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  Forums Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-05-16 13:54 +0000
    Re: Forums Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-05-16 15:06 +0100

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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?

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Tim

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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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