Questions tagged [forum]
A forum is a website that allows textual asynchronous communication between users.
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Should I notify the user that the thread owner deleted their post?
I have a website that works like a forum but not exactly. Here, users can create their content of threads while any user can add their posts to this thread. However, the thread creator has editorial ...
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Does commenting before registering on forums have any draw backs?
I'm redesigning a forum and one of the issues we earlier faced is the drop off rate during signing up. One of the reasons we did find was there being too many questions asked by an admin during this ...
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Discussion posts order top to bottom, bottom to top ux
I'm working on a discussion board, where users can have discussions in different topics. In the current version, the new message box is in a modal. I'm planning to move it to into the list itself.
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What is the value to the user of having “open” and “closed” status for questions on a Forum?
I am creating a Question and Answer forum for a client and am thinking twice about including an "open", "answered" or "closed" status to questions...as opposed to having these conversations just pan ...
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AJAX loading vs. “hardcoded” comments - is there any advantage of one above the other?
Because of certain reasons, I'm sometimes tied to an extremely slow internet connection. What I realized with this, is that certain sites (for example, any subdomain of blog.hu) works in a way that ...
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How to display deep nested forum names?
In the backend of the company-intranet there is an area where you validate the rights of an user. Since the intranet comes with a forum, you can set rights for users to moderate a specific forum.
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Long forum threads; split into x pages parts or let them go on endlesslly
I have a forum going on and I find that users keep talking on and on in certain threads.
It feels like clutter to me, seeing threads that are 600 pages long, but it does not seem to bother my users.
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Should new content be added ABOVE or BELOW the actual content?
I was browsing a certain gaming forum when I noticed this:
What you can see is a heavy edited forum post - a thread opener one. The actual content is the very last line, but every edit and plus ...
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Why do IRC (or other chat protocol) logs scroll up with time when forums usually scroll down with time?
Traditional forums -- or even modern social networks like Twitter -- typically have their latest posts at the top of the page, whereas chat protocols like IRC, Skype, or AIM have their latest messages ...
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Different options for replying to post
I am a junior UX Designer working on a web application. In a nutshell we're trying to build a forum for our product.
Each day users will receive a question and hopefully they will engage with the ...
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Is it right or wrong to serve non-user generated content on a forum? [closed]
I am working for a company that runs a forum website. And they want to start surfacing content on the forum, i.e. articles, downloads, webinars etc, that might help/solve/be of interest to the forum ...
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What Options Should an IRC Chat Room Button Have?
This one comes with a bit of backstory, so I apologize for the complexity of the post.
I'm a web admin for a forum that has an associated IRC Channel. The forum has been around for two years, but we ...
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What are the latest Concepts in Forum/Conversation UX Designs? [closed]
We're researching the latest paradigms on 'conversation' (topic/thread/comment) UX designs that advance considerably from the 'old' forum models. IOW, what are some recent UI patterns for ...
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Users stating that the redesign is too bright?
We've recently launched a redesign of a popular forum, and a lot of users are stating that the redesign is now too bright for them to read, which is obviously not good for a forum.
Here's a typical ...
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Alternative Slick/Smart method to disply Recursive Replying Comments?
I want to avoid the classical way of replying into replying into replying that goes like this
Comment
--> Reply 1
--> Reply 2
---->Reply 3
---->Reply 4
------->...
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Should a customer/product support forum display the name of the asker?
Customer support forums are a place where, in addition to having their questions answered, users can act as supplementary product support in order to build a reputation in the community as an expert. ...
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Forum - Threaded Messaging on Mobile
I need to display a threaded forum on Mobile. It's a fully fledged threaded forum where users can reply on any "reply".
Currently I am displaying the forum in threaded order, but as it is a small ...
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Solutions for changing user habits from a tree to a flat forum thread structure
I am trying to change the habits of forum users who are familiar with a really messy tree structure to the more common flat structure.
The forum is to get a relaunch but without shutting the old ...
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what's the downside of too many forum threads?
What's feasible as per users perspective- a forum with a number of random threads or the one with only a few main threads? Why it's impossible to keep a track of too many threads?
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Should you also order threads by their last edit?
In a discussion forum, you will often see threads sorted by the last reply to that thread (please disregard the sticky threads in the image below).
What I'm beginning to wonder is what part editing a ...
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Which editor should be chosen for basic internet user
I am working on a forum design project and I have a question for the input mechanism for that forum,
while replying to a post user can
Some font properties (can be ignored)
Insert multiple Images
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Is adding a discussion forum to a an eshop a good idea?
I'm thinking of adding a stackoverflow like knowledge base to my store via a plugin.
Is it a good design choice ? Anyone implemented something similar to a store an can share their experience?
It's ...
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What to call submit a new topic for a forum?
What to call submit a new topic for a support forum with users that have little or no technical knowledge?
Looking online some of the ones that I have seen are:
Ask Question
New Thread
Post a New ...
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What kind of text editor should I use for a reddit-like website?
I'm creating a website that is similar to reddit that focus on storytelling, art & literature, and having so much trouble choosing a text editor. I want some basic text editing (bold, italic, ...
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Having your own forum or directing them to a well-known knowledge sharing platform?
Currently, I am designing an API product for developers. In our team, we had some endless discussion whether we should offer a forum solution for our product or using an existing well-known knowledge ...
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Best practice for messaging system (microblog) using a “n-tier” model
I currently have a UX problem that I have seldom seen done well (or at all)...
I am developing a messaging feature for a site (a messaging system for business, think Yammer), and I am in the ...
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Tree Forum vs Flat vs Stack Exchange style
I wonder what are the advantages \ disadvantages of the following three types of forums...
Tree like forum
One parent Thread that can have multiple child threads
Each child thread can have multiple ...
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Effectiveness of suggested answers on forums, like Stack Exchange
Is there data or research on how effective suggested answers are in preventing people from asking duplicate questions on online forums and Q&A sites?
While some people make an effort to search, ...
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Are there any references for useful forum categories?
I am involved in setting up a forum/message board site that will be used for client communications and support. I would like to plan the categories/topics that messages will be posted under.
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Should I use pagination in a forum's thread
I am designing a forum with large discussions, with no specific need to order answers. Do I need to implement pagination or should I maintain one unique page per thread?
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“By posting this, you agree to our terms and conditions”
Is it okay to have a "By posting this, you agree to our terms and conditions" (i.e. like 4chan) as opposed to a "I agree to the terms and conditions" checkbox?
I read about automatic agreement to ...
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Is a Q&A site a reasonable replacement for a forum for a software product?
I'm building a website for an open source piece of software that revolves around backups and cloning. I was originally going to use phpBB for the forums, but then thought about the possibility of ...
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Pros and cons of this forum main page, with checkboxes?
What are the pros and cons of a discussion forum main page
that works like so:
At the top of the page there's a list of forums and sub forums.
Below the list of forums, there's a list of forum ...
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Support forum login?
I'm getting ready to release a new software product, and am setting up my support forum. Should I require users to login to post or reply to topics, or not?
I'd like to make it easy for users to ...
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Embedding options in a forum
I'm developing a forum/community site and I was thinking how much embedding options should I give to the users. Until now, it is possible upload images and the URLs in the posts are parsed and ...
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Allowing image upload vs linking images
So, I'm developing a forum and I'd like to allow people to attach images to their posts (1 image per post) if they want. Now, I could do this the way Facebook does, that is, if there is a URL in the ...
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A better way to display a forum thread
I want to figure out a better ways to make a forum thread easy to read.
Common solutions to this:
A flat thread where every post is sorted by time.
This is easy to understand and easy to display in a ...
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Are 'normal' forums (phpBB, vBulletin) outdated? [closed]
Im currently thinking about how communication and information exchange can be improved over the internet. You can cut it down to two sides: 'Life' chat (e.g. irc) and 'delayed' chat.
With 'delayed' ...
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How can I display forum paging on a mobile UI in a more pleasant way?
I am having a problem trying to find out how to display the page numbers on a forum in a pleasant way.
Please look at the picture below:
As the picture shows, the page numbers appear to the right of ...
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When is user authentication really necessary?
Better said, how much harder is to mantain a forum/message-board/community webiste with unauthenticated users and what would be the benefits and disadvantages in comparison to an account-based one?
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My forum has many views and Facebook likes but very few users are actually logging in or posting topics/replies?
I made a forum a month ago for foreigners living in Taiwan: www.taiwantalk.org. The Categories range from doing business in Taiwan to having relationships in Taiwan.
Screenshot:
This month I've been ...
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Rating-based discussion site for 2011: digg vs phpbb layout style?
I'm building a rating-based discussion site.
Basically, it consist in a forum were people can create topics and reply to them (and also rate them).
I have approximately 10 topic categories.
I have ...
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How wise is it to use a Q&A app AND a forum?
From the research that I have done, a Q&A site (such as this one) is great for support areas of a website. "How do I do ...?" and "What is the best option for ...?" work well with this.
But ...
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Simple design for a phpBB forum [closed]
I'm looking for some examples for a better design of phpBB. I would like to redesign a forum which is targeted to people with a minimal experience with forums. Now the forum isn't working well. No ...
