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?)
Désolé d’exhumer ce vieux fil de discussion.
Nous utilisons Discourse pour remplacer les listes de diffusion. Les gens envoient des e-mails avec des sujets comme « Réunion aujourd’hui à 20h dans la maison rouge FINDE », et un corps (vous l’aurez deviné) vide. C’est un comportement accepté. Par conséquent, j’aimerais régler min post length et min first post length sur 0. Si je comprends
correctement, cela devrait être possible. Malheureusement, il semble que la longueur minimale soit 1 pour moi. Qu’ai-je mal fait ?
Cela a peut-être été modifié depuis que Jeff a écrit ce message en 2013, il semble que la limite minimale de caractères par message soit de 1, et la limite maximale de 2 000 000 000.
Les personnes envoyant des e-mails vides avec pour seul message l’objet de l’e-mail peuvent être un comportement acceptable pour les listes de diffusion, mais cela peut toujours être ennuyeux et inutile de communiquer de cette façon.
Bien que je sois d’accord que cela peut être ennuyeux et inutile, cela ne signifie pas que cela doit l’être. Comme indiqué, dans ce contexte d’utilisation de Discourse comme remplacement d’une liste de diffusion, c’est un comportement accepté. Pour être honnête, je ne vois pas l’avantage d’avoir un seul caractère (par exemple, “.”) par rapport à un corps vide.
Ainsi, si cela était changé en « min 1 », je serais heureux si l’option de configuration permettait « 0 » comme limite inférieure.
. Most boards would discourage it, but large quote pyramids were a standard result at times.
