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Finding things and communicating

Suggestions

Difficult to ell without seeing which cat each search result is in. It needs a search results header, and it showed this thread as unread (I do still see some entirely read categories and posts marked as unread elsewhere though).

Finding things and communicating

Suggestions

Blog first, tag second

Finding things and communicating

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It would, but right now almost every thread mentions documentation. I did like searching by user in phpbb, I used it very often, especially if a long list of results came up on the first search.

I don't much like them myself. And definitely, definitely better to make people to post their questions and answers in the forum. The idea of a timeline just seems so missable though. Michael will never reply and I won't be able to sleep tonight.

Yeah, I can sleep with that. If I wasn't developing I'd be subscribing.


livesearch would have helped with that. Or maybe tagging the items with multiple keywords/search terms. I knew I could go and find it from my dev site's marketplace, but internet is slow tonight so I looked for the quick fix from the mothership - search the storefront listing for a module to do the job.

Finding things and communicating

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This isn’t a fully formed suggestion, more of a jamroom.net user experience report.

The new jamroom.net site is great, but I am having a few minor problems finding things and communicating.

This morning I couldn’t find a forum post. Michael asked me about writing documentation a couple of days back, but I couldn’t find it searching in the forum (the search is very simple, searching for Michael mentioning documentation would have brought up a very long list or results, though I would have gone through the lot finding it) - instead I gave up and tried to contact him via the site.

The only option I found (outside of the support center or creating a forum thread on his profile) was to try posting into the timeline @michael, I have no idea if anyone reads these timelines, I rarely do. I might be overlooking something. He might be ignoring me, I have no idea how these things work.

And then just now I came to jamroom.net to find some info about a module mentioned by a client, so went to the network marketplace, but there was no option for searching the module. So I tried the site search instead, but that brought up zero results. ("geolocation" was my search term)

Hmmm, can’t think of what to suggest, so just posting my user exp instead. They are minor things and I’m entirely loving the new look and wonderful functionality. The simplicity of everything is awesome but I like to find things and communicate easily.

Disclaimer: I’m crap at finding things and have sometimes have trouble communicating when I’m not at the computer as well, so it may be a wider issue than jamroom.net’s usability.
updated by @ultrajam: 12/20/13 08:13:05PM

"Developers Guide to Customizing Jamroom" udemy course

Jamroom Developers

Getting a small bunch of tutorials up on DO might be a good idea as well. Get Jamroom seen by other DO users.

You could write a couple of articles on how to set up a vps for jr5.

If there were a Jamroom section on the DO community page I'd add a virtualmin/Jamroom article.

Documentation Comments

Suggestions

Comments on docs can work really well eg php.net

Not many people commented on the jr4 docs though.

Welcome to Jamroom5! Jamroom 5 is a powerful flexible

Off Topic

Yes, that sounds correct. It does say that until you change it.

Recommended hosting

Jamroom Hosting

I'm using Digital Ocean for test sites and it is a great system. Spinning up droplets around the world from snapshots is a great feature, and it is billed hourly so it costs cents to create a new server, try something out and then destroy it at the end of the day.

Previously I used Linode, which was more powerful but $20/month for one vps whilst DO is only costing $5/month per vps.

https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=af397f6188f8

Custom Skin Enhancement

Jamroom Developers

ACP is the Admin Control Panel.

Whilst developing, you would want to install the Developer module and turn on developer mode. That will cause the js and css to be rebuilt on every page load, slightly slower, but you need this if you are working on js or css files. Other wise the js is only rebuilt occasionally.

Docs module dropdown nav shows all parts of all articles

Using Jamroom

Using the Docs module here on jamroom.net, I see every part of every article in the Update Document dropdown menu in the banner.

Shouldn't that just show a list of the articles?
updated by @ultrajam: 12/18/13 04:33:39PM