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Re: New Forum structure
mary wrote:
What do you guys think of this? If I do this, I’ll need help with it from time to time (keeping it accurate and updated), since I only know english so I won’t know if one of them needs updating or not.
Yo puedo ayudarte en el forum de Espanol ;)
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#26 2006-03-05 07:39:59
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Re: New Forum structure
Oh don’t tease! ;D I have no idea what “ayudarte” means, and Google is useless.
I’m adding in more visual separation of sticky posts from regular posts.
I also did a little research – out of curiosity – to see how many people are using which style. Interesting results, but keep in mind it’s counting all users, including those whom have never posted.
| Style | Members |
|---|---|
| Oxygen | 6828 |
| Txpish | 1027 |
| Lithium | 181 |
| Sulfur | 156 |
| Mercury | 73 |
| Cobalt | 58 |
| Radium | 33 |
| Total | 8419 |
(Edit: I cleared out all the users that never came back (months later) to even verify their account, about 200. Updated the table counts.)
Last edited by Mary (2006-03-06 04:41:52)
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Working on it.Done.
Thanks :)
Another question: Would it be possible to add these “known languages” in the sidebar of a post (under the names etc.), too? If it’s getting too much text, you might drop the “Registred: …” information. (I think this is less important – or am I wrong with that?)
Speaking of languages, I was thinking of including additional forum ui language options: German, French and Spanish, as they are starting to get more users so make the forum a little “friendlier” to them. As other non-english forums increase in size, I could add that forum’s language too. What do you guys think of this? If I do this, I’ll need help with it from time to time (keeping it accurate and updated), since I only know english so I won’t know if one of them needs updating or not.
That’s a real good idea. If you need help, you can email me concerning the German forum section.
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#28 2006-03-05 09:22:53
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Also done. :)
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#29 2006-03-05 10:50:38
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I’m working on the translations at the moment.
Edit: Okay, they all seem to working properly now. I need to know translations for the english: Known languages.
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mary wrote: also did a little research – out of curiosity – to see how many people are using which style. Interesting results, but keep in mind it’s counting all users, including those whom have never posted. …. Oxygen = 7001
Yeah, considering about half of all existing user accounts in the forum have zero posts, I would guess that number (7001) represents a large percentage of people who signed up once long ago and never came back.
I’ve always thought it would be interesting take all the forum account data and do some chart displays of the various stats; number of posts, posts per forum, user relationships to these values, etc. I’ve kind of half-prepared a study on this and would some day like to actually run it as a socio-statistical study across several Web forums to compare the patterns. It would be very interesting and make good paper.
Anyway, more to the immediate …I notice that the row height of the forum views (e.g., Textpatter) are unnecessarily large now, might want to look into that, as it’s eating-up a lot of vertical space.
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Is there any worry that the collapsable categories might hide the “new posts” indicator from the eyes of forum visitors such that they completely miss topics if they always have a category callapsed? I realize RSS would help avoid this, but not everyone makes use of that yet.
Speaking of RSS, I know that it’s supposed to be auto-detectable in the forum already, but I don’t see the feed button in Firefox like I normally do with sites having RSS auto-detectable (i.e., in the right side of the address bar). Are we sure that’s working right? Nevermind, I see it; it’s just on the home page. Can we make it visible in all board templates?
There’s also a new PunBB module that allows for RSS feeds to individual categores and forums…maybe that would be useful now that our forum structure is a bit more comlex. Just a thought.
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Destry wrote:
There’s also a new PunBB module that allows for RSS feeds to individual categores and forums…maybe that would be useful now that our forum structure is a bit more comlex. Just a thought.
Yes, it’s called rss.php, an alternative to extern.php.
Mary: I can help out on the Spanish forum ;)
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Re: New Forum structure
I can help out in the Spanish forums if need be. And also the German forums, but only if there’s no one else willing to take that on (which I doubt), because my written German is awful.
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Mary wrote:
I need to know translations for the english: Known languages.
For the German translation you could just write “Sprachen” (languages) or “Meine Sprachen” (my languages).
edit: changed the language. Mary, thank you very much!
That’s quite funny and strange. The Textpattern forum in my native languages. The translation is okay, but there are a few things I would change. Nothing important but some really strange strings…
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#35 2006-03-06 02:34:17
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Re: New Forum structure
Destry:
…the row height of the forum views… are unnecessarily large now… it’s eating-up a lot of vertical space.
…?
One problem I cannot figure out is the table cell alignment, particular to the Txpish style. Notice the topic name cell? It’s appearing as if it is vertically aligned to the top (it’d be some strange CSS padding/height screwiness), rather than the middle to match the other cells. (That’s fixed now.)
Is there any worry that the collapsable categories might hide the “new posts” indicator…
That’s a univeral “worry” for any forum that has collapsing categories – though I wouldn’t classify it as one – it’s not particular to here. “Show new…” gives you what you need if you can’t figure out to expand a category because you really did want to see it… With more power comes more personal responsibility for how you use it. :)
…it’s just on the home page. Can we make it visible in all board templates?
As I said (emphasis added):
Regarding forum feed auto-detection, that’s already in place, and has been for several months, actually. They are on the index and thread list pages, but not individual topic pages; putting them there may lead people to believe it is a single topic feed, but PunBB doesn’t have that ability built-in. I would consider adding this functionality if I can see that it is wanted, would be used by more than a couple people.
The same goes for forum categories. I’m not keen on adding features for their own sake. :)
Nils:
The translation is okay, but there are a few things I would change. Nothing important but some really strange strings…
I used the translations supplied at the PunBB site, so I’ve no idea how accurate they are. I’m in there now, so now’s the time to point them out and what they should/could be instead.
Last edited by Mary (2006-03-07 01:54:27)
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Re: New Forum structure
Mary dijo:
bw. I need to know translations for the english: Known languages.
Spanish: Idiomas conocidos
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