again, completely different from a bbs style forum. You don't go changing a 10 year established bbs style forum to discourse, that's just dumb.
I believe Chris Gammell uses it for his kicad forum:
https://forum.kicad.info/
0culus:
My 2 cents is HELL no. The reason I come here and enjoy my time here is because this is a FORUM and not social media style bullcrap where visibility of any topic is a popularity contest (that of course is easily gamed by bots) that has infected practically everything else. If this place goes that way, I'm gone.
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