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Forums are all about community, full of people, who don't care about super-duper-yet-another-uber-pro-framework.js features

• AznHisoka 14y ago
  exactly. Yup, totally agree. The core people who visit the community could care less about searching for something. And the casual visitors don't need to search a ton because they came to a specific forum thread through a Google search.
  • mds101 14y ago
    Yeah, I agree that it's the communit that makes the forum, but I have talked to quite a few members on different forums serving different niche areas and a lot of them have agreed that a reddit-esque way of presenting discussions would be better. Also, it was mostly the people who spent a lot of time on the forums that usually supported this idea. Also, shouldn't cleaning up the presentation and making it easy to follow discussion threads heirarchically increase user engagement?
• ScottWhigham 14y ago
  That makes no sense to me. The forum owner/founder had to choose a forum in the beginning, right? If the forum owner chose poorly, then it makes for a frustrating experience thus only the most under-served niches/people will participate. Ultimately the community starts somehow and, to me, the forum software is a critical piece. It should be fluid, fast, and not get in posters' way.