I just realized I didn’t even see the “General Discussion” category, as the left-pane menu doesn’t’ show all of them, and my eyes are scanning the “tags” of a topic.
The main page of the forums doesn’t list out the subforums in a classical manner (like in the legacy forums). On the one end, there’s “too much going on”, but on the other end “a lot is hidden by default.”
Correct me if I’m wrong: Isn’t there a way to display the traditional “Categories View” as the default home page?
To illustrate what I mean, I would rather this be the main default page, rather than this.
I can’t believe I missed it the first time. That does the trick!
Very well, since these are “forum suggestions”, I’d recommend that the default for new users’ home page be “Categories” instead of “Latest”. It will be more intuitive for them.
@kris has been so helpful and receptive and responsive, that I’m almost tempted to slip in a request: “New members should be gifted 16 TiB WD Red Plus drives as an incentive for joining.”
(At the rate he’s working, he might only notice when it’s too late, after the packages have been shipped to our houses.)
I think that there is a significant difference between “General Discussion” where topics should probably still be about TrueNas but which don’t fit into other categories and “Off-Topic” which could be about the weather or space travel or sausages or philosophy.
Personally I am not really in favour of Off Topic because - well - this is a TrueNas site and not a weather/space/food/philosophy site.
Agreed, which is why we opted to go with “General Discussion” and not straight off-topic. I.E. place for things not specific TrueNAS, but still industry relevant. There are plenty of other socials where people can opine on weather and such
It’s still a tech forum. If I want to hear the members’ opinion about a new tech product, ie a new CPU line or a new case, or maybe hear opinions about other companies’ decisions or some youtuber’s actions… should I put everything in the General Discussion? Should I not seek the community engagement for these topics?
We users are reasoning based on the old forum, but since iX decided to go with the new forum we should adjust our mentality: @kris has there been any change to the mission of TrueNas Forums? Do you want user engagement to change compared to the old forum, focusing only on iX’s products?
No, the mission has not changed. But I will caveat with “Off-topic” needs to be so within reason. I.E. if somebody wants to sit around and argue geo-politics, there are far better places to do that. Topics should be “industry relevant”, I.E. Computing, Storage, Security, Tech, etc. General Discussion is the place for all that.
I may be able to speak on this since it is mostly my sole purpose here at iX to do stuff within the community.
The mission has not changed and unless I am out of the loop is not changing. We simply want to make it a great place to be for the community as a whole with enhanced search features and better features for our awesome mod/admin team to help them be more efficient. Another thing is that Xenforo, while on the surface might be great, on the backend was struggling to scale (pun intended) with us.
At the end of the day, we all share the same mission, believe it or not, that is to help make TrueNAS a better product for the end user. We could not do it without the community.
