Forum Activity for @claygordon

Any More Live N2JR Sites?

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Looking at my activity log ... now that DNS is working - and before I send out the message to members - people are visiting the site and claiming their accounts.

Coolio!

Any More Live N2JR Sites?

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Paul -

You can add mine to the list tomorrow now that DNS is working. I will be sending out the email to members (via Mailgun - got that working yesterday) later tonight. There are still changes I want to make to the new member sign-up form so that I capture data into the right fields of the member database so they can be displayed on the profile.

Screenshot attached.
Testimonial TK.

updated by @claygordon: 01/19/15 12:26:29PM

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Brian -

A note about threaded comments - and this is something Ning-y.

But first, a digression as I mentioned above ...

There is no fundamental difference, from a data structures perspective, between forum posts, blog posts, memos, private notes, etc. You can easily have a superset of all the db fields and change the context in which any object is displayed. Photos, too. (And email while we're at it.)

The semantic difference between a blog post and a forum post is that when I post in a Forum I am asking a question for which I am looking for answers. When I post a blog I am telling a story and I am less interested in getting responses.

Forum discussions tend to generate a lot of replies to replies, hence nesting is a good idea -- you can see the branch point. From a UI/UX perspective, you should be able to expand/collapse a set of nested replies if the topic devolves or evolves in a direction that's uninteresting.

On the other hand, in a blog, replies tend to be to the post, not to other replies. This is not universal, of course, but it is one way of differentiating between Forums and Blogs.

For my .02, I would like the display/sort order in Forums to be strictly in order. The first response is displayed first. You can invert this, but that brings in the question of sort orders within nested replies, which can get very gnarly very quickly. So - I'd just punt and only offer strictly ordered presentation.

In a blog, I would permanently disable threading and give the administrator the option for the default sort order and then give the visitor the option to change the sort order. There's an icon for this in Images/Galleries.

OTHERWISE, there's no functional/data difference between Galleries and Blogs. And, if that's the case, I want the ability to re-parent blog posts into forum discussions (and vice versa) (and from site forums into Group forums) because a lot of users do not know the difference between posts and blogs and post in "the wrong place."

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Right -

The link to Jen's Social needs to go in one of the Creator's Forum threads on Ning alternatives.

Teensy Tiny Thing: Title of 404 page is Home ... should be 404?

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Brian -

One of the great things about open source development is lots of eyeballs. Everybody will be looking at different things.

What's nice about this is that I don't have to do the actual coding and making any commits. And believe me - you do not want me to be doing the coding.

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Paul -

As a member of the JR team I don't think it would be good politics for you to post the link. I saw that both SE and Strumelia have been active in the Ning alternatives fora, so maybe they (or me, or others who have made the leap) can do it.

DNS is now pointing properly ... but I now cannot log in

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I am thinking that may be the case. I have forgotten the shell command to clear the DNS cache. I know there is one ... ooooh, maybe it's in my terminal history?


Mac OSX 10.7
updated by @claygordon: 01/19/15 11:27:05AM

Teensy Tiny Thing: Title of 404 page is Home ... should be 404?

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Just a small thing.

The page title is not in 404.tpl But 404.tpl has a call to:

But that's not where the page title is set.

Any **simple** way to change the page title to 404?

updated by @claygordon: 02/26/15 02:30:32PM

DNS is now pointing properly ... but I now cannot log in

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Yep, it's just a Chrome issue at the moment - even after clearing the browser cache. Works in Safari and Firefox. I am going to close Chrome and restart and hopefully that will solve the problem.

Changing text

Profile Badges


Did this ever get done? And is it really a language file? I'd think you'd want to pull from the site's member quota datastore and then enable people to assign graphics to quota names pulled from the datastore.

In any event, I'd like to implement badges but I can't as there is no overlap in naming.