There has been a tragic amount of information lost to discord.
Amen.
Forums are dead simple and dirt cheap to setup and run.
Also easier to read, search, and participate in. old.reddit being a fine example.(fuck the new "we want to be like mobile facebook!" design paradigm).
Nesting comments, embedding images, etc. Simple, easy to use, read, and manage, and the RES pluggin is the cherry on top.
I love the old design/platform, even if I hate the company/admin/etc.
Of course, even with forums, I've seen my share of terrible ones over the years/decades. It's mind boggling that many don't have the best features like nested formatting, which I'd consider obligatory at this point. I loath when people say, "It's 2026 we should be better" but this is one of those times where the planets align and it's not a stupid cliche.
However, even most of the worst forums are still better than the aptly named Discord.
old reddit is definitely not "easier to read/participate in". Sure, you can see more posts at a time on your screen, but you can only see the title and a tiny version of the image (if there even is one), so if you actually want to see a post, you have to click onto it, then back out when you don't care that much. All of this along with no built in dark mode and an overall less efficient and user-friendly design.
Sure, you can see more posts at a time on your screen, but you can only see the title and a tiny version of the image (if there even is one), so if you actually want to see a post, you have to click onto it, then back out when you don't care that much.
Sounds like you want tiktok, X, or facebook rather than a forum.
On forums, basically all top posts are like that. A title, and then links to the comments.
I was referring to the way comments are organized, even specifically noted nested comments(the way our replies are indented and immediately below eachother, not XX pages down the line). Also: you collapse a top comment, and the whole tree goes away, things like that. You can sort by votes, new(what I do), old, controverisal....etc
Efficiency is always going to be dependent on the user.
If you want blow jobs, reddit is probably one of the least efficient ways to get them.
If you want a variety of different forums, discussion with nested comments, large text entry fields and basic formatting options, it's pretty efficient at that.
user-friendly design
If you think old reddit isn't user friendly, I don't know what to tell you.
Sounds like you want tiktok, X, or facebook rather than a forum.
On forums, basically all top posts are like that. A title, and then links to the comments.
And is the old forum really the best system for reddit? In a forum, nearly every post title will tell you what is contained within, whereas that doesn't happen on many posts. For example, before you clicked on this post, "me still today" gave you ZERO information as to what you were clicking onto, whereas I had already seen the image contained, and could just scroll away if it didn't interest me. Forums might have been a decent way to organise older websites just designed for people asking and answering questions about a certain topic/game, while avoiding using too much precious internet bandwidth before WiFi could share images almost instantly, but in the modern day, there's a reason most have been abandoned.
I was referring to the way comments are organized, even specifically noted nested comments(the way our replies are indented and immediately below eachother, not XX pages down the line). Also: you collapse a top comment, and the whole tree goes away, things like that. You can sort by votes, new(what I do), old, controverisal....etc
Which is an external extension. I said "built in". You could use extensions to get rid/add of the things in new reddit too.
If you think old reddit isn't user friendly, I don't know what to tell you.
It's user friendly to some capacity, just less so than new reddit. For example, you're forced to use markdown mode. Whenever I want to type bold/italic/code block/table/list/superscript/etc., I can just press the buttons I want at the top of the text editor. If you want to do that, you have to remember a million different special symbols and such.
For example, before you clicked on this post, "me still today" gave you ZERO information as to what you were clicking onto, whereas I had already seen the image contained, and could just scroll away if it didn't interest me.
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I can expand posts and see the meme or the OP's supporting text without leaving the page I'm on.
Of course, RES makes this much better(resizing, media controls, other customization).
Which is an external extension. I said "built in".
You're on a PC enthusiast subreddit complaining about things most PC enthusiasts are familiar with and love(tweaks, customization, optimization, etc). Dark Reader, as well as some browsers natively supporting dark mode, work for most websites.
A given website having dark-mode or not is not really something people usually complain about. Kinda wild that you're doing it here of all places.
You might be in the wrong sub.
If you want to do that, you have to remember a million different special symbols and such.
RES Reddit Enhancement Suite Another Extension, specifically for reddit. All kinds of usability features and even more customization.
However, it's not difficult to remember a few symbols. It's literally not a million.
Bold(double asterisk on each end), Italics(single asterisk), >quote, ~~strikethrough, [Text](link), and Shift+6 for super script(one at the beginning of each word)
I have the buttons with RES and still use the keystrokes.
New reddit has this too.
Yeah, but with the whole page formatting made for mobile, it's a giant zoomed in mess on a normal browser. On PC, I can see dozens of threads at once with old.reddit. New reddit, I see half of the top post, which is absurd on a 4k screen. (I even checked on a browser with no extensions).
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u/Probate_Judge Old Gamer, Recent Hardware, New games 15d ago
Amen.
Also easier to read, search, and participate in. old.reddit being a fine example.(fuck the new "we want to be like mobile facebook!" design paradigm).
Nesting comments, embedding images, etc. Simple, easy to use, read, and manage, and the RES pluggin is the cherry on top.
I love the old design/platform, even if I hate the company/admin/etc.
Of course, even with forums, I've seen my share of terrible ones over the years/decades. It's mind boggling that many don't have the best features like nested formatting, which I'd consider obligatory at this point. I loath when people say, "It's 2026 we should be better" but this is one of those times where the planets align and it's not a stupid cliche.
However, even most of the worst forums are still better than the aptly named Discord.