Help me, this forum software is horribly confusing
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@Octopuss said in Help me, this forum software is horribly confusing:
I am used to the usual phpBB and similar forums, and this here confuses the hell out of me.
Can anyone tell me how do I open a thread on the first unread message for starters?
You've already done so..
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@DustinB Great, first troll. Why do I even bother?
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@Octopuss You've asked how to make a first post, while posting on the forum.
Your question, and action do not make sense.
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This is your sorting options for the forums.
Left to Right,
Unread, Recent, Tags, Popular Topics, People, Groups
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@DustinB I was asking how to open a THREAD on the first unread post.
When I click on any that I previously opened, but one that is marked as having new replies, it opens on the first one. -
@Octopuss said in Help me, this forum software is horribly confusing:
@DustinB I was asking how to open a THREAD on the first unread post.
When I click on any that I previously opened, but one that is marked as having new replies, it opens on the first one.When you've read a topic, the forum will keep your status on that topic listed, so if you were to click into this topic, from the Recent page (and it had a new reply) it would take you to your last read (Newest) reply.
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@DustinB That's useless when there are tens of threads with new replies. I only come here once in a while (for now at least). I would have to go through a long list of threads I am not interested in, looking for the one I wanted to open.
Are you telling me the forum is unable to open a thread on the first unread post when you simply open it from the category it's in? -
Oh and also, where is the list of subscribed or watched threads? Or is that not a thing in this forum software either?
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@Octopuss said in Help me, this forum software is horribly confusing:
Oh and also, where is the list of subscribed or watched threads? Or is that not a thing in this forum software either?
It would be the bell icon in the top right.
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@DustinB That's just notifications about new replies, quotes or whatever. Not really what I'm looking for.
I guesss this forum software is just... weird. Very weird. It's lacking some of the extremely basic functionality that I took for granted for way over a decade. -
@Octopuss said in Help me, this forum software is horribly confusing:
@DustinB That's just notifications about new replies, quotes or whatever. Not really what I'm looking for.
I guesss this forum software is just... weird. Very weird. It's lacking some of the extremely basic functionality that I took for granted for way over a decade.¯\_(ツ)_/¯Not my forum, not my software.. it works quite well from my experience though.
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You can click into your icon on the top right, within there is a list of all of the topics you've posted on.
Maybe that'll help.
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@DustinB
You mentioned you come from phpBB which is by itself a whole other beast. It's a very old application, over 20 years old, brings features from other ages when there were less solutions, and very on par with other apps from that time.By the time nodeJS and other web frameworks this forum is built in appeared, phpBB was starting to grow its first pubes. Developers who went into these apps were perfectly acknowledged with phpBB (I mean... it's been around for a while, really), and developers did not intend to replicate it, but to create new, different Bulletin Boards apps. You'll quickly get used to it if you take a while to explore and see it's actually rather simple. Just found weird that you never came across with this type of board, they are quite common and been around for a while.
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@Affonso 20 years of working perfectly in a way that makes sense. Unlike this. I'm talking ergonomics, if that word can be used to describe the usability of a forum.
I just don't understand the point of making something that's more difficult to use. Perhaps it's made so simple compared to say, phpBB and its relatives, that the usability actually went down. In my eyes at least.I guess it's not modern to be able to access all the subscribed and followed discussions, and the modern internet people only care about being notified of quotes or something.
Modern people apparently also always check ALL new posts in the entire forum instead of clicking on "subscribed threads" link every normal forum has.Btw yes, this is, I think, the second forum ever to use this weird software. The first one I simply closed and never visited again because I didn't really needed to post there unlike here (not to rant, obviously, but since I'm trying to move away from Vmware, I guess I'll need some help from time to time).
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I'm using forums since the end of the 90's, and I'm not having specific issues to be used to this one
I found it even less confusing than Discourse.Have you checked your settings/profile to see if you can tune it to your needs?
Also, if you can't find it, please ask them here: https://community.nodebb.org/category/5/feature-requests
It's important they hear your point of view
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For each thread, an excerpt of the last message is shown. Click it to go directly to the last message.
Is this what you were looking for?
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Also, I believe that the second time you open a thread, it will send you to the first unread message. Hence why it sends you to the first message for threads you have never read.
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I am using RSS reader, feed https://xcp-ng.org/forum/recent.rss
Not the most elegant three click solution to read new replies in watched topics, click on unread posts (open envelope icon), then on All topics button, it opens menu, there click on Watched topics. -
@stormi said in Help me, this forum software is horribly confusing:
Also, I believe that the second time you open a thread, it will send you to the first unread message. Hence why it sends you to the first message for threads you have never read.
It doesn't
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It does for me
