Our board is a hangout, there’s almost no formal Q&A. On traditional boards we used there would be an informal method of agreeing with someone in which you would simply quote their post and submit that, sort of like quoting and saying “this” or . Most boards would discourage it, but large quote pyramids were a standard result at times.
After switching to Discourse, many of our members took issue with the inability to do this. Now that I think of it, we haven’t been seeing any of those anymore because of this. Maybe I’d change my mind seeing them reintroduced, but looking back on it (with possibly rose-tinted glasses) is a bit sad.
Making an empty post is less of an issue. It can be achieved anyways by inserting a <br>.
I would be very surprised to hear that people totally abandoned a community just because they refuse to add an emoji or letter after a quote
I think a much more likely reason is that the system is new and people hate change, Discourse introduces mountains of change over “traditional” forums.
Haha, you’d be surprised how much of an uproar there was over a few things. I didn’t expect it, but it took a bit of time for people to get used to the lack of pages. People argued in favor of pages for a while, and some still mention it now and then, but obviously there’s no changing that.
I think generally we maybe expected more flexibility than we found in Discourse. It shows up in odd places. It’s still a better alternative for a lot of different reasons. I can’t confirm how many have left for one or another reason; I think the people who actively complain were just expecting lots of good change and no bad change. I’ve been surprised by a couple of things, but when I post about them here it’s generally in trying to fix something harmless that the users would enjoy.
Unfortunately the few devs that we have in our group either don’t have the time or don’t have the expertise to do much development on plugins or Discourse, but I saw this topic and wanted to mention that maybe an old feature (minimum post length zero) had possibly disappeared erroneously. Hardly a critical feature, but if it’s actually still working and I just don’t know what I’m doing then I’d love to hear about it.
Really loving Discourse, it’s fast, very functional and has a lot of things to configure (which is good).
I’ve run into a specific scenario. We have a Question/Answer style of forum, sometimes the questions are very small and don’t require a post body but there is the admin interface limit of minimum 1 character
Can the limit be made configurable individually for the OP and the people replying? (i.e. I would like the possibility of the OP not requiring a body and the people replying have a specific reply length requirement.
Possibility of the limits being set to 0. ( it will only limit the use cases of a stock Discourse installation. )
Also, is it possible to change the template of the topic through a plugin? (Should I look into plugin development?)
Entschuldigen Sie, dass ich diesen alten Thread wieder aufgreife.
Wir verwenden Discourse, um Mailinglisten zu ersetzen. Leute senden E-Mails mit Betreffzeilen wie z. B. „Meeting today at 8pm in the red house EOM“ und einem (Sie können es sich denken) leeren Body. Dies ist ein akzeptiertes Verhalten. Daher möchte ich die min post length und die min first post length auf 0 setzen. Wenn ich
richtig verstehe, sollte dies möglich sein. Leider scheint die Mindestlänge für mich anscheinend 1 zu sein. Was habe ich falsch gemacht?
Das wurde vielleicht geändert, seit Jeff diesen Beitrag 2013 geschrieben hat. Es sieht so aus, als ob die minimale Beitragszeichenbegrenzung 1 ist, die maximale 2.000.000.000.
Leute, die leere E-Mails senden, bei denen die einzige Nachricht der Betreff der E-Mail ist, mögen für Mailinglisten akzeptables Verhalten sein, aber das kann immer noch nervig und unnötig sein, auf diese Weise zu kommunizieren.
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Menschen, die leere E-Mails mit nur dem Betreff der E-Mail senden, mögen für Mailinglisten akzeptables Verhalten sein, das kann jedoch trotzdem ärgerlich und unnötig sein, auf diese Weise zu kommunizieren
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Obwohl ich zustimme, dass dies kann ärgerlich und unnötig sein, bedeutet das nicht, dass es muss ärgerlich und unnötig sein. Wie bereits erwähnt, ist in diesem Kontext der Einsatz von Discours als Ersatz für eine Mailingliste ein akzeptiertes Verhalten. Ehrlich gesagt, sehe ich keinen Vorteil darin, einen einzelnen Buchstaben (z.B. “.”) gegenüber einem leeren Body zu haben.
Wenn es also auf “min 1” geändert wurde, würde ich es begrüßen, wenn die Konfigurationsoption auch “0” als untere Grenze erlauben würde.
. Most boards would discourage it, but large quote pyramids were a standard result at times.
