Thank you for this.
Your excellent links make me think that, while it is obviously a good idea to have an arc-powered arc forum, it would probably be a good idea not to have it behave like HN and more like a regular forum.
While it make sense for a news aggregator to prevent thread necromancy in order to have only fresh content on the new page, on a forum like this, it only provokes burying of interesting content, (especially painful since we no longer have a custom search) and needless thread duplications.
Hmm, maybe I should create another thread for this.
This has been brought up before, multiple times I believe. Unfortunately no competitor or substitute to the Arc forum has become popular, so it looks like we're stuck with it for the near future.
Right now it seems to me that the best alternative to the Arc forum would be convore[1], which ar uses[2]. It has some problems, though. In particular I remember it being quite difficult to paste in code snippets. That would be problematic for a forum related to Arc. Any other suggestions?
I agree. The Arc community will be better served with more forum focused ways to highlight important/useful threads no matter how old. Dedicated threads with high visibility, including sticky posts within those threads, are used to great effect at many successful community sites.
And search is a huge missing feature on this forum. Googling Arc Forum helps, but not the same thing.
