G1 vs G2 forums
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Anonymous Coward (not verified)
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Posted: Sat, 2005-10-08 01:46
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I just started using G2 yesterday after my web host surprised us with a one-click install feature. So am now busy figuring out how to create my first album (got first draft almost done). I posted 2 requests for help and noticed a "wee problem": confusion between the G1 forums and G2. they don't distinguish themselves and I ended up posting to G1 just a few moments ago. The only "saving grace" is the prelim questions state I'm using G2. Maybe different pages altogether to allow separate bookmarking? Also, I like the emails notification of replies that include the actual reply. However, the link takes you to the forum and you're not logged in. So, you must end up back at the beginning and navigate back. I've used others whereby you're "temporarily" taken to the log in page then taken right back to where you were. (Some of this is being new to your forums) |
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We are currently working on restructuring the forums, and the forum overview page to make the distinction better.
As for the logon redirect, I've added a task for the developers to look at that.
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http://www.maclane.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php is the URL for a forum called FileMaker Cafe. It's the forum I referred to in my email. When you get an email reply, it jumps to the forum, let's you login and then redirects back to the page you were on. (However, it's not as nice to include the email reply in the notification email -- I really like that!)
Also, I notice sorting isn't that easy. I tried the column headings (topic, date) and it's hit and miss. Is there suppose to be this feature? Or, how else to you easily find the recent posts to read? (Date-stamp would be my pref). Luckily there is the "my posts" or I'd never have found the responses to my queries, it's in there -- somewhere.
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topics are always sorted by date, new to old.
posts are always sorted by date, old to new in forum threads.
and the sorting of topics by creation / newest post works for me. of course it puts the sticky topics first.
I'm just reading G2 Customization topic. I clicked header "Last Reply" and get order: 10 weeks, 5 days, 2 years (various), etc. Not really ordered. Not sure what you mean "sticky topics". I know in G2 Support that the only way I reply to the replies I get is from the email links. (Or "My forum discussions") I never can find the posts within the forum -- they're there somewhere
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sticky topics are forum topics with the symbol:
[img]http://gallery.menalto.com/misc/forum-sticky.png[/img]
these are special forum topics which will always be at the top of the list of topics, we made them "stick" at the top.
thus, the sorted list of normal topics begins right after the last sticky topic.
and sorting works.
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Now the login links on forum pages popup the login block rather than linking to the login page.. this way it stays on that forum topic after login. I didn't test browser compatibility, so let us know if there are glitches.