Infinite scroll in a thread with 20000 replies gets you hooked on it for hours.
It takes a while to catch up and then even more time to go back and get some questions addressed that you think were missed in the post.
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For discussions that don't fit other prefixes.
It takes a while to catch up and then even more time to go back and get some questions addressed that you think were missed in the post.
I'm only bothered by the software a site uses if it makes people have to jump through hoops to do things. I'm bored of having to fight with decade-plus old forum software conventions.
That said I'm still not a huge fan of Discourse - though I won't go out of my way to avoid it - it doesn't seem to have radically moved since 2014 or so when it was foisted upon me on a site I was a member of, but I really hope it's upped its game in terms of reliability on dodgy networks, because it was terrible for the first couple of years at coping with spotty mobile connections.
The fact that Jeff Atwood and I butted heads several times in conversation has never entirely sat right with me, but history does appear to have demonstrated that the things I argued with him about, I was right about at the time.
That said I'm still not a huge fan of Discourse - though I won't go out of my way to avoid it - it doesn't seem to have radically moved since 2014 or so when it was foisted upon me on a site I was a member of, but I really hope it's upped its game in terms of reliability on dodgy networks, because it was terrible for the first couple of years at coping with spotty mobile connections.
The fact that Jeff Atwood and I butted heads several times in conversation has never entirely sat right with me, but history does appear to have demonstrated that the things I argued with him about, I was right about at the time.
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Though I prefer the traditional forum layout that Xenforo, MyBB, Invision, etc offer over Discourse I wouldn't mind joining a forum using Discourse or modern platform. If the community offers engaging content that I enjoy, I'll join it regardless of software. I just wouldn't personally use certain software myself.
I don't find my opinion to be aggressive. It is simply a personal choice. I've been on forums that were "free" hosted, and they lacked features, were hard to navigate, and often had forced ads that detracted from the usage of the site. One time, I clicked a "my account" link on a such forum, and a spam page opened trying to get me to sign up for something. No thanks.
When did you last use SMF? 2.0 is definitely out of date, but good thing 2.1 was released a couple of years ago.
Primarily modernisation of the internals. Much of SMF's internal code hails from 2004 just as Jcink's does (since much of Jcink is really Invision Power Boards 1.3 from 2004).
3.0 roadmap: https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=587334.0
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To me, that's a whole different topic.
I thought it was about software. The ads and spam were something added.
I've never joined a phpBB or SMF forum and got a spam ad, and I've been on forums for over 20 years.
Your experience was manipulation of the software, not an out-of-the-box feature.
There were other factors as well. The spam link thing only happened on a forum hosted for "free", like Proboards. I can't recall which one. But not only that, the software they offered was just awful. lol
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