c_xong {l Wrote}:When you say Discourse is a resource hog, what does that imply? Is the site going to be slow, and how much? Will it be more expensive to host?
Sauer2 {l Wrote}:@Julius: Because you asked:
[x] Something else (please explain below)
Considering if Simple Machines is still superior to PHPBB and in that case upgrade to it. Not sure if it's still worth it these days. Also, the user experience doesn't really change with SM.
Honestly I don't really care as long as it doesn't require a third-party authentification or lots of third-party requests.
Julius {l Wrote}:Regarding third-party requests: I guess you mean CDNs and other such "convenient" tracking systems? Yeah, that will be minimized, but these things are so prevalent these days that it is hard to completely avoid. I am very much aware of that though and 100% agree that it is undesirable to include such.
Magellan {l Wrote}:Discourse in particular is quite bad because of the interface. I've never been on a Discourse forum that didn't look like a disorganized mess. Also, they aren't doing themselves any favors with their own forums (https://meta.discourse.org/ which I found by following the Discourse link in the OP and clicking on 'Community'). It seems remarkably difficult to find anything useful in that jumble.
However, you did mention plugins for Discourse and/or the option to emphasize categories more. That might be good, and Discourse is an open source project after all. My only concern is that it may be more difficult to navigate.
Lyberta {l Wrote}:Julius {l Wrote}:but it comes reasonably close and reduces community fragmentation.
Which is the main problem for me. I usually read only specific subforums and would like to never see the content of others until I explicitly ask for it.
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themightyglider {l Wrote}:Furthermore to me it always feels like I have to write a very long post if I like to yoin discusion here or to start a new topic (that just was like this old bord worked). This often discurages me from posting here. I personally would enjoy something where I can just throw in an idea, interesting link or a short update on development process for a project.
Julius {l Wrote}:Edit: One of the "features" of modern forums is that they don't really have a forum tree, and thus feel to users often like a "blob of unrelated posts".
Discourse has an option in your user preferences to "mute" categories
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