Ambivalence! Got your Discourse ambivalence right here!

[Someone]

I dunno, it doesn't look so bad. It's not great, though. Meh.

The 10,000 post limit is mildly annoying. OTOH, just start a new thread. Meh.

[Someone]

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.

[Someone]

I might feel some ambivalence. not sure.

just anything new is kind of a relief but I feel y'all on the complaints. I never read a lot over there, anyway, so I don't care as much.

[Someone]

The round avatar thing is OK though that's now how I would've done it. Also, just change the theme, there's several that have square (or rounded-corner-almost-square) avatars.

[Someone]

Great op/thread combo:P

[Someone]

What I hate is I can't see what I'm typing in the reply box if I have my phone in landscape mode. I have to flip it over to portrait.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

They had to change to something and Discourse was as good a choice as any and at least take a week or two to try to get used to it. Now that I have been using it, there are definitely some things that I don't like as much but there are things that I like much better.

Originally Posted by Someone

I still miss the old format, browsing threads in general was easier but overall Discourse is fine and I tried to make it work and help others from the beginning.

Originally Posted by Someone

I've gotten used to Discourse; still not crazy about it but whatever. But that one tiny little feature makes everything else worth it.

Toldja so. :smug:

[Someone]

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.

Originally Posted by Someone

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.

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)

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

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.

I scroll back in the thread while composing fairly often -- I haven't had any problem doing so. I'm generally on a desktop; don't know whether that makes a difference.

To multiquote: highlight the first thing you want to quote, hit the quote bubble. Put in some text, or not. Scroll to the next thing you want to quote, highlight that, hit the quote bubble again. And so on. Your next bit of quote can be in the same post as the first, or in a different one; it seems to work either way.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I scroll back in the thread while composing fairly often -- I haven't had any problem doing so. I'm generally on a desktop; don't know whether that makes a difference.

To multiquote: highlight the first thing you want to quote, hit the quote bubble. Put in some text, or not. Scroll to the next thing you want to quote, highlight that, hit the quote bubble again. And so on. Your next bit of quote can be in the same post as the first, or in a different one; it seems to work either way.

Thanks. I’ll try that for the multiquoting. I usually do my derping on an ipad, so that might account for not being abke to scroll back.

[Someone]

I find it annoying that as I scroll (on iPad) that I'm liable to read the same post multiple times.

Though I agree completely with post #8 about the positive features.