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Forums are still used a lot, you would think this would result in forum software that's great, but no Discourse is a horrible experience by default. Discourse
by waboremo 3y ago
Forums are still used a lot, you would think this would result in forum software that's great, but no Discourse is a horrible experience by default.
Discourse is so horrible people would rather use Discord or Reddit - that's how horrible it is.
- anentropic 3y agoIn what way? I think I recognise the Discourse forum software across several sites I've used (correct me if I'm wrong about any of these these someone!): - https://discuss.ocaml.org/ https://discuss.ocaml.org/ - https://forum.rescript-lang.org/ https://forum.rescript-lang.org/ - https://discuss.huggingface.co/ https://discuss.huggingface.co/ - https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ - https://discuss.pytorch.org/ https://discuss.pytorch.org/ - https://forum.strapi.io/ https://forum.strapi.io/ (maybe) I don't know if it's a pain to run for maintainers or something, but as a user I have found the experience on these sites infinitely preferable to Discord
- waboremo 3y agoMarginally better than discord, substantially inferior to older forum software. Still a pain to get going. Thank god someone else like Linen is trying their shot at it, before Discourse kills forums by being terrible. Genuinely don’t know how you prefer it to anything, the only thing it has over Discord is being searchable, the rest is obnoxious. The giant avatar bubbles, the random large numbers thrown everywhere, hiding easy to navigate features from forums in favor of endless scrolling, list goes on.