Enjoying reading forum

Posted by Christoph
Oct 29, 2020 at 02:16 PM

tightbeam wrote:
>I also agree with Dr. Andus. I like the simplicity of the forum. It
>might *look* dated, but it provides everything necessary for cordial
>conversation without the clutter common to many modern forums. Why “fix”
>what isn’t broken?

Thanks for the feedback, tightbeam. I understand your point about “simplicity”, but let me try to be the advocatus diaboli here.

One user sees it as “clutter”, the other as necessary feature to make it more usable. You already gave one example: being able to mute certain users. If you ask others, they will give you other examples, and if you implement all of these, you will soon get the “clutter” that you dislike. And you would start to re-implement Discourse or other already existing software which would be a waste of time.

Isn’t the whole purpose of this forum to discuss ways of “fixing” our outliner software needs? Most of the outliner tools we are currently using are all providing everything necessary and are not really “broken”. Yet we are constantly trying to improve our tools or switch to newer tools (see definition of “CRIMPing” in the green navigation on the left).

I always found it somewhat astouding that people who are so eagerly discussing improvements in the usability of information management software and getting more productive, are on the other hand so content with the current forum and willing to stick with its simplicity. :)

Maybe one reason is that this forum gives us cozy feelings *because* it is so simple and stays the same while all the rest is moving. Maybe we need something like that.