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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Discourse in Practice
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on: April 03, 2013, 07:03:05 PM
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I guess its a matter of use-case. As I said, when I come to DC, I use one of the following links: http://www.donationcoder....dex.php?action=unread;allhttp://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?action=unreadhttp://www.donationcoder....topicsdense;sort=creationThe problem with those, is that they're a convenience- not the way the forum is meant to be used. So therefore, when you go to do something, you have to go to a different view to post. You have to go to a different view to find the post that you were looking at if it's unread. And that involves a lot of finding/remembering/inferring in my experience. Discourse is built around that view, instead of it being a convenience. It also maintains the other view in the form of categories. That's the largest thing that I really like about it. There are other conveniences- the ability to mention someone like in twitter or SO. The fact that it remembers where you were (the smarter most recent post in thread link, IMO). The ability to reply as a new thread, helping to reduce derailment with tangential topics. The fact that links act like they do on SO and expand, so there's not a reason to figure out how to add context to a bare link. I don't think it's as much of a revolution as they tout- but they're coming out with a product, so they have to have the marketing speak. But it is an evolution IMO.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Discourse in Practice
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on: April 03, 2013, 09:17:44 AM
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On the site for one of my Guilds, we switched to using Discourse. I'm a convert now. It just flows so smoothly, and actually fits how I use DC actually... I never look at the forum look, unless I'm posting, which makes it more involved to post than it needs to be. I look at things from an unread threads perspective rather than the breakdown that we have here. Discourse works exactly like that, with the added advantage of the fact that you can just post, and assign it to where it needs to go, without having to go to that area first. Tags/Categories take the place of the subcategories. I just know that we'd discussed it, so I just wanted to chime in after practical use. The site, if you're interested is http://forum.guildm8s.com. The short of it is, I really dig it now. Not sure how it is from the admin side, but as the user experience, it works well.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!
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on: April 01, 2013, 11:25:36 PM
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 I'm not a big fan of these things when they don't get the timezones right.  For that one, sadly, it was pretty believable. I'm not a fan of those period. I mean, I just don't get April Fool's Day at all. Most of the jokes aren't funny, and if they are believable enough, can create a lot of chaos.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: MagicRAR Drive Press - worth anything?
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on: April 01, 2013, 07:25:15 AM
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I am really glad to read that this latest round of paranoia has been deflated by other members of the forum before I became aware of it.
Your quote, not mine. So, with that in mind. What I'm getting from you is that its OK for people to very unprofessionally attack MagicRAR under the guise of free speech, but it is not OK for MagicRAR to - let us assume unprofessionally for the sake of argument - try to set the record straight and protect its brand and product against completely baseless and demonstrably false accusations. In other words, DC tolerates attacks on products, but does not tolerate attacks on those attackers of products. Why this asymmetry?
This seems to be disingenuous. As Mouser has asked us to wrap it up, it will be my last time posting. But, all I was trying to do was to give you some advice. Your pedantic response hasn't endeared you any more to myself, and I'm sure to anyone else. Sometimes, the best thing to do is to say nothing. It's hard. It might have been what I should have done in the face of your post. But I really wanted to make sure that for the future, you might see your two statements side by side... and perhaps come to the self-realization that though this exercise may have been rewarding in that you were able to give tit-for-tat, it was perhaps pyrrhic at best. Thanks for your consideration.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: MagicRAR Drive Press - worth anything?
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on: March 31, 2013, 03:51:22 PM
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While I understand that you feel/have the need to address this latest round of discussions, I for one would appreciate it if your posts to do so would stay professional and refrain from utilizing pejoratives. latest round of paranoia
For those brave enough to explore beyond the boundaries of their paranoia
Clearly these individuals are very deluded
None of that was necessary, and indeed, a post without those would have gone a ways towards gaining goodwill. Instead, like many others when negative criticism is levied, the more base manners of defense come to light, including the losing way of debating of attacking the arguer rather than the argument. And like those, no matter what truth may be in your post, your tone turns me away from your product and your company, even if I had need. That's something that you might want to keep in mind in the future (and there is an edit button on the post if you want to correct such), especially when posting on DC.
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