looks up, slowly
Guess you are having issues using that Search function up there, eh? Give it a try. No. I mean… actually. Try. It.
It fucking works. Amazingly well at that.
Yes, I so loved trying to remember what page of a thread a particular response was on.
Having an actually functional search tool and the means to ctrl-f an entire thread is vastly inferior to the barely functional software the forum used to use before… 
I know you didn’t get your way with whatever the vBulletin crew decided to charge for this time, but that’s just plain uncalled for.
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This was actually way easier to remember then a whole fucking sentence. I never bothered about which page something was on, but always remembered approximately when it was posted (day), and by that I just checked date of a post in a particular page and followed it by that. Basically, finding a thread I needed took me up to 5 minutes by that, it increased to 20 minutes when I was searching one of your quotes about conversion yesterday. If I had to do it again today, it’ll take 20 minutes too, because I don’t remember which thread it was nor how many times did the page have to load.
When that happens that means they just changed something. Changes happen in real-time with Discourse.
I’ll blame you for that then.
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I totally was thinking the matrix too when I made that reply. I didn’t say it, but it was in my head 
Go Deja vu yourself. 
It was called Xenforo if I remember correctly. I wonder what stupidity we’d be enduring if that was chosen…
Yes, It’s more convenient to remember the particular page and the position on that page than to scroll the huge thread up and down. That’s the way the human’s visual memory works. That’s also why we don’t use scrolls IRL as in Antiquity, but now we have codices with pagination. And that’s why it’s more convenient to work with paper books than with ebooks when it comes to professional literature.
IDK what do you mean “barely functional”. For me, that forum was fully functional. Yes, there were some security issues, you better know the details. But when you are developing some stuff, you can change database engine, logic engine and appearance independently, that’s the way modern programming works.
“Ctrl-F” on entire topic when it contains dosens or hundreds of pages? My poor Google Chrome appreciates the joke.
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If you can remember a page number, what’s to stop you remembering a post number - see the righthand side of the screen and the blue scroll bar there.
What threads were you reading that have dozens or hundreds of pages? And for the few that actually have over 10 pages, the search function on this forum actually works, whereas vBulletin’s was absolutely useless.
You see a post you like and think might be useful in the future then bookmark that shit. Takes a single click. Got a lot of bookmarks and want to find it again?
Zzz. The hits just won’t stop coming.
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Search on the old forums rarely left me without my mark, and it wasn’t too hard to make it work.
It was pure garbage.
In all my years using it, it has almost never found what I wanted. And God forbid you tried looking for a single word or a few characters. Sometimes it would just remove words from your query cause phrases were hard I guess.
So congrats that it worked for you, but I have a feeling you were the exception.
vBulletin search function was not useless for me. Moreover, don’t forget about Google search function. Each page had its own address, and one can also bookmark it using browser (what I usually do), can find the particular page via browser history, and, moreover, pages are indexed by Google, set aside the fact that forum pages are snapshoted by archive.org.
How are these speadsheets indexed by Google? Does it save every freaking post of this roll and give you correct links?
I don’t know how Google parses this setup, but I do know that linking to a specific post is very doable:
That’s the rub tho… the vB search was so bad you HAD to use Google. As is evidenced by both your replies. But I didn’t need you guys to know that because over 90% of the time I would choose a Google search over using the vB search precisely because it was that bad.
While I could tell from the get go of using the new forum that the search here was vastly superior in every single way. Nothing but a win as far as I’m concerned.
In the end it’s clear to me that the real reason for the hate Discourse gets over the timeline style is “fear of the unknown” and “plain laziness” because they can’t be bothered to actually learn how it works. The people that use the “bad for PC line”, eh, that’s just gibberish from what I can see. It isn’t holding me back on my PC in the slightest and works just as well if not better than the old forum.
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