Per Jessen wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Yes. And your problem with that is what? Do you have a specific objection, or are you going to continue to feign incredulity?
Here's my list of objections from an article I wrote in Jan2006:
Web forums: I also absolutely loathe web-forums. Talk about enhancing to the point of failure. Or re-inventing the wheel. What was ever wrong with newsgroups and mailing-lists? The 5 top reasons why I hate web-forums:
1. They are essentially an inferior and utterly superfluous re-invention of existing internet communication means - newsgroups aka usenet. 2. They're web-based - the interface changes just about every time you change forum. Add to that the entirely superfluous graphics and icons and what have you, and they become slow and unwieldy.
In addition 2a-They're web-based. Which means that the only way to keep up with a specific thread is to continually go to a specific URL to check for new messages on a particular thread. I really don't want to have to check 30 different URL's to keep up on 30 different threads. 2b -- they're web-based...which means they are SLOOOOOOOOOW. Instead of jumping from message to message which has been pre-loaded onto my hard drive, I have to wait for some slow-ass network connection (yes, i have broad band, but my disk drive delivers a message in milliseconds, whereas web-forum pages typically take 5-15 seconds (or more, depending on overall traffic over the network "cloud" of routers") 2c -- they're web-based...which means that messages which amount to only a few kilobytes of message are typically accompanied by dozens to hundreds of kilobytes of pure cruft.
3. Following multiple separate forums can't be done on one screen. 4. There is no proper threading in forums and selective quoting is at best cumbersome. 5. They usually require that you login. Downright silly.
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