Unfortunately, there is no site feedback category, so Iâll put my suggestions here.
I think itâs exaggerated to have users watch #news and #releases by default, especially since discourse has this great feature of âwatching first postâ. That way you at least donât get notified about thr replies. But for the #news category I I think even that is too much. I think tracking would be adequate (considering that there are quite a lot of topics in that category) otherwise you risk turning people off.
There is still no description of the news categoryâŚ
Iâm not sure itâs necessary to have a subcategory for every app but I suppose youâve thought it through so I wonât argue. But I definitely would suggest to hide all subcategories from the hamburger menu, for obvious reasons.
There is the meta category for the forum itself âŚ
I am completely with you. We have about 50 posts a month for all the apps, and it splits in over 60 sub-categories! Tagging would probably be more reasonable (wasnât used in the beginning).
You mean in the hamburger menu? I donât think that would help here. Iâd remove them from the hamburger menu and turn on the setting Show subcategory list above topics in this category in the #apps category instead.
Okay, thanks for explaining. I was only referring to the first one. I donât think sorting alphabetically will help there.
Also, if you meant that only the subcategories should be sorted alphabetically while maintain sort-by-popularity, there is currently no setting for this. You can either sort by popularity or manually (alphabetical sort order is not available, so it would have to be done manually).
As for the second topic list you mention, I donât really see what the benefit of alphabetical sorting would be, given that there is a search option. In any case, itâs quite a different suggestion than the one in the OP so Iâd suggest you open a new topic for that, just to not discuss too many things in one topic.
@tflidd To help move this forward, here is the code you would need to add to your CSS:
The menu that opens when you press the icon with the three horizontal lines is called that because the icon looks a bit like a .
Well, that kinda confirms my impression that the owners of this forum are not putting much effort into maintaining it. Makes me reconsider whether I actually want to switch to Nextcloud. Or what do you say about support and how nextcloud feature requests are handled?
Edit: Well, actually, maybe that reaction was a bit too spontaneous. Perhaps I should ask: was your proposal considered? Because content-wise I actually agree that the current setting is better. So what did you mean by âwithout successâ? Nobody reacted or they decided against it?
This is done so the apps can link to a specific discussion place on apps.nextcloud.com - it might make sense to consolidate them all without the sub categories, I guess. If you think it makes sense⌠What would be quite hard (I think) is to have separate categories for SOME apps and not for others and have it linked directly from apps.nextcloud.comâŚ
In either case, it would require some programming on the app store. I can only ask there, not do anything - but the code is open: https://github.com/nextcloud/appstore and the link to the forums must be there somewhere
In general, if you can tell me what discourse setting to enable/disable etc or CSS to add, Iâm happy to do it⌠I donât have time to look on the forums super often but I try to keep an eye on this once every other week or so.
I have to admit to being dismayed by the number of emails I have gotten involving people chatting about the latest release. Itâs great people are talking about it, but if I want to read about it, Iâll come here; I donât want my email inundated⌠So Iâm trying to figure out how to turn that off. (Itâs not clear what being âinvited to a topic is,â you know?)
It WOULD be great if we could opt in to 1st messages about new releases - and forum users could probably stand to automatically get emails from a âsecurity-announceâ group. But a whole discussion is a bit much.
Depending on what the purpose is with the #news category and whoâs allowed to create topics in it, you could also put it into default categories watching first post, but as long as anyone can create topics in #news, I donât think itâs a good idea to mail all those posts out to everybody by default.
hereâs an idea that just plopped into my mindâŚ
what if #news-category was only for announcing real news and allowing no further discussion about it? so if ppl want to talk about it they could open a new thread in a different category?
that would at least avoid dozens of emails in everyones notificationboxesâŚ
It would be a pity do disallow replies to topics in the news category (after all, news is what we most like to talk about). Luckily, this restriction is not necessary to achieve what you want. If People are watching first post in #news, they will only be notified about the news but not about the ensuing discussion. No matter how many replies there are.
I just checked, I think someone else already did this (?) but I changed it a little - adding âreleasesâ to first post and ânewsâ to categories tracking. Nice tipâŚ
The idea of creating a separate news category is a bit - meh, I like discussion, and our blog should of course allow ppl to reply and discuss
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