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pdurbin:
I was chatting with mélodie the other day and mentioned that I'm not a a big fan of forums:
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/03/27/%23ubuntu-women-project.html#t14:51
Since she asked so nicely though, I decided to create an account on this one. :)
It looks like the forum software you're using is SMF but I'm curious what people who really like forums think about some new open source forum software called Discourse.
Here's the introductory post about it:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/02/civilized-discourse-construction-kit.html
Its home page is http://discourse.org and the code is at https://github.com/discourse/discourse
I've played a little bit on their "meta" site: http://meta.discourse.org/users/pdurbin
The argument for using Discourse (from the people who wrote it) seems to be that it's much more advanced than traditional forum software such a phpBB (and presumably SMF). Here's some decent discussion about this: http://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-wrong-with-phpbb/3763
Again, I'm curious what regular users of forum software think of Discourse. Is it attractive? Is it compelling? Are you perfectly happy with older solutions?
konaexpress:
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
umm..........
It is nice but I am not a fan of it. I love Wordpress as a CMS but I have never liked that format as forum software. I know that it is not from Wordpress but it has the same feel of a Wordpress site, much like the Ubuntu forums are a PAIN to get around in. I just stay the heck away from forums with that look and feel. Guess I am just kind of old school when it comes to things like that.
-John
pdurbin:
--- Citation de: konaexpress le 29 mars 2013 à 04:17:26 ---It is nice but I am not a fan of it.
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That's fine, of course, but it occurs to me that one feature I like about Discourse is that I can give a small indication that I've read a post by clicking a button rather than replying like I am now. This is similar to +1 on Google+ or "like" on Facebook. I think it helps reduce the amount of noise.
It looks like Ubuntu used vBulletin for its forums. Honestly, all of this older forum software seems the same to me. Discourse feels newer... I just can't decide if it's worth bothering with. Lately I've been leaning toward logged IRC channels as my preferred communication channel: http://wiki.greptilian.com/haunts
I'm also fairly active on Google+ and Twitter. I completely appreciate running one's own forum though, rather than relying on one of these large third-party platforms.
melodie:
Welcome pdurbin!
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/02/civilized-discourse-construction-kit.html
This makes me laugh a lot:
--- Citer ---Like I said, I don't get asked for advice too often. But for what it's worth, it is serious advice. And the next question they ask always strikes fear into my heart.
You're so right! We need a place for online community around our thing. What software should we use?
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and next, I click on one of the images of forums to try to get a closer look, but this will not happen...
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb
--- Citer ---vBulletin Message
Sorry. The administrator has banned your IP address. To contact the administrator click here
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Sooo fun! :-)
the wayback machine is nicer to me:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815063701/http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/
I can see it.
Well, what happened here, why do we use this one forum type? This is because a buddy on a Jabber salon, who was co-admin to a webhost doing Free open price hosting told me he could install it and make the main configuration for us. I stumbled upon his proposal as I was looking for a new place for our little community. We also were several here who were used to post in forums built with SMF. And well, it's not an old forum really, it was updated very recently, and it is build by a very active community, as you could see visiting their forums
http://www.discourse.org
konaexpress is right, some parts look like Wordpress. Other parts look like what we already have here. When someone submitted a post before you in the same thread you can see it, and quote it to answer to the new post before ending your's and submitting it.
It seems that when too many possibilities are provided it makes it more complicated. And we can't invite people who are not registered : we don't want to use our time fighting the spambots kind of unwanted visitors.
For this reason also it is a good thing to use an "old type" of forum, all the difficult parts have been taken in account, the holes are fixed soon and fast, and the MOD's for all kinds of needs are numerous and well tested.
We have a place which we can rely on.
konaexpress:
--- Citation de: pdurbin le 29 mars 2013 à 05:04:26 ---That's fine, of course, but it occurs to me that one feature I like about Discourse is that I can give a small indication that I've read a post by clicking a button rather than replying like I am now. This is similar to +1 on Google+ or "like" on Facebook. I think it helps reduce the amount of noise.
It looks like Ubuntu used vBulletin for its forums. Honestly, all of this older forum software seems the same to me. Discourse feels newer... I just can't decide if it's worth bothering with. Lately I've been leaning toward logged IRC channels as my preferred communication channel: http://wiki.greptilian.com/haunts
I'm also fairly active on Google+ and Twitter. I completely appreciate running one's own forum though, rather than relying on one of these large third-party platforms.
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I have never used the IRC groups, hope it is nothing like the mail groups/lists. Hate them with a passion, I belong to a couple of them and I have them going to dummy email accounts so I can go read them when I need them. I don't need 100 emails a day clogging up my personal account, Yikes!. IMHO that is the absolute worst way to do business.
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