Does anyone else dislike the subject line format of this board?

[TheBlackAdder]

32. The subject line acts like a tweet, when verbosity is not required. It cuts down a lot of clutter.

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Other BBS constructs are arcane--having never fully matured from the late 80s and early 90s.


It's almost like showing someone TSO when they are used to command line editors. Those who use VI or other basic editors resist the fluidity of full screen editors and come up with all kinds of excuses why they shouldn't learn to a higher-level offering. instead, they struggle with added typos and dropped inserts and deletes from time to time.


I can understand that mindset some degree, because VI is stuck in the old Unix days. Many people need to actively use it or else they forget how shitty it is and struggle with remembering the nuances of its crappiness, for when the instability of their builds knock out the full screen editors. But, that actually comes down to the unstructured Wild West mentality of the Unix systems programmers.


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