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As with any legal contract, both sides, including the user, must agree (“assent”) to the terms and conditions offered with the online service in order to create a legally enforceable “agreement.” In addition, a user can demonstrate agreement in a variety of ways, either by words or by deeds, depending on the circumstances. Online, however, the line ...
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In a forum thread, users are likely to want to go to the start, or end of the thread fairly often, as well as possibly a particular point in the thread. That makes forum threads a poor candidate for infinite scrolling, as to get to the beginning (or end depending on how you set up your forum), someone will have to scroll through the entire thread. And some ...
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You are trying to solve two different tasks (to provide Q&A and to collect users feedback) using one solution. Frankly speaking, forum idea does not suite any of your problems.
Feature proposals
Would you prefer to simplify this scenario or will you force a user to struggle with a forum, performing registration/creating a topic/posting a comment/...? ...
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The idea of allowing users to customize their front page sounds great. I think the problem in your suggestion is that you split selection from content. The way you suggest it, you a) still show all users all options before they get to the content and b) list the content in a different position from the options, which feels counter-intuitive. And c) it is ...
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Discussion forums and Q&A sites are solving very different problems.
Q&A sites are best when you want to focus on information. But to increase the information signal to noise ratio, you have to actively discourage discussion. Jeff Atwood (the co-founder of StackExchange) has written on this topic in his blog.
Discussion forums are just what their ...
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I strongly recommend reading this excellent article on best practices for community specific design. From a design perspective and to ensure you allow for easy collaboration and contribution, To quote the article :
Browsing
Community sites, like any other website, need to facilitate browsing using design tactics > that immediately tell the
user ...
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The smaller the amount of topics/threads you expect the smaller the initial amount of boards/categories. For example, you can start with "Technical Problems" and later divide into "Technical Problems Product A" and "Technical Problems Product B".
To find a good solution I would
a: google for "information architecture"
b: look at/search for comparable ...
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I suggest to split this into two points:
a) Page loading speed and data traffic
b) Information context
Page Loading Speed
From a loading speed of view, it doesn't make sense to load all data. Is the user only interested in the latest response (or the few latest added messages), he has no advantage of having all the data on the site.
Information Context
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One solution is to set up a forum with topics specifically dedicated to
feature proposals or changing functionality.
FAQs
Another solution is not to reserve a topic for FAQs and wait for the other questions to come. People, more often than not, will see the most commonly asked questions as they are displayed near top of forum for view, ratings, et al. ...
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No, i wouldn´t prefer this kind of front page because the checkboxes waste place on the site and makes its difficult to get an overview.
But i love the function to select forums.
Maybe it could be a solution to show or hide the selecion with a sliding panel.
My interests wouldn´t be changed every 5 minutes. So it should be enough, when i select the forum ...
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My philosophy is to always prepare for the worst from people and celebrate the best. That is to say that if it is possible in any way, shape, or form for a user to be malicious, some will find out how to do it and take advantage of it.
I know that YouTube does a pretty decent job with filtering explicit content, but I think Metacafe is a bit more lenient on ...
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