We need the “point up” emoji as an option for a “reaction”.
It’s different than just a “like” or “thumbs up”. It means we want to stress or affirm an important point that someone else posted. (Not simply that we “agree”, but that others should seriously note what was written.) Especially if there are a lot of a good posts in a thread, maybe someone writes something profound.
Post: “Try adding some more RAM first before you mess with special vdevs.” or
Post: “I think special vdevs are overrated. More headache than they are worth.”
Post: “Check out this guide on special vdevs and why you should probably avoid them. Since your issue sounds like slow metadata crawling (not just small file access), you might consider more RAM or this tunable. The guide explains why you might end up needlessly putting your data at risk with a special vdev in your situation.”
I suggest that the company invest some resources to peruse the old forum resources and port as many as are still relevant to the new forum.
Some folk spent considerable time and effort putting all that info into the old forum - hopping back and forth between forums to locate good info for user questions is going to get old and expecting the demi-gods to re-do their work is a big ask. Especially if a lot of links are involved, that may need to be hand-transcribed between forums.
As someone who’s manually ported over a few resources (though not as many as Victor), links and quite a bit of other formatting copy/paste just fine, though of course the link destination doesn’t change (i.e., if a link goes to a thread on the old forum, it will still go to that thread on the old forum unless manually changed).
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EDIT: @dan, perhaps users should be encouraged to used “nested” details in their signatures? It seems to work as expected. (See my temporary signature, which I’m going to remove after today.)
Therefor, in the example above, they would make “3-copies rule” the parent detail, and then nest the the other details (No1, No2, No3) within it.
Discourse is new for me and I just re-created my signature about the same way it was in the old forum.
I consider that backups are of the highest priority because no matter how good the primary server is, a single server is always a single point of failure. If the primary server is not that well designed, backups are just more important. Data loss is also the highest risk to address and again, backups are the key for that. Last thing is that backups are almost never performed by most new users.
Still, I agree that signatures here seems to take more place than they did in the old forum. They are also not isolated the same way so are harder to skip when reviewing messages.
@winnielinnie mentionned nested details. That may be a way to simplify this.
Do you have any other idea how to achieve a better balance ?
The Discourse folks don’t really like signatures, and at least on their style of a forum I’m inclined to agree. They tend to add quite a bit of length to every post a user makes, and since topics aren’t paginated that makes for a greater impact than would be the case in a paginated environment. The lack of the user stats that XenForo shows also magnifies the impact (that is, in XenForo any post is going to take a decent amount of vertical space).
This issue can be mitigated by using the details tag, but Discourse doesn’t (and can’t AFAIK) enforce the use of those.
That doesn’t require anything–but if you get email notifications, you’d be able to reply to them and have that reply post back to the topic. It gives options, but doesn’t require anything.
But speaking of tags, I’m wondering what’s making people think that their usage questions should be tagged as “Forum How-to”–because quite a lot of them are tagged that way.
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