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Been over for a long time. We've had a lot of consolidation into Reddit (which, you can browse mostly anonymously, it will just beg you to death to log in unles

Been over for a long time. We've had a lot of consolidation into Reddit (which, you can browse mostly anonymously, it will just beg you to death to log in unless you use the old site); and we've also had a mountain of consolidation into Discord (the most unsearchable system ever designed). People stopped hosting their own forums. Frankly, it's hard to not see why. The constant spam and people avoiding bans wasn't helpful - and modern forum software like Discourse is pure agony to set up and maintain if you don't know what you are doing. Not that forum software hasn't always been hard to set up, but the modern software stacks are particularly hard to manage. Also, what normal people see as good UX, in my experience, almost completely does not match what computer engineers and the average open-source contributor sees as good UX.

beachy 3y ago
> modern forum software like Discourse is pure agony to set up and maintain if you don't know what you are doing I'd like to know more about why Discourse is this way. Why the fark can't I just docker compose it up and running? I'm almost but not quite thinking about paying for a hosted Discourse solution since time is money. But why do they make it so hard?
krustyburger 3y ago
Reddit is under no obligation to continue supporting the old site.
- meepmorp 3y ago
  Is anyone saying they're obligated to support the old site? I don't think that's a supportable inference to draw from people's observations that the new design is hot garbage.
- tourmalinetaco 3y ago
  If they want me and millions of others to use it they are.