| Multiple groups in one [message #17140] |
Thu, 18 March 2004 09:21  |
humus
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I know I'm pushing it, but hey - these are only suggestions to keep FUD five steps ahead!
Say you have split a topic into several groups. E.g. "Soccer" - with subgroups "Premier League", "national soccer", "international soccer" etc.
Now, some users are only interested in one of those groups, and will stay there. But others like to discuss everything concerning soccer, and HATE having to jump back and forth between those different groups to keep up-to-date.
Now, to keep them happy, would it be possible to give them the option to see all messages from several group gathered in one group? See what I mean?
One way to do it could be to define a "personal" page in their profile, where they can choose which groups they are interested in. Then they can open their "custom" page, whith the latest threads from several groups gathered.
Another, simpler(?) way might be to be able to split the current groups into sub-groups. Eg. you would have a group "Soccer", with the sub-groups "national,", "international" aso. If you click the main group "soccer", you'd get the threads from all the sub-groups.
Am I way off? 'Cause I really see the point of this in a forum with 200.000+ registered users an 3 million+ messages...
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| Re: Multiple groups in one [message #17147 is a reply to message #17140] |
Thu, 18 March 2004 13:24  |
Ilia
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Use subscriptions to do the same thing. Let users subscribe to the forums/topics they are interested in and then they can easily view messages inside just those topics/forums.
FUDforum Core Developer
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| Re: Multiple groups in one [message #17263 is a reply to message #17252] |
Mon, 22 March 2004 14:34 |
humus
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OK. That's neat enough (doesnt' work in Opera, BTW, but that's no big deal).
BUT: This means I'll get every single message - and that's too much when the traffic is high.
I've tried to illustrate exactly what I'm looking for here. This is an example of what a "custom page" might look like. In this example, the user is "subscribing" to two forums: FUDforum Suggestions and FUDforum Installation Issues. As you see, the threads from those two forums are merges into one, neat group - with all the threads in reversed chronological - same as normal.
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| Re: Multiple groups in one [message #17318 is a reply to message #17310] |
Thu, 25 March 2004 16:00 |
Ilia
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I am not saying that, just that this is a very specialized tool that even on large forums is not always useful. FUDforum is sufficiently fast to use the existing interface on large forums.
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...ok... You're the Boss, so I'll have to see if I can get someone here to work on it, because I really think it's a very useful feature, and without it I might not be able to use FUD for our forum. 
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