Captain_nemo Ultimately, I suspect you are going to find difficulty garnering sympathy here. This is Flarum's official site, everyone here is interested in Flarum in some fashion and are using it because they like it over the alternatives. No, Flarum isn't perfect, no software is, but its design choices and technology appeal to a lot of people, enough to make them convert their own sites to use it. I'm not sure what you hope to gain by continuing to discuss your issues here, as they seem (and correct me if I'm wrong) relate less to Flarum's own UI design and more with Giffgaff's choice in a software move.

I suggest that you continue this discussion at Giffgaff's official site, or on more diverse discussion communities where you might receive a more balanced set of feedback. This line of commenting is starting to get off-topic.

      Captain_nemo Please tell it like it is at Giffgaff's community then, that is the more appropriate venue for this line of comments. It is no longer relevant to the discussion here.

          Captain_nemo Because you have run the gamut of your critiques here, and they boil down to a dislike for the choice of Flarum. That choice was made by Giffgaff, and it bears discussion with them and no longer here. If you have valid criticism or ways to improve the product of Flarum, feel free to open a new discussion for them, we welcome suggestions for change and questions about design choices, but they do not belong in this discussion here either.

          This is specifically about Giffgaff's implementation of Flarum and how they have crafted their new site, and your dislike of their choice has been made well known. Continued discussion of it is dragging this off-topic, and violating our community guidelines. This will be my last post on the matter, please continue back on topic.

            Pagination is so 00's, an option, not the first one anymore. Thank's for Flarum team for being different in a time that forums are dying for wrong choices of UX and other provlems

              Kayo Flarums UI choices are exactly why I stopped using the other forum software. I even managed to convince a community I was part of a long time ago (beta 2 I think?) to make a switch from their payed software to flarum at the time. It helps that I was very important to operations (managed the actual servers) but never the less the decision came form the top to switch.

                rob006 this may be fixable in the future hopefully, maybe later tonight or something I'll look into the code responsible for handling loading data on scroll and see if I can find a way to only load 10 post at a time or something.

                    I don't get what would be the difference between pagination and moving the scrubber. Isn't this better anyway? It's much easier and faster to use.

                    tankerkiller125 It is 7 MB of stuff like {"type":"posts","id":"22004419"},{"type":"posts","id":"22004428"}, I doubt it would be easy to fix (probably scrolling relies on this list). It may require some bigger changes, like introducing some kind of chapters in big topics - this is not only server or client performance problem, big topics are also really hard to navigate for users.

                        rob006 the hard part is in fact scrolling, but I have some ideas on how how to proceed at least with the API part. I don't want to get to off topic though since this discussion is about the Giffgaf community.

                          IanM OS the spoiler extension would be really great!
                          our users would love such an extension!

                            a month later

                            Funny that in a client meeting, when client was asking us what is Flarum, and meanwhile he told me that our design is very similar to Giffgaff, then we both realised that Giffgaff has moved their community into Flarum from another platform. The reason I chose Flarum in my weekend research was that architecture of the Flarum is very loose coupling and it is using a popular backend framework and methodology and it is easier to extend for customisation. I like the way that the core of Flarum is very small and all the functions are built upon extensions (It is like a Wordpress way, and it should lead to a success). We are building a multi-site solution for our new projects. Wish me luck.