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  • aanandaanand
    timberford: Don't knock it till you've tried it. It's easily the most intuitive forum interface I've ever used.
  • jesusphreakjesusphreak
    Yeah, problem is, frames are one of the biggest accessibility nightmares around.

    I do believe they could have been just as effective with a non-frame or psuedo-frame approach. Anyway, I don't like threaded systems either. I just like the other parts of aterr.
  • aanandaanand
    I'm pretty rabid about standards and accessibility, but in the case of Beehive frames work fantastically well. It'd take a lot of DHTML and Ajax to replicate the benefits they provide (the more difficult one being loading the two areas independently).

    Not that I wouldn't like to see such an effort. I wonder if Vanilla could pull it off.
  • lodelode
    Meta looks interesting, but to me a little bit too much.. Vanilla is cleaner in that way. I don't find threaded systems bad, but the way alterr implemented is, is just not very nice. There should for example be a limit when the nesting stops, and when the next posts just appears right below. Like the system of www.tweakers.net (not forum software, but reactions in a threaded way). On other forum software I like very much is UNB (newsboard.unclassified.de). Very much like the userfriendlyness (is that correct English?), and the functions. The same what attracts me in Vanilla.
  • WallPhoneWallPhone
    Battleaxe forums look like the usual UBB clone at first glance, but I really like some of the diffrent thread views it provides. http://forums.bttlxe.com/forums/index.asp Threaded forums have their place, and so does ASP, but not for me.
  • bjrnbjrn
    There's Barbelith. You can't download the forum software to use yourself though (as far as I know).
  • c-unitc-unit
    That Barbelith is tight...
  • nathannathan
    Barbelith is a very original concept. Well, original way of presenting catagories anyway. I quite like it.
  • WallPhoneWallPhone
    I stumbled on http://talk.org yesterday, looked interesting but now it appears down.
  • ChrisGwynneChrisGwynne ✭
    aterr is very sexy! WIth an invite system that'd be so hot.

    OR Vanilla with an invite system would be hot.
  • jesusphreakjesusphreak
    edited March 2006
    Can't say that Talk.org impresses me in its current state...and if you even manage to load a page, its a bit confusing. I don't really know what to do. I like its simplicity but I don't like how its been implemented.
  • LudwigLudwig ✭
    talk looks like crap! People say looks aren't everything but they are - you see it all the time, to be able to use it you mjst look at it - if it looks bad then you don't want to use it....
  • jesusphreakjesusphreak
    I think they were going for the craigslist kinda look, but they just missed the boat, imo.
  • BergamotBergamot
    Yeah even craigslist doesn't look like craigslist anymore.
  • jesusphreakjesusphreak
    I don't understand how people get into craigslist. I mean...sometimes simplicity is good, but when you are so simple that your website is ugly and even functionality is harmed (see the forums on Craigslist), something is wrong.
  • bjrnbjrn
    Ouch! I hadn't seen the craigslist forums before. They're really, really bad. :/

    There was a forum called Tagsurf which seems to be gone now. Archive.org has old versions, but they might be missing CSS, because it's looking even worse than I remembered it. Basically it was totally into the tagging craze and just wanted all posts/threads tagged. If you google for tagsurf you can see lots of people saying "OMG IT'S GOING TO BE THE NEXT THING!111111"
  • pellepelle
    I'm the developer of Talk.org. The main thing I'm trying to do is get away from registration in the same way as the Japanese 2-Ch forum. Our ISP did have some problems over the weekend. Hopefully it should be fine now. The design of it is in no way perfect. But I would like to hear what exactly it was that you considered bad? Just to help me improve it. I had never seen Vanilla before and it does look nice.
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    Hi pelle! Congrats on talk.org. It's pretty cool.
  • c-unitc-unit
    edited March 2006
    Pelle, this is my take on it -
    • Conversations 2.0? What was wrong with 1.0? If that's the tagline, it's too vague for the web.
    • I'd also like to see a little blurb about what the site is about (it seems like forum mixed with something that I can't put my finger on).
    • The whole color scheme needs a makeover.
  • NickENickE New
    Don't know if you're particularly concerned about this, pelle, but you have some major XSS holes in your talk.org.
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