Unfortunately, there is no site feedback category, so Iāll put my suggestions here.
I think itās exaggerated to have users watch #news and #releases by default, especially since discourse has this great feature of āwatching first postā. That way you at least donāt 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 categoryā¦
Iām not sure itās necessary to have a subcategory for every app but I suppose youāve thought it through so I wonāt 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 ā¦
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 (wasnāt used in the beginning).
You mean in the hamburger menu? I donāt think that would help here. Iād remove them from the hamburger menu and turn on the setting Show subcategory list above topics in this category in the Features & apps category instead.
Okay, thanks for explaining. I was only referring to the first one. I donāt 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 donāt really see what the benefit of alphabetical sorting would be, given that there is a search option. In any case, itās quite a different suggestion than the one in the OP so Iād 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 āwithout successā? 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 senseā¦ 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.comā¦
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: GitHub - nextcloud/appstore: App Store for Nextcloud 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, Iām happy to do itā¦ I donāt 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. Itās great people are talking about it, but if I want to read about it, Iāll come here; I donāt want my email inundatedā¦ So Iām trying to figure out how to turn that off. (Itās not clear what being āinvited to a topic is,ā 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 āsecurity-announceā group. But a whole discussion is a bit much.
Depending on what the purpose is with the News category and whoās 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 donāt think itās a good idea to mail all those posts out to everybody by default.
hereās an idea that just plopped into my mindā¦
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 notificationboxesā¦
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 āreleasesā to first post and ānewsā to categories tracking. Nice tipā¦
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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