Joining the Ranks of the BPFK: The LRWTF Posted by rlpowell on Sat 23 of Feb, 2008 18:39 GMT posts: 14214 Use this thread to discuss the Joining the Ranks of the BPFK: The LRWTF page.
Posted by rlpowell on Sat 23 of Feb, 2008 18:39 GMT posts: 14214 On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:14:31PM +0300, Cyril Slobin wrote: > On 2/23/08, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > > > So, tell me what you want the forum to be called, and what > > mailing list you want it to mirror, and I'll go do it; it'll > > take me about 20 minutes, at most. > > You noted wikidiscuss in your previous answer. Tell me, how a > proud newbee is supposed to discover that such a thing exists? That was an example of the system functioning, not a "you should go use this". I don't think most newbies want mail for every time the wiki is changed, and the web forum itself is just the place you go when you click the "discuss" tab for a page. > The first thing a new user will search on a site will be any > living community. Well, the link "community" exist in the left > bar. It is buried in a second-level menu among a dozen of > not-so-important things, but it exists. On community page there is > a link to forums page. How many people became lost here? I never denied that the site could use improvement. What you and other relative newcomers are unaware of is that I've asked, many times, for specific advice on how to organize the site, and always got complete silence. So, I stopped asking. If you have specific suggestions as to how the side menus should be arranged, give them to me and I'll see what I can do. > Any additional link to follow halves the auditory. For the record, you mean "audience". > Well, let us think that someone is tenacious enough to reach that > page (third in a chain). There is no link to wikiforums here! Full > stop. That's because wikidiscuss is the only one. > My suggestion: (1) make a bidirectional (or at least read-only) gate > from this one list to a wikiforum. Working on that now. > (2) put that wikiforum on the main page instead of livejournal > blog mirror. Remind me if I forget about that part, please. > Then, when someone will came to the site at the first time, and > look at the dates of last messages in threads, he at least will > know that *something happens*. Indeed. > P.S. I am a bit ill now, and English is not my native language. > Sorry if some of my wording is inappropriate. No problem; hope you don't mind my correcting it. I'm trying to be helpful, not insulting. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
Posted by admin on Sat 23 of Feb, 2008 18:41 GMT posts: 208 > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:14:31PM +0300, Cyril Slobin wrote: > > On 2/23/08, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > My suggestion: (1) make a bidirectional (or at least read-only) gate > > from this one list to a wikiforum. > > Working on that now. Here's my test post from the new forum, replying to my mail that got automatically sent there. Weeeee. -Robin
Posted by rlpowell on Sat 23 of Feb, 2008 18:51 GMT posts: 14214 On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:41:07AM -0800, admin wrote: > > Re: Joining the Ranks of the BPFK: The LRWTF > > Author: admin > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:14:31PM +0300, Cyril Slobin wrote: > > > On 2/23/08, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > My suggestion: (1) make a bidirectional (or at least > > > read-only) gate from this one list to a wikiforum. > > > > Working on that now. > > Here's my test post from the new forum, replying to my mail that > got automatically sent there. Weeeee. Forgot I was logged in as admin. Now a test reply; sorry for the spam, but this should be it. Do people *who use web forums* prefer threaded or plain as the default display style? -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
Posted by cmacis on Sat 23 of Feb, 2008 19:04 GMT posts: 85 > > Do people *who use web forums* prefer threaded or plain as the > default display style? I use forums. What's the difference? Examples would be nice since I've just fried my brain by doing homework. mi'e cmacis
Posted by rlpowell on Sat 23 of Feb, 2008 19:11 GMT posts: 14214 On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:55:12PM +0000, james riley wrote: > > > > Do people *who use web forums* prefer threaded or plain as the > > default display style? > > I use forums. What's the difference? Examples would be nice since > I've just fried my brain by doing homework. Plain just shows the newest post at the top. Threaded, if it was working, would show posts below and indented from those they were in reply to. While this isn't what ours would look like, here's an example of a threaded forum: http://www.technologyevangelist.com/images/yahoo-finance-messageboard-threaded.gif -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
Posted by rlpowell on Sat 23 of Feb, 2008 19:11 GMT posts: 14214 On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:14:31PM +0300, Cyril Slobin wrote: > My suggestion: (1) make a bidirectional (or at least read-only) > gate from this one list to a wikiforum. (2) put that wikiforum on > the main page instead of livejournal blog mirror. Both done. Let me know if you're OK with the position of the "Last forum posts" box. Unfortunately, it doesn't show dates, and it can't be limited to a single forum, so I have some work to do. Remind me if you don't see those issues fixed in the next day or two. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
Posted by slobin on Sat 23 of Feb, 2008 20:09 GMT posts: 40 On 2/23/08, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > Both done. Let me know if you're OK with the position of the "Last > forum posts" box. Unfortunately, it doesn't show dates, and it > can't be limited to a single forum, so I have some work to do. > Remind me if you don't see those issues fixed in the next day or > two. An error occured in a database query! Context: File tiki-view_forum_thread.php Url tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=5&comments_parentId=6303 After this eighth lines of SQL follows... -- Cyril Slobin <slobin@ice.ru> `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, http://wagner.pp.ru/~slobin/ `it means just what I choose it to mean' To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
Posted by rlpowell on Sat 23 of Feb, 2008 21:49 GMT posts: 14214 On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:15:00PM +0300, Cyril Slobin wrote: > On 2/23/08, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > > > Both done. Let me know if you're OK with the position of the "Last > > forum posts" box. Unfortunately, it doesn't show dates, and it > > can't be limited to a single forum, so I have some work to do. > > Remind me if you don't see those issues fixed in the next day or > > two. > > An error occured in a database query! > > Context: > File tiki-view_forum_thread.php > Url tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=5&comments_parentId=6303 > > After this eighth lines of SQL follows... What a dumb-ass bug (and not mine). Fixed. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
