More reasons for DNF to exist than ever

DNF was setup in back in 2023 as a concept that was left on the back burner on the basis we would come back to it after we saw how the land lay with other communities. Nominet had brought back its own Community, also making use of Discourse, sometime in 2021. then Acorn Domains forum had been acquired by Helmuts Meskonis, a person some of us had been aware of and had largely chosen to ignore, in 2023

The consensus is we dislike the direction the new owner of Acorn Domains is taking it. We intend to operate DNF differently. We are not bothered about the history of Acorn Domains. It can be reference by anyone if they wish because it is a public site on the Internet. We would like DNF to operate in this way:

  • Focus DNF on being having a no nonsense approach to being a forum/community.
  • No spammy ads for unrelated TLDs and services. Relevant ads may come one day but they would be relevant and unobtrusive. Certainly no inlines.
  • No spammy ads for our mates’ services.
  • No owing anyone money.
  • No spammy unrelated pseudo TLDs (so no ‘it . com’)
  • No feeling of being constantly funnelled to attend a summit/conference
  • No constant be nice/play nice nonsense. The requirement to be civil should be obvious
  • Disagreements in the context of good having discourse are fine and normal. Just don’t let it descend into blatant abuse.
  • Admin/Moderators must have a good grasp of reading advanced English and must be able to express themselves in advanced written English.

Let’s try to remain focused and enjoy the benefits of a new forum with a new more lightweight structure since a great many of us are consuming content on mobile devices compared to when we all used to sit in front of a desktop computer.

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Unlike other attempts that have been made to operate UK domain name forums in recent months, DNF.co.uk is not going to rug pull on UK domainers like others have done. We will continue to operate DNF.co.uk and will be enhancing the experience over the next ten days.

  1. We have made forum and category improvements today. We have also modified the visual display of category information and decided to make use of sub categories. Our new method of presentation more closely resembles that previously used on other forums that our members may be more familiar seeing.

  2. We prefer to use Discourse.org as our backend software because it we believe it will save us a lot of time configuring and administrating. 1500 brands from around the world appear to agree with this - Discourse customers | Discourse - Civilized Discussion