Wow! And a few requests and questions already

I found this topic on the discourse forums…
http://meta.discourse.org/t/position-in-topic-list-not-saved-on-ie9/6847/10

Ok, got it, works on Firefox. I can live with that…

Still no trees though.

https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D48193NONONONONO
EDIT:SugarSync Exposes the email on the download page, no go

OK, it’s easy enough with Sugar Sync 2.0 BUT… the file links most likely will not last as long as the messages and a lot of broken answers will be left.

That’s a big downside of web forums with valuable support or education. Keeping the images is a good start already though, one forum that I contributed a lot and now has a lot of broken tutorials is Maxwell Render forum

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This is supposed to be a $@%! support forum… If you can’t upload even largish files, well, then, it’s next to useless (for me anyway).
–Mitch

my favorite site for quickly sharing files is Ge.tt, but they also have a short timespan for keeping files.

@brian, Is there any way you can put a file store for this discourse forum on the newsgroup (or some random slow-but-big) server? We need something that will stay attached to this new forum.

I know you have a support FTP site. Is there any way to make that seamlessly integrate with attachments here?

See my reply here:

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I guess you could save a link in your bookmarks bar to Categories - McNeel Forum

I’m not sure what the setting would do? Make it so that when you click Forums at the top it acts as if you clicked on Categories instead?

If you want features added to Discourse, please post your feature requests at http://meta.discourse.org - that’s where the Discourse developers hang out. We’re just using the product; not actively developing or contributing to it at this point.

I like the direction, where this is going !

Incredible… for an environment whose main purpose is support for group of software packages and where people are encouraged to beta test, report bugs, detailed experiences, and provide helpful tutorials… you choose a platform which does not allow direct attachments of the files that are need to support such an environment?

  • Constructive criticism is welcome, but remember to criticize ideas, not people.

You got it…
----H

I think they will get the .3dm support up and running in no time.
http://www.discourse.org/ just read about what they support allready.

This will mature over time.

-J

Is there an option to THREAD responses? Right now it’s just a linear mess. Besides the file upload (which I assume will be fixed, or this is dead in the water), that’s my main complaint looking in here.

And for some reason my avatar keeps flipping from the one I created on Gravatar to this default forum one. That’s annoying.

Okay… I was going to post an image of the flipped avatars I’m seeing, but it just told me “new users can’t post images” – so… when are we no longer a new user?

It looks like Discourse displays both a linear and nested response arrangement…have a look for this under your msg that I responded to.

Nope… I’m still seeing your response displayed at the bottom, and no way to know which post this was in response to, except that it was to me… is there a way to change it to a nested view that I’m just overlooking?

There’s a box in Ncik’s message saying “in reply to heath”…click it and you see the message it’s in response to, so it’s not exactly a totally different nested-view mode.

Ah, now I see that the box is click-able. Yeah, that helps – still nowhere close to nesting, but I’ll see how that feels after awhile. I looked into it and it seems nesting isn’t supported in Discourse (yet?)

If you select text and then click the “quote reply” button that appears, you can include a quote in your reply. And that quote gets linked back to the original post. I think it actually works pretty well, even if it’s not displayed as a tree.

There’s a box at the top of the reply and a VERY feint box at the bottom left of the original replied-to msg.[quote=“heath, post:24, topic:97, full:true”]
Ah, now I see that the box is click-able. Yeah, that helps – still nowhere close to nesting, but I’ll see how that feels after awhile. I looked into it and it seems nesting isn’t supported in Discourse (yet?)
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This is a known issue, for some reason Microsoft decided to wait many years to implement pushstate, we “sort of” support IE9 but it is far from an optimal experience.