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.
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.
- #17
Jaliborc Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:46:24Does that mean we can already enable the foums for our addons? If we can, where is the option to enable it?
- #16
Ackis Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:31:03This was implemented a while ago.
- #15
Jaliborc Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:45:51One 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.
- #14
HunterZ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:36:38For 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.
- #12
Ackis Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:01:10That's a fair comment watchout. More of a discussion to get rid of forum threads on wowace, etc... /shrug
- #11
watchout Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:02:13though 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).
- #10
Ackis Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:53:52http://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.
- #9
Ackis Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:07:47Yay 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.
- #8
Kaelten Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:33:50Changed name from 'Individual forums for adons' to 'Individual forums for addons'
WowAce.com & CurseForge.com Adminstrator
Developer of Ace3, OneBag3, and many other addons and libraries
Project lead and Mac developer for the Curse Client
- #7
watchout Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:48:27-2 this is what tickets and descriptions are for. If a question is asked repeatedly, the project description might need a rewrite. You can also manage comments and clean out the useless stuff.