This place feels like reddit but worse
I get that you need to start somewhere, but supposedly this place was worked on for months. And this is what we get?
I go to reddit not for a community, but reading random comments on a single main image or link. This place has the same vibe. A forum is read chronologically without any nesting of comments and with pages. That's how everyone does it. I also saw someone calling twitter (elon has no say in what we call it) a forum. It's not.
A forum, is a forum. with subsections, signiatures, profile walls, embedded quotes, chronological order.
Not this, this feels like the wrong people got given the wrong task. It's feels as if you asked gen Z to recreate IRC for example, they sort of got it, but didn't actually know what it was like. The magic is gone. this feels like a off the shelf "forum" software package got bought and then bruteforced to work in ways it's not supposed to. Even AHQ feels more polished.
If you want to make this place feel like an actual forum:
- go back to chronological order
- pages, no endless "show more" scrolling.
- proper quoting instead of this ugly nested behavior
- signiatures, no that isn't a "Security issue". it's a bit of text. Surely you can figure out proper regex and filtering to remove mallicious stuff.
- proper subsections instead of this large heap
- center formatting, lose the sidebar. nobody needs to know which tags are used elsewhere while reading a post
- whatever this broken formatting is...fix it. it can't even render a ampersand properly or show the whole description
- Set up a system so that you can have ghost users that can be used to migrate posts. because right now several guru's have left EA over the years, and therefore the simulation tech talk thread is unable to be migrated as they created it, and that's a shame. We're already losing so much, and we basically had to guess on wether or not the original posted had a account or even wanted to make one.
- notifications and messeges: a dropdown, don't make everything load on a new page. this feels like a janky workarround
- inline editing, don't make me load into some editing page whenever i want to edit something.
there's so many things at this early stage that feel like either the webdevs don't quite grasp what they're doing, they weren't given enough time, or somebody picked the wrong backend and now we have to make due,
As a final note, Forcing the true forum to read only in the span of 5 days from forum announcement to now just because we refuse to use this place feels rude. I get that some staff members dislike the ancient and outdated old forum backend, but there's better ways to handle this.
