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(...) "Lugnet is a nice site, but the forum software is ugly. How on earth are you supposed to read all this text? It's ugly, there's no attempt to make it interesting or highlight what's important..." Not that I actually think that, but remember (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oddly, the things you pick out are exactly the reasons I think Lugnet's design is superior. It uses color well to pick out meaningful information, and it's got a very clever graphical representation of each thread. (...) Plently of color, few (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I like the thread thing, but I haven't really missed it at Classic-Castle. I imagine that more specific topic areas and enforcement keeps threads from becoming wandering safari hunts sometimes strewn over numerous forums. The graphic avatars (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sure. And worse. Like I said, *BB isn't very nice. (...) Now there's a non sequitur. Are you suggesting that virtual reality immerse chatrooms will replace discussion boards? Probably eventually, but not completely -- and, y'know, not in a (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't need my newsgroups to be pretty. Boring can be ok. (1) I need them to be usable, full of content (ie text) and provide me links to the pretty pictures I want to look at. (1)Apparently LEGO thinks old grey and realistic castles are (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) And like I said, I disagree (but at least we agree on the boring part). :-) (...) What part of "boring" didn't you parse? :-) I shall be more forceful in my comparison, Maximum Borosity. (all those who never saw the phrase "maximum verbosity" (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey, if you like boring, that's fine with me. To each his own, and all. (...) So, basically, you think BB style forums will die out? Or do you mean that both BB and Lugnet will be replaced by the futuristic VR chatrooms I mentioned? (...) But (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller wrote: SNIP (...) I don't like the one-post-under-the-o...n-one-page bulletin boards if that's what you're talking about-they are AWEFUL. LUGnet posting/thread setup is FAR superior in the fact that it is FAR more (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yup, them's the ones. (...) Yeah, but it's neat for them to show up right next to everyone's posts. Or are people doing that in their sigs? I guess I hadn't really noticed since I read/post via NNTP 97% of the time because I *do* like text (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You seem confused - I was refering to Lugnet's visual appearance. (...) Yup, confused. Sorry if I wasn't clear along the way. I meant Lugnet was a step up visually from r.t.l., as newer boards are a step up visually from Lugnet. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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[ followup-to .publish.html, since this isn't generally interesting. :) ] (...) And that is indeed why I'm confused. I was referring to the phpBB on Classic-castle in the paragraph you quoted. Like all such BB forums, it basically has a big monotone (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish.html)
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(...) And let me be super-clear here for anyone just jumping in -- Classic-Castle is a nifty site and I have nothing against them. I'm just mentioning their forum as an example. And I understand that phpBB is nice and open source and free and easy (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.publish.html)
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(...) Well, heck, maybe I'm confused and that confused you in turn. I don't spend that much time at the two levels you mention at C-C, so they don't bother me. They give me the minimum clutter to move on to where I want to go. Not that I actually go (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.publish.html)
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(...) * big big big snip * (...) I hadn't actually intended to weigh the pros and cons of text vs. graphical community systems; what I was really trying to get across was there are different presentations for different audiences. The audience of (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.publish.html)
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(...) Without saying that you are wrong in that assessment, let me ask on what basis do you make that claim? If Lugnet is the final answer, why do other sites start? Do those that prefer it do so simply because Lugnet is all they know? Is it really (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.publish.html)
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(...) Nah, you can draw on a post-it note. You can even use colored pencils. :) What I mean by "post-it note style" is that there's a big, grid-like board, and conversation happens by people coming and putting a note into the general area of the (...) (20 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.publish.html)
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