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nebbian
nebbian
WA
6277 posts
WA, 6277 posts
7 Feb 2013 11:18pm
I noted with delighted interest Jeff Atwood's latest blog post:
blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-construction-kit/

For those of you who don't know who Jeff is, he's the guy behind "Stack Overflow", the site that basically guarantees to give you the best answer to a computer-related question.

So now he's trying his hand at making forum software. This fills me with a frisson of excitement, because as we all know, forums are the way to connect with people all over the world who share our love of things weird, wonderful, and crazy. In fact, Jeff puts it much better than I could do:

These communities are incredibly passionate about incredibly obscure things. They aren't afraid to let their freak flag fly, and the world is a better place for it.


So now he's built a system to let us get past the humdrum problems of storage space, issues with image size, multiple login details between forums, the list goes on. He's built a better mousetrap, while still allowing our community to talk amongst ourselves. In fact, he's actively encouraging it!

So who's in?
GalahOnTheBay
GalahOnTheBay
NSW
4188 posts
NSW, 4188 posts
8 Feb 2013 9:33am
Some great ideas in there - sounds very interesting...

When do we start?
Neddero
Neddero
NSW
74 posts
NSW, 74 posts
8 Feb 2013 9:39am
It looks the business!

Love that it loads as you scroll...

(edit)

But, Seabreeze is pretty sweet too, it all integrates really well at the moment, from the weather, to the Buy & Sell etc...
evlPanda
evlPanda
NSW
9207 posts
NSW, 9207 posts
8 Feb 2013 11:20am
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Hello Laurie.

Jeff hates threaded discussions. I much prefer threaded discussions. This doesn't have threaded discussions.

...that said I like that SeaBreeze doesn't have threaded discussions. It's kinda just "BLAH!" old-skool, and everybody's voice is equal.

What are you talking about?

This:
blog.codinghorror.com/web-discussions-flat-by-design/




edit: I actually prefer Seabreeze's super-simple forum over this. It's so easy to read a child can do it.

We get guys in here at work that are tasked to build an application or extension and they spend hundreds of hours building fully customisable, OO, design-patterned, extensible monsters, with factories and facades using SOA and SOAP and Web Services and so on and so on and so on, and the damn thing is so ridiculously over-the-top that nobody but them actually knows how to even begin configuring it, and there are a zillion places for bugs to live, and then when it comes time to test it it fails when a slight change is made to the requirements because "we never considered that might change... that's a lot of work", and they thought it was so flexible but it was actually so very, very brittle and then when they leave we politely replace it all with about 2 day's work and everyone is happy.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.
K.I.S.S.
et al

"The best mathematician is the laziest mathematician"
evlPanda
evlPanda
NSW
9207 posts
NSW, 9207 posts
8 Feb 2013 10:03pm
That said discourse does look very good Nebbian.

How about a www.DiscourseTest.seabreeze.com.au? I am intrigued now.
sausage
sausage
QLD
4874 posts
QLD, 4874 posts
8 Feb 2013 11:22pm
Nebs,
How about tryng it on GPSTC - would love a running forum. Whilst seabreeze has been the GPSTC's default forum entity I reckon there's a heap of GPSTCers who don't use SB (anymore).

Edit - I've just had a play in it and for a tech ignoramus like myself, that is pretty damn cool.
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