Are there plans to update the Zotero forums?

v4u6h4n
I really love Zotero, and I really love research, and I really want to be more active on the forums, but I find it a bit hard to get involved the way everything is designed compared to more modern forums with sections, etc.

Are there any plans to upgrade the forums design? Something like Discourse, for example, would be a major improvement.
  • aborel
    I don't know if an update is planned, but for what it's worth: the forum used to have sections, they were explicitly abolished some years ago because they caused significant confusion/duplication.
  • v4u6h4n
    Sections is only one of the things that I think would help, for example even basic features like being able to order forum search results by number of posts, etc would be great. A lot of features are very simplistic and just really make participation unnecessarily laborious.
  • adamsmith
    I know that Zotero devs (and in particular dstillman) really don't like Discourse -- it'd otherwise be fairly simple to just move stuff there. The simplicity of the vanilla (yes, that really is the software) forums is part of what they like about it (I don't have much of an opinion either way -- this works for me, but so would many other options).
  • v4u6h4n
    Funnily enough I'm actually with dstillman; I don't really like Discrouse either after having used it alot on the KDE forums. It's a bit too opinionated for my liking; I prefer something that has a more traditional design. Buut I also prefer something that has plenty of useful features, which Discourse at least does have.
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