Now I find it isn’t what I’m with, and what is it seems weird and scary to me.
That’s not a two-letter post – it’s an eight-character post with six of the characters not displaying.
Angle brackets, not square brackets.
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Hey, at least Discobot didn’t fuss at me for not writing a complete sentence! I wonder what its real rules are.
The main thing is that he specifically asked us to do everything we were doing. Trying to paint us as having done something wrong when he told us to make recommendations to him on this board is silly.
If he didn’t like that anymore, it would be up to him to rescind his request. Say you’re getting too many, and that you’d rather people make suggestions on the other board. And then give people a chance to do that. Using your special powers to deactivate your account can easily come off as being out of spite. Just like when he decided to use our (old) forum as the bad example in his ads for Discourse after people got mad at him—not asking us, but just telling us. Expecially when the mods were being extra gracious by relaxing the anti spam rules for him. (Normally coming and promoting your own personal project is against the rules, unless you ask first.)
Codinghorror seemed to take complaints with his software personally. That is indeed a negative trait among software engineers. It doesn’t mean he’s bad at his job in every way. And, as I pointed out, he’s gotten better than he was in the original post where he dismissed all our suggestions after specifically saying he was there to get suggestions. But it is still an area in which he could improve. As are his communication abilities as long as he chooses to be the face of his project.
Finally, the perfect forum software would indeed be perfect for the SDMB because the perfect forum software is customizable to the needs of any forum. And it does appear that is the design philosophy of Discourse. That even though he got mad at us back in theday, he did eventually realize that Discourse needs to be as customizable as possible. Most of the things people didn’t like are configurable.
Discourse isn’t bad, but it has flaws. The people here didn’t do anything wrong by taking codinghorror at his word. At the time, if he was getting frustrated, he had the right to back off (though he could have done it better).
But mostly I think we need an active admin that can fix the things an admin can fix. I still recommend a second admin account, held by a mod who knows how to keep it secure.
I elaborated a bit here
Like many of us, I am a highly imperfect person… but I try.
Welcome back,
Telemark, fellow coder and support guy
Great to see you back. I have gradually been learning how to use Discourse and I find it a major improvement over the old Vbulletin.