I think it feels too Discord-like in design, as if these are real-time rather than something where you pace yourself.
I feel the same way, that it feels like a chatroom, but I also like that. The most important thing to me is that we have a searchable, indexable forum where context is maintained, and history is preserved.
This is a bit silly, but I was curious if you could you add a button to make the text editor a floating popout window so we can move it around/expand it on its own? my eyesight pretty bad now and I have to zoom in pretty frequently. Would be a compliment to that.
it's also kinda weird that the "last read" line just goes to the bottom of all messages instead of disappearing when you read all of the messages in a thread
Feels so cluttered with just double ups of the same/irrelevant information.
Remove the whole middle column, 95% of it is just listing the exact same threads that are already shown in the main window aside from a new thread button, move new thread button into the main window, probably where all the dead space is in the top right, this would give us 15% of our screen back.
Having the sbox -> Forums -> General feels irrelevant as well. There are no sub categories (at the moment anyway) so you can already see what category you're in via the sidebar, clicking Forums just takes you back to General, and clicking sbox is the same as clicking the logo in the top left. Having some kind of sort by new/unread/popular/etc. would probably be a better use of this space. Could then throw the forum category in the middle of the new thread and the sort field.In terms of suggestions, adding tags to threads that are visible from the thread view and also searchable would be good, while letting OPs update them as needed (particularly if they make a question thread which is later answered, they can update the tag to answered). Would allow for easier filtering for people wanting to provide help as well as just finer categorization without further cluttering or adding new columns to the UI. A few suggestions of possible tags might be:
Question/Help
Answered
Request
Release
Official (limited to FP obvs for things like news posts etc.)
Ability to see number of replies since last read would be nice too.
Shit example below Personally any kind of avatar or profile customization or reactions/ratings I couldn't give a shit about - so long as the forum posts are organized and readable.
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Deleting replies and threads (or even locking) would be nice to indicate it's outdated/incorrect/answered, even if the content is still available.
Editing replies and threads (in a non-reply way like it is now) is a definite must.
Would be nice to add a little dot next to the numbers to indicate new replies to commented threads or something? I guess once I know what the numbers are supposed to mean it might help though.
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Broke my edit chain :(
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Oh nevermind it appears there already is one so ignore this one.
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If I could edit or delete my original message it'd be easier.
The only way I am able to see if a thread is locked is if I go into it and scroll down to the reply section - needs some kind of visual indicator from even before I click on the thread (and maybe even a visual indicator while you're in the thread?)
