During many years, many forum members asked about new forum software, Epochtalk that was announced to stop its development weeks ago; or to upgrade the SMF forum software to a newest version.
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Newbies certainly come to this forum and think that this is old fashioned. But you will get used to it, and it is much better than new fancy platforms like reddit (i prefer this forum UI).
I would love to see this forum stay as it is for as much as possible. I didn't like epochtalk UI.
Today I read
Things you should never do and feel that it is very insightful. In this writing, Joel Spolsky shared some insights and warning to newbie developers. I think this writing can support theymos' opinion above.
This is a gem. Thanks for sharing.