Forum & Groups
Published by Vlasta on June 28th.
This week, there was a minor change to the forums, something that was planned and missing. Also, since nobody has created a group yet, I'll tell you how to do that today.
Forums
You have no doubt noticed that the Forum tab was removed during the website update. While previously, there were 13 forum sections, 5 main sections and 8 minor ones, now there are just 5, or 4 if you exclude the Announcements forum, which is special and only admins can create topics there. From the remaining 4, the Requests forum stands out in a sense that its function would be replaceable by a specialized page. This may eventually happen. And so, we are left with just 3 forum sections: Software support, Graphic design, and Off-topic chat. These are placed in different tabs. Oh, BTW the former forum tab still exists in a different form.
The reason for this change was an imbalance in activity in the old forum sections. Also, sometimes people did not know where they should start a new topic or where to look for their topic if admin moved it. The reduction of forum sections should eliminate the confusion. On the other hand, the subfora made it easier to keep similar topics together. To compensate for the reduction of forum sections, tags were introduced.
Up until this week you could assign tags to topics, but it only affected the icons on your topic. From this week on, you can also use the tags to filter topics in each forum. If you go to a forum page, you will see a line of tags above the list of topics. If you click on a tag, topics with that tag will be moved to the top of the list. In some cases, you can choose more than one tag by pressing the little + next to it. This system allows you to quickly find what you are looking for. If your goal is to participate in a pointless flame war about nothing at all, just go to the Off-topic forum and activate the Garbage tag.
In order to activate the newest functionality, a change to some javascript code was necessary. If something related to the tags does not seem to work, try pressing F5 or CTRL+F5 to refresh the page.
Yeah, and the button that allows you to subscribe to a topic is back on the topic page if you hover above the main post.
And finally, assigning the correct tags to your topics is now pretty important. Talking about important, if the Important tag is misused, it will be karma-locked.
Groups
The main purpose of user groups is to let people create and administer their own forums, where only selected people can participate. Since nobody has created a custom user group and almost 2 months have passed, maybe the creation process is too obscure and difficult. But it should be difficult, I do not want everyone to create a group for themselves and having hundreds of groups with no members.
So, here is how you create a user group:
- Get a pet.
- Make it sentient.
- Inspire it to become a group manager.
If you already have a sentient pet from the old days, just go to step 3 and you are done. If you were not yet born or able to use computers while the sentient pets were being handed around, you'll have to buy a pet from Scunkie, obtain a karma blob, and use it to make your pet sentient. Karma blobs can be created by people with at least 150 karma using the karma wheel, but be aware that it will cost you 50 karma. This system ensures that only people, who have been active for some time on the web in a positive manner, can create new groups.
That said, the group system is as of yet only lightly tested and there may be bugs and things may change in the future.
Recent comments
The forum change is very convenient, as assigning proper tags allows us to search for any forum post by type and category. Of course, the majority of the forum archive won't be affected, but that's to be expected.
I really want to start a group to test things out, so I will buy a pet and gradually level him up (which will cost the 50 buttons you gave me a few months back).
Quick note, I've been absent-minded lately (ever since I rushed high school English), and try to look up how stuff works without learning the core concept of the thing I'm trying to do, such as coding. This inspires me to look for clues around the website that lead to the answer.
No, this isn't written by AI, since I absolutely hate it.
learning coding is these days harder than in the past, because computers are everywhere and your first project won't amaze anyone like it used to in the past - by
Vlasta on June 28th
I had a suspicion the karma blob had something to do with making pets sentient after I used the blob to anoint my green spray paint dispenser and it didn't do anything.
are users allowed to create more than one group and if they are allowed to create more than one group and if they can is their a limit to the number of groups a user can create.
anything? what a shame... anyway, you can create multiple groups, each one effectively costs 50 buttons and 50 karma - by
Vlasta on June 28th
yes which those prices and karma aren't unreasonable you can earn in 9 days if you earn 6 buttons a day by reviewing 6 sets a day. - by
The Male Boss on June 28th
as for karma it will very per user apologies for some comments as I accidentally hit the enter button by accident. - by
The Male Boss on June 28th
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