Discourse is easy to use, and has only been improving ever since

Community Building Praise

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The discussion revolves around the ease of use and improvement of Discourse. twofoursixeight praises the platform, sharing their two-year experience of using the software. They highlight the improvements in the interface and experience, specifically mentioning the addition of the sidebar and chat feature. twofoursixeight also shares some statistics on their participation and engagement on the platform.

twofoursixeight further shares some communities they’ve been a part of, which use Discourse, including Dark Gaming, Gimkit Creative Forum, IO Games Forum, Code Combat Forum, Active Member Chat, and Replit Ask.

Others in the discussion agree with twofoursixeight’s sentiments, with Judy_Hawkins stating that Discourse facilitates group thinking and is more than easy to use. codergautam echoes this sentiment, calling Discourse the “coolest webapp” they’ve ever seen.

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Continuing the discussion from Am I the only non-sysop here?:

I wanted to say something about this forum. I’ve been mostly a non-sysop here for two years and got a chance to learn about the software. I realized I had not praised the forum yet, so here are my thoughts:

Interface & Experience

The interface was quite interesting, I had joined the forum back in April 4th, 2022 on Dark Gaming. Check the website out: Profile - twofoursixeight - Dark Gaming

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Anyways, I joined when there was no sidebar yet. I was getting used to it. There was also no chats yet. Quite decent experience, but it only improved from there. I had joined this later that year, and the sidebar testing was going in beta. The forum I was in had the sidebar implemented too. I had been the main suggestor for forum features on the Dark Gaming Forum. They added a lot of things like the experimental usercards we have in Meta, and a couple of themes I suggested. I was also the reason a couple outside users were joining the forum.

Chat

Chat added the quick-paced messaging system into the forum. Great for a change of pace. Dark Gaming incorporated this after a suggestion. Then, I had joined another forum that heavily incorporated the chat, called the IO Games forum. And I had to say, the chat was quite used. They also removed personal messaging since most people used the chat DMs there.

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Here, on Meta

I had came to this forum to get help on many subjects and report bugs. I had most certainly helped the development of the forum with my 105 topics. I had reported some bugs that would ruin the experience pf the forum, and they got squashed quite fast. I had also wrote a topic for this forum. Participation Counts!

STATS:

13.5K CHEERS
28 BUGS REPORTED
28 UX ISSUES REPORTED
6.5K GIVEN
737 RECEIVED
427 DAYS VISITED

Communities

Here to share some of my communities:

Summary

So these are my opinions on the forum from my two years of use. I also wanted to share some communities I was once in / in that used Discourse.

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Discourse is more than easy to use, it facilitates thinking in a group.

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Discourse is the coolest webapp I’ve ever seen and glad you like https://iogames.forum!

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