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Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by ddejohn »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #47
rqtwteye wrote: post #42

People think I am insane but I often think forums would be way better than Slack or Teams for company collaboration.

I think you are same! Great idea. A forum is going to be way more searchable. If you want realtime notifications that was solved 50 or more years ago with email or say 20 ish years ago with RSS. For this reason I prefer JIRA comments with @-ed colleagues over slack which provides the context and async communication. An ephemeral slack-like (snapchat for teams!) might be useful for the remote equivalent of talking whi…

I've been thinking about "ephemeral Slack" the last few weeks after a flurry of posts about Slack and workplace communication.

I love the idea. I use Slack a lot for technical discussions with my peers. I've noticed that I seem to be the only person in our department that translates these discussions into Confluence/GitHub documentation.

I'd be very interested to see if an "ephemeral Slack" would force us to be better about documenting our discoveries/decisions/designs etc. It (Confluence) is something everybody at the company complains about, yet few actually attempt to maintain/improve.

Don't get me wrong, Confluence deserves the hate, but we don't have alternatives and, surprisingly I find Confluence a lot nicer to use than trying to search Slack when I run into an issue (provided I know where to look in Confluence, another problem in itself).

I was bummed when StackOverflow got rid of their teams feature, I had always wanted to try that out. I would 100% be on board with a forum for all long-form and persisted communication.

Ideal world: ephemeral chat for day-to-day, forum for persisted comms and institutional documentation, and zero email.

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by ddejohn »

bombcar wrote: post #43
rqtwteye wrote: post #42

People think I am insane but I often think forums would be way better than Slack or Teams for company collaboration.

Forums are so much better for threaded conversations than anything else it’s amazing. All our modern tools are chat based with some thread support hacked in.

I actually don't like how forums deal with threaded conversations (at least in the forums I still use). I do like being able to quote and multi-quote, but I also like being able to collapse comment trees and only read top-level comments as my default reading flow. I only dig into comment trees when I'm interested in the discussion.

Forum posts (again, on the types of forums I use) are just chronological posts (and only with quotes if the responder bothered to add them), and it can be difficult to filter out cruft.

I guess I'm conflating a few different things here.

I like threading on Slack. It has its own issues, but I prefer it to a straight message stream. I like how Discord does message replies because it automatically links back to the replied message with a preview of what's being replied to. I like forums for the search-ability and multi-quoting and subforums.

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by mtlynch »

partly_cloudy wrote: post #32
mtlynch wrote: post #26

Congrats this looks really cool! As someone who grew up in the heyday of these message boards, I appreciate the throwback. I also like the sports board title (though, technically, it should be "we like sportz ").

dang good call!! updated!!!

That's kablamo!

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by Aeolun »

This is way too flat to be a 2000s era forum.

But it looks nice. I’m not sure about thread display on mobile though. The table format seems like it takes way too much space for the post count display.

Also, navigating back somehow keeps the existing page after swiping, and then janks back to the previous page after 200ms or so. Not sure what causes that.

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by lvxferre »

The interface is amazing. Clean, it doesn't leave huge amounts of empty space that scream "this was made for phone users, everyone else might fuck off", and the subforums already hint "we want to gather political dissidents". It feels like the 00s forums without looking like one, it's the best of both worlds.

I tried to register with a weak password (on purpose) to check security. It works; four tries and three different errors (capital letters required, special characters required, min length required). However, I feel like a user hitting this issue accidentally would've given up after the third try. Perhaps it could be worth to check for multiple errors at once, and output them all to the user; e.g. "The password must mix case, and contain special characters, and have a minimum length of 8". Just an idea/feedback, mind you.

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by eterm »

Klonoar wrote: post #28

Can I just say that you've done a remarkably good job at capturing the feel of old school forums without going overboard into old school UI/UX? The spacing, font choices and just general layout feel modern enough without being overbearing. It's very pleasant to browse.

It's odd because I was immediately thrown off when I hit the back button and there was a lag going back.

Even on dial-up, going back was an instant operation because it just loaded the cache. Even when it did reload, it would immediate blank or react in some way.

It didn't have a weird lag to it like this site does, which immediately reveals the true foundations as a more modern SPA where hitting the back button must be firing off an ajax call which is then waited on.

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