#2049 - Inline mode for forum groupings
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By Chris Graham
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| Identifier | #2049 |
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| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Inline mode for forum groupings |
| Status | Open |
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Has Patch (custom) Roadmap: Over the horizon (custom) Type: Tagging (custom) |
| Handling member | Deleted |
| Addon | cns_forum |
| Description | A forum grouping can be set as 'inline'.
If inline then... The top of the forum grouping box would be a posting box (similar to posting your status on Facebook). Topics would show together in a single combined feed with "show previous" links to go back through topic history (and a small "view whole topic" link to get to the topicview module). i.e. AJAX browsing back into a topic, no separate screens for normal browsing No signatures Very mobile friendly and simplified. Look for ideas from #1659 Each topic would show the forum it is in as a tag rather than making you dig down. You can select the tag when you make the topic and it just defaults to the first forum in the grouping. You can only have one tag per topic for this reason, but also I think that does keep it simple. When viewing, tags would be clickable like filters. When applying a tag filter you would see the forum description for associated forum display, similar to as if you were in that forum. Optionally inline-created topics would not need a title defining, it would be taken automatically: E.g. "Hello, how are you today, this is my first post. I love this forum" might have a title of "How are you today". We'd try and be quite smart to make the auto-detection as good as possible, and use ellipsis (...) if we can't effectively grab a full sentence. A config option would determine whether titles are auto-detected for inline forum groupings, or have to be explicitly entered. If a site has only one forum grouping then the forum grouping box should not be visible at all. |
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| Additional information | This should create a forum experience similar to the ease of use of Facebook, without compromising on the overall capabilities of Composr. It would be ideally suited to small forums that need to really draw out content before they have grown. |
| Related to | #1730 - Facebook-sync forums with a Facebook page (for example - other services too) |
| Funded? | No |
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E.g. a topic in A > B > C, would have A, B, C as the tags.
We could set Composr to automatically self-organise the tree based on what tags people are using. The optimal smallest tree for the particular tags people have set.
The available tags would be all forum names added in a particular group, but the actual structure would grow out automatically.
For this we should change the admin-UI, as it would be totally confusing. We should have a simple add/edit/delete tag system, rather than full forum structure management.
I am really excited about this concept as it solves some long-running problems. People want rich categorisation of forums, but it so often leads to these messy situations where topics are really spread out (especially for quiet forums). Also managing structure is a real hassle. So we can have everything together by default, while still providing full classification, full filtering capability, and maintaining a rigorous underlying forum structure that can be toggled back on later should the forum become very busy.
EDIT: Patch may now be outdated.