New Forum Features and Updates
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on some updates and new features to the forums.
Hope you like em…
Useful Stuff
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Reply to topic by email: Now you can reply directly to a topic by simply responding to the email message.
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Similar topics message: I’ve heavily suppressed this as It seemed to appear way too often.
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Updated homepage: With increased volume of topics, the forum homepage now displays categories, in order of activity. We’ll be starting to post more press releases on the forums, but I felt it was important to not dilute the conversations we have here.
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Accepted answers: You might have noticed a new checkbox beside topics. Clicking the accepted answer box in a topic makes it super easy for someone to find an answer to dig though it and marks the topic as "solved:
Example:
- Extra Text Formatting Options: Added some rudimentary things that don’t come as standard with Discourse (Our forum software)
- Amazon Affiliate Linking: Post a link to something on Amazon and KP get’s a little commission from Amazon.
- Cakeday Because cake
- Killed the guided tour It just seemed kinda weird and it’s annoying if you want to just ask a question when you sign up. Now new members just get a welcome message.
Geeky stuff
- Updated docker, Centos and Discourse to current versions
- Replaced a logo image that was slowing things down some
- Changed email provider from Mailgun to Amazon SES. (Should reduce the cost of emails from $60/month to $30/month)… until we grow again.
How can we make the forums better in the next round of updates/upgrades?