Hi all. I may have the occasion soon to give feedback to Discourse , our forum provider, about Rust's experiences with it. For my part I've been quite satisfied, but the way I use it is quite simple, and I know I've seen lots of opinions about things that could work better. So what do you think? Wha…

Thanks for the feedback @dikaiosune and @stebalien !

I hate that Ctrl+F is hijacked on internals.rust-lang.org . Somehow it isn't hijacked on users.rust-lang.org . I would like Ctrl+F to always bring up the browser's "find in page" interface, not the forum search.

This is probably not very actionable but I still miss the NNTP gateway from the old mailing list. I remember there was an effort for adding an NNTP bridge to Discourse at some time, but that was a few years ago and probably dead by now. EDIT: speaking of which, the mailing list is still in zombie …

[image] briansmith: I hate that Ctrl+F is hijacked on internals.rust-lang.org . Somehow it isn't hijacked on users.rust-lang.org . I would like Ctrl+F to always bring up the browser's "find in page" interface, not the forum search. I also dislike this behavior. Weird that they are different. I …

[image] brson: It looks like urlo and irlo are not actually configured differently and discourse only does the hijacking when there are over 10 posts (which seems really confusing), or perhaps when there are more than 10 posts left to display. Pressing CTRL+F twice hands control back to the brow…

The email interface could be improved. One of Discourse's stated goals is to be usable as a mailing list by users who prefer email, like me; back when the Rust community was deciding whether to migrate to it from real mailing lists, people claimed that due to this feature, Discourse was the best of…

[EDIT: the below was posted via email, and I'm now editing it from the web interface. It's a followup to a post of mine with feedback on the email interface, which got stuck in the moderation queue. Results of the test: apparently Discourse uses the plaintext version of the email and ignores the H…

Replies-to-replies are displayed without indentation, as if they were top-level posts responding to the original topic. They do have a link to post they're replying to, but it's not visually clear enough IMHO. Opening replies with "X Replies /" button duplicates the replies instead of moving them, …

I'm not a fan of unconditionally publishing "last seen" timestamp of every user.

Feedback on discourse (u.rlo and i.rlo)?

brson June 16, 2016, 3:43am 12

Thanks for the detailed critique @comex! I don't use the email interface myself so that's great information.

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Feedback on discourse (u.rlo and i.rlo)?

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