>Vue
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>Javascript
Except for the new account registration and initial login, the forum currently works acceptably in a browser that has Javascript disabled. I have not enabled Javascript here since I set my current login cookies in 2017; and since theymos created the CAPTCHA bypass, I have expected that I should never need Javascript here again.
If Javascript were to become a
requirement, then the forum would risk losing
some people. I am not the only one to have
expressed similar
concerns in the past.
Most “
communities” would probably disregard the loss as negligible. Given that no-JS users are disproportionately represented amongst those who care about security, cryptography, and anonymity, the Bitcoin Forum should be different.
We went to sleep, and dreamt of a universal platform. We awoke in a nightmare where the universal platform is the web browser, the universal language is Javascript, the universal ISA is Webasm—and the morals of youths have been corrupted so that they promiscuously run network-loaded executable code from random strangers as a lifestyle. I want to kill myself, or at least take up a hobby of severe alcoholism.
SMF is WTF, but that is no reason to make things worse.
Discourse forums recently became
unreadable without Javascript. Pages essentially show up as blank. I have accordingly decided that Discourse is only for morons; for example, I noticed that some of the major Ethereum development forums run on Discourse. (eth.wiki also shows blank pages without JS.)
Just saying.