On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Drew Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > Drew >> >> Has anyone looked at the KDE forums? It might be a good layout for a >> software-specific forum. We also have a built-in system for handling >> feature requests directly in the forum (the brainstorm forum). >> >> http://forum.kde.org/ >> >> disclaimer: I am an admin on the KDE forums. >> > > Hi todd, > > Looks nice - can you tell me how you think it differs from the forums at > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum > > Is there some specific aspect to how things are grouped in the KDE site > you wanted to draw attention to? Is it some particular set of features, > search is good because..., how reply is handled is better because..., > that type of thing. > > Thanks for taking the time to discuss, much appreciated > > Drew
There are a bunch of features that I think would be helpful. The ones I can think of right now: * As Marc pointed out, it has the "guided posting" system. This walks you through making a new post, to make sure the post ends up in the proper place and has the necessary information. * It also has the brainstorm forum, which is an integrated system for proposing, voting on, discussing, and tracking feature requests. * It has a keyword tagging system for posts that helps you find what you are looking for. * There is a "Solved" button on each post. The person that solved the problem clicks the button on the post that had the solution in it, letting others uses with the same problem jump straight to the solution right from the topic list or search results (they just click a checkbox icon). It also lets people trying to help know that the thread doesn't need them. * It has a button on the topic list and search results that lets you jump straight to the first unread post in a thread. * It automatically aggregates news from the official KDE news sources, the KDE website and KDE Dot News, with the ability to comment on them. There is also a specific forum just for new releases. * It has integrated icons for common operating systems (including Linux distributions) to make it easy to tell at a glance what sort of system the person you are trying to help has. * The theme is designed to match the theme used by the rest of the KDE websites (all official KDE websites use a common theme, including the forums). * It has flags for countries below each username and language-specific forums. The forum you referred me to may have some of these, but I did not see them when I looked. -Todd -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
