It also looks like you tried to build a new system of how an online forum should operate instead of just taking a readymade solution. As a result it seems you have to make a bunch of bad UI decisions.
It looks like Drupal to me. You might not like it, but you can hardly say they failed to make use of existing components.
There no facebook sign in. There’s for example “4 comment(s)” under an article but no hotlink to the comments.
In case you don’t know, different people have a different ability to distinguish shades of blue and most people are not perfect. For me that “Create an account link”-text on the startpage is unreadable.
Even beyond this the page is very uninviting.
If I read a topic I find under the topic “Promote content” but no “Post comment button or free text box”.
There some unlabled blue thing that shows that(you have to log in to post but only if you hover over it.
To further deter people from registering, at the end of comments where you get information that you have to login/register, the words login/register are in lower font size than the rest of the text. After all you don’t want to draw attention to logining in or registering.
Those issues don’t seem like a decision that anybody who designs a framework that intents to encourage community participation should make. For that reason it looked to me like it doesn’t use a proper community platform.
If you have a corporate website, you might not want to encourage as much participation as possible and have some barrier to entry. You might use a website that looks that way. If your intend is to grow a community it doesn’t seem like a good decision.
On Drupal.org they use a forum plugin for their forum: https://drupal.org/forum/22
I think using Drupal and not using a forum plugin when you want to built a forum but trying to do it your own way, counts as not using existing components.
On Drupal.org they use a forum plugin for their forum: https://drupal.org/forum/22 I think using Drupal and not using a forum plugin when you want to built a forum but trying to do it your own way, counts as not using existing components.
You seem to have very weak evidence that they actually did this. It seems tremendously unlikely to me. Drupal comes with a forum module and it has many third party forums available. I see no good reason to think that they failed to make use of these resources.
The forum on Drupal.org looks I expect a forum to look. I would disagree with a few design choices but there’s nothing that looks obviously wrong.
It might be that it’s just a wrongly configured plugin but the UX decisions like the one about the fontsize of the register/login of the existing website just doesn’t make sense for the purposes of running a forum.
It looks like Drupal to me. You might not like it, but you can hardly say they failed to make use of existing components.
There no facebook sign in. There’s for example “4 comment(s)” under an article but no hotlink to the comments.
In case you don’t know, different people have a different ability to distinguish shades of blue and most people are not perfect. For me that “Create an account link”-text on the startpage is unreadable. Even beyond this the page is very uninviting.
If I read a topic I find under the topic “Promote content” but no “Post comment button or free text box”. There some unlabled blue thing that shows that(you have to log in to post but only if you hover over it.
To further deter people from registering, at the end of comments where you get information that you have to login/register, the words login/register are in lower font size than the rest of the text. After all you don’t want to draw attention to logining in or registering.
Those issues don’t seem like a decision that anybody who designs a framework that intents to encourage community participation should make. For that reason it looked to me like it doesn’t use a proper community platform.
If you have a corporate website, you might not want to encourage as much participation as possible and have some barrier to entry. You might use a website that looks that way. If your intend is to grow a community it doesn’t seem like a good decision.
On Drupal.org they use a forum plugin for their forum: https://drupal.org/forum/22 I think using Drupal and not using a forum plugin when you want to built a forum but trying to do it your own way, counts as not using existing components.
You seem to have very weak evidence that they actually did this. It seems tremendously unlikely to me. Drupal comes with a forum module and it has many third party forums available. I see no good reason to think that they failed to make use of these resources.
The forum on Drupal.org looks I expect a forum to look. I would disagree with a few design choices but there’s nothing that looks obviously wrong.
It might be that it’s just a wrongly configured plugin but the UX decisions like the one about the fontsize of the register/login of the existing website just doesn’t make sense for the purposes of running a forum.