Hi Caty, 

On 10 Apr 2014 at 11:46:52, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> One of the objectives of 6.0 is to review the existing applications on
> extensions.xwiki.org, improve them and see how they would integrate in the
> new Flamingo skin (while also making improvements suggestions).
>  
> This mail covers the Flamingo integration for the Forum Application.
>  
> You can see the proposal at:
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign
>  
> Any feedback is welcomed.

Very nice, I like it! Thanks for this proposal :)

Some comments/questions:

* On the home page 
(http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign/forums.png),
 the title is “Forum” and then there’s a subtitle “All Forums” with a “Add 
forum” button. I was wondering if it wouldn’t be nicer to have “All Forums” as 
the title and instead of the “Add forum” button, use the “+Add” button just 
above to let the user add a new forum (thus using the template provider 
feature)? That would make the UI even more pure.

* I find a forum’s description a bit small and not visible enough compared to 
the list of topics: 
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign/dota_topics.png
 Maybe we could do something to make it stand out more?

* When viewing all answers (for example 
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign/heroes_vengeful_answers.png),
 each answer has a textarea visible to reply to a given answer. Mabye these 
textarea should not be shown by default and they should appear only when you 
click a “Reply” button?

* I think we’re missing a compact view of all posts in a topic/forum, using a 
livetable for example. For example: 
http://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/0-25271-0-1-0-1-0-dota-2.htm or 
http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=3

* When listing all topics you seem to be cropping the topic description. We’ve 
noticed in the blog app that automatic cropping doesn’t work so if we want that 
we’ll need to ask the user to provide a short version and a long version 
description for a topic IMO.

* Should answers be implemented as page comments but styled differently than 
traditional comments? That would make sense to me. I noticed on your 
screenshots that the extradoc tabs at the bottom is not displayed.

Thanks!
-Vincent

> Thanks,
> Caty

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