:warning: Links inside this topic are in French :fr: Hi! I created in 2018 a discussion on another popular video game forum (Canard PC), where I suggested a migration from their vBulletin to a modern platform. I talked about Discourse since I already had prior experience. Users didn’t seem to be …

Just to update this topic… Went to their forum recently, and it’s pretty active. I guess things have changed? Anyway, their forum is in very good health, with new messages posted almost every minute during the day. https://www.gamekult.com/forum/latest <a class="lightbox" href="https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/4X/f/9/0/f9000aefeb08c5cb4917a027101e91fc20cf500c.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/zwKYRyVef90mR3xqg7HDgLjZbB2.png?dl=1" title="The image shows a forum page detailing game discussions, posts, and user activity for a variety of video game topics, featuring a menu bar with categories like categories, favorites, forums, news, game charts, podcasts, and an active poll at the top. (Captioned by AI)">[The image shows a forum page detailing ga…

Matter of taste, and old habbits. And old habbits of old users die hard. Almost every aspect why they liked vBulletin are things why I dislike vBulletin :rofl:

[image] Jakke Flemming: Matter of taste, and old habbits. And old habbits of old users die hard. Sure, and path dependence… But I think there’s more than this. I’ve migrated old forums, with long-term users, a lot of them being 40 or 50+ years old, and they seemingly had no trouble adjusting …

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: He said that having a stream of posts may encourage people to skim through the posts instead of reading them with attention. He also seems to think that having the “reply to” system which doesn’t quote the message and where you have to click to see it gives the imp…

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: He thinks that Discourse’s interface and navigation could make users prone to have a more individualistic logic in their behavior instead of a community-based logic. I’m particularly interested in this one as it seems to point to a cultural difference. It can tak…

I’ll post some more thought later in the coming week(s) probably but overall we are just having a couple of topics in which we are discussing both what is that feels “out of place” after the change and what the community think it makes hard for new users to join in (especially lurkers in our case, o…

Update here: How is our community is faring after migrating from vbulletin3

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: He also seems to think that having the “reply to” system which doesn’t quote the message and where you have to click to see It does though, you can highlight any part of a post (or all of it) and press quote. That drastically reduces clutter, which I would assume…

i have an older user base that is almost strictly male users between 40 and 80 years old. it is a sports based forum and most are not really tech savvy, say like a gamer forum. my users hate any changes or new features (i don’t even have the sidebar enabled yet) and occasionally i get people compari…

the highlight quote feature is awesome but i suspect quite a lot of regular Discourse users don’t know it exists.

Could it be because GK was sold a year ago?

Gamekult, a popular video game forum, migrated from vBulletin to Discourse. A failure?

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Crius (Crius) Avril 15, 2023, 10:20 7

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Gamekult, a popular video game forum, migrated from vBulletin to Discourse. A failure?

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