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I feel like Forums are dying because most forum platforms SUCK. Full of whitespace. Discourse must be the nicest forum platform out there because of single-pag

I feel like Forums are dying because most forum platforms SUCK. Full of whitespace. Discourse must be the nicest forum platform out there because of single-page scrolling, like-feature, and solution feature

theshrike79 4y ago
Discourse is the least bad of all forum platforms I have found. Especially if you're going to be targeting people born this millennium.
kitsunesoba 4y ago
Discourse is nice in some ways but it’s also annoying for its general slowness and the way it breaks native browser features like Find in Page.
- joemi 4y ago
  Not being able to use the native browser find in page in a Discourse forum is my single biggest complaint about my otherwise glowing experience with the platform. I wouldn't mind it as much if it at least tried to emulate the typical native find in page experience, but it doesn't work that way unfortunately.
  - zerocrates 4y ago
    I seem to recall that if you hit Ctrl-F again you get the regular native find-in-page, don't you? Or do you mean that because of the dynamic nature of the page, browser find doesn't really work especially well sometimes? That's probably not super-meaningfully different than the classic forum setup where what you're looking for may be on a different page altogether.
    - kitsunesoba 4y ago
      Most of the old school forums load more posts per page, usually let you configure them to load even more per page, allowed easier jumping between arbitrary pages, and sometimes gave an "all posts" view. But the biggest thing is that it runs against expectations and muscle memory without much of a good reason… it's one of those little papercut things that aren't big on their own but stack up to make computing more frustrating than it should be.
    - joemi 4y ago
      Yes, you can hit ctrl-f again, but there isn't an obvious way to know how far down the search will work, due to the fact that there aren't pages, just progressive loading. So it effectively makes the native search useless.
- unixbane 4y ago
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theshrike79 4y ago

Discourse is the least bad of all forum platforms I have found. Especially if you're going to be targeting people born this millennium.

kitsunesoba 4y ago

Discourse is nice in some ways but it’s also annoying for its general slowness and the way it breaks native browser features like Find in Page.

joemi 4y ago
Not being able to use the native browser find in page in a Discourse forum is my single biggest complaint about my otherwise glowing experience with the platform. I wouldn't mind it as much if it at least tried to emulate the typical native find in page experience, but it doesn't work that way unfortunately.
- zerocrates 4y ago
  I seem to recall that if you hit Ctrl-F again you get the regular native find-in-page, don't you? Or do you mean that because of the dynamic nature of the page, browser find doesn't really work especially well sometimes? That's probably not super-meaningfully different than the classic forum setup where what you're looking for may be on a different page altogether.
  - kitsunesoba 4y ago
    Most of the old school forums load more posts per page, usually let you configure them to load even more per page, allowed easier jumping between arbitrary pages, and sometimes gave an "all posts" view. But the biggest thing is that it runs against expectations and muscle memory without much of a good reason… it's one of those little papercut things that aren't big on their own but stack up to make computing more frustrating than it should be.
  - joemi 4y ago
    Yes, you can hit ctrl-f again, but there isn't an obvious way to know how far down the search will work, due to the fact that there aren't pages, just progressive loading. So it effectively makes the native search useless.
unixbane 4y ago
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