  
| Author: | viejos  | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2017 10:29 | | Subject: | Re: Better Forum | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ranarn writes:
| | Yes absolutely, i have a few friends that looked at it, and decided to never
look at it again, cause it looks like a mailing-list discussion from before they
where born.
For me personally it works good, i have no major problem with it now. And to
create a new post is not that hard, i think most will manage it they try.
But what the problem is not you and me or the older generation. It's the
younger generation that today is used with things like facebook, instagram, disqus,
reddit, where everything is simplistic, easy to understand, modern looking and
a minimal learning curve.
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I think you're getting confused by the "skin" on these applications. Take
disqus for example. It regularly crashes during high usage. I must have seen
that silly little snowman a dozen times just since the beginning of the year.
Second, there is very poor documentation provided for people to understand what
all these cryptic little icons do, with the result that many users don't
know how to favorite a thread, block a user, or even sort the posts. Very few
know the difference between reporting a user to disqus and reporting someone
to the local mods.
Also, when it comes to managing your profile, things like the block list are
in the stone ages. There is no way to sort or mass unblock, so literally every
user has to be unblocked manually. It's such a primitive system, I consider
it a real chore to do anything on that platform.
And they've got bugs. Click on a user profile while writing a post, and bingo,
when you finally post your well-crafted narrative, up comes the cartoon screen
of death. A back page will do nothing. Your post is lost. And the notification
bubble does not work right. And on and on. They also recently started putting
ads in the middle of the reply list.
You are correct when you describe these trendy modern platforms as "simplistic".
They are indeed that, meaning that the UI has been minimalized to give the impression
of simplicity. But in reality, that is just a mask for a very complex structure
underneath that most users do not understand completely.
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Message is in Reply To:  Re: Better Forum - ranarn (271) | Yes absolutely, i have a few friends that looked at it, and decided to never look at it again, cause it looks like a mailing-list discussion from before they where born. For [...]
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