Stack Overflow founder's next big thing: reinventing online communities

[Kent Sharkey]

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The founder of Stack Overflow is on to change the world of online communication...again. This time with Discourse.

Who'd be crazy enough to try running an online community? Oh, sorry Chris.

[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

I hope he didn't modeled Discourse on SO! IMHO it is one of the worst online communities...

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

[Marc Clifton]

IMO (and no, this isn't a**-kissing), I think CP's forums are the best designed I've ever seen. For example (from Discourse): We've replaced all that with the power of just-in-time loading. Want to read more? Keep scrolling down. No, I don't want to see everybody's inane post. I often selectively choose the 5's and the one's from members that have "Marc Reputation Points". If a member doesn't have an MRP but is 5'd, then they are added to my mental MRP list if they seem to get have intelligent things to say (using the Marc Intelligence Filtering algorithm.) Anyways, CP's forums are easy and a joy to use. I've never experienced better a better forum implementation. The world should take note. [edit]BTW, I just checked out the Discourse test sandbox. Looks like crap. So much wasted space. [/edit] Marc

[LloydA111]

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

IMHO it is one of the worst online communities...

Why?

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