[wp-forums] Status of work on BBpress/Forum Titles

[Michael D Adams]

On Jul 1, 2005, at 7:38 AM, Michael Bishop wrote:

> There is quite the discussion of things that can be done to alter the
> support forums, however I think the real question is what is realistic
> and what is not.  That is, someone who is on the development side of
> things with bbPress to weigh in and say what can and can not easily be
> done.  I have looked at the bug tracker and know that attempts are
> being made to fix issues such as the time stamp problems, and I for
> one think that would be a far more useful tool than a moniker. Just to
> be specific, when you look at your profile, and see the threads posted
> in, it is showing not the elapsed time since last post correctly.  A
> perfect example would be the thread podz started for the this mailing
> list.  As of -4 GMT 7/1, it was showing last activity 10 hrs ago,
> when in reality looking at time stamps on posts, it had been .5 hrs
> ago. I'm not sure if the intention was only to show since the members
> last activity, or any activity.  Both would be ideal, as that would
> easily allow you to know if someone has posted in the thread since
> last visit.
People are listening.

The Recent Replies and Threads Started actually do exactly what  
they've been coded to do (yes - that's a tautology).  What they've  
been coded to do, however, isn't as useful as it could be.  We're  
getting off topic here, but perhaps a discussion on what exactly  
those columns should do to be most useful would be appropriate.
Ex: Recent thread should:
     List all of the threads to which the user in question has  
contributed
     sorted by: the most recent response from anyone
(Currently its:
     List all of the threads to which the user in question has  
contributed
     sorted by: the time of first response by that user
IIRC)

Anyway stuff like this can be fixed.  It simply needs to be  
determined to what is will be changed.

Podz wrote:
> This means therefore that bbPress coders need almost ignore what we  
> chat about until maybe we say this is actually worth discussing ?  
> That way coders know we have debated it properly and the end result  
> is a genuine attempt to make things better.

Duly noted and agreed upon.  Unless I have brilliant ideas (I rarely  
do), I'll be pretty quiet until someone hollers.  Just wanted to  
clarify the profile lists issue and to say that: in general, many  
things can be changed about/added to/plugged into bbPress.  The main  
requirement is that those changes/additions/plugins be very clearly  
and exactingly defined beforehand (though Matt may have a grand  
scheme with which a particular suggestion is incompatible.  That'd be  
case by case, and I don't even know if it's true).

Note, though, that in addition to helping out with some of the code,  
I'm a forum user (and a minor contributor) as well.  I'll try to use  
that hat here.

Michael
--mdawaffe