User:Ms7821/Why forums suck: Difference between revisions
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Lack of support | Lack of support | ||
* No widely used, secure, feature-complete software | * No widely used, secure, feature-complete software | ||
* Crap search | * Crap search (especially compared to google groups/gmail) | ||
* Most systems don't use hierarchical threading | |||
Doesn't replace email | Doesn't replace email | ||
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* Which boards should people subscribe to? | * Which boards should people subscribe to? | ||
* Mental overhead/bad pattern fit | * Mental overhead/bad pattern fit | ||
* People can't sort forum posts into their own folders or star them | |||
* Forums encourage deletion, of individual threads or entire topics. Email means there's a paper trail. | |||
Latest revision as of 12:49, 21 January 2016
Feature masturbation (see also: Google Wave)
- Wiki/piratepad better for collaboration
- IRC/jabber better for informal chat
- Email better for discussion
- Imgur better for image macros
Maintenance overhead
- Pointless posting encouraged, so more staff needed to keep overview
- Moving threads, keeping OT, managing boards is all overhead
- Involves running your own spam filters
Lack of support
- No widely used, secure, feature-complete software
- Crap search (especially compared to google groups/gmail)
- Most systems don't use hierarchical threading
Doesn't replace email
- If linked to email, why not just use a mailing list manager?
- Otherwise, depends on web access to check it and will die out immediately
- Which boards should people subscribe to?
- Mental overhead/bad pattern fit
- People can't sort forum posts into their own folders or star them
- Forums encourage deletion, of individual threads or entire topics. Email means there's a paper trail.
