Hard to believe, but I actually like continuous scrolling
the way it's done on Discourse.
All my previous experience with continuous scrolling was on other platforms that didn't have anything to help you navigate the thread. Discourse has numbered posts, the blue pop-up scroll bar, and a "back" button to take you back to where you were if you accidentally hit something to bring you back to the top of the thread (I often do that with an errant finger swipe on my iPad)
And it is nice not to have to keep hitting "next page" for a long thread. I suppose I still prefer pagination, but the Discourse-style continuous scrolling is turning out to be okey-dokey. With threads on Disqus and similar, you have to periodically hit a button for "show more replies" so you didn't have the advantage of not having to keep hitting a button as you go through the thread, and with no post numbers, it had the disadvantage of not being able to easily find your way back to some point earlier in the thread. With the old platform, I would often make a mental note that a particular page that had something interesting on it that I might like to refer to in a reply. It's just as easy to make a mental note of the post number or some approximation thereof.
There are other features I like as well. I'm getting used to it. The side-by-side composing windows don't seem to work on the iPad and I sorely miss the preview option. (I'll have to try portrait mode - someone mentioned that above). I also don't like that we can't easily scroll back in the thread while composing a reply. I used to do that often. If there's a way to multi-quote, I don't see it. But like I said, I'm getting used to it, and finding things about it to like.
I love the "12 years later" feature. I've often thought that it would be a good thing if mods added a clear notice to posts that revived a zombie so it's obvious to readers that it's an old thread - especially if it's a case of a spammer bump that gets disappeared. I might have made a thread in ATMB, but I figured the mods had enough to do.
I also like the "this is so-and-so's" first post feature. And the one that shows that someone hasn't posted in a while. It's nice to see people coming back, even if I didn't notice they were gone.
And every time I see the listing for the WV's Dumbest Lawyer Thread under an UV post, it's makes any annoyance I have just evaporate. Because that is awesome. Although I don't think it should be done on purpose just to poke at people. That could actually rise to the level of being somewhat close to bullying (if not actual bullying) if overdone.
I posted this in "Ambivalence" instead of "Excitement" because my feelings are still mixed, but I'm coming around to appreciating many aspects of Discourse. And as I get more used to it and learn to use more of the features effectively, maybe I'll even like it better overall.
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10000 post limit for a thread seems manageable. I remember when they use to close game threads if they got to a thousand post or maybe it was less even.
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I'm grateful for the limit. Too many of those omnibus and similar threads went on so long they became unmanageable to someone who hasn't been following along the entire way. 10,000 even seems a little high! (1,000 is too low, though - I'd actually prefer we let the snark threads go a little longer here)