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I vote a HARD NO for discourse!
SECONDED.
Hijacking CTRL-F is downright fing EVIL. :crazy:
Also the way you have to drag down that scroll thingie to get to the bottom of a discussion. It's just incredibly unpleasant.
I vote a HARD NO for discourse!
Facebook? Are people making the (quite reasonable) assumption that Discourse and Discord are the same?
Discourse is forum software inspired by phpBB and vBulletin. Someone else pointed out that Discourse is Open Source so you could self-host if you wanted full control. Not every group has the admin expertise to do that, but Open Source is still a positive as it means you're not locked into one hosting provider.
Discord is a social media company that tries to try to compete with Facebook, WhatsApp, and Slack using its own Proprietary system. It has carved out a niche with gamers. And yes, I wholeheartedly agree that moving to Discord would be hardly better than moving to Facebook.
Whatever the admins here decide, I am quite relieved to hear that Morse Code is higher than Facebook on the list of alternatives.
—b9
No bro we know what it is, we just hate it.
Keep it civil and stay on topic. I don't want to have to close this thread. Post your preference, and it's pros and cons if you have them, but let's not get into meaningless back and forth about each others picks.
Due to the plethora of issues that we have been trying to solve with vBulletin, we have decided to start investigating the possibility of switching forum software, and would like to start looking into the options available out there.
To that end, we would like to ask all of you out there for some suggestions on what other forum software we should consider. It would be particularly helpful if you could comment on the admin experience for your suggested software, but we are also interested in your experiences as a user.
Just to be as transparent as possible, this does not mean that we will switch, it just means that we are investigating our options, and if we do decide to switch we plan to involve the community in the entire process as much as we can, as well as soliciting feedback before any major decisions are made. After all, this is your community as much as it is ours.
Could you please share why you consider moving away from vBulletin?
If it works don't change it.
Best regards
Tom Hunter
Why can't we move to newsgroups? I think that would be perfect considering the field of discussion here.
Not only is this board somewhat kludged, and obvious to the casual observer, we have lost a good hunk of participation.
Hi Lutiana,
Thank you for all your work to keep this forum running.
Could you please share why you consider moving away from vBulletin?
I have no insight into the administrative side of it, but from a user's point of view it is "good enough".
I don't like what it does with "Image Uploads" where even after I compress my JPEG images to the small "allowed size" it then re-compresses my image and it becomes larger than the limit (this is a bit crazy in my opinion). Other than the "Image Upload" feature it works well enough from my point of view and I happily cope with a little craziness and some rough edges.
If it works don't change it.
Best regards
Tom Hunter