Typically there are 2 ways to setup a forum. One is using the old fasioned forum like this one. Arch, Debian, and others follow this. Then there is something similar to question and ask forum, like superuser, askubuntu, etc. Why was that not chosen? Why did the EOS team go with the traditional forum?
Maybe because they prefered this one? About how it starts:
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/the-end-of-a-project/55573
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Discourse as a platform is from 2013. I would hardly call that old-fashioned.
Personally, I think there are two main advantages:
- threads (called topics) form conversations rather than a typical forum format of question and answer. This allows, in part, for deeper conversations to take place, when relevant
- Discourse is all about community engagement and community building. Many traditional forums focus on providing answers in a rather dry format. Once your question is answered, you leave
That’s my take on it at least.
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As @Omig and @rubi1200 already stated, this project was created with an existing community in mind.
Many new Linux projects are created around a new feature that they plan to provide, and they decide how to build their community around it. We had to “house” an existing community that already bonded and interacted with each other in a certain way. And I can tell you that that aspect of creating this project was the biggest challenge.
The Antergos forum was known for its friendly vibe, but the forum software itself wasn’t made with mobile devices in mind. Discourse was and still is the perfect hybrid solution for us; it works well in a traditional PC setting but also reads and navigates very well on mobile devices, without losing that community feeling.
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I have no complaints with Discourse as your choice. As you said @Bryanpwo, it works very well on desktop and on mobile.
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Stackexchange and uBlunder forums are truly hideous.
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I chuckled to myself a bit about calling discourse old-fashoned. I am host and administrator of an old forum which started in 1998. Back then forums were quite new, and those software (vbulletin) was WAY different from discourse (Currently we use xenforo, still very old-fashioned compared to discourse). And even that one was quite modern, compared to the original bulletin boards. And the funniest part of this is: The old bulletin boards remind me quite much about the modern “question and answer” forum approach you were talking about - so we came full circle.
But no, discourse is not old-fashioned for a forum software 
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Except that Ubuntu Forums (Ubuntu Community Discource) uses Discourse (as name implies) like EOS Forums. Ask Ubuntu is part of Stack Exchange Network.
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So what is wrong with a so called “traditional forum”?
I get help here, so everything is ok for me 
I would even join IRC if that exists for EOS 
Hi Archie,
What features do the other forums have, which you feel we need here?
Ah, I see, so this forum is traditional! Now I understand why I felt so comfortable from the very first moment 
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I miss Yahoo chat.
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I miss ICQ, and even MSN Mesinger. 
R. I. P 
Anyway…I like this forum format.
Much better then let’s say Star Citizen’s Spectrum(it’s some Wierd custom made hybrid? )
Note! it’s not an Linux Distro just an forum for a game.
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If Discourse is old-fashiond, what is Facebook?
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I love this meme-reply so much 
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this is a good forum very clear and easy for use ,just the way it supposed to be
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I would also use the good old newsgroups.
I like the format of this forum!
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I love it. Never had an issue with the way this forum (and other Disourse forums) flow. Easy to navigate and follow.
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