Yeah, I’m not too fond of the new system. It’s clunky and feels like it was built for phones. But then that’s the big trend lately, throw out decades of usability research and just make everything work like a phone. (Then again, it’s all been one big downhill slide from the heights of “well moderated usenet group with a sophisticated newsreader program,” IMO.)
Still, it seems to get the job done, and I don’t hate it.
Edit: it also feels slower than the old forum. It feels kind of sluggish, even on my 3.2 Ghz 8-core processor.
Worse, I used to like to pop open the forum in links2, an ultralight browser with only basic javascript support, to search it for stuff when I had a question about something. It would load almost instantaneously so it wouldn’t break my flow, and even though it only rendered a basic version of the page, it was fully usable and looked just fine.
Discourse, on the other hand, falls over without all its javascript stuff and is just plain unusable unless I throw a full-sized browser at it. Like you can kinda browse the posts in a clumsy way, but the search function doesn’t even exist in the basic html version of the site.
(And hey, it doesn’t let me indent my paragraphs either! Weak.
