> If you know any modern forum software (which isn’t Discourse), please let me know!
What's wrong with Discourse?
What's wrong with Discourse?
It takes up a lot of vertical screen space and the scrolling behavior is really annoying. I know, I know, pagination is old and crusty and no one uses it or whatever, but I do and it helps me navigate threads (especially long ones) a lot easier. It's the same problem as reading a long book on an ebook reader. Sure, if you're reading for pleasure, then an ebook reader is fine, but for reading something more technical, being able to go back to specific "checkpoints" is really important.
Comparatively, crusty old phpBB can display 4 posts in the same space that Discourse uses to display 1 and it has pagination. Yes, you can change the theme on Discourse to fix the overuse of vertical space, but the theme it ships with is going to influence how people theme their Discourse instance.
You can bookmark or link to any point in the thread. Add /postnumber to the thread URL if you don’t want to manually grab it.
And there are some excellent condensed themes, CSS styles and user styles out there if you want that.
Not saying you have to like it, but there are easy solutions for those specific preferences, and overall, Discourse has been good for participation on old forums.
I think Discourse can be a great option, I just want to hear about other forum software.
It's not likely you'll see anything from me anytime soon (maybe eventually but that's a fuckton of work and I have a day job) but I have ideas of leveraging server-side rendering per the "don't make js required" comment and progressive enhancement in general. If I do build something like this my target browser would likely be Lynx[0]. Just consider it a pipe dream until you see my "Show HN" post.