I am not interested any more. Basicaly because of:
I do not believe in the effectiveness of creating and using new software for tasks already done by old software. My mind is turning back to phpBB. I am not happy with this Discourse thing either.
People I mingle with have difficulties to use anything but the most basic functions (or even the most basic functions!) of anything they use. And they are irresistibly drawn to “applications” which lead them along an easy path. The “application” controls the user.
I do not believe in the effectiveness of making it easier for the users. I do not believe in the effectiveness of leading the users “our way”. I believe the power of the forces they lead them “their way” is overwhelming.
I believe in autopoietic cooperation of small groups independent of the tools they are using. And I believe in big cooperations growing upward from life-giving soil of many small autopoietic cooperations, containing them and supporting them.
I want small autopoietic cooperations I take part in, rather, to use phpBB than the more simple, elegant, seductive or what alternatives. I want them willing to learn, to teach, to control, to lead, to support, or whatever, rather than to go along the way they are led along by forces outside of our small autopoietic cooperation.