  
| Author: | ranarn  | | Posted: | Mar 15, 2017 16:57 | | Subject: | Re: Better Forum | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Good Question, and of course i should have stated some examples, instead of just
saying that it's bad.
First, the tree approach, it's not a bad thing, and works pretty good when
a discussion is kept relatively small and you read each post.
But when more and more people join, and you get multiple levels of replies, each
tend to go it's own way when it branches out from the main tree. And a tree
structure makes really hard for someone that is coming into the discussion later
to see the latest "talk" or get a overview what has been replied earlier, you
often need to check each branch of the tree. I am more into the "reddit" approach,
where the hot or popular replies is what is showed at the top. Or the "standard"
flat forum approach with pages and not creating branches of replies.
Second is style, it looks outdated and not very modern. I know that the "CORE"
users of the forum at the moment like it, and is happy with what it is, but to
broaden the usage from new users, it needs to be made more modern and easier,
explainable icons instead of text links maybe, Simplicity is the key.
Some technical features that would be nice is, notification, unread message tracking,
templates, tags, ability mention or reference other people, online status of
users, avatars etc...
For an example of a modern forum i suggest looking at: https://www.discourse.org
In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | What would you actually change?
You say you want modern, but what exactly would you propose?
I find I can follow a thread quite easily, for example.
Rather than just saying you want change, say what you would change.
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Message is in Reply To:  Re: Better Forum - yorbrick (1185) | What would you actually change? You say you want modern, but what exactly would you propose? I find I can follow a thread quite easily, for example. Rather than just saying [...]
(88 months ago, Mar 15, 2017, to Suggestions) |
Message Has 2 Replies: Re: Better Forum - FigBits (3564) | [...] I very much disagree there, at least compared to a flat view. Having a branching tree is a huge benefit. One improvement would be to be able to collapse a branch (as [...]
(88 months ago, Mar 15, 2017, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Better Forum - yorbrick (1185) | [...] Do you think new users have a problem posting and using the forum? As quite a few completely new users (as in zero feedback, so new to the site) have posted here [...]
(88 months ago, Mar 16, 2017, to Suggestions) |
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