Jeff Atwood's Discourse BBS software

Discourse is a from-scratch reboot, an attempt to reimagine what a modern, sustainable, fully open-source Internet discussion platform should be today – both from a technology standpoint and a sociology standpoint.

We tried to build in all the lessons learned from the last ten years of Internet web forums, so that the community has a natural immune system to defend itself from trolls, bad actors, and spammers. There's also a trust system, so engaged community members can assist in the governance of their community.

The act of participating in a discussion should fundamentally feel good in a way that it currently does not on all existing forums and mailing lists. It should be fun to have discussions with other human beings, not a chore, or something that's barely tolerable.

http://try.discourse.org/

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Most kids are curious, yes, but restricting their curiosity to programming is just inhumane. Giving them the choice to learn programming is actually a nice idea (even better if they end up liking it), but *forcing* every single living human being to take a course on programming, possibly against their will?

Do you think a kid who's curious about the inner workings of some machine, or the structures that make up a building, or even the social structures of some community is going to fulfill his thirst for knowledge by learning how to program? I doubt so.
Also, I've never ever heard a single person saying "wow i wonder how they made that game!", it's usually "i'd wish i could make games Xd what? math? no thats for nerds :P" or "wow those people sure know what they're doing" and nothing else beyond that.

Not everyone was born with an ``analytical mind''. And programming is not the only way of developing your interests.