When a user makes a post and someone wants to reply to the post, the “Reply” arrow as you show above means you are replying to that particular person’s post. The other Reply button is to reply to the topic. To reply privately, you would send the person a PM (Private Message). To do this, after clicking on the reply button at the bottom right of the post you want to reply to and the editor pops up, click on the Reply arrow by the user’s avatar - as your image shows. A menu will pop up giving the option to send a private message to that user.
If you have a “How-to” category for your forum, you can create a Wiki post that can be added to from time to time explaining details such as this. Or you can create a new topic under this category for a more “individualized” way of explaining things. Instead of a “How-to” category, you can use a FAQ category to assist your users. But getting them to read such categories is another task altogether… your “side rant.”
It’s nice that you could do that for your users. I have to admit that there are some that seem to need to be held by the hand as they’re walked through. I’ve seen similar tutorials for m8software. The developer made some really nice tutorials… walking users slowly through them with his voice explanation as he went through how to do things. That was really going all out for his software users. Kind of like the old DOS help files that literally explained what each function does, how to use it (and any switches), and how to troubleshoot it… and without having to be online. Which makes me laugh when someone can’t connect, goes to Windows “help” to troubleshoot the problem and Windows tries to connect - because MS’s help files are only online now.
I would be inclined to pin a topic that says something like ‘this is a public forum, unless you create a new personal message, you are relying publicly’ or similar
Or maybe don’t worry about this case too much? I think for most people who use forums it’s pretty clear that hitting reply in a forum topic will lead to a reply being posted in the topic, to everyone who has access to that topic. For those who are surprised by this, they will learn as soon as they save their reply.
@sjmscott How many people have complained about this in your community? It has never come up in my community before and we’ve been using discourse for 5 years.
5-6 users have complained that they don’t know when something will be a public or private reply. We are a mostly in-person community and many are over 60.
개인 메시지에 답글을 보내는 제출 버튼도 변경된 것 같습니다. 이렇게 하면 메시지 작성기에 영향을 주지 않고 게시물의 제출 버튼 텍스트를 사용자 정의할 수 있습니다. "답글"을 “답글 게시” 또는 "공개 답글"처럼 더 명확한 표현으로 변경할 수 있습니다.
다만, 이것이 원래 문제를 완전히 해결하는지에 대해서는 아직 확신이 서지 않습니다. 특정 게시물에 답글을 작성할 때, 작성기 상단의 줄은 여전히 커뮤니티가 아니라 특정 사람에게 답글을 보내는 것처럼 보입니다. 게시물/답글 유형을 변경할 수 있는 버튼도 여전히 버튼으로 식별하기가 어렵습니다.
Discourse가 신규 사용자를 위해 할 수 있는 일은, 가입 시 선택적으로 비활성화하지 않았다면 버튼이 무엇이며 어떤 용도로 사용되는지를 설명하는 작은 교육 패널을 팝업으로 표시하는 것입니다. @tobiaseigen님 참고 바랍니다. 이는 적시에 교육(just-in-time education)의 또 다른 예시이지만, 이 기능이 고급 사용자용 기능으로 의도된 점을 고려하면 제 생각에는 다소 약한 예시입니다.