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Re: Forum/Sub-Forum/Thread suggestions
By: pamelaaos Date: August 12, 2021, 1:35 pm
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All the topic suggestions are good and maybe as we go along
we'll think of more? Or if some don't seem to be used as much,
maybe combine a couple?
(testing emojis!) 🐕 🧡
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Re: Forum/Sub-Forum/Thread suggestions
By: animaniactoo Date: August 12, 2021, 1:44 pm
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[quote author=pamelaaos link=topic=4.msg60#msg60
date=1628793325]
All the topic suggestions are good and maybe as we go along
we'll think of more? Or if some don't seem to be used as much,
maybe combine a couple?
(testing emojis!) 🐕 🧡
[/quote]
Yup, this is the direction I'm going in, and have set some stuff
up. We'll see how it works out in practice and adapt from there.
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Re: Forum/Sub-Forum/Thread suggestions
By: pamelaaos Date: August 12, 2021, 1:48 pm
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Hi HugeHug! I'm also glad to see a lot of Hax people here!
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Re: Forum/Sub-Forum/Thread suggestions
By: KathySky Date: August 12, 2021, 2:38 pm
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While I prefer the idea of just having one or two comment
threads, it seems that one can't make a direct reply to a post
that may have been made earlier. So it would be hard to follow
an evolving conversation that has time lapses in time between
comments on a particular topic.
Am I wrong about this reply function?
Also, if the CH column is posted as a link, could someone copy
and paste it for those of us who are cancelling our WaPo
subscriptions? I'm not up to speed on current copyright law, but
in the past I would have argued that it was a "fair use" of
copyrighted material. No-one is making money off this.
Thanks for setting this up, Ani.
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Re: Forum/Sub-Forum/Thread suggestions
By: The-Write-Stuff Date: August 12, 2021, 3:01 pm
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This is a test of sorts.
But my personal opinion is that the fewer sub-forums the better.
Not that I am anti-change (well maybe a little), I enjoyed how
during a general comment of the Hax letter of the day you would
get random OT comments on any subject which was unrelated to the
letter.
If the intent is to have a Hax letter of the day forum and then
other forums (or sub-forums) unrelated to the letter, why not
just have two: Hax (Letter of the Day); and one called OT (for
Off Topic of the Day, of course).
I think if you have too many sub-forums for pets, food, politics
(I would reconsider this one if I were you), mojo, etc., I just
don't know how practical it will be jumping from one sub-forum
to another.
Now if you wanted to make it a little more sophisticated, you
could have a single forum for all OT, and then allow posters to
classify their post that would allow readers to select "all food
related OT posts/threads" within OT. You might just say, well
that is what the sub-forums are. The difference would be in my
thought, the sub-forums would be populated on the backend - i.e.
all OT posts would be visible to everyone, but readers could
filter on their favorite subject, but remain in the general OT
forum (sub-forum).
OK - I'll get out of the rabbit hole now. Anyway, just a
thought. Consider it or not. I won't be offended either way.
Thanks, by the way, for giving us an alternative universe to
exist in given the one we use to populate is scheduled to be
destroyed by a gerbil asteroid.
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Re: Forum/Sub-Forum/Thread suggestions
By: animaniactoo Date: August 12, 2021, 3:18 pm
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lol @ gerbil asteroid.
I understand what you mean about tags, but unfortunately, as far
as I can tell this forum software doesn't allow for that. I
don't have the time or skills to build a forum from the ground
up, so we're limited here by the options available within this
software.
Mostly the idea (in my view) is to do a thread of the day to
allow the mixed kind of messaging that we're familiar with if
people want to stick with that, but also to take advantage of
the other options that being in a space like this allows... like
posting a recipe. And because some people really don't want to
read the politics stuff, but they want to read all the other OT
stuff, and so on. So based on what was suggested so far, I setup
the ability to do that and we'll see what people choose to do,
and adapt from there.
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Re: Forum/Sub-Forum/Thread suggestions
By: animaniactoo Date: August 12, 2021, 3:22 pm
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[quote author=KathySky link=topic=4.msg69#msg69 date=1628797098]
While I prefer the idea of just having one or two comment
threads, it seems that one can't make a direct reply to a post
that may have been made earlier. So it would be hard to follow
an evolving conversation that has time lapses in time between
comments on a particular topic.
Am I wrong about this reply function?
Also, if the CH column is posted as a link, could someone copy
and paste it for those of us who are cancelling our WaPo
subscriptions? I'm not up to speed on current copyright law, but
in the past I would have argued that it was a "fair use" of
copyrighted material. No-one is making money off this.
Thanks for setting this up, Ani.
[/quote]
Yes, the best you can do is quote the previous person in
replying... and then someone else can quote, and it will nest
all the previous info, but it's not as straightforward as just
scrolling through and seeing a response that is directly
addressing the post before it. I would definitely encourage
people to take advantage of that quote function for conversation
cohesiveness.
As far as copyright - if anyone can look into that, I would
really appreciate it. I would prefer not to go down that rabbit
hole myself, but I do know that it goes beyond whether anyone is
making money off of it or not as far as copyright usage and
enforcement.
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Re: Forum/Sub-Forum/Thread suggestions
By: acl-ny Date: August 12, 2021, 4:47 pm
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Ok. I'm going to be honest here. I don't like this site. No
offense Ani, and appreciate that you set it up, and appreciate
seeing folks here, but it is just not user friendly. We can't
have OPs and layers of responses to the posts. If you want to
reply, you have to copy the original post.... it's just
awkward. Doesn't promote smooth conversations. I was viewing
this thread when not signed on, so I signed on but then had
trouble finding this particular thread again.
I think Reddit is much easier to use, very much like the Wapo
software we had before the change. I'm finding that one to be
easier to navigate.
This appears to be the same software as used by the Plum group,
and I have been checking that out once in a while, so the format
is not entirely unfamiliar. It's just super clunky. So far, I
think Reddit is a better option.
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Re: Forum/Sub-Forum/Thread suggestions
By: animaniactoo Date: August 12, 2021, 5:40 pm
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np, acl. I understand people may feel more comfortable with
another format/layout, this is just more or less what I could
get my hands on relatively quickly as far as a hosted site, and
I'm familiar with from using similar formats/layouts for other
forums.
For reference, you can have OPs - when you're on any board
(sub-forum), but not within a thread, there's a button for "Post
Topic" - that will allow you to start a new separate topic, and
in my experience with similar types of formats, people are able
to post and follow conversations fairly easily. It's just when
you branch off within a thread that you may find it useful to
use the quote function.
But truly - this is here as an option, and to see whether it
would thrive, in part because there were a few people who really
didn't want to be on reddit. So.. no worries if you prefer to be
there rather than here, although, of course, you will be missed
here.
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Re: Forum/Sub-Forum/Thread suggestions
By: DTversion5 Date: August 12, 2021, 7:14 pm
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Great job of getting this set up, ani. My fear is that some
people (myself included) may have a stray thought and want to
post about it, as we do on the regular Hax board, yet few will
see it, as people aren't going to be looking at each category.
For me a daily thread is enough.
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