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"Forums are the dark matter of the web, the B-movies of the Internet. But they matter," I totally agree with Jeff and do welcome any innovation in this space b
by tferris 14y ago
"Forums are the dark matter of the web, the B-movies of the Internet. But they matter,"
I totally agree with Jeff and do welcome any innovation in this space but it's hard to imagine more efficient comment/forum systems than the Reddit/HN style (I like even more the Reddit style since it offers more features and hides irrelevant or long discussions in a better way). I'm not much a fan of the linear, non-nested, old-fashioned but wide-spread bulletin boards style which Discourse follows.
- codinghorror 14y agoPart of my working hypothesis is that the reason flat forums are so ubiquitous is their simplicity -- I think larger audiences just don't "get" threading at all, and there are a lot of ways for misused (and even correctly used) threading to actively harm the discussion.
- blablabla123 14y agoFor tech discussions Reddit/HN are fine... But I really miss places where to discuss political stuff. These kinds of discussions really got stick in some 90s style niche forums. And in the forums I know that still have these discussions, they got just boring and repetitive.