Alex Tweedly wrote:
It's beyond me how anyone can be bothered with the forums (which makes
me wonder if what I need for the forums is a "Forums for Dummies" guide).
How do you tell which forums and/or which topics have posts you haven't
read yet ?
How do you tell which forums and/or which topics have posts you have
newly arrived ?
(Yes, those are two different questions).
These questions themselves demonstrate one of the things that web forums
bring to the table that's usually missing from mailing lists:
In a forum there are links to things like "FAQ" and "View New Posts", in
addition to links into the categories which can help traverse the
knowledge pool. We can think of these as supplemental tools and
navigational aids, adding value and utility to the content posted there.
But in a mailing list, once a post passes through our In Box it's lost
in the archives. Sure, it's searchable (better through GMANE than
Google) but only if you know what terms to look for.
As an example, in June when this was discussed here I posted an outline
of options for reading the forums to suit a variety of preferences:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2014-June/202864.html>
To quickly get to new posts only, my bookmark is to the "View New Posts"
link:
<http://forums.livecode.com/search.php?search_id=newposts>
For additional details on a wide range of topics for using the forums,
there's the FAQ, also linked to from the front page:
<http://forums.livecode.com/faq.php>
How do you set it up so that each morning (while you drink your coffee),
you laptop will download all the new posts and have them (already
identified as above) ready for you to read (i.e. while offline) ?
To download for offline reading see Jacque's helpful tip on setting up
email subscription for the entire forum:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2014-June/202871.html>
How do you compose a reply while offline ? (No, writing a reply in an
editor or email and then copying/pasting won't count).
Given the popularity of PHPBB there may be tools for that, but typing is
typing, whether into an email form window or a browser form window.
One of the advantages of doing the typing PHPBB's browser form window is
that it provides additional tools for styling, links, embedding images,
etc. to take full advantage of what BBCode offers.
--
Richard Gaskin
LiveCode Community Manager
richard at livecode.org
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