Re:PhpBB 3.3.10
by gardenhedge on Monday February 06, 2023 @05:54AM
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I'm in the same camp, discord and discourse just aren't useful to me
My number one issue with most of those forum "successors" is that everything is hidden behind a registration wall.
That means that they won't be indexed by search engines, so I cannot serendipitously stumble across them during a random web search in the first place, and even if I somehow learned about them, having to sign up merely to read some stuff is annoying.
Re:PhpBB 3.3.10
by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday February 06, 2023 @12:54PM
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Isn't that also true for Facebook groups?
I don't really like Discord, so I don't use it, and have no feedback on it.
I used to run a SimpleMachines forum, and we actually wanted to prevent the contents from being indexed.
Re:PhpBB 3.3.10
by jamesfinlayson on Monday February 06, 2023 @06:16PM
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I agree - very easy to lose track of something in the random chat that occurs.
I use Discord because there's where some discussion I'm interested in happens though - not much choice sometimes.
Having said that in many contexts a forum with threads that have a clear topic are just so much more of an appropriate solution than chat apps. I don't understand why people prefer the latter (although it does explain why I prefer Zulip since it manages to be a good hybrid in how it organizes discussions).