I see what you mean. But then again, knowing the total number of posts of someone and it being displayed hundreds of times in a topic, whatās the benefit?
Well, the benefit was i saw how everybody is doing. It gives me certain and instant (!) insight into oneās posting history in a whole. Also, thereās a lot of members, who donāt show that often, or i donāt know them, so this total post number gives me instantly some info.
Another thing - i would like to see, who is online, or at least who was (15 or so minutes) like it could be seen at the bottom of the old version. I know, i already said that, so iām repeating myself and it seems like a bagatelle, but i think itās quite important little thing. Itās like when you visit a pub, you see who is with you around the table - it just gives you a feeling of friends being present.
But as i said, i like the new look of the forum - although it would be good idea to have some light-brown colour as a background.
I agree with that. The closest thing I can offer at the moment is The Spaghetti Western Database Forum
But I will monitor the discourse.org development to see if theyāll add some more interactive functionality.
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You can zoom in. I occasionally do, when sites use a letter type that is too small for my eyes.
Zoomed to 150% the forum texts fill the screen nicely
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Iāve got to say, Iām absolutely loving the āSuggested Topicsā section at the bottom of the threads. I never really looked beyond the first page of each forum under the old system but now Iāve found loads of funky threads that just happened to die back in 2009, 2010 et cetera. Iāve definitely got to pull some of them back out into the sunlight. There have been a fewā¦ well, letās call them ācharactersā on here down the years as well, havenāt there? 
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Looks like Twitter or Facebookā¦
Not my Styleā¦
Seb, can we get rid of this useless ā20 characters as minimumā shit for writing a post? That really sucks ā¦
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It does, it does, it does, it does
I support Stantonās request.
The ironic thing of course is that these last two posts are exactly the reason why that limit exists. You should just have pressed the Like-button on Stantonās post 
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But I donāt like all this liking. And even if I would like the likeabilitys I like to write sometimes a post with only one short but effective word.
This is true but naturally it is not always a matter of approval or disapproval of the content of a post, the Guess a movie screenshot thread is a good example.
That is precisely the reason for the minimumās existence
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Ah well but I think the like-feature is here to stay whether you like it or not Just thought it funny that the two posts supporting your claim in actuality illustrated why that claim shouldnāt be met
That said I have fallen in the same trap when posting something that I had to expand and couldnāt be solved with a like. The guess a screenshot thread is a good example of a thread where the rule doesnāt make sense for example.
Either way its Sebastians decision.
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You can keep the like feature, no problem for me, but the 20 lille fuckers device is nevertheless annoying.
Just like Jonathan said ā¦
Ok so where is the line then? 18, 16, 15? Make suggestion
No line.
I donāt see any reason for any limitation. If one wants to answer with one word, he should be able to do this without adding senseless other words to get over the character limit.
So you donāt want a smiley only reply then make it a short word limit, 4 or 5 characters?
Why not a smiley-only reply? If one want to answer that way, donāt hinder him.
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