Discourse 1.5 released
Version 1.5 of the Discourse open-source discussion-and-commenting system has been
released.
Significant work went into rewriting the top-level "topics" page,
resulting in a five-fold speed increase. Administrators can now
change and customize every object label used in the interface. "Want topics to be 'threads'? Users to be
'funkatrons'? Like to be 'brofist'? Well, Discourse is your
huckleberry.
" Support for email comments has also been improved, and user
groups can now exchange private messages. The badge system, which is
used to denote user roles and to mark popular posts, received a
visual refresh and new documentation; user summary pages were also refreshed.
Posted Apr 2, 2016 10:02 UTC (Sat)
by xav (guest, #18536)
[Link] (10 responses)
Posted Apr 2, 2016 11:13 UTC (Sat)
by felix.s (guest, #104710)
[Link] (9 responses)
Posted Apr 2, 2016 11:17 UTC (Sat)
by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
[Link] (1 responses)
Posted Apr 2, 2016 15:39 UTC (Sat)
by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
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Posted Apr 2, 2016 15:41 UTC (Sat)
by zlynx (guest, #2285)
[Link] (6 responses)
No wonder its performance is so bad.
Posted Apr 8, 2016 17:47 UTC (Fri)
by rriggs (guest, #11598)
[Link] (5 responses)
Posted Apr 10, 2016 7:31 UTC (Sun)
by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
[Link] (4 responses)
Posted Apr 11, 2016 11:35 UTC (Mon)
by nye (subscriber, #51576)
[Link] (1 responses)
It's pretty bad for any kind of collaborative work or other longer discussion, because it's unstructured and non-paginated, and has no ignore list. And you can forget using it over a dodgy connection for the same reason that most other Javascript apps fail - complex state that can get broken if a background request fails, leaving you forced to refresh the page, which loses all of that complex state and leaves you back at the top of an infinitely scrolling abyss[0].
I think it was mostly built as a means of providing a comments thread for blog articles, which is a fairly tight use case. Essentially, if what you want is Twitter on steroids, then it might not be a bad choice except for the fact that it's written in Ruby (which I still firmly believe is an April fool that got out of hand). If what you want is anything other than that, it's hard to think of any choices that would be significantly worse. Disqus, I guess.
[0]Seriously, there is a Special Hell reserved for anyone who thinks infinite scrolling is a good idea.
Posted Apr 11, 2016 16:58 UTC (Mon)
by zlynx (guest, #2285)
[Link]
It does have a small button area at the bottom of the page that lets you jump to a numbered comment, the top, and the bottom. So you don't actually have to scroll all the way to the end of a thousand messages.
Posted Apr 12, 2016 0:15 UTC (Tue)
by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
[Link] (1 responses)
Instance: http://forum.dlang.org/
Posted Apr 12, 2016 20:51 UTC (Tue)
by flussence (guest, #85566)
[Link]
...and then when I go back to the rest of the “modern” web it feels like I'm navigating old Teletext pages. It'd be nice if more people would realise smashing planet-sized async frameworks and CDNs together is not the answer.
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Software: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
Discourse 1.5 released