Hi there forum feedbacks aware admins,
I’m sorry in advance if that topic looks a bunch of “could you could you” instead of “I’m gona …” but hey, before any hope that a dream realize itself, it has to be expressed
In the french community, we are having a long ongoing battle envolving bright forces of the talk-fr listers with thousands of complexe messages a month, against the dark forum forces more from the newbie approach, "I just wanted to ask a simple question". That battle is not only a research for the universal question (answer being 42, but we forgot the clear question) "do we need a forum?" but also "what forum do we need?"To my only personnal feeling, the forum I’m writing in right now still misses a bunch of functionnalities wich made be create a new forum (http://forum.letuffe.org) but that’s definitly not the best way to go as it splits efforts and lack good worlwide forum connectivity.
So, there comes my wrotten dreams (from wich if they allready exists, I apologize ):
Very good to have
- Multilingual speaking forum (user agent detection to show the statisticaly best default language for the user)
- Create clearer walls between different language topics (Being send to the french forum and clicing index brings back the french forum index, other language transforme into a basic “other language forums”)
- Define country specific moderators locked into there areas
- Addition of a “watch topic” “watch sub-forum” “watch all forum” for any and new topic creation (mail alert system) to avoid coming twice a day to see nothing happened
Nice to have
- Sub-forum possible creation by moderators in their areas of discussion
- Enable anonymous (CAPTCHA protected) posting for easier newbie access
Could be cool
- Let moderators (with admin help) define an overall page header for specific language forum with their own link list and
Would be extremely useless but cool :
- Let moderators change the stylesheet of their own area and make the forum seamlessly integrate in localized communities page
I am perfectly aware that most of my dreams are dreams, but I still have a bunch of aspirine in case you need some.
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sly