Forum Activity for @soaringeagle

brian:

Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are getting at, but I don't know if I can agree. The DataStore "backend" that JR uses for everything - blogs, galleries, forum, etc. - is all the same - basically a key/value store. However, the data that each of these contains is going to be very different i.e. a "create gallery" form is really about the images, so let's upload a hundred. A "blog" is about some long-form text. It may or may not have an image. How they are displayed is also going to be different as each has a very different focus.

Regardless though, "comments" on any of these items should appear uniform (in my opinion) - the easiest way to confuse people is to present the same thing to a user in multiple ways. So the site owner can set how they want comments to be be site wide, which I think will lead to the least amount of confusion amongst our users.

This whole thread about "comment back" really is just a URL that links to the commentor's profile. That's already on every comment by default in Jamroom, it just does not say "comment back" - it's linked by their profile URL (i.e. like this: @brian).

I think the the "overarching" theme that I hear from Ning users coming to Jamroom is that THEIR users (not Ning users coming to Jamroom) are easily confused and pretty much everything needs to have a very explicit link that says CLICK HERE TO DO THIS or else it is going to be an issue. From my end I have to just try to "balance" what we actually put in to JR versus what we say "you need to customize this at your template level" as frankly some of the Ning style of doing things is very, very dated to me (but that's just my 2 cents).

Anyway, I likely misunderstood you but maybe that helps.

Thanks!

Strumelia:
And here's what happens with your code added, Soaring: