by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:23 am
Discourse (sic) is forum software that I dislike. The text game community got it in their heads that phpBB wasn't meeting their needs or some nonsense for the intfiction.org site. It was a bad decision to switch to Discourse and RealNC was right about everything he argued at the time.
Discourse - which should concern itself with making sure that text posts and text messages show up as a priority - is announcing that they just HAAAAVE to have some of the latest web slop, so standard browsers that work on Windows 7 won't be supported in 10 days. Out of this discussion - and I'd much, much rather have the users on intfiction.org that want to stick with Windows 7 than whatever Discourse thinks it must have, that results in those users not being able to access the site - a discussion of this Firefox fork came out, so I am posting it.
https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases
It is meant to be a way for Windows 7 users to still use what is ostensibly Firefox. I am going to check to see if it disables any of the nanny state anti-user crap that Mozilla started forcing into Firefox, I hope it does.
One other statement. If you use software for a while, you start to get a general sense if the creators of software have your best interests in mind, or if they are more concerned with capitalism and the latest doo dad cruft crap in software development. I could tell from the docs that the web automation tool Cypress in the latter. phpBB - and I have been frustrated by them at times! - is more concerned with showing text and letting people post than chasing the latest node.js libraries. I appreciate them doing that. (Wordpress is another great example of chasing web slop and trying to go beyond what anyone wants them to do). You just sort of get an instinct for it, which RealNC obviously has.
Discourse (sic) is forum software that I dislike. The text game community got it in their heads that phpBB wasn't meeting their needs or some nonsense for the intfiction.org site. It was a bad decision to switch to Discourse and RealNC was right about everything he argued at the time.
Discourse - which should concern itself with making sure that text posts and text messages show up as a priority - is announcing that they just HAAAAVE to have some of the latest web slop, so standard browsers that work on Windows 7 won't be supported in 10 days. Out of this discussion - and I'd much, much rather have the users on intfiction.org that want to stick with Windows 7 than whatever Discourse thinks it must have, that results in those users not being able to access the site - a discussion of this Firefox fork came out, so I am posting it.
https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases
It is meant to be a way for Windows 7 users to still use what is ostensibly Firefox. I am going to check to see if it disables any of the nanny state anti-user crap that Mozilla started forcing into Firefox, I hope it does.
One other statement. If you use software for a while, you start to get a general sense if the creators of software have your best interests in mind, or if they are more concerned with capitalism and the latest doo dad cruft crap in software development. I could tell from the docs that the web automation tool Cypress in the latter. phpBB - and I have been frustrated by them at times! - is more concerned with showing text and letting people post than chasing the latest node.js libraries. I appreciate them doing that. (Wordpress is another great example of chasing web slop and trying to go beyond what anyone wants them to do). You just sort of get an instinct for it, which RealNC obviously has.