Howdy Todd > > 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 >
Excellent - to keep from losing it I added this in toto to the discuss page on the wiki http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User_talk:Drew/oo-forums //drew -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org 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
