My forum project; a different philosophy than Discourse

What it does

In the maker’s words, at launch

tl;dr: http://pony-forum.com, forums are in again, baby! Longer version that breaks character limit: https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4753948 I was abroad earlier last week, so I unfortunately was not there to join in on the discussion of Jeff Atwood’s Discourse[1]. Discourse has received a lot of attention, and…

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  My first programming project – userscripts to change forum UIs2024 · github.com · ▲89

  Hi, I'm Will. I'm 24, autistic, and have OCD tendencies. I'm learning to code and this is my first public project. I’d really appreciate your feedback and encouragement! This project lets me solve some of my OCD problems online. There are a couple of parts of the forums that I visit – Space Battles, Sufficient Velocity, and Questionable Questing – that I want to remove. Specifically, I hate seeing indicators of how much is left in a forum thread, because I keep thinking about how much content is left. It stops me from immersing myself in the story. It stressed me out. Before I learned to…

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