Recent discussion about discussions

[bossfong]

On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 18:53:19 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> tl;dr, I find these so-called "modern" forum interfaces nigh 
> unusable,
> and only barely tolerable. They barely scratch the surface of
> functionality that I currently have at my fingertips, and yet 
> they
> require a browser with all of its bloat and memory / CPU 
> consumption,
> all just to display some text and pictures on the screen and 
> present a
> crippled UI.  Frankly, if the discussion were to take place on 
> a web
> forum, I simply wouldn't participate.  Give me back my plain 
> text
> interface, thank you very much.
>
> (Caveat: I know I'm a minority in these views, so don't get 
> offended. I
> do feel very strongly about these things. :))
>
>
> T

You still have to accept, that not everybody is a 
"mailing-list-poweruser" like you. To get new people, I think the 
community needs to be more open to new people.