• linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 days ago

    Agree. And there are cultural issues in forums that make them really annoying. Some forums like to consolidate topics into mega threads like “if you have questions about xyz go to the xyz mega thread”. Then you go there and its a 300 page chronology starting in 2008 of completely disorganized conversation. 20 posts per page with no way to read it more easily.

    You could do that on reddit with a pinned post but usually mega threads were at least limited to daily/weekly/monthly instead of indefinite.

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      10 days ago

      I agree with you. It can become frustrating to learn to find information on classic forums.

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        10 days ago

        frustrating to learn to find

        So when you are pointed at a mega threads that is 2k posts long over 10 years, where you are told the answer is, how do you attack it? LearnEd one.

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      10 days ago

      20 posts per page? lol. I think usually it was 10.

      Don’t forget profile pictures and signatures making every post take up way more screen space than they should.