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[nero355]

@nero355 Approved! 🤌

Hehehe! Thnx! ^_^

I gave it all I had... LOL!

[JamesFrisch]

And if you use anything else you get some crappy Basic HTML version where you can only read the forum partially... W-T-F ?!?!

Is that the case?

You are promoting an unhealthy Internet where only certain software/companies/brands have a monopoly and that's simply a horrible future that I do not wish to be part of !!!

Discourse is open source, a fork always possible. So I don't really see this point.

We already have one here!

It is decent and works. But it isn't as fun an engaging

The average user does not know what he/she wants and uses whatever you stuff under his/her nose !!!

This goes pretty much for everything : From Cars to Computers...

Sure, but again, that is missing my point. Don't think about you and me, think about the 16y old teenager that gets newly drawn into a topic. Forums itself are a dying breed. And I am not advocating for TikTok. But early 2000 style forum is another fritction point.

Congrats : You just named the two most horrible platforms in the world as your favorite! LOL!

I never said they are my favorite. If you would stop twist my words and listen and don't fill in the blanks with what your presumptions  are, you would have known that. I personally can't stand new reddit. I said these two are the worlds favorite forum software.
Which again, think less about you and me, think about the rest of the world.

They are marked READ after opening them so your last step is unnecessary : Not so userfriendly after all, huh ?!

No. Because you don't read every topic. This is to mark the topics as read you have not read.

There is a PREVIEW button : Use it.

I wrote live preview.

You can easily click on the QUOTE button of each post and open them in a New Tab and combine them all together again later.
Super EASY and straightforward :)

Can you also only select certain lines and only quote that? And do that multiplte times=

The way this forum does it is soo much simpler and user friendlier that there is no need to re-invent the wheel or warm water...

To copy your style of arguing: Don't you have a pageup key? This is so much easier than to use the mouse (urgghhh mouse, I use my ThinkPad trackpoint) where you have to point to the bottom right just and click, just to jump back to the topic. You do know there is a button for that on the keyboard, right?

If I am honest : I wish many times we all got stuck in the '90's and did not have this messed up world we live in these days!

Me too. And that is totally fine. But again, think a little bit less about you, and more about the community. But I see, this topic is way to emotional for you.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Can you also only select certain lines and only quote that? And do that multiplte times=

Yes

Can you also only select certain lines and only quote that? And do that multiplte times=

As I am proving right here ...

Selected your line, clicked on "Quote selected text", wrote "yes", did the same again. Could have picked up any other line from any other post on the current page of course to quote and answer multiple posters in one go.

I'm currently setting up a forum for a new open source project and I will "of course" use SMF.

Kind regards,
Patrick

[JamesFrisch]

cheers, you are right.

But it makes an ugly jump to the bottom and I have to scroll up again to select the second quote (Firefox).

[nero355]

But it makes an ugly jump to the bottom and I have to scroll up again to select the second quote (Firefox).

Tabs bro... Tabs... Tabs FTW!!! :)

Don't you have a pageup key? This is so much easier than to use the mouse (urgghhh mouse, I use my ThinkPad trackpoint)

Hey! Look! Something we have in common! :o

* nero355 's good old T520 says "Hi!" <3

[Netlearn]

I'm not sure if this debate is going about the UX on the platform or more deriving towards the capability of getting the right information. With the overloaded interfaces that (per mention) Reddit, Discourse, etc. have implemented, attentions goes easily where the owners want (ads, etc.) while the information passes to a second focus. There are so many distractions that keeping the attention is simply much harder.

think about the 16y old teenager that gets newly drawn into a topic.

Teenagers have to learn to think. Those mentioned platforms make it just more difficult, starting from the distractions and sometimes confusing interfaces.

Teenagers have to learn to ask the right question. Not only that, but also in the right place an in the right way.

Teenagers have to learn to find information. Overwhelming sites, with useless links, ads, too many (almost always unrelated) images...

Teenagers have to learn to filter information. What is true, useful, and applicable to my current search?

Teenagers have to learn to sort information. Disperse contents are one of the worst realities on those kind of sites. Other are "content creators" publishing everywhere, pontificating their truth without the proper knowledge, incomplete, unverified, or just wrong.

There are so many things that teenagers have to learn, and so many wrong ways to go for... Nowadays, only a few get to the level of thinking that any old-school graduate had at the end of the studies. And the way information is displayed on the web has something to do with this.

Please, let's try to minimize that narrow-minding process.

Forums itself are a dying breed.

Maybe or maybe not. While the Big Players are trying to keep their (very profitable) model, what I see is the more people trying to get rid of those distractions, filtering ads and trackers, getting tired of sites that offer less-information/more-profitable-content pages, etc. How would the Reddit website if you remove all the useless content from every single page?

early 2000 style forum is another fritction point.

Absolutely not for me. There is no friction at all about having a clean interface without any non-related content to my reading or search.
Try making a simple search at https://www.scopus.com and see how tons of information can be displayed in a clean and orderly manner. It's just an example.

In my experience, most of the times, the more cluttered is a site, the lower quantity and quality information it has. That must be for a reason. And consequently, is always harder to find.

Going back to the OP original question: you better ask in Ubiquity sites and read Ubiquity docs. Keep in mind that the approach and features of OPNsense and Ubiquity are very different.