Hi, Máirín.
On Friday, 19 October 2018 at 05:43, Máirín Duffy wrote: [...]
I believe quite strongly (and have from the start when I first heard of the project) that Discourse's basic UX model is fundamentally flawed. If we deploy discourse and roll it out, we *may* get new users, but as noted in this thread, we will lose existing ones. Participating in upstream effort on Discourse, improving it, etc is foolish bc the fundamental model is broken.
Agreed. Well said.
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There is no reason a social media timeline like experience for the teenagers is not possible using email as the underlying system. Jabber never really took off, except Google Hangouts and FB messenger both used it (no idea if they still do.)
They used to, but no longer. Both have (d)evolved into their own proprietary protocols. For FB, there's a plugin for pidgin/libpurple that actually works quite well (purple-facebook package).
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I think it's a better idea to use a tool based on open standards, that allows users to use the client experience that works best for them. If you try to force everyone down one road it won't work.
I fully agree.
If the company behind Discourse goes away for some reason and the project is not picked up by community, we'll end up having to support it ourselves and I don't think we have resources for this.
I don't think e-mail is going away anytime soon.
Regards, Dominik