Official: How’s the New Community Site Working for You?

Still trying to figure out what's going on …

Can you share a bit more about what you mean here? I'd like to offer guidance if I can, @Veli Voipio.

Hey @scooter!

Hi, Jason: I asked to be able to Shop from here to the Catalogue……I love it + move down that street every day.

Wonderful!

Shop is on the top line. Personally, I like it there.

Great!

When you all have the Quote improved, it will be a positive. I need to be able to take a piece from the Quote, then comment……I need to be able to take a 2nd cut from the same Quote, then add my say.

We'll see what we can do. I just copy/pasted your entire comment and am replying to bits a time, using quote text editors. Pretty snappy. Maybe I can do a quick video on that to help out? Not sure if that'd help. That said, we have some discussion thread improvements in the works.

Then - all in 1 comment with the above - could I Quote somebody else into my one + only comment?……I saw people do this on the old forums; I never mastered this ability.

Not sure what you're asking. Feel free to clarify and I'll try to help!

This white is too extensive, invasive. Shading off the top 2/3 of the screen takes the glare away.

Do you mean the white sidebars, white banners, where are you seeing excessive white that you'd like to have it minimized? The site is themed white.

I like you have expanded the number of discussions I can see in one swath.

Wonderful!

You have a ticket for long-discussion-opens-to-the-last-comment. Thank you.

I sure do! I followed up about that today. Nothing yet.

Bell: sometimes it goes to the same discussion twice. New comments should add on to the already existent Bell notification, leaving only 1 in the queue.

Hm. I'll make a note because I have to look into this further. Are there means to maybe simplify your notifications? I wonder if you are by chance receiving notifications for the same thread because you've enabled notifications that might produce that result, accidentally?

Amazon: Twice I have seen an URL for a given Amazon book. Neither URL was live. We need live Amazon URLs to promote these books into Logos……I rarely upvote a book I can't get a look at. Amazon is our de facto book catalogue to check the book out in……Perhaps you can get Amazon URLs to work here in the service of Logos.

To clarify, we (Logos) are not limiting what links are hyperlinked, only the original poster/commenter decides what becomes a hyperlink when they are publishing new content. (i.e., If a user does not hit space after a link, it does not hyperlink the text) I just wanted to clarify that because I would hate for you or others to think that we're banning hyperlinks out; that is simply not the case.

Thanks, Jason + team, for your efforts here.

Happy to help!

Hey, @DMB!

Well, since you're asking (and may look repetitive!).

I sure am asking! Thank you.

Obviously, the quoting thing. Even the workaround is not easy to remember, if you operate on several sites.

Yep. Noted! Thank you.

From the thread list, be able to select a thread, and click to the last post (either by user or absolute; I assume most want last for a user). Even today, clicked on very recent threads landed me in the middle … I've already read those posts, and have to scroll down to see something unfamiliar.

Right! We've got to get users to the #latest comment, and we have a ticket open to resolve that.

Not a barn-burner, but it'd be nice to have underline, in addition to bold and italics (post editor).

I believe this has been discussed, but underlining in the text editor could easily cause confusion with hyerlinked text (or any URL addresses that are posted) and best practice is to not include hyperlinks in forums. Even Reddit, one of those well-known forums sites, does not permit underlining one's content in their post.

But overall, (absent the above), I'm happy. And no offense, but very pleased with you and the staff's responsiveness.

No offense taken! I'm happy that you're happy, and we're glad you're here. Thank you for taking a moment to comment!

Good question, @Bill!

What is the purpose behind the tag system in a new post text box?

Tags help the discoverability of posts in the future. Users can filter forums and even bookmark them in their browsers to review them later, and tags allow more granular discussion. Having one forum gives new users an easy place to land, and tags provide the ability to appropriately filter.

I've noticed they are inconsistent in use and the tag choice when used sometimes does not seem appropriate for the post. I'm not sure, but this may cause posts to not get responses because they don't get noticed or maybe they aren't organized under the right tag.

Posts will be responded to all the same, tags or no tags, and there is a learning curve on adopting their implementation—users are still learning just how important tags can be for organizing and sorting content.

Take this post, it is a Question but I'm sending it in a comment to your post. Should I have created a new post with tags?

You responded to the original post appropriately as a comment. Perfect!

If it's purpose is to place the post in a specific group where it will get attention by those who follow that group and can help the poster, then I think the tags need to be made into two groups and at least one entry from each group has to be made mandatory and entered before the post can be made.

The first tag group would be the "App type" ( Desktop, Web, Mobile)

The second tag group would be the "subject Type" (Bug, File, Performance,…)

Tags can help sort content, but do not change where a post lives. With or without a tag, the post will live in the same forum. Tags can help discoverability but they do not place a post in a different location.

An example with tags:

A great example to demonstration this is we have one forum for Resources Forum but many tags in that forum. A user never leaves the RESOURCES forum when browsing the Reformed Products tag.