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?)
오래된 스레드를 다시 올리는 점 죄송합니다.
우리는 메일링 리스트를 대체하기 위해 discourse를 사용하고 있습니다. 사람들이 “오늘 저녁 8시 빨간 집에서 회의 EOM” 같은 제목으로 본문이 (상상할 수 있듯이) 비어 있는 이메일을 보내고 있습니다. 이는 허용되는 행동입니다. 따라서 min post length와 min first post length를 0으로 설정하고 싶습니다. 제가 이해한 바로는
이렇게 해야 가능한 것 같습니다. 불행히도 제 경우 최소 길이는 1인 것 같습니다. 제가 뭘 잘못했을까요?
동의하는 부분도 있지만, 이것이 반드시 성가시고 불필요해야 한다는 뜻은 아닙니다. 언급했듯이, 디스코스를 메일링 리스트 대용으로 사용하는 이 맥락에서는 허용되는 행동입니다. 솔직히 말하면, 비어 있는 본문보다 단일 문자(예: “.”)를 사용하는 데 어떤 장점이 있는지 이해하지 못하겠습니다.
따라서 이 값이 "최소 1"로 변경된다면, 설정 옵션이 "0"을 하한선으로 허용하도록 해 주시면 좋겠습니다.
. Most boards would discourage it, but large quote pyramids were a standard result at times.
