Why i hate Discourse (and can you pleeeze fix this...)

[itsMe]

people seem to often gravitate to the newest fads regardless of how goofy they are, the Discourse forum software bloatware being one of them

i don’t mean to pick on Mojeek staff (too much) for choosing Discourse, but personally i hate it and there’s no shortage of reasons why

• if you block JS and <noscript> tags, a blank page results - this is nothing less than stupidity on the part of Discourse devs
• if you block JS and allow <noscript> tags, the forum is useless for anything other than reading (you can’t post)
• 16 JS files (one of them nearly FOUR MB plus 4 more over 100 KB) and a service worker … to get a forum to function???
• 2 scroll bars - somebody thought this was intuitive?
• intercept of browser search (ctrl+f - but it works if you key it twice)
• i’d like to slap the ding-dong that thought it was a fantastic idea to spam my browser history with a new bookmark every time you stop scrolling a thread … every one of which has the same title and is therefore useless

the last item is the one that i’d like to ask if somebody at Mojeek can fix - perhaps there’s an option to disable this nonsense?

[Josh]

@itsMe

i don’t mean to pick on Mojeek staff (too much) for choosing Discourse, but personally i hate it and there’s no shortage of reasons why

ah it’s about a tool not us so hard to take it that way, criticism of it is useful regardless as there are probably some things which can be changed.

@itsMe

i’d like to slap the ding-dong that thought it was a fantastic idea to spam my browser history with a new bookmark every time you stop scrolling a thread … every one of which has the same title and is therefore useless

I’ll have a dive into the Discourse metaforum, there’s probably going to be some kind of backend setting that can be switched off.

[itsMe]

thanks - appreciated

my idea of a well coded, super efficient, self-contained forum (don’t laugh at the CSS - John admits he’s no style guru) … written in assembly if you can believe it

AsmBB

[Josh]

@itsMe

my idea of a well coded, super efficient, self-contained forum (don’t laugh at the CSS - John admits he’s no style guru) … written in assembly if you can believe it

AsmBB

simple, elegant.

On the bookmarks, I’ve found this and will adjust the number down to 3 for the moment to see if that fixes the issue. It is the only thing I can find and I can’t see much of a reason for have more than that many.

Let me know, could be completely unrelated.

[itsMe]

i think maybe this is it…