Comment by geerlingguy
3 years ago
Discourse is the modern phpBB. It's really good, and both are about 10,000x better than private chat servers.
3 years ago
Discourse is the modern phpBB. It's really good, and both are about 10,000x better than private chat servers.
Discourse is not really good, it's got endless scrolling at takes forever to navigate what could be done in seconds with pagination.
Pages are a defining feature of old forums, without them it's just another Reddit-alike or something.
The endless scrolling is really annoying. Apparently they can't load more than 10 messages on a page for "performance reasons". But it breaks searching the page, slows down scrolling and a lot of other browser UX.
If you can't performantly display a few hundred short messages you need to rethink your frontend technology.
I don't like it. It works poorly without JavaScript, but this isn't quite the main problem. The main problem is that it seems to have the same sterile look everywhere just like every single "modern" corporate site, the same as new design reddit, facebook, or goolag, or anything else.