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Agree completely. For long threads, Discourse is a usability disaster. phpBB is awful software, but everyone in the world can click on page 20 and know where th
by Dolimiter 13y ago
Agree completely. For long threads, Discourse is a usability disaster. phpBB is awful software, but everyone in the world can click on page 20 and know where they are. Jumping 2/3rds into a long topic using Discourse is essentially impossible for the average user.
But I love Discourse for at least trying something new and different - thats how progress is made. But some of their UI/stack decisions seem to have been made with no thought for normal people/web admins.
- EvilTrout 13y agoQuestion: Why do you need to jump to page 20? In a long topic, what value does it give you? We have found that the vast majority of users either link to a single post or scroll downwards. For mega topics, we have a summarize option that shows the "best of."
- Dolimiter 13y ago"We have found that the vast majority of users either link to a single post or scroll downwards." Well they don't have any choice do they :D I think that the summary tool of discourse is fantastic. So are the membership management tools/spam tools. A generation above phpBB. Just to balance out the criticism. But the infinite scrolling is a deal-breaker (for me).
- hamburglar 13y ago> Question: Why do you need to jump to page 20? Question: why do you assume that an end user's lack of ability to articulate a need negates it?