(1) It's super bloated. It requires a 10x the resources of an old school PHP forum. I'm not saying an old school PHP forum is better. Only that gees! Why do I need to pay 1GIG dedicated machine when a shared PHP host was working for ~15yrs
(2) All the damn gamification that's so effing annoying. I've got enough notifications in my life. I don't need "You posted your first message", "You posted your first reply", "You edited your first message". The only notifications I want are those that are actually useful for me "You got a reply"
(3) Poor design for engagement. I have no data on this but I've never seen a discourse forum be as active as older non-discourse forums. Something about the way it's designed IMO discourages long lived lively topics. Where is the NeoGAF of discourse? Where is the Tigsource of discourse?
(1) It's super bloated. It requires a 10x the resources of an old school PHP forum. I'm not saying an old school PHP forum is better. Only that gees! Why do I need to pay 1GIG dedicated machine when a shared PHP host was working for ~15yrs
(2) All the damn gamification that's so effing annoying. I've got enough notifications in my life. I don't need "You posted your first message", "You posted your first reply", "You edited your first message". The only notifications I want are those that are actually useful for me "You got a reply"
(3) Poor design for engagement. I have no data on this but I've never seen a discourse forum be as active as older non-discourse forums. Something about the way it's designed IMO discourages long lived lively topics. Where is the NeoGAF of discourse? Where is the Tigsource of discourse?