Sorry, I like the old forum way better!! It felt more a part of the site. I guess the old forum must have been too difficult to manage.
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actually the old one was not a forum 
sorry @justin !!
You couldnât search! which is THE basically tool for a forum, and this is the top of the cream as a forum software, you can do everything in a very very simple way with very extended capabilities.
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I didnât realize thatâŚ
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To each his own, but the old one was weird.
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I like these typs of forum however the only major downfall, in my opinion, is that the limit on topic votes is waaaaay too mean. 
You only get about 5 votes, which only increases to about 10 even when your level increases. Perhaps the admin for the forum can change this but itâs certainly the case on the Last FM discourse forum.
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However, to me, the old felt more integrated. It blended with the rest of the site really well. However, there had to have been a good technical reason to abandon the old message space in favor of this one.
This feels more forum like than the last one.
Also preferred the old design
I have used Discourse on other sites and I am not a fan, i find traditional forums much easier to use
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I personally like this forum software as I have used it before and it is feature rich.
Just found there is a dark mode in the forum preferences I think it makes a huge difference in the look of the forum. Much more Trakt like.
Just click your avatar>username>preferences>interface>theme.
Edit: Or easier method click the three horizontal bars and choose light or dark under theme selector.
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My first post here, really new to the app and still getting my head around it, so looking forward to getting the most out it.
Iâve used discourse on other forums and really like it, I donât have any experience with " whatever Trakt.tv had previously" , so obviously canât compare.
This type of forum is best utilised with community input, the more you put in, the more you get out.
Iâm hopeful I can contribute and also get advice and knowledge from the community.
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Just give it time. Changes could be hard especially when it is a big change. Discourse is a nice piece of software. After some time you will not want to go back to the old forum 
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I already donât want to aside from viewing archived posts, hopefully those can be imported.
I really liked the look and feel of the old/legacy forums.
Sure, search was missing, but that was about the only thing I really missed.
Likes and hearts are nice too, but yeah, I didnât specifically need it.
I really like the dark mode here though!
I think this forum software will just take some getting used to 
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hell yeah! that was nice 
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Yes, the old system stopped getting updates several years ago. We patched things and did some minor upgrades ourselves, but it was just becoming too much to manage for such a limited feature set.
Yeah, I agree with that too 
The default is 10 votes looks like, but are open to increasing that as needed.
Unfortunately they canât. The 2 systems are so different that weâre not able to port the data over. We spent a decent amount of time trying to do this, but ultimately it wasnât working and we had to decide to start fresh.
In the future, Iâm sure weâll tweak the design to make it look more like the Trakt website. Discourse has a theming engine and we should be able to evolve the design.
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Honestly once passing the tutorial and advanced tutorial, you get used to the new forum. But yeah on the first time launching it, it is kind of overwhelming.
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this is a forum now, but discourse sucks. is a mess to see categories and such, all scrambled. is not âthe top of the creamâ as a forum by any mean.
I use discourse on some of the sites I visit and is one of the worst forum softwares out there.
Not easy to understand the categories for any not advanced user.
Discourse is definitely different than âold traditional forum softwaresâ which have existed 10+ years. However, I think this is much better than other boards.
What comes to clarity of the categories, which used to be the âonly real viewâ in traditional forums, I donât even use the categories view. Or if I use it, I only use it to get a view on what categories are there. Otherwise Iâm only following the latest view. Discourse focuses on engaging users, e.g. by encouraging them to follow whatâs happening on the whole community.
If you donât want to follow some categories in the latest view, you can always mute them.
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im not new to discourse and i know how to use it properly, is not going to change my view on that is one of the worst forum software.
Thank you!
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