The future of forums?
So over in the GDPR thread we started talking about modularisation, e.g. the newsletter thing being more of a separated component that could be tweaked/enabled separately from the rest of it, and that going modular design allows forums to do things they currently can’t.
Thing is, I’m not sure that’s true. And speaking as someone who is launching a niche forum platform soon, I’m definitely interested in this kind of thing.
Sure, forums could benefit from understanding user expectations of the modern age... notifications systems, what UX conventions and so on other (not necessarily forum) platforms are using.
And yes, there are always going to be the “noobs” who don’t know what they’re doing and make a bit of a mess, but that’s true for blogs, it’s true for online stores too. That’s not a forum specific problem.
Then someone mentioned WordPress. I don’t think you can really compare WordPress to a forum... out of the box, it fundamentally does less. There’s more scope to add...
Thing is, I’m not sure that’s true. And speaking as someone who is launching a niche forum platform soon, I’m definitely interested in this kind of thing.
Sure, forums could benefit from understanding user expectations of the modern age... notifications systems, what UX conventions and so on other (not necessarily forum) platforms are using.
And yes, there are always going to be the “noobs” who don’t know what they’re doing and make a bit of a mess, but that’s true for blogs, it’s true for online stores too. That’s not a forum specific problem.
Then someone mentioned WordPress. I don’t think you can really compare WordPress to a forum... out of the box, it fundamentally does less. There’s more scope to add...
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