Unified Forum
Suggestions
I like how each JR site / user can have their own forum. Though, it would be great if there was some way (maybe there is) to have some kind of unified forum.
For the JR.net site it works. Most people will be posting on the Jamroom Network forum. But what if a site has 10K members and each one has a forum? If I was a member of that site I would want the ability to go to one central location to see posts from all the members forums. I wouldn't want to have to go to X members forum to post, then to another X members forum to make another post, etc.
Maybe an addition to the members sites a mod called favorite forums - where there would be a list of all the forums I was interested in. A quick link section to those forums. An additional button on each members forum to "Follow this forum" which then the forum would appear in the members favorite forums list. Additionally, each forum which is followed would have - "this forum is being followed by X number of members".
So, I would love to see:
1. A main site repo for all people forums.
2. A mod in the members sites for favorite forums which links to each members forum I like. It would also displays other info from each liked forum - last 10 posts, etc. So, I would know if I wanted to visit that members forum to make a post or not.
I would check out discourse.org. It's the latest and greatest forum software being developed by one of the stackoverflow creators. It's a unique re-boot of the traditional forum software. It's open source and written in Rails, but I'm sure you could get some great ideas from the development. The main site is discourse.org and the development forum - running the software is meta.discourse.org.
updated by @jimmy: 12/15/13 11:13:06AM
