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291 - Individual forums for addons

Currently many release sites have a single forum thread for specific add ons.  Curse has the comments section which is essentially the same.

I see benefit in allowing project owners to create a small forum for their add ons which are hosted here.  This would provide end users a more detailed way to find information and allow the authors to post detailed updates which are easy to find.

Clarification:

This would be integrated with Curse.com and allow one forum functionality between the both.

Simply put, a single forum thread on Curse or Wowace is difficult to sift through, etc.  A small forum with separate posts would make navigation 1000x easier.

User When Change
Ackis Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:30:51 Changed status from Accepted to Fixed
ckknight Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:52:40 Changed assigned to from None to ckknight
Kaelten Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:52:36 Changed status from Declined to Accepted

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  • Avatar of Ackis Ackis Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:38:29

    To get an forum, contact me via PM or report your project you want one created on.

  • Avatar of Jaliborc Jaliborc Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:46:24

    Does that mean we can already enable the foums for our addons? If we can, where is the option to enable it?

    Last edited on 11 Oct 2009 by Jaliborc

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  • Avatar of Ackis Ackis Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:31:03

    This was implemented a while ago.

  • Avatar of Jaliborc Jaliborc Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:45:51

    One thing which may fright users from the forums (it already does for the ticket system) is being on a site which they aren't used to. Furthermore, it's a site with a completely different design and color scheme.

    I think this feature would have a much more popularity if you allowed it to be used both on CurseForge and Curse, just like the projects do nowadays. The same could also applied to the ticket system.

    Last edited on 03 Sep 2009 by Jaliborc
  • Avatar of HunterZ HunterZ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:36:38

    For curse.com project pages, authors should keep the description or other sub-pages updated with important info. It might be nice to make the comments collapsible though, and maybe add some kind of comments voting system so that users could self-moderate such that stupid posts would get collapsed or hidden and helpful posts would be shown uncollapsed.

    For wowace threads, the moderators/admins ought to look at providing subforums on a case-by-case basis to break out high-volume threads into multiple discussions. Or, maybe change paradigms from the one-thread-per-addon idea to a compromise of having a master, official announcement thread while allowing any number of user-created threads covering specific subtopics relating to an addon - actually this is happening right now because the one-thread-per-addon mentality is not strictly enforced. Either approach would potentially create more work for the moderators/admins.

  • Avatar of Ackis Ackis Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:01:10

    That's a fair comment watchout. More of a discussion to get rid of forum threads on wowace, etc... /shrug

  • Avatar of watchout watchout Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:02:13

    though the given example would be a somehow valid ticket for the questhelper bugtracker, users just seem to be mistaken by the "Report Issues" link in the top menu bar (there is a ticket about this issue already).

  • Avatar of Ackis Ackis Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:53:52

    http://www.curseforge.com/projects/curseforge/tickets/332-quest-helper-not-running/

    Case in point, end-users will still come here regardless of if there's a forum or not.

  • Avatar of Ackis Ackis Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:07:47

    Yay someone voted 3 for it, that means they don't like terrorism. :P

    There's questions better answered in a forum situation more so than a thread or faq. At least IMO.

  • Avatar of Kaelten Kaelten Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:33:50

    Changed name from 'Individual forums for adons' to 'Individual forums for addons'

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Facts

Last updated on
02 Oct 2009
Reported on
19 Jun 2008
Status
Fixed - Developer made requested changes. QA should verify.
Type
Enhancement - A change which is intended to better the project in some way
Priority
Medium - Normal priority.

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