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Posted by jaslar
Oct 30, 2020 at 07:32 PM

That sounds about right, Chris. A refresh, the ability to edit my own posts, and I’d be good. Muting, hiding a poster is nice but not necessary. I like the idea of a community curated catalog. I often use the site to search for apps to see if it’s been posted before.

Chris Murtland wrote:
Thanks to all for the ideas and feedback.
> >The look and feel will be very similar, just slightly more contemporary,
>mainly as a result of using a CSS framework to make everything work well
>on mobile. The color scheme and general layout will remain the same. All
>URLs will be the same, and no one will have to register again or
>anything like that.
>
>I think there is something to be said for having a sort of “dated”
>approach on a forum filled with people who do things like install DOS
>outliners in 2020. :-D
> >Hopefully it will be an improvement while remaining in the original
>spirit. I have a lot of ideas that should be more feasible once the code
>is modernized. For example, I’d love to be able to move toward a
>community curated catalog of all the software we discuss so people can
>browse by platform, features, etc. And then it would be great to also
>show the relevant forum discussions for each application…