[Foundation-l] LiquidThreads almost ready for deployment

[David Goodman]

mysterious codes? All that is needed is knowing how to indent and sign.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:17 PM, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> On 12/19/2009 09:25 AM, Teofilo wrote:
>> Wiki talk pages as they are now are good. Don't kill them.
>>
>
> Having not used LiquidThreads yet, I can't speak to your experience with
> it. But the existing discussion system is a usability nightmare.
>
> As a software developer, I'm perfectly comfortable dealing with its dark
> mysteries. I've spent tens of thousands of hours typing mysterious codes
> into giant files interpreted by unforgiving machines. But for the 98% of
> humanity that doesn't have much technical background, our discussion
> system comes across as somewhere between perplexing and actively hostile.
>
> For proof, just look at how many software packages have copied our
> approach to discussions. As far as I know, the number is zero. The
> common solutions seen in forums, blogs, and community sites across the
> internet have a lot in common with one another, and are rightly nothing
> like what we have.
>
> I have no idea whether LiquidThreads is the right solution, but if we
> want to broaden participation, increase the number of active editors,
> and improve our image, we definitely need something better than what we
> have. Hopefully we can do that in a way that keeps the benefits of the
> current system, but I think it's vital to mitigate the many and glaring
> current flaws.
>
> William
>
>
>
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