It would be nice with a “solved” icon/setting for threads.
An option is to edit the topic, but it would be nice with a separate icon (thumbs up or something) that symbolizes that the topic has a solution.
It could be handy for those who look through old threads, so they know there is a solution before they read through it all.
This could be shown on the “your topic is similar to…” blue box also.
Cheers.
+1…
I asked for similar functionality about a year ago
This would be really useful for me too.
I have been using Vanilla Forums with the QA plugin, but I will probably be switching to discourse now because of the searching which actually gives me relevant results. The only thing holding me back is a way to mark topics as answered/posts as “accepted answer”.
It feels like it shouldn’t be too hard to do using a plugin since it is basically just one extra bit per post/topic (ok, maybe some more info would be required), but I have not really looked in to the discourse code that much.
Something like this is on our roadmap in the next few month. Will keep you up to date once its implemented.
One of the reasons I don’t like this approach is that with the nature of discussions here, there are often several approaches (“solutions”) that are valid, and focalizing on just one would be reducing a colorful discussion into one black and white answer.
The other issue I have is that this stuff can go out of date rather quickly, and what was an accepted “solution” a few weeks/months back may no longer be.
I just have a tendency to view this forum as a continuum with lots of connected, interrelated issues that are constantly evolving, rather than a simple “ask a question, get an answer” type of structure.
–Mitch
I see your point, yet my wish stands, so maybe a “initial poster found what he looked for” is a better option than “solved” ?
