Hello everyone!
As a lot of you know, we have a website for testing out Discourse called try.discourse.org.
First of all, let me say it’s a really helpful tool to find out how to use different Discourse-related options, such as:
- Topic Voting
- DM creation
- Chatting
- Topic creation, ETC.
And that’s good. It’s a website I’ve used a few times to re-situate myself with Discourse.
I use it about once per year to make sure I’m still good with Discourse, BUT here’s my issue.
Should a website that’s all about testing and figuring out how a website works allow users to interact with all options?
What I mean by this is… I feel that we should be able to mess around with the administrator dashboard or see moderator-based tools and use them, or TL3/4 tools to utilize them since we want to familiarize ourselves with it.
And if the website resets every day, it would undo all actions, right?
Another issue is that it never does a clean reset.
Sure, my user is always deleted, but every single time I go on there, many accounts are still there.
And what’s even crazier is this:
It says everyone just joined and was just seen online, but that’s a lie. I see topics from this past February and users I’m sure haven’t been online since this morning.
But also, I see users with member or basic user trust levels, or admin, when we can’t get there if we are reset daily.
So, my idea:
Let us, if we have ‘admin’ or ‘mod’ in our username, be that role, or we can select it on signup to be admin, or be mod, or be x trust level. That way, we experience those things without having to make a forum free-trial just to test it out.
In positivity, it’s a good website if you want to learn the basics of topic creation or any other member functions.
Thank you for a great website, and let’s continue discoursing.
What’s your opinion on try.discourse.org?
