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In what way? As a lurking user I think it's miles better.
by Oddskar 5y ago
In what way? As a lurking user I think it's miles better.
- jazzyjackson 5y agodiscoverability answers to questions in slack will never be indexed (let alone archived) by search engines
- Oddskar 5y agoYeah but that isn't the case for Discourse
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoI know of roughly 0 ways discourse is better. Its slower and has vastly less information density
- OJFord 5y agoSecurity-wise etc. it's probably better than a pile of (I'm guessing) mostly abandoned/assumed 'done' dependencies. But yeah mostly, user-facing-wise, I agree.
- simias 5y agoI concur. I somehow skipped PHPBB and VBulletin (I was more of a newsgroup/IRC kinda guy) and always found them super clunky and a step backwards compared to newsgroups, if only because of the lack of proper threading. Discourse is comparatively very pleasant I thought.
- dreyfan 5y agoCurious what you mean by lack of proper threading in phpBB and vBulletin? Are you talking about threading of responses within a broader "Thread" (top-level post entry) e.g. for a refresher some random vbulletin site: https://forums.devx.com/forumdisplay.php?105-VB-Classic https://forums.devx.com/forumdisplay.php?105-VB-Classic Because each of those entries on that page are a thread to me, but if discussions within a thread go off on a tangent there's not really a way to group/organize those sub-threads.
- denimnerd42 5y agointeresting, they did at some point have a threading option but I hated it. I preferred reading comments in time order and threads were clunky to me.
- Zababa 5y agoInfinite scrolling on the threads combined with a very slow loading. A thread of 30 replies will not load everything, even though 30 replies is probably less than 1Mb of data.
- int_19h 5y agoOn the desktop, it also hijacks standard browser shortcuts such as Ctrl+F.
- Gigachad 5y agoIt needs to so that it can search on the backend and show you all instances of that search rather than just what the currently loaded DOM elements contain.
- mulmen 5y agoWhat if I want to search only currently loaded DOM elements?
- tshaddox 5y agoUsually you repeat the search hotkey to activate the browser's native search function.
- Gigachad 5y agoOn most modern apps, this is pretty much just what is on the screen right now + a little on the top and bottom. The elements get removed/reused once they scroll off the page for performance. I only see this as an issue if the site does not reimplement find so that it is able to deal with this.
- Robotbeat 5y agoWhy can’t we just use normal forum software from the 2000s, but with security patches?
- mortenjorck 5y agoSame here. The old vBulletin / PHPbb format felt positively archaic once I got over the shock of how different the basic interactions are. I can understand some hesitance from people who are naturally wary of infinite scrolling, as the vast majority of implementations are terrible. Where Discourse succeeds, though, is in managing state such that it doesn't feel brittle when you're deep into a thread's history. The developers built an infinite scroll that has feature parity with classic pagination, plus the far better UI of a "timeline" scrollbar.
- aidenn0 5y ago> The developers built an infinite scroll that has feature parity with classic pagination, plus the far better UI of a "timeline" scrollbar. Maybe feature parity with classic pagination from 20 years ago. Discord takes forever to load content when scrolling.
- denimnerd42 5y agosome forums I could have them load 100 or 200 threads / comments by default back in like 2004.. way faster than this garbage today
- HWR_14 5y agoDo you ever use forums for asynchronous communication?