On 09/07/2014 01:57 AM, Diego Moya wrote:
a major property of a document-centric architecture that is lost in a structured one is that it's open-ended, which means that end users can build new features and flows on top of it, without the need to request the platform developers to build support for them (sometimes even without writing new software at all; new workflows can be designed and maintained purely through social convention).
And yet, after over a decade of open-ended design through social convention, the end result is... our current talk pages. Perhaps another decade or two will be needed before that document-centric architecture gives us a half-decent discussion system?
Sorry if that sound snarky, but I have difficulty buying an argument that the current system has the potential to suffice when it has demonstrably already failed. It does no good to have the hypothetical capacity for a good system if, in practice, it's unusable.
-- Marc