Why Is The Forums So Out Of Date

[cipher_hawk]

I was just wondering why is the whole forum site 

completly out of date. I mean there entire systems 

are all more like they are made in 2010! But i still use it so 

yeah i still like the forums i was just wondering if they might 

modernise it. 

[Blqckqut]

8 minutes ago, Hleahy said:

I was just wondering why is the whole forum site 

completly out of date. I mean there entire systems 

are all more like they are made in 2010! But i still use it so 

yeah i still like the forums i was just wondering if they might 

modernise it. 

its pretty damn modern to me, love the look

 

dark mode ftw

 

and also bc most forums use the same "engine"

[cipher_hawk]

3 minutes ago, Blqckqut said:

its pretty damn modern to me, love the look

 

dark mode ftw

 

and also bc most forums use the same "engine"

i did not know tere was a dark mode...

[Blqckqut]

Just now, Hleahy said:

i did not know tere was a dark mode...

its called night theme

[adm0n]

What would you actually want to become more modern? I'd say the look of the Forum is pretty modern. I could try to become more responsive and get loaded with animations, but I don't think that would make it more functional in any way.

 

And aside from that, I'm not really missing any features.

[filpo]

17 minutes ago, Hleahy said:

I was just wondering why is the whole forum site 

completly out of date. I mean there entire systems 

are all more like they are made in 2010! But i still use it so 

yeah i still like the forums i was just wondering if they might 

modernise it. 

tbh its not that out of date

I like the look and don't think they should change it 

They also have a pretty good system in with the threads

[Blqckqut]

7 minutes ago, adm0n said:

What would you actually want to become more modern? I'd say the look of the Forum is pretty modern. I could try to become more responsive and get loaded with animations, but I don't think that would make it more functional in any way.

 

And aside from that, I'm not really missing any features.

plus it would be unecesary, i turned off windows 11 animations, takes too long lol

[adm0n]

Just now, Blqckqut said:

plus it would be unecesary, i turned off windows 11 animations, takes too long lol

Haha, feeling that.

[DeerDK]

Its a forum... the whole concept is pretty old at this point, but not IMO outdated.

It is very functional for its purpose. Also, Luke and Linus have mentioned on WAN that it's as cost and not an income generator, so I figure it doesn't recieve a lot of development funds.

I can't really see a lot of quality of life improvements to the format anyway, but maybe I lack vision in that aspect 

[xAcid9]

What is an up-to-date/modern forum look like? Like Reddit? 

[Stahlmann]

7 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

What is an up-to-date/modern forum look like? Like Reddit? 

God please no. Reddit so much harder to read than this Forum, with people having threads within threads and all that stuff.

[RollyShed]

It is clean, clear and readable. Simplicity is the way to go for information transfer and that's what a forum should be about. Not a glossy unintelligible mess.

 

Do you read books? Are they simple readable text?

Or do you read comics? A mess of colours and rambling bits.

[Kopaka]

I suggest being way more specific if you want any hope of change, modern is a very ambigious word. Are you talking about ui, missing functions, etc.

[TetraSky]

What is even "modern" to you?
It's a forum. What did you want? Something awful like what reddit did?

[xAcid9]

1 hour ago, Stahlmann said:

God please no. Reddit so much harder to read than this Forum, with people having threads within threads and all that stuff.

That's why I'm curious what not "out of date" forum look like.

Few places that doesn't look like a traditional BB forum
Reddit - Threaded replies, ewww
Nvidia - Laggy af layout
AMD - Threaded replies, ewww
Level1Tech - Navigation and layout need some time to get use too, look like an email client. 

[adm0n]

1 hour ago, Stahlmann said:

God please no. Reddit so much harder to read than this Forum, with people having threads within threads and all that stuff.

I also think that there is a limit of how much it is possible to optimize human interaction via text. Having threadceptions makes it possible to follow multiple paths to an answer at once, without being impossible to find what you want. While in a linear forum like this one, you'd have to go through the whole thread to find out about everything being said.

 

But I strongly prefer the linear design over reddits for threads where just a few people interact. Reddit with this linear design would also be awful. So different tools for different jobs.

[Lurking]

Maybe make some specific suggestions? 

 

Modern or new isn't always better. I like how categories are organized. 

 

The host also is limited by what the software allows. I've seen much worse forums based on older software. 

 

The only feature this forum is missing, is that if I put a user on ignore, I would make all the threads that user starts be invisible to me. Right now, only their posts are hidden. That would make it a bit more clean and not waste my time going into threads by people I ignore (I don't remember all the usernames I ignore...lol)

 

That is my only suggestion for improvement.   

[Needfuldoer]

As someone who spent far too much time on phpbb2 forums over the years, this place is damn near futuristic.

 

Threaded replies are a terrible user experience. They're worse than Linux greybeard mailing lists.

[05032-Mendicant-Bias]

What's wrong with the forum? 

 

So often modern equals taking away buttons and menus, and overall worsening the experience. I'd rather have an easy to use forum rather than a "clean" "minimal modern forum.

[rcmaehl]

Forum doesn't have infinite scrolling - 0/10, ancient as hell

 

/s

[dilpickle]

I love the ability to split quotes. I haven't seen that on any other forum.

[DeerDK]

1 minute ago, dilpickle said:

I love the ability to split quotes. I haven't seen that on any other forum.

Wait what? I wasn't aware of that 

[RollyShed]

2 hours ago, dilpickle said:

I love the ability to split quotes. I haven't seen that on any other forum.

Easy to do on the Linux Mint forum. Just put "square bracket" "quote" "square bracket", the text being quoted and then "square bracket" "/" "quote" square bracket and the bit below happens. Quote in each case is that word - quote

Quote

at the start of something to be quoted and

at the end of the sentence.

Works every time.

[cipher_hawk]

13 hours ago, Hleahy said:

I was just wondering why is the whole forum site 

completly out of date. I mean there entire systems 

are all more like they are made in 2010! But i still use it so 

yeah i still like the forums i was just wondering if they might 

modernise it. 

All of you thank yourt for your opinions and now i understand more wy it is so good after i went to look at some other forums and turned on dark mode so thank you all you can abandon this thread if you'd like because i am and sorry for the toxic opinion aparently

[dilpickle]

1 hour ago, RollyShed said:

Easy to do on the Linux Mint forum. Just put "square bracket" "quote" "square bracket", the text being quoted and then "square bracket" "/" "quote" square bracket and the bit below happens. Quote in each case is that word - quote

at the end of the sentence.

Works every time.

Um yeah the point being you don't have to do any of that on this forum.