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Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> I'm subscribed to a number of forums, with f'rinstance https://ifnotnil.com
> being a typical example. I have to say that their layout and navigation appear
> to me to be strange and haphazard. I compare them to phpBB that I used in
> earlier times, where it seemed a lot easier to see what threads there were,
> which ones had unread messages, and the whole set fitted onto one screen with
> ease (itself being smaller than modern screens, too). What has changed to make
> these more recent apparitions be preferred?

That's Discourse.  It's intended to be primarily a customer support channel
- user asks a question, N replies, end of topic.

It's currently fashionable, but it doesn't work very well as a general
purpose discussion forum.  Although it works better on mobiles than
traditional phpBB, which tends towards tiny unclickable text or the
avatars/signatures/etc waste a lot of space.

Theo

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