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Title: Favorite Forum
Post by: bytemaster on February 16, 2016, 01:41:50 pm
I know we discussed this in the past, but I am curious about what alternative forums do you like?

Why do so many people like reddit? What do you like about our current forum? What are the pros and cons over moving to something like reddit?

Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: btswildpig on February 16, 2016, 01:43:30 pm
i have no idea why people use reddit . It's crappy GUI .
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: BunkerChainLabs-DataSecurityNode on February 16, 2016, 01:54:12 pm
I have no particular favorite but there are a number of more advanced ways to have engaging discussion social networks.

If we are talking just a forum, nodebb seems like they have a rather nice product of the bunch. However, it seems like every year there is a new #1 forum application being chosen. Vanilla is another.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: BTSdac on February 16, 2016, 02:03:27 pm
it is a good idea to use reddit
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: monsterer on February 16, 2016, 02:11:09 pm
reddit is for news. A forum is for discussion on interesting topics without some automatic metric for 'interesting' forcing old topics to be invisible.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: noisy on February 16, 2016, 02:17:41 pm
I like reddit, but as far as I know, subreddits cannot be hosted by community. So it would be extremely bad if someday some administrator in Reddit decide that our reddit violates some regulations and needs to be deleted.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: testz on February 16, 2016, 02:19:38 pm
i have no idea why people use reddit . It's crappy GUI .

Totally agree  +5%
I like current forum, peoples also read other crypto forums and most of them based at SMF, so it's very convenient for eyes.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: bytemaster on February 16, 2016, 02:25:28 pm
which UI is the best?
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: valzav on February 16, 2016, 02:39:12 pm
which UI is the best?

I like this UI http://flarum.org/
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: valzav on February 16, 2016, 02:43:32 pm
BTW what commenting style do you prefer - the reddit style where you reply to a comment creating a new sub thread or forum style where you need to cite the text you are replying to? What the pros and cons of each approach?
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: xeroc on February 16, 2016, 02:51:35 pm
BTW what commenting style do you prefer - the reddit style where you reply to a comment creating a new sub thread or forum style where you need to cite the text you are replying to? What the pros and cons of each approach?
I also prefer the tree-style. Flat forums are ok. But best-practice as in mailing list is a tree structure IMHO.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: gamey on February 16, 2016, 03:14:27 pm
BTW what commenting style do you prefer - the reddit style where you reply to a comment creating a new sub thread or forum style where you need to cite the text you are replying to? What the pros and cons of each approach?

Reddit style voting can make unpopular opinions less heard. Thats what the whole tree based thing is based on.  Flat style forces people to view more of other's opinions. 
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: abit on February 16, 2016, 04:06:36 pm
I like this forum, maybe just because I have used to it. I hate to change too much, especially when lost track of ever existed information.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: fav on February 16, 2016, 05:02:07 pm
I prefer reddit.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: cass on February 16, 2016, 10:50:48 pm
which UI is the best?

I like this UI http://flarum.org/

 +5%
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: BunkerChainLabs-DataSecurityNode on February 16, 2016, 11:31:09 pm
which UI is the best?

I like this UI http://flarum.org/

 +5%


Agreed looks nice.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: luckybit on February 17, 2016, 02:31:09 am
which UI is the best?
Check out Discourse. SAFE Network forum uses it and it's the best forum out.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: fuzzy on February 17, 2016, 02:36:32 am
i know sharebitstalk.io is planning to use nodebb.  we are also looking at tokenifying it with the sharebot (obviously).  moght not be a bad idea to use it as a test forum to see if we can get it incorporating bts.  if bitsharestalk community likes it, they coild likely copy it themselves.  we have some interesting talks going on behind the scenes.

Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: abit on February 18, 2016, 01:03:25 am
I feel the new forum will be used by MAS.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: mf-tzo on February 18, 2016, 02:53:56 pm
i prefer this kind of forum.
I suggest you make a poll using the different alternatives instead of looking from everyone's comments
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: JonnyB on February 18, 2016, 03:39:04 pm
which UI is the best?

I like this UI http://flarum.org/

 +5%


Agreed looks nice.

flarum looks good
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: cube on February 18, 2016, 05:09:03 pm
reddit has an upvote function which some people find useful.  Personally, I prefer this forum.
Title: Re: Favorite Forum
Post by: CalabiYau on February 18, 2016, 06:28:16 pm
I like this forum, maybe just because I have used to it. I hate to change too much, especially when lost track of ever existed information.

me too  +5%