On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 18:53:19 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
tl;dr, I find these so-called "modern" forum interfaces nigh
unusable,
and only barely tolerable. They barely scratch the surface of
functionality that I currently have at my fingertips, and yet
they
require a browser with all of its bloat and memory / CPU
consumption,
all just to display some text and pictures on the screen and
present a
crippled UI. Frankly, if the discussion were to take place on
a web
forum, I simply wouldn't participate. Give me back my plain
text
interface, thank you very much.
(Caveat: I know I'm a minority in these views, so don't get
offended. I
do feel very strongly about these things. :))
T
You still have to accept, that not everybody is a
"mailing-list-poweruser" like you. To get new people, I think the
community needs to be more open to new people.
