C.Oct 11, 2024

Me: Open source project repository page - search issues, find nothing relevant, try -> "New Issue"

Project: Hi, report problems by asking on the Discourse server after searching there.

Me: <tries Discourse - absolutely useless search, can't find anything, and I don't *want* to sign up for Yet Another Stupid Web Forum Platform That Is Less Readable and Less Usable and By Far Less Searchable than IRC Was in 1995, Or Newsgroups Were in 1992>

<chucks computer out window>

#OpenSource #project

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ObNote...

Every Implementer of "web board" software ever: "Hey, we use a Postgres or MySQL database, and I know how to use the LIKE operator, so we can implement search ourselves! How hard can it be?"

<facepalm>

Doing it badly is very, very easy. Doing it well is not.

And they still do it.

<shrieks into void>

#WebBoard #forum #discussion #web #CADT

Oct 11, 2024 at 3:34amWeb