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Why not Discourse? It has 34% of the discussion market now

by EGreg 4y ago

__derek__ 4y ago
Can you link to research behind that? I'm really curious how this defines the "discussion" market.
- EGreg 4y ago
  https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/forum-software https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/forum-software
  - __derek__ 4y ago
    Oh, that's disappointing, but it answers the question of how the market is defined for the quoted statistic.
  - phendrenad2 4y ago
    Yeah so it's not 34% of the discussion market, it's 34% of the top one million sites that use a discussion platform. The distinction is important, because the top one million sites are likely to be run by corporations as product Q&A platforms, which is very different from what you want from a Google Groups clone.
SteveMoody73 4y ago
Only used discourse in a limited way but it lacks the searchability of the old forums. I can't imagine how much useful information has been lost when some of these sites have shut down. Discussions on a well run forum would be on topic with various people adding to a conversaion, discussions on a single topic seems to get lost on these chat apps
- syntheticnature 4y ago
  You're thinking of Discord, not Discourse.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
  >Only used discourse in a limited way but it lacks the searchability of the old forums. Are you saying that discourse lacks search features, or that most discourse forums don't have the "history" that old forums do?
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    Not OP, but I struggle with Discourse search, both in terms of usability (not quite good) and presentation - both D. itself and it's search is made by someone who doesn't need to exchange information and persist it. After some attempts I just fallback to external search with 'site:domain.tld search term'. Wasting 90% of my screen real estate while actually hiding useful information isn't helping too.
facorreia 4y ago
The article answers that question.
tester756 4y ago
Discourse doesn't feel like old, real forums. phpBB has nicer layout

Why not Discourse? It has 34% of the discussion market now

by EGreg 4y ago

Why not Discourse? It has 34% of the discussion market now

__derek__ 4y ago

Can you link to research behind that? I'm really curious how this defines the "discussion" market.

EGreg 4y ago
https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/forum-software https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/forum-software
- __derek__ 4y ago
  Oh, that's disappointing, but it answers the question of how the market is defined for the quoted statistic.
- phendrenad2 4y ago
  Yeah so it's not 34% of the discussion market, it's 34% of the top one million sites that use a discussion platform. The distinction is important, because the top one million sites are likely to be run by corporations as product Q&A platforms, which is very different from what you want from a Google Groups clone.

SteveMoody73 4y ago

Only used discourse in a limited way but it lacks the searchability of the old forums. I can't imagine how much useful information has been lost when some of these sites have shut down. Discussions on a well run forum would be on topic with various people adding to a conversaion, discussions on a single topic seems to get lost on these chat apps

syntheticnature 4y ago
You're thinking of Discord, not Discourse.
PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
>Only used discourse in a limited way but it lacks the searchability of the old forums. Are you saying that discourse lacks search features, or that most discourse forums don't have the "history" that old forums do?
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  Not OP, but I struggle with Discourse search, both in terms of usability (not quite good) and presentation - both D. itself and it's search is made by someone who doesn't need to exchange information and persist it. After some attempts I just fallback to external search with 'site:domain.tld search term'. Wasting 90% of my screen real estate while actually hiding useful information isn't helping too.

facorreia 4y ago

The article answers that question.

tester756 4y ago

Discourse doesn't feel like old, real forums. phpBB has nicer layout