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The forum software "Discourse" is a good example of hugely over-engineered bloat and Javascript being required to display some text.

They even require that you have the latest smartphone hardware! To display a forum post!

As with the examples of Facebook and Google, these are intelligent people working at these companies. Yet they get it completely and catastrophically wrong...

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Agreed. Jeff Atwood's not a bad guy, but the way he acts like he's going to lead web forums to the promised land with Discourse is really grating, particularly when all he's really doing is making them more obnoxious to use.

I guess I could make a Slack/IRC comparison, but maybe I don't need to go there.

Slack is at least in many ways an actual improvement over IRC, from what I've seen of Discourse it's pure loss.

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