Looks amazing. I’ll keep my suggestions in this post, and I guess anyone can just edit it to add to it or remove (or add a note) as they’re accepted, completed, or rejected.
feature requests
A heart is nice to (+) a post, but I really liked the FW (-) feature and the ability to filter by post quality within each topic.
Class Actions deserves a separate section – it was a popular, long-running thread on FW due to a few dedicated contributors.
When I’m reading or posting a topic, I don’t see the top menu with all the categories. I have to go to the homepage to see it.
Pinning. Looks like this requires reaching a certain user level.
bugs
Some HTML is enabled (like anchors) in addition to bbcode. You probably want to disable it or sanitize it somehow. Since this is all public and registration is trivial, you’ll be dealing with spammers in no time.
terms of service contains placeholders (e.g. “company_short_name”) where the domain and website name should be filled in.
Clicking on the “site feedback category” in the Powered by You section of the FAQ shows an “Access Denied” message.
Thanks for the feedback Scripta. I agree that Green/Red worked really well. When the topics get longer here, the software will automatically offer to “Summarize” the threads, which should give a lot of the functionality we came to love at FWF. One of the primary ways a comment makes it into the Summary is by getting likes.
I’ll cross post the Wiki thread as well and keep working at your other suggestions. Thanks for getting involved here!
Does the software afford the option for users to choose pagination of threads, as opposed to infinite scroll? Or is the slider along the right side of the thread intended to help those who prefer the former over the latter? (I checked my preferences area but couldn’t find a way to change it.)
Not a suggestion for admin, but suggestion for users: PLEASE use your FW usernames and avatars.
And if you could authenticate yourselves as owners of your FW accounts by sending me a PM there while that site is still up, even better. I’ll volunteer for a couple of days.
While that may be helpful to some, it shouldn’t make any difference in the long term unless you’ve established some kind of relationship or trust on FW… or unless someone is nefarious enough to register using a username of a more respected user
Just a heads-up in case you guys missed it in your rush to go live - the terms of service could use some attention - there are placeholders (e.g. “company_short_name”) where the domain and website name should be filled in.
Thanks for posting this @mikk1! I was in the process of making the same suggestion. Also, the “site feedback category” link in the Powered by You section of the FAQ is broken (throws an “access denied” error when I click on it).
When I click the hyperlink labeled “site feedback category” in the Powered by You section of the FAQ (the penultimate section), I get taken to a page with the following message: “Access Denied while trying to load /c/site-feedback/find_by_slug.json Something went wrong.”
Thanks for pointing this out everybody. Will look into it. I believe the issue is that it’s a stock FAQ (and I haven’t written a more formal one yet). And because it’s a stock FAQ, it’s by default inaccessible to anyone but me. I’ll unlock it and hopefully the community will help build a good, common-sense FAQ for new folk.
Jeez. I thought about that too, but I didn’t actually want it to look like an ascii table. Discourse is supposed to have support for tables, per link I posted in OP.
Is there a way to get the back to one’s preferred view of the forum, i.e. Latest topics, by clicking on the site icon at the top of the screen? It would be nice for navigation to be able to get back to the main page with one click instead of two currently (homepage, then Latest). Right now I have to remember to use the back button from viewing or replying to a thread.