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I agree. I don't think anyone has gotten it right yet. There's something about Discourse that makes the messages feel transient, and I find unpleasant for an in
by mostlysimilar 5y ago
I agree. I don't think anyone has gotten it right yet. There's something about Discourse that makes the messages feel transient, and I find unpleasant for an internet forum.
I'm glad an option exists that modern users find at least palatable if the alternative is _no_ internet forums. It would be far worse if all we had were Discord communities. At least Discourse is less transient than that.
Still an opportunity here I think. The feeling of persistence that classic internet forums (phpBB, xenForo, etc.) give us with modern quality-of-life features is a software I dream about building.
- rudedogg 5y ago> There's something about Discourse that makes the messages feel transient, and I find unpleasant for an internet forum. Wow, I've always been put off by Discourse forums and wasn't sure what the reason was. That's it! Maybe it's the way they use tags to store/structure things rather than the folder structure used by other forum software.
- dsr_ 5y agoHave you seen https://forum.dlang.org/ https://forum.dlang.org/ ? It appears to be a perfectly integrated web forum / NNTP / mailing list system.
- danr4 5y agoyou really hit the nail with the transient comment. Feels like the whole UX discourages longevity for "hotness". Edit: re. the opportunity, in the spirit of times - maybe what's missing is a "headless" forum framework with a byoFE?