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