forum/Improving the git-annex forumgit-annexhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Improving_the_git-annex_forum/git-annexikiwiki2018-05-03T15:32:16Zcomment 1http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Improving_the_git-annex_forum/comment_1_63c52c977689a5da34fec65391c25fd6/joey2018-01-15T17:53:30Z2018-01-15T17:33:12Z
<p>Thanks, Florian for raising this topic.</p>
<p>Granting the missing features you list (and perhaps adding that people seem
to sometimes find it annoying to log in successfully here), I wonder how
much those features are limiting use of this forum, if at all. I suppose
one way to find out would be to move to another forum and see if traffic
increases (or SNR or engagement improves).</p>
<p>For myself, having the forum integrated in the git-annex repo is quite
helpful to me, since I automatically track it along with all the other
changes to the website, and am sure to see every single post here,
and it meets my offline/low bandwidth needs. Also I sometimes promote
forum posts to bug reports or make a commit following up to a forum
post with a requested feature or fix.</p>
<p>I suspect that the git-annex community is kind of split between people who
are more comfortable in web forums, and people who are used to mailing
lists, who are currently being left entirely out in the cold (and probably
using the irc channel more). It could be that mailman3 with its mix of
forum and mailing list could better unify the two groups. Or perhaps
there's no point in trying to do that, and a simple mailing list would be a
bigger win than changing the forum?</p>
<p>I'm ok with however git-annex users choose to get together and
talk about it, including ways that I can't/won't use myself (including
non-free stuff like Slack..). To that end, if people want to get a
git-annex community going somewhere, be it another forum, or reddit, or
whatever, I'm fine with the website directing users to it.</p>
comment 2http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Improving_the_git-annex_forum/comment_2_7b4b8d78148f41df332d8f9125ca9842/Horus2018-02-28T09:09:20Z2018-02-28T09:09:20Z
<p>Thanks, Joey for being open to suggestions!</p>
<p>I was holding my reply back for while to see if more feedbacks comes in. It seems everybody is ok with the current forum. I'm still open to setting up a test forum. Discourse, the forum I have in mind let you couple the forum with a mailing list quite easily.</p>
<p>Best,
Florian</p>
comment 3http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Improving_the_git-annex_forum/comment_3_71d5568d2ac64f83dba11100124addd1/andrew2018-05-03T15:16:58Z2018-05-03T15:16:58Z
<p>For me, the most difficult thing is keeping informed of responses to my questions.</p>
<p>It looks like adding a comment, or creating a new thread, does have the “email comments to me” checkbox but this is un-checked by default. Maybe it should be checked by default? I must be forgetting to check this box. It seems a lot of people ask a question on the forum then never return to read the response, maybe they aren't subscribing? Or maybe there can be a new user preference subscribe to threads I comment on by default, which would check this box for us. That way users who want to stay informed via git checkouts on the forum don't have to worry about un-checking the email comments to me box all the time.</p>
<p> +++ User friendly way to (un)subscribe to threads</p>
<p>Agreed, it would be nice to have an unsubscribe/subscribe button on every forum thread. I don't know how to do this from Preferences, my PageSpecs don't seem to be working right now.</p>
<p> ++++ Bump threads on new replies (that may be a matter of taste)</p>
<p>Yes, I think that would be nice. I do care about seeing active threads first. It would also be good to see some visual notification for threads with no responses.</p>
<p> ++++ Weird markdown formatting</p>
<p>My main issue is being unable to quote people with nice formatting. The default for Markdown quoting, Right bracket, doesn't format well in this forum, so I end up using space plus-plus-plus…</p>
test PageSpechttp://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Improving_the_git-annex_forum/comment_4_847be68ea1992e6c2ceb2c79cfb65f5f/andrew2018-05-03T15:32:16Z2018-05-03T15:32:16Z
Also, related to Subscribing. I have created a PageSpec in my user preferences. How can I test this? IE I want to past my PageSpec string somewhere and see which results on https://git-annex.branchable.com/ that PageSpec would return.