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Lee_Ars
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RE: MODERN DESIGN by DISCOURSE
Menus that can't turn off the Caps Lock: Since this one seems to be lacking I thought I would make it up with some all caps topic title.
THANKS I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT MAN
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RE: Discourse and our reaction to it
Here's a question for @codinghorror, @sam and maybe @awesomerobot : is there another Discourse installation (that isn't discourse.org) that's as interested in bugs and features of Discourse as this one?
BoingBoing's community got pretty hot and bothered by the switch. And the graybeards at McNeel almost stroked out after switching to discourse from a moderated newsgroup (which most of them accessed via mail relaying). They hated the non-threaded conversation format about as hard as folks here hate infinite scrolling.
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RE: Discourse and our reaction to it
Threaded displays are a barrier to reading.
Personally, I agree with you. But if you want to read a bunch of BoingBoing happy mutants tell you not only how wrong and stupid you are, but also all the ways in which you should literally die and burn in hell, this and this and this are great places to start. There amount of people advocating there for a Disqus- or reddit-style nested thread layout is boggling.
For some similar posts that have fewer fuckwords but more angry-old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud feels, see here and here (with this thread as a bonus).
I'm an occasional reader of tdwtf and not a regular forum participant, but I do run a small discourse forum and I try to peek at new large deployments as they come up. TDWTF's reaction has been hilarifascinating. (And, frankly, Discourse is becoming better because of the beating tdwft is giving it!)
Latest posts made by Lee_Ars
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RE: MODERN DESIGN by DISCOURSE
Menus that can't turn off the Caps Lock: Since this one seems to be lacking I thought I would make it up with some all caps topic title.
THANKS I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT MAN
—THAT ARS TECHNICA GUY -
RE: Discourse vs. Community Server
I started making my own tweaks, although I didn't finish.It was looking like this:
You're sort-of kind-of approximating Discourse's original launch theme. It's tough to find it in the wild anymore, since most active Discourse sites got the current flatter Win8/O365-ish theme auto-deployed during regular upgrades, but here's one forum that's still rocking the 0.8 style. Lots more grays, with comments defined in bubbles. I like it a lot more than the flat style, but it's a pain in the ass to re-skin the whole site.
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RE: Discourse and our reaction to it
Threaded displays are a barrier to reading.
Personally, I agree with you. But if you want to read a bunch of BoingBoing happy mutants tell you not only how wrong and stupid you are, but also all the ways in which you should literally die and burn in hell, this and this and this are great places to start. There amount of people advocating there for a Disqus- or reddit-style nested thread layout is boggling.
For some similar posts that have fewer fuckwords but more angry-old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud feels, see here and here (with this thread as a bonus).
I'm an occasional reader of tdwtf and not a regular forum participant, but I do run a small discourse forum and I try to peek at new large deployments as they come up. TDWTF's reaction has been hilarifascinating. (And, frankly, Discourse is becoming better because of the beating tdwft is giving it!)
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RE: Discourse and our reaction to it
Here's a question for @codinghorror, @sam and maybe @awesomerobot : is there another Discourse installation (that isn't discourse.org) that's as interested in bugs and features of Discourse as this one?
BoingBoing's community got pretty hot and bothered by the switch. And the graybeards at McNeel almost stroked out after switching to discourse from a moderated newsgroup (which most of them accessed via mail relaying). They hated the non-threaded conversation format about as hard as folks here hate infinite scrolling.