Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

2014-03-21 Thread Sai Vineet
Hi,

Here's my comment -
There is currently no way to get instant help from real people from
inside Sugar, except the IRC activity, which sadly is too complicated
and distributed(hard to find stuff which one needs, no logs, there are
security problems). We really need a way to get children help quickly,
and this is what this project will give us. It will, with time, also
become a full help repository, and also a way for children to talk and
discuss things in a more social manner than it is now. Thus the Social
Help project is invaluable to Sugar and it's vision, that learning is
a social process.


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:




 On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Prasoon Shukla 
 prasoon92.i...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hello again.
 I've made a proposal :
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2014/Prasoon2211/Social_Help

 *I need a few comments on how the sugar help project will help the sugar
 community.* This I need to add in the proposal. I tried reaching out on
 the IRC but there was no response there. Please comment below.


 People are social and learning is social. Having a forum for sharing ideas
 and help is invaluable -- especially in light of the decentralized nature
 of the Sugar community. While the developer community is comfortable with
 IRC, we have not been successful in getting our user community to use it:
 they are seeming more comfortable with web tools (e.g. there is a large
 community of teachers using Facebook to discuss Sugar.) It would of course
 be better to have a FOSS solution. But also one that didn't require a lot
 of maintenance and support by the Sugar developer community. Hence, a
 connection to an existing FOSS platform would be attractive.

 regards.

 -walter



 Anyway, this is the first draft. Please comment on the discussions page
 if anything is required in the proposal.

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

2014-03-17 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Prasoon Shukla prasoon92.i...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hello again.
 I've made a proposal :
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2014/Prasoon2211/Social_Help

 *I need a few comments on how the sugar help project will help the sugar
 community.* This I need to add in the proposal. I tried reaching out on
 the IRC but there was no response there. Please comment below.


People are social and learning is social. Having a forum for sharing ideas
and help is invaluable -- especially in light of the decentralized nature
of the Sugar community. While the developer community is comfortable with
IRC, we have not been successful in getting our user community to use it:
they are seeming more comfortable with web tools (e.g. there is a large
community of teachers using Facebook to discuss Sugar.) It would of course
be better to have a FOSS solution. But also one that didn't require a lot
of maintenance and support by the Sugar developer community. Hence, a
connection to an existing FOSS platform would be attractive.

regards.

-walter



 Anyway, this is the first draft. Please comment on the discussions page if
 anything is required in the proposal.

 Thanks!
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

2014-03-15 Thread Prasoon Shukla
Hello again.
I've made a proposal :
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2014/Prasoon2211/Social_Help

*I need a few comments on how the sugar help project will help the sugar
community.* This I need to add in the proposal. I tried reaching out on the
IRC but there was no response there. Please comment below.

Anyway, this is the first draft. Please comment on the discussions page if
anything is required in the proposal.

Thanks!
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

2014-03-13 Thread Prasoon Shukla
I took a look at two of the webservices - Facebook and PutLocker.

Now, Facebook provides an access token that can be used to log the user in
via third-party clients. As far as I can see, Discourse does not provide
such access tokens. The Facebook access token being used is here:
https://github.com/walterbender/facebook/blob/master/extensions/webservice/facebook/account.py#L53

However, in the PutLocker implementation, sugar is *actually storing
plain-text passwords! *Look here:
https://github.com/ignaciouy/sugar-putlocker/blob/master/extensions/webservice/sugarupload/account.py#L43
This, IMHO, is a big mistake. Many users tend to keep the same password on
different websites - and having the plain-text password stored in a file is
nothing short of giving away your account to anyone who uses your laptop. I
do not know why this is being used but I refuse to use this method.

This leaves us again with *any one* of these three options:

   1. Modify the browse activity as I mentioned in the last post.
   2. Store the hashes of the password and use one of the authentication
   hooks to log the user in as mentioned in the last post.
   3. Or, and I personally do not like this option, get the users to log in
   to discourse via Facebook. My primary reason for not liking this is that
   we'll be tying up authentication to a non-free (as in freedom) service.
   But, we can go through with this, if this appeals to the community.

Personally, I like #1 and #2. But, the final decision on this is not mine
to make since I'm a very new member of the sugar community. So, let us
discuss this issue here and reach a decision soon so that I can finish
writing my proposal.

Thanks


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.orgwrote:

 Has you read about webservices support in Sugar?

 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/WebServices
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Web_services

 Gonzalo


 On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Prasoon Shukla 
 prasoon92.i...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi Frederick, Sam.

 Well, the way I imagine this project is that a user can launch into a
 Discourse discussion in a Browse activity. This activity can then be shared
 as any other activity - this part will not require any other specific
 changes to be made (if I understand your request correctly). We can,
 however, add links to the discussions on Discourse on the sugar-network
 website in the relevant places.

 Anyway, I tried to think of a few ways in which we can preserve a user
 session across discussions. Finally, I've decided on the following flow:

 1. Get the user to register the first time - this process is very easy
 and we can pick email directly from sugar. Then, the part before the '@'
 can be the default username for Discourse (this the user can of course
 change). The user will need to enter the password though.

 2. Discourse will create a session for the user and send the browser the
 session information(cookies). Now, and this is a crucial point, I'll need
 to modify the browse activity to add a method that can will return session
 information (the session cookie) to the calling process. I'll call this
 method via DBus to retrieve the this information. We'll then store this in
 a configuration file.

 3. The user can then close the browser. When the user opens the browser
 again:

- we'll check if the session cookie exists.
- if it does, then we do not need to write this cookie to the browser.
- otherwise, we'll retrieve the session cookie from the config file
and write it to the browser - this will need another method to be added to
the browse activity.

 This will log the user back in seamlessly without the need to fill in
 authentication information.

 Now, if we go through with this implementation strategy, then our only
 concern at this stage will be whether the getCookie and setCookie can be
 implemented in the browse activity. Of course, getting and setting cookies
 can be done via JS in any webkit browser. So, I think it shouldn't be
 difficult to do this.

 Now the decision remains whether to proceed with this course or not (in
 which case we'll probably need to talk to discourse devs about how to log
 users in directly with a PBKDF2 
 hashhttps://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-discourse-use-pbkdf2/2934.
 Btw, they're using OmniAuth https://github.com/intridea/omniauth for
 authentication and they also provide quite a few authentication hooks to
 tweak authentication according to our needs, so it shouldn't be too hard
 ...).

 @Sam, @Frederick: Please let me know of a decision on this.

 Also, @Frederick, let me know if we need anything specific to
 sugar-network other than what I mentioned earlier.

 Thanks
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

2014-03-12 Thread Prasoon Shukla
Hi Frederick, Sam.

Well, the way I imagine this project is that a user can launch into a
Discourse discussion in a Browse activity. This activity can then be shared
as any other activity - this part will not require any other specific
changes to be made (if I understand your request correctly). We can,
however, add links to the discussions on Discourse on the sugar-network
website in the relevant places.

Anyway, I tried to think of a few ways in which we can preserve a user
session across discussions. Finally, I've decided on the following flow:

1. Get the user to register the first time - this process is very easy and
we can pick email directly from sugar. Then, the part before the '@' can be
the default username for Discourse (this the user can of course change).
The user will need to enter the password though.

2. Discourse will create a session for the user and send the browser the
session information(cookies). Now, and this is a crucial point, I'll need
to modify the browse activity to add a method that can will return session
information (the session cookie) to the calling process. I'll call this
method via DBus to retrieve the this information. We'll then store this in
a configuration file.

3. The user can then close the browser. When the user opens the browser
again:

   - we'll check if the session cookie exists.
   - if it does, then we do not need to write this cookie to the browser.
   - otherwise, we'll retrieve the session cookie from the config file and
   write it to the browser - this will need another method to be added to the
   browse activity.

This will log the user back in seamlessly without the need to fill in
authentication information.

Now, if we go through with this implementation strategy, then our only
concern at this stage will be whether the getCookie and setCookie can be
implemented in the browse activity. Of course, getting and setting cookies
can be done via JS in any webkit browser. So, I think it shouldn't be
difficult to do this.

Now the decision remains whether to proceed with this course or not (in
which case we'll probably need to talk to discourse devs about how to log
users in directly with a PBKDF2
hashhttps://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-discourse-use-pbkdf2/2934.
Btw, they're using OmniAuth https://github.com/intridea/omniauth for
authentication and they also provide quite a few authentication hooks to
tweak authentication according to our needs, so it shouldn't be too hard
...).

@Sam, @Frederick: Please let me know of a decision on this.

Also, @Frederick, let me know if we need anything specific to sugar-network
other than what I mentioned earlier.

Thanks
Prasoon
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

2014-03-12 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Has you read about webservices support in Sugar?

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/WebServices
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Web_services

Gonzalo


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Prasoon Shukla prasoon92.i...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi Frederick, Sam.

 Well, the way I imagine this project is that a user can launch into a
 Discourse discussion in a Browse activity. This activity can then be shared
 as any other activity - this part will not require any other specific
 changes to be made (if I understand your request correctly). We can,
 however, add links to the discussions on Discourse on the sugar-network
 website in the relevant places.

 Anyway, I tried to think of a few ways in which we can preserve a user
 session across discussions. Finally, I've decided on the following flow:

 1. Get the user to register the first time - this process is very easy and
 we can pick email directly from sugar. Then, the part before the '@' can be
 the default username for Discourse (this the user can of course change).
 The user will need to enter the password though.

 2. Discourse will create a session for the user and send the browser the
 session information(cookies). Now, and this is a crucial point, I'll need
 to modify the browse activity to add a method that can will return session
 information (the session cookie) to the calling process. I'll call this
 method via DBus to retrieve the this information. We'll then store this in
 a configuration file.

 3. The user can then close the browser. When the user opens the browser
 again:

- we'll check if the session cookie exists.
- if it does, then we do not need to write this cookie to the browser.
- otherwise, we'll retrieve the session cookie from the config file
and write it to the browser - this will need another method to be added to
the browse activity.

 This will log the user back in seamlessly without the need to fill in
 authentication information.

 Now, if we go through with this implementation strategy, then our only
 concern at this stage will be whether the getCookie and setCookie can be
 implemented in the browse activity. Of course, getting and setting cookies
 can be done via JS in any webkit browser. So, I think it shouldn't be
 difficult to do this.

 Now the decision remains whether to proceed with this course or not (in
 which case we'll probably need to talk to discourse devs about how to log
 users in directly with a PBKDF2 
 hashhttps://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-discourse-use-pbkdf2/2934.
 Btw, they're using OmniAuth https://github.com/intridea/omniauth for
 authentication and they also provide quite a few authentication hooks to
 tweak authentication according to our needs, so it shouldn't be too hard
 ...).

 @Sam, @Frederick: Please let me know of a decision on this.

 Also, @Frederick, let me know if we need anything specific to
 sugar-network other than what I mentioned earlier.

 Thanks
 Prasoon

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

2014-03-12 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Prasoon Shukla prasoon92.i...@gmail.comwrote:

 {...}



 @Sam, @Frederick: Please let me know of a decision on this.


 Also, @Frederick, let me know if we need anything specific to
 sugar-network other than what I mentioned earlier.


That question should be addressed to
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sugar-network/join

I am not intimate with sugar-network, I only suggest that it may inspire
some ideas on integrated social help. Its centrality to the OLPC Peru
project gives it a foundation to consider.

I only hope for due consideration by you, your partners, and advisers.

--Fred


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

2014-03-11 Thread Sam Parkinson
Hi,

I agree, Discourse looks amazing! Just a few ideas to chuck around:

   -

   I think it would be nice to try to make the forums automatically login
   when using sugar. This could be done by storing a uuid and a key on the
   computer. When you go to the forum it could automatically log you in with
   your sugar username and uuid (but let you use a different account if you
   wish). I think this would be useful since:
- Users probably want help quickly and this would mean less hoops
  - Keeping a uuid or key of some sort would still allow communication
  with the user. This could be just a little script that used the upcoming
  notification system
-

   Also is Discourse real time / do you instantly get the updates without
   having to refresh? That would be cool

I am really interested in this and would love to help.

Sam


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Prasoon Shukla prasoon92.i...@gmail.comwrote:

 *Note : I sent this message once before but it was moderated because it
 was too large. So, I'm replacing the inline images with links to the
 images/links to pages. I hope that this will be enough of a reduction in
 size.*

 Hi.

 I talked to Walter on the IRC a few days ago regarding the social help
 project. We decided that I should explore FOSS forum software that is
 actively maintained for the social help project. So, I tried looking at
 some popular alternatives. The ones I found worth exploring are *phpBB*,
 *Discourse* and *bbPress. *I selected these specific forums because of
 their ease of use, functionality and the ease of getting a forum up and
 running.

 To summarize things, Discourse *appears* to be clearly ahead of the other
 two in all things except in terms of the ease-of-installation. However, it
 has became much easier to install discourse now than it was a few months
 ago. In fact, they now provide a docker image that can be used to install
 discourse with relative ease. That said, bbPress wins in terms of ease of
 installation with a WordPress like setup process. phpBB is easy just as
 easy. Nevertheless, I think that this is a minor disadvantage in the bigger
 scheme of things.

 Now, once installed, phpBB and bbPress are quite similar in functionality
 - so I'll just compare Discourse with phpBB instead of comparing with both.


-  phpBB is *very badly cluttered. *This, I think, is especially bad
when we're talking of getting children to use this software.  A single line
posted by a user is presented together with a whole bunch of useless
information :

 See http://picpaste.com/pics/forums1.1394467977.png
 That's one single line of information with quite a lot of clutter.
 The topics page is even more cluttered. See this popular phpBB forum:
 http://forums.gentoo.org/

 Now I know that with years of use, most of have gotten used to tuning out
 the uninformative parts but that won't be the case with children. Discourse
 does much better at this. See a sample discussion here:
 http://discuss.atom.io/t/custom-atom-icon-with-packages/2341
 That in itself is good enough reason to use Discourse. But, I'll point out
 few more.


- The one time registration is much *much* simpler in Discourse. Just
take a look at this:
- *phpBB*  :
   http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=registeragreed=true
   - *Discourse*: http://picpaste.com/pics/forums4.1394468652.png

 Of course, we'll need to modify core Discourse according to our needs as
 well. But in any case, the registration will be much easier with Discourse.



- Making an actual post is much more difficult in phpBB. Again, this
is because of too much unnecessary information - dealing with tags, bunch
of miscellaneous options at the end and posting permissions. This causes
much grief when your long written post just refuses to go through.
Discourse is simpler. See this:
http://picpaste.com/pics/forums5.1394468781.png


 Aside from these three very fundamental things, there are few other good
 parts:


1. No arbitrary page breaks, which I think is quite nice. Often I'll
be immersed in reading a thread and the page just abruptly ends, which I
quite dislike.
2.  A great reply system - where you don't have to strain yourself to
read that 6 level deep nested comment. More reading by Jeff Atwood here:

 http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/12/web-discussions-flat-by-design.html
3. Active development ongoing so we're likely to see some great
upgrades in the coming out in the near future.

 So, I'll vote for discourse.

 Anyway, if we're willing to discuss proprietary options, then Moot (
 https://moot.it/) seems *really *nice. But then again, it's not open.
 However, Moot does provide both free and non-free options with a very easy
 setup. So ...
 You can explore Moot here: https://moot.it/prasoon2211/ (it's my personal
 forum).

 Anyway, that's my take on the social help feature. Comments are welcome.

 Prasoon Shukla

 PS: 

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

2014-03-11 Thread Prasoon Shukla
Hi Sam,


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Sam Parkinson sam.parkins...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 I agree, Discourse looks amazing! Just a few ideas to chuck around:

-

I think it would be nice to try to make the forums automatically login
when using sugar. This could be done by storing a uuid and a key on the
computer. When you go to the forum it could automatically log you in with
your sugar username and uuid (but let you use a different account if you
wish). I think this would be useful since:
 - Users probably want help quickly and this would mean less hoops
   - Keeping a uuid or key of some sort would still allow
   communication with the user. This could be just a little script that 
 used
   the upcoming notification system

 Yes, exactly. I was thinking of developing a python-ruby authentication
bridge for discourse. We will need to get an account created though. This
could be done the first time the user accesses social help. From then on
however, we can save the session (much like a browser) instead of writing a
script to log them in - so that we don't actually need to log them in -
they'll already be logged in when they open the the help. I'll ask around
the discourse community for the viability of this idea.


-
-

Also is Discourse real time / do you instantly get the updates without
having to refresh? That would be cool

 Yes. See this thread from a year ago (when discourse was still beta) :
https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-time-updates/5151


-

 I am really interested in this and would love to help.

Why, thank you! I'll let you know if anything comes up :)

 Sam


 On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Prasoon Shukla 
 prasoon92.i...@gmail.comwrote:

 *Note : I sent this message once before but it was moderated because it
 was too large. So, I'm replacing the inline images with links to the
 images/links to pages. I hope that this will be enough of a reduction in
 size.*

 Hi.

 I talked to Walter on the IRC a few days ago regarding the social help
 project. We decided that I should explore FOSS forum software that is
 actively maintained for the social help project. So, I tried looking at
 some popular alternatives. The ones I found worth exploring are *phpBB*,
 *Discourse* and *bbPress. *I selected these specific forums because of
 their ease of use, functionality and the ease of getting a forum up and
 running.

 To summarize things, Discourse *appears* to be clearly ahead of the
 other two in all things except in terms of the ease-of-installation.
 However, it has became much easier to install discourse now than it was a
 few months ago. In fact, they now provide a docker image that can be used
 to install discourse with relative ease. That said, bbPress wins in terms
 of ease of installation with a WordPress like setup process. phpBB is easy
 just as easy. Nevertheless, I think that this is a minor disadvantage in
 the bigger scheme of things.

 Now, once installed, phpBB and bbPress are quite similar in functionality
 - so I'll just compare Discourse with phpBB instead of comparing with both.


-  phpBB is *very badly cluttered. *This, I think, is especially bad
when we're talking of getting children to use this software.  A single 
 line
posted by a user is presented together with a whole bunch of useless
information :

 See http://picpaste.com/pics/forums1.1394467977.png
 That's one single line of information with quite a lot of clutter.
 The topics page is even more cluttered. See this popular phpBB forum:
 http://forums.gentoo.org/

 Now I know that with years of use, most of have gotten used to tuning out
 the uninformative parts but that won't be the case with children. Discourse
 does much better at this. See a sample discussion here:
 http://discuss.atom.io/t/custom-atom-icon-with-packages/2341
 That in itself is good enough reason to use Discourse. But, I'll point
 out few more.


- The one time registration is much *much* simpler in Discourse. Just
take a look at this:
- *phpBB*  :
   http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=registeragreed=true
   - *Discourse*: http://picpaste.com/pics/forums4.1394468652.png

 Of course, we'll need to modify core Discourse according to our needs as
 well. But in any case, the registration will be much easier with Discourse.



- Making an actual post is much more difficult in phpBB. Again, this
is because of too much unnecessary information - dealing with tags, bunch
of miscellaneous options at the end and posting permissions. This causes
much grief when your long written post just refuses to go through.
Discourse is simpler. See this:
http://picpaste.com/pics/forums5.1394468781.png


 Aside from these three very fundamental things, there are few other good
 parts:


1. No arbitrary page breaks, which I think is quite nice. Often I'll
be immersed in reading a thread and the page just abruptly ends, which I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding Social Help project

2014-03-11 Thread Frederick Grose
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Prasoon Shukla prasoon92.i...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi Sam,


 On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Sam Parkinson 
 sam.parkins...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 I agree, Discourse looks amazing! Just a few ideas to chuck around:

-

I think it would be nice to try to make the forums automatically
login when using sugar. This could be done by storing a uuid and a key on
the computer. When you go to the forum it could automatically log you in
with your sugar username and uuid (but let you use a different account if
you wish). I think this would be useful since:
 - Users probably want help quickly and this would mean less hoops
   - Keeping a uuid or key of some sort would still allow
   communication with the user. This could be just a little script that 
 used
   the upcoming notification system

 Yes, exactly. I was thinking of developing a python-ruby authentication
 bridge for discourse. We will need to get an account created though. This
 could be done the first time the user accesses social help. From then on
 however, we can save the session (much like a browser) instead of writing a
 script to log them in - so that we don't actually need to log them in -
 they'll already be logged in when they open the the help. I'll ask around
 the discourse community for the viability of this idea.


-
-

Also is Discourse real time / do you instantly get the updates
without having to refresh? That would be cool

 Yes. See this thread from a year ago (when discourse was still beta) :
 https://meta.discourse.org/t/real-time-updates/5151


-

 I am really interested in this and would love to help.

 Why, thank you! I'll let you know if anything comes up :)

  Sam


 On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Prasoon Shukla prasoon92.i...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 *Note : I sent this message once before but it was moderated because it
 was too large. So, I'm replacing the inline images with links to the
 images/links to pages. I hope that this will be enough of a reduction in
 size.*

 Hi.

 I talked to Walter on the IRC a few days ago regarding the social help
 project. We decided that I should explore FOSS forum software that is
 actively maintained for the social help project. So, I tried looking at
 some popular alternatives. The ones I found worth exploring are *phpBB*
 , *Discourse* and *bbPress. *I selected these specific forums because
 of their ease of use, functionality and the ease of getting a forum up and
 running.

 To summarize things, Discourse *appears* to be clearly ahead of the
 other two in all things except in terms of the ease-of-installation.
 However, it has became much easier to install discourse now than it was a
 few months ago. In fact, they now provide a docker image that can be used
 to install discourse with relative ease. That said, bbPress wins in terms
 of ease of installation with a WordPress like setup process. phpBB is easy
 just as easy. Nevertheless, I think that this is a minor disadvantage in
 the bigger scheme of things.

 Now, once installed, phpBB and bbPress are quite similar in
 functionality - so I'll just compare Discourse with phpBB instead of
 comparing with both.


-  phpBB is *very badly cluttered. *This, I think, is especially bad
when we're talking of getting children to use this software.  A single 
 line
posted by a user is presented together with a whole bunch of useless
information :

 See http://picpaste.com/pics/forums1.1394467977.png
 That's one single line of information with quite a lot of clutter.
 The topics page is even more cluttered. See this popular phpBB forum:
 http://forums.gentoo.org/

 Now I know that with years of use, most of have gotten used to tuning
 out the uninformative parts but that won't be the case with children.
 Discourse does much better at this. See a sample discussion here:
 http://discuss.atom.io/t/custom-atom-icon-with-packages/2341
 That in itself is good enough reason to use Discourse. But, I'll point
 out few more.


- The one time registration is much *much* simpler in Discourse.
Just take a look at this:
- *phpBB*  :
   http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=registeragreed=true
   - *Discourse*: http://picpaste.com/pics/forums4.1394468652.png

 Of course, we'll need to modify core Discourse according to our needs as
 well. But in any case, the registration will be much easier with Discourse.



- Making an actual post is much more difficult in phpBB. Again, this
is because of too much unnecessary information - dealing with tags, bunch
of miscellaneous options at the end and posting permissions. This causes
much grief when your long written post just refuses to go through.
Discourse is simpler. See this:
http://picpaste.com/pics/forums5.1394468781.png


 Aside from these three very fundamental things, there are few other good
 parts:


1. No arbitrary page breaks, which I think is quite