Dnali Anabuki Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 No, a thousand times no to having a General Discussion Forum...There are plenty of alternatives. I love SLU. http://www.sluniverse.com/php/ The General Discussion Forum just becomes the social meeting place of the few at the expense of the many. Please no General Discussion Forum. Good information gets lost and put in the wrong place while peeps with jobs that seem to allow them to post all day just run amok. Form a group inworld, communicate via Skype...please anything but here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciaran Laval Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Dnali Anabuki wrote: No, a thousand times no to having a General Discussion Forum...There are plenty of alternatives. I love SLU. http://www.sluniverse.com/php/ The General Discussion Forum just becomes the social meeting place of the few at the expense of the many. Please no General Discussion Forum. Good information gets lost and put in the wrong place while peeps with jobs that seem to allow them to post all day just run amok. Form a group inworld, communicate via Skype...please anything but here. Don't read the general discussion forum then, it's better to have a place for it than one of the forums ending up as the unofficial home, which is what happened with Resident Answers on the forums before the last ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nika Talaj Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Since we can't start threads in this subforum, let me briefly return to the ostensible topic of this thread for a little feedback on forum usability. > I really love the tabs that allow quick switching between Answers, Forums, Blogs and Knowledge Base. :smileytongue: > I would like a "Reply to topic" button at the bottom of the last page (at the bottom of every page would work too). I often want to reply to the OP after reading the most recent post, which in the default linear view is the bottom of the last page. (ETA: I assume the "Reply" button on every post replies to just that post, which becomes a pain in a threaded view). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Muni Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Lexie, a silly (or not) question: are you sure is a gfood idea allow the Private Messages? I can think many "malicious" use of the PMs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prokofy Neva Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 There doesn't seem to be any notifications system when content posted is removed for any reason or no reason. I think it's a basic of any such community system that if your content is removed, that you receive a notification that the content is removed, and an excerpt from the relevant law invoked, i.e. the TOS or CS standard alleged to have been violated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josephina Bonetto Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 LOL this was in relation to Venus' post about an adult section but it didn't make it look like a reply - A very valid point, I hope it is taken on board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymond Linden Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Hi All - If you are wondering how to set up a threaded view in the forum, check out Torley's new tutorial! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Jaxxon Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Yay, thanks Ray!! btw, out of curiosity, why are our individual post counts different here than on the Jive forums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenbro Utu Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Persistent sign in from the web site to the forum please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nika Talaj Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 I think there is a small bug in the font choices for Firefox. When I post a URL (for example this one, to this message), it shows up as bold, not underlined, black text. However, in the reply entry dialog, it shows up more noticably as purple underlined text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locke Nider Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Venus Petrov wrote: I would like an Adult-Only subforum where adult topics can be discussed. I thought it was patently ridiculous yesteday when a word that is commonly used in a student biology textbook was considered a violation of the guidelines. There are creators of adult content in SL, landowners and renters on adult sims and Zindra, and other adult establishments. If we cannot use the Entertainment subforum to post things adult in nature, where then? If people want to advertise their smut or talk about 'parts', they can use another SL forum like SLUniverse. It's pretty obvious LL doesn't care about the adult part of SL, and I'm glad they're keeping this forum based around PG rating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nika Talaj Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 I would like a true "New Posts" view. This would look like the All Topics view: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/forums/recentpostspage/category-id/Forums/post-type/thread Only sorted by "Latest Post", most recent to least recent. If this view exists already, please post the URL for it! Thanks much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monalisa Monokarlsefni Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Changing forum avatar is too hard and lengthy a process. There is not enough information. For example, where it tells me to upload an image, it says to upload it to my "profile" page. It would be nice to have a link to the profile page! I only found it by accident. I thought it meant my web profile, so I poked around there for a while first. It would also be useful to know how big an image I can upload. Trial and error is okay, I guess, since this is clearly going to take several days. And while I'm whining... the fact that I have to wait for someone to APPROVE my image, really makes me not want to do it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinn Morani Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 A few new observations as I have continued to kick the tires: Likes: No more waiting 120 seconds between posts! Images in posts now show up in my email for threads I follow by email (in the old Jive forum I only ever got links that I had to click) Addition of Off Topic forum (thank you!!!!) Stuff that bothers me: All emails are listed as coming from "Community Mailer." I liked it better when they had the poster's name on the "From" field. Spell check flags "SL" abbreviation as a typo. On Lithium's implementation on their own website, there was a "mobile" viewing option which made it much easier to read the forum and respond from a smartphone. Can we get that here too? Hyperlinks are only bold text (not colored or underlined, as is typical). This is too hard to distinguish from other bold text. I think I saw someone else suggest this might only be an issue in Firefox, but I'm not sure. Recent posts are no longer visible on Dashboard. That's a significant loss, because seeing posts in the Dashboard was how I ever discovered the forum in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexie Linden Posted March 3, 2011 Author Share Posted March 3, 2011 Hi The filters for spam also include private messages. Also not that it is possible to ignore a user in private messages. That could be helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nika Talaj Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 NVM - Cerise just posted it in another forum. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/forums/recentpostspage/post-type/message Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josephina Bonetto Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 A bit too white, though I totally understand the convenience of white, I have similar issues with the Marketplace but for those of us with visual problems an accessibility widgety thing on all white LL sites enabling us to change the background colour might be considered to be kind. I've seen the widgety thing on a UK University site. A minor grumble as I don't want to wear my fugly speshul glasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Petrov Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Can you please post progress on setup of an Adult-Only or Private area where adult-related topics can be discussed? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Petrov Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Locke Nider wrote: Venus Petrov wrote: I would like an Adult-Only subforum where adult topics can be discussed. I thought it was patently ridiculous yesteday when a word that is commonly used in a student biology textbook was considered a violation of the guidelines. There are creators of adult content in SL, landowners and renters on adult sims and Zindra, and other adult establishments. If we cannot use the Entertainment subforum to post things adult in nature, where then? If people want to advertise their smut or talk about 'parts', they can use another SL forum like SLUniverse. It's pretty obvious LL doesn't care about the adult part of SL, and I'm glad they're keeping this forum based around PG rating. You are making assumptions. Plus, if you do not wish to look in that area, no one would force you to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monalisa Robbiani Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 The badges/avatar pics should reflect the actual SL account I think, this means SL birthday and SL profile pic, maybe add an option to put your picks as your sig, add snapshots etc. make it more social and connect the forums to SL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitomi Tiponi Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 A good idea to keep the forums focussed, but currently there aren't enough of them. My suggestions for new forums: - Bugs/Problems - a place to discuss problems with connectivity and features before raising them as a JIRA. - Open Source - bring this one back - Beta Grid - a place to dicuss mesh or whatever else is being trialled there. - Adult - a clear need for an area to discuss aspects of stuff in the Adult parts of the grid. - Social - not the return of GD (there are better places for that outside this web-site) but a place for people to discuss social activities inside and outside SL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristizia Demonista Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Quinn Morani wrote: .... Recent posts are no longer visible on Dashboard. That's a significant loss, because seeing posts in the Dashboard was how I ever discovered the forum in the first place. I second that! It was a great way to see instantly if there was something new and interresting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuezanneC Baskerville Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 The phrase "Second Life off topic" doesn't convey a clear meaning to me. Does it mean topics that have nothing to do with Second Life, meaning that one shouldn't discuss SL in the off topic forum? Or does it mean Second Life related discussions that are off topic from the other forum's content descriptions? Or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuezanneC Baskerville Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 I'm getting a generic document showing up in the tabs for this Lithium area of the site, instead of a proper Eye in Hand symbol. Is this what others are seeing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Dielli Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Hitomi Tiponi wrote: A good idea to keep the forums focussed, but currently there aren't enough of them. My suggestions for new forums: - Bugs/Problems - a place to discuss problems with connectivity and features before raising them as a JIRA. - Open Source - bring this one back - Beta Grid - a place to dicuss mesh or whatever else is being trialled there. - Adult - a clear need for an area to discuss aspects of stuff in the Adult parts of the grid. - Social - not the return of GD (there are better places for that outside this web-site) but a place for people to discuss social activities inside and outside SL Those are good suggestions, and I'd like to also see the old technical forum for "Mac Users" brought back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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