Quote from: Joaosg on 09/02/2016 01:58 pmChris an important implementation would be an SSL certificate for the forum (subdomain would be cheaper than all domain and subdomains). Google values SSL on their rank and it is a good idea for security reasons also. Don't know what version of Wordpress we are using (hope it's updated) but there are a lot of awesome off the shelf themes that with some proper customization could really step up the news site both in terms of functionality and design, and all of them are now responsive so they can adapt to mobile devices. Very interested in the Wordpress stuff. My thinking is to mirror what we use right now and play with themes etc. Rather than work in the current CMS in case I mess up current articles Per the cert, I thought we had sorted all of that out?Talking about this? (The s in the URL)?
Chris an important implementation would be an SSL certificate for the forum (subdomain would be cheaper than all domain and subdomains). Google values SSL on their rank and it is a good idea for security reasons also. Don't know what version of Wordpress we are using (hope it's updated) but there are a lot of awesome off the shelf themes that with some proper customization could really step up the news site both in terms of functionality and design, and all of them are now responsive so they can adapt to mobile devices.
Ok I confess, for reading the forum I mainly use tapatalk on my mobile. Why? Because it's the easiest way to see which of the myriad of threads I follow across the site have new posts since I last read them. It's also very quick to jump into the relevant point in those threads. It also helpfully lists new threads in the subforums I subscribe to and I can easily add/remove subscriptions. I used to use email notifications but my inbox just clogged up with 100s of messages, with no clear overview and it was a pain to constantly switch between email and browser. So in my ideal NSF 2017 there would be a way to do this within the site itself. There's no question that reading the web version is nicer. The issue for me is finding the content I want to read.
Going to set up a L2 reception area as the payment merchant is now a lot easier and welcoming to any form of online payment (rather than the old days where it really wanted you to join paypal). Will do a payment tutorial and a new overview landing page
I really enjoyed the Aerobee-19 article. There is so much spaceflight history to choose from, perhaps we can make this a regular ongoing feature on NSF?
Yeah, I'm thinking of a plan of "section leaders", where they - people with a big interest in the subject - can edit the opening post and link key posts, provide one stop summaries linking to the point in the thread where something was updated, etc.
I skimmed this thread and didn't see this mentioned, so sorry if it already was.Multi-quote ability. Instead of seeing multiple posts in a row from the same person because they are quoting and replying to different previous posts, the multi-quote function allows you to select multiple posts at once and then it includes them all as separate quotes in one reply. Would help clean up the long discussion threads. A perfect example of when this is useful is right here in the 2nd AMOS-6 discussion thread. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41252.msg1587924#msg1587924jongoff has 8 reply posts in a row, plus a 9th pointing out the other 8. That could have been just one post if the multi-quote function existed.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 09/21/2016 10:39 pmYeah, I'm thinking of a plan of "section leaders", where they - people with a big interest in the subject - can edit the opening post and link key posts, provide one stop summaries linking to the point in the thread where something was updated, etc.I'm very much favor what Kaputnik suggested. I would like to suggest that if a member likes a particular topic, then they could hit a new button on the bottom of the page along side the Reply, Notify, etc with one that's labeled "Favorite Topic". Then at the top of the Forums page toolbar, an addition button, alongside "Unread Topics", labeled "Favorite Topics" would only populate the threads that user is interested in (thus the user manages what they would like to view and read. Of course, NSF would have the update the user database to make that happen, but your doing this so far with the "Notify" option already. The original "Unread Topics" could be renamed "All Unread Topics".I too spend way to much time looking just for the topics I'm interested. I would rather have a means to manage what I'm interested.Thanks, and as always, this is such a great site, no matter what become of it.Tony De La Rosa
Jim also does that sometimes. It's not the fault of the site. It's the fault of an overly chatty member And the multiquote is available, but Jon simply didn't use it.I'll merge some posts. And done, it's now four posts. And to be fair, had he done all that in one post, people would be complaining about such a long post with lots of quotes, so the balance is now right.
Multiquote exists now, you just have to add one post at a time and remember that you have to leave the cursor in the bottom, the quote you click gets inserted wherever the cursor is, I think. (or maybe always at the bottom)
Fine grained filtering of only certain threads to only certain posters is not something this board software has, I don't think...
Quote from: Lar on 09/24/2016 06:22 pm Fine grained filtering of only certain threads to only certain posters is not something this board software has, I don't think...Is there an 'ignore list' function? It would act along similar lines, but in reverse. My idea is that you see a 100+ page thread and can just see posts by, e.g., Jim, HMXHMX, JonGoff, and whoever else you choose and know is worth reading. But you'd need it to be something that you have to actively select and perhaps only available on threads over a certain length, and which turns off again by default.I have no idea whether the forum software could support such a thing, but, heck if we can put a man on the moon...I also like the idea of a favourite threads or topics list, as mentioned above. As much as I would like to follow every thread on the forum there simply aren't enough hours in the day. In fact I believe Jim only manages it because he has been cloned multiple times as part of a government rocket scientist breeding program.
I 100% agree with your concerns which is why I would not suggest this filtered view as a default or permanent setting.However, catching up on long and fast moving threads is not easy, leading many people to simply not bother and to wade in with their 'new' idea which was debunked ten pages earlier. The Amos 6 failure was a good example- by the time I was able to get to a computer, it was already at about 50 pages and growing about as fast as I could get time to catch up with it. So my own approach is to skim through the posts and only concentrate on those that look sufficiently interesting.My ideal 'filter' would work something like this:- only available on threads above a certain size (e.g. 20 pages long)- has to be actively enabled by the user each and every time they view an eligible thread- the entirety of the first page, and the most recent page, are not filtered- all posts which have generated X no. of quoted replies are not filtered- all posts from moderators are not filtered- (possibly also all 'liked' posts not filtered)?- the user can select additional posts as they choose, from other named users. Perhaps a suggestion list of memnbers known to work in the industry could be included as a default position on this.With this approach, moderators would be able to control the discussion and perhaps provide summaries along the way in the knowledge that these would be read.The idea is to improve the signal to noise ratio and to prevent threads becoming clogged up with newbies asking the same thing over and over again.Perhaps the filter could be disabled on threads that are not especially fast-moving, even very long ones, as the point of it is to allow people to catch up in a reasonable period of time. And of course users would always have the absolute option of not turning the filter on in the first place.All moot if the software does not allow it...