I have begun to use the forum on a regular basis now. I'll try to answer support questions. Mandrakeclub has to be a centralised place, and I have some suggestions :
- I think that the club needs better theme, better forum design. Why not doing a Galaxy theme by default for the club, which would be the new default theme. I think it is always good for a vendor site to have a "new skin" sometimes, to show they are very awake and dynamic. Blue and white colours are too contrasted and difficult to read. Use pastel colours, with icons that are in the 9.1 distribution (MCC new icons are so nice !) Reorganise buttons, news (so that news appear on top.) Some theme are even lacking some links (aqua2 has no "forum" link on top !) Why not doing a "theme" competition ? - I think there should be better forum organisation. We have still people asking for support in the "guest" area. I think that forum should be simplified, with support part and discussion part. And within these two parts, restricted areas should be highlighted to show the people what they would benefit by becoming members. For the moment, retricted areas are just : one offtopic, news, documentation, development. If you want to make people fancy becoming members, you should have something a little more "sexy" and very highlighted (like integrating RPM on demand) - Why not integrate mandrakeexpert to the forum : a restricted part for quick support. Maybe this would be a little complicated to manage use of incidents units though. Or make mandrakeexpert a commercial place only and leave free community support to the club. Eric
