aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom per jessen wrote randall r schulz wrote yes problem specific objection going continue feign incredulity heres list objections article wrote jan2006 web forums also absolutely loathe webforums talk enhancing point failure reinventing wheel ever wrong newsgroups mailinglists 5 top reasons hate webforums 1 essentially inferior utterly superfluous reinvention existing internet communication means newsgroups aka usenet 2 theyre webbased interface changes every time change forum add entirely superfluous graphics icons become slow unwieldy addition 2atheyre webbased means way keep specific thread continually go specific url check new messages particular thread really dont want check 30 different urls keep 30 different threads 2b theyre webbasedwhich means slooooooooow instead jumping message message preloaded onto hard drive wait slowass network connection yes broad band disk drive delivers message milliseconds whereas webforum pages typically take 515 seconds depending overall traffic network cloud routers 2c theyre webbasedwhich means messages amount kilobytes message typically accompanied dozens hundreds kilobytes pure cruft 3 following multiple separate forums cant done one screen 4 proper threading forums selective quoting best cumbersome 5 usually require login downright silly yup wed 06 aug 2008 200237 0500 opensuse true news group