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| In Suggestions, ranarn writes:
| | 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.
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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 on reddit). But if this is your major concern, I think you are way off. The
branching structure is a huge benefit of the current format. It is not a fault
at all.
| | Second is style, it looks outdated and not very modern.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.
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To me, that's largely irrelevant. I care much more about content than style.
For the site itself, the style is important, because it's a commercial website
that is looking to make money for its sellers (myself among them). But for the
forum? Who cares. The appearance is neither a positive nor a negative. It's
irrelevant.
| | 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...
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Notifications and message tracking, absolutely. Those should be added. Tags already
exist for catalog items. Referencing other users: meh. Online status of users:
meh. Avatars? Please no. There are way too many juvenile forums where 50% of
the "content" is animated gift and signature files. That contributes nothing
to actual discussions, and we are better off without them.
So ... Yes, we could use the ability to track read/unread status, and receive
notifications.
That's about it.
--
Marc.
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Message is in Reply To:  Re: Better Forum - ranarn (271) | 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 [...]
(88 months ago, Mar 15, 2017, to Suggestions) |
Message Has 1 Reply: | Re: Better Forum - Smron (385) | [...] More or less agree. I'm not sure we need a 'new forum', but our current forum could use some upgrades. Top things I would like to see... 1) Ability to [...]
(88 months ago, Mar 15, 2017, to Suggestions) |
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