Design of the Forum

[PotomacCyclist]

@Tim Kelley 98277 wrote:

New search implemented! Take a look and let us know if it’s any better…

Interesting. I think it’s the best solution, short of re-engineering the entire site and search function (which might take decades and millions of man hours!).

[hozn]

Nothing against this site, but I really hate forum software. The backends are either all the same or clones of each other and IMO they’re all horrible, horrible software. Threads that go on for thousands of posts are completely useless. Search is worthless (but much better now that it’s using Google; thanks, Tim!). Obviously my feelings run deep. It’s too bad, because this one, anyway, is a great community resource! And there’s little excuse for these tools being so remedial. Forum software looks just like it did 15 years ago.

(I typically just use Tapatalk, which provides a simpler — but I would suggest more pleasant — interface. Or just the activity stream. IMO there isn’t enough forum activity to get that worked up about dividing things into different discussion boards.)

I did a bit of Googling to see what innovation might be out there for how to organize community forums. I found an interesting survey: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/internet-forums-reimagined-future-of-online-discussions/ . In particular something like Discource (http://www.discourse.org/) would probably be an easy fit, since it’s open-source (hence, free, as in beer and speech). Their online demo/sandbox was a little hard to make sense of since people are just trying all sorts of random stuff. The tagging is cool. I dunno, food for thought, anyway.

[Tim Kelley]

FYI–I think the tapatalk “like” function should be working now. Let us know if it isn’t.

[cyclingfool]

@Tim Kelley 98922 wrote:

FYI–I think the tapatalk “like” function should be working now. Let us know if it isn’t.

Exciting! I’ll have to check. Not having “like” was one of the biggest things keeping me from using Tapatalk more often.

The other is getting practically no cell mobile service at my office (4 ft thick stone walls don’t play nice with cell signals on an already inferior network, go figure), but I can’t blame the forum for that.

[americancyclo]

@Tim Kelley 98922 wrote:

FYI–I think the tapatalk “like” function should be working now. Let us know if it isn’t.

Hooray

Liked from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk 2

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Tim Kelley 98922 wrote:

FYI–I think the tapatalk “like” function should be working now. Let us know if it isn’t.

“Liked” from Tapatalk on my iPhone!

[Tim Kelley]

Calendar function added. Check it out on the links across the top!

[dkel]

@Tim Kelley 99163 wrote:

Calendar function added. Check it out on the links across the top!

Neato!!

[UnknownCyclist]

Wow… No limits on who can set up events. 😎

[rcannon100]

Can we have a sub-forum where whining is strictly forbidden?

[cyclingfool]

@rcannon100 99517 wrote:

Can we have a sub-forum where whining is strictly forbidden?

Stop your whining and deal with it.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@rcannon100 99517 wrote:

Can we have a sub-forum where whining is strictly forbidden?

I hate that idea.

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