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Can't find the post now (think it was on HN or Ars Technica a few months back) but I'm fairly certain "the next big thing" Jeff's working on is re-imagining how
by corford 14y ago
Can't find the post now (think it was on HN or Ars Technica a few months back) but I'm fairly certain "the next big thing" Jeff's working on is re-imagining how a web forum should work.
I hope he cracks it - vbulletin and friends need to die!
- malyk 14y agoJeff posted a question in the Programmers Symposium of the Ars Technica forum asking how the members there felt about forum software. Personally, I think the ars forum works perfectly. I can't stand newsgroups, for instance...i'd be in heaven if everything were vbulletin. But maybe Jeff has something neat up his sleave!
- TillE 14y agoHopefully. I've been looking into options for fostering a small community around a new videogame, and I hate them all. Traditional forum software is much too heavy (registration, navigation), Vanilla is just strange, a subreddit is an inappropriate format (voting and the lack of long-term threads are a turnoff), and there's really not much else. It's something that's long overdue for a shakeup.