[wp-forums] Trying to summarise

[Les Bessant]

Yes, I agree:

Search does not work the way anyone who doesn't know about it would
reasonably expect it to.  A search box on the forum page should search the
forums, not lead to another search box with a message to the effect "what?
You wanted to search the forums? You should have said!!".

Pagination on "unresolved" etc is non-functional.

I'm not convinced that "Hot tags" are particularly useful (though they're
not actively annoying where they are now). Personally, I'd lose the sidebar
and make the forum wider...

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Les Bessant les at lcb.me.uk
Losing it[1] - http://lcb.me.uk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com 
> [mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of 
> Lara @ Anubis Marketing
> Sent: 07 September 2006 19:27
> To: wp-forums at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: RE: [wp-forums] Trying to summarise
> 
> What about the few people who mentioned either taking the latest posts
> section off, or moving it below the list of forum topics (reversing
> placement of the two)?
> Also, I seem to remember mentions of the sidebar, and the 
> pagination issues
> as well.
> 
> Several people mentioned the search box, suggesting that it default to
> searching the forums instead of "documentation", or giving 
> the checkbox
> options prior to the initial clicking of the "Search" button. 
> This would be
> best implemented, IMO, if it would simply default to 
> searching wherever it
> was placed. For example, someone searches from inside the 
> "support" tab, and
> it defaults to the forum results. However should they search 
> from "docs",
> then it would default to codex, et al. results. I could be 
> very very very
> wrong, but this doesn't seem like a difficult implementation 
> for you PHP
> whiz types. ;)
> 
> I agree that anyone lurking should share their thoughts on things like
> this... it's the only way to ensure that every idea is 
> touched upon (even if
> some don't agree with you, or even if you agree with an idea 
> that appears to
> be disagreed with - votes count!)
> 
> Better to say what you think now, and debate it thoroughly 
> within the group,
> than to not say anything and later on wish you had. Just MHO again, as
> usual. ;)
> 
> Thanks,
> Lara
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Trying to summarise the recent things about forum changes so 
> we can say the
> matter has been sorted (for now).
> 
> - Forum structure
> Apart from one suggestion for a spin-off  HTML type forum I 
> don't recall
> any other for adding a forum There was a suggestion we lose 
> the Beta forum
> 
> - Moderation
> There was nothing raised here particularly was there?
> 
> - Rules
> No changes were suggested ?
> Should they be?
> 
> - FAQs
> Per forum were suggested
> Links to codex need to happen
> 
> Now I think that's it in a nutshell..or did I miss something?
> 
> I really do think that any positive contributions from anyone 
> lurking here
> would be welcomed. There can be a tendency for those involved 
> to fail to see
> the wood for the trees (so to speak) so if you do think the 
> forums should
> change do say :)
> 
> P.
> 
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