# How are people feeling about Discourse? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 25, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-feeling-about-discourse/926428 "2020-11-25T16:40:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 212
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-feeling-about-discourse/926428/212 "2021-01-07T18:15:19Z")
Believe me when I say I feel your pain. It would be friggin’ awesome if all apps and websites came with comprehensive user guides I could _read_. Not “help” that isn’t helpful. As discussed about MSFT Word this morning over here: > [@Single-, double-spacing in Windows 10.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-double-spacing-in-windows-10-0/929896): > > Where do they hide the capacity to change spacing (between lines) in Windows 10? It’s very frustrating to search through “Insert” “Design” “Layout” etc. and not find this basic function. The choice we’re each faced with is between stumbling around blindly doing {whatever} the hard way for months or years (or not being able to do it at all), versus stumbling around blindly at first to learn how to do everything we care about in the smart(est) / easy(est) way possible. Either choice is respectable. It’s a variant of “Pay me now or pay me later.” But both choices suck and are IMO evidence of the ~~vendor’s~~ entire software industry’s abdication of their responsibility to provide a complete product which includes a complete up to date manual _and_ task-centric help _and_ a highly discoverable design. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-feeling-about-discourse/926428)._