Will forums ever .....

Some forums do already do this.

Slashdot does a lot of on the fly updating, but they've also completely ballsed up their website doing it, so maybe that's not the best example.
 
I certainly wouldn't mind live updating. Would just be a more convenient way refreshing the page. Would be especially useful in thread that receive lots of replies in a short period of time (e.g. Japan tsunami ).
 
vonhelmet said:
Some forums do already do this.

Slashdot does a lot of on the fly updating, but they've also completely ballsed up their website doing it, so maybe that's not the best example.
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OcUK take years to change a banner and still refuse to provide alternative colour schemes. If they were to implement on the fly updating you can be sure it will be thoroughly tested!

My points also serve to highlight just how unlikely it will be to happen anyway! :p

Oynas said:
I certainly wouldn't mind live updating. Would just be a more convenient way refreshing the page. Would be especially useful in thread that receive lots of replies in a short period of time (e.g. Japan tsunami ).
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As long as it does not in any way disrupt your reading progress. If the page so much as twitches while I am reading a post will be annoying as hell. Imagine that happening dozens of times with a big, popular thread.

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! etc.
 
SiriusB said:
As long as it does not in any way disrupt your reading progress. If the page so much as twitches while I am reading a post will be annoying as hell. Imagine that happening dozens of times with a big, popular thread.
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Yeah, it would need to silently add additional content to the bottom of the page, without moving any other content. Not sure how it would manage post edits though.
 
Oynas said:
Yeah, it would need to silently add additional content to the bottom of the page, without moving any other content. Not sure how it would manage post edits though.
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It should ignore them. Most people ignore edits anyway unless they're having a row! :p
 
I'd love a way that the forum notified you when you had been quoted or mentioned in a thread.

Saves coming back to one thread a few weeks later to find someones asked you something.
 
Kerplunk said:
Be more like twitter / RSS feeds like BBB text commentary - in a sense that the information is done and processed live and not having to Refresh pages, if you see what I mean?

Do they call it Web 2.0 or something?

Or will forums always be like this old school ? :p
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Have you used Google Wave?

It is pretty much what you describe.

Forum like topics for conversations, but with live updating like instant messenger. Still in pretty early beta as far as I'm aware, it was a bit slow when it first launched but has potential. More aimed for collaborative working but would fit this description too.
 
bsoltan said:
Have you used Google Wave?

It is pretty much what you describe.

Forum like topics for conversations, but with live updating like instant messenger. Still in pretty early beta as far as I'm aware, it was a bit slow when it first launched but has potential. More aimed for collaborative working but would fit this description too.
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Wave has been canned, and the team working on it moved elsewhere (including to facebook)
 
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