by dWhisper » Sat Sep 30, 2017 2:41 pm
While there is talk about doing something different with how the comments work, I can promise that we won't go to a Facebook only commenting system. That was vetoed by everyone on staff from the outset a few years ago when discussions started about changing how we do things.
As for the link to the forums, that was really a hack in our old theme. It used a plugin that stopped working right a long time ago; we tried to keep it going as well as we could, and that's why the posts still show up, but embedding it into the new theme is kind of dicey. phpbb, which drives our forums, has also been very slow at adding any new features, and they haven't delivered a lot of the APIs and hooks to make things like the old plugin work without hacking it up.
We haven't made any decision on what to do... the forums are part of the fabric of FBTB, but at the same time, they've also died off a lot over the years. Nearly all forums have in general, not just here, as comments showed up.
If the above post didn't offend you, you're probably reading it wrong.