List of forum improvement requests

[Christiaan]

REQUESTED (TWEAKS):

1. Add subforum for Datamanager [wish]
2. Add link for https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/clubs/ to navigation menu [wish]
3. Fix image resizing [wish]
4. Improve image insertion [wish]
5. Re-enable ability to upvote people's posts in one's own thread [wish]
6. Add ability to label people's posts as 'Helpful' [wish]
7. Add ability to add Tags to posts in all subforums [wish]
8. Enable community management of wishes granted [wish]
9. Re-enable ability to review content [wish]
10. Bring back the reputation button next to people's posts [wish]
11. Correct configuration of all-day events in calendar [wish]
12. Figure out why new people use their name in the subject title [wish]

 

REQUESTED (MAJOR FEATURES):

1. Add community Wiki module to forum [wish]
2. Add 'Official Status' of each wishlist item [wish]
3. Add ability to bookmark posts within the forum software [wish]
4. Add a "Solutions Leaderboard" [wish]
5. Mobile forum improvements [wish]

 

MAYBE NOT NEEDED ANYMORE:

1. Move 'Insert other media' button [wish]

 

IMPLEMENTED:

1. Pin 'Solutions' to top of thread [wish] ✅
2. Add subforum 'Forum' ✅
3. Add Energos subforum [wish] ✅
4. Rename "Forum" subforum to "Forum Feedback" [wish] ✅

 

[Edit: Thread changed from 'The forum is lacking active management' to '`Forum improvements requests']

[Andy Broomell]

There's also still the issue when you insert an image into a post then double click to set its size, the value is set to "0" instead of the current pixel dimensions of the image. So you have to guess at what number to type in. It wasn't this way when the new forums were first introduced a number of years ago. Then something changed and this issue arose...

 

But more importantly the lack of attentive forum moderation and organization is missed. JimW was fantastic.

 

 

Also, the fact that there's a "Wishes Granted" subforum with nothing new from the last 2-3 years is awkward.

[Kevin McAllister]

There's no question that the forum has languished since JimW left. I do appreciate the VW staff that do visit and participate, but there is no active ownership of the forum like there was under JimW.

 

Kevin

 

[unearthed]

On 12/17/2021 at 1:16 AM, Christiaan said:

1. Subforum for forum

Back in the day when Jim was around the forum took leaps and bounds, but since his exit there's been less active management, and things seem to be slipping through the net. See item 2 to 4 below as a sample.

 

To help mitigate the loss of Jim, can we have a subforum for the forum so that we separate out topics about the forum from everything else? I think this would help us users and VW staff to actively maintain the forum a bit better.

 

All of these posts could be moved to such a subforum: https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/search/&tags=forum

 

2. Ability to mark trouble-shooting solutions

In June there was forum update and I noticed this little tag for the first time (which isn't always visible for some reason). I'm not sure how long this has been around but it's the number of one's posts that have been marked as "solutions" (or "community answers") in the trouble-shooting sub-forum.

 

But we seem to have lost the ability to mark posts as "solutions" many years ago. Certainly if I go to any of my trouble-shooting posts I'm unable to mark any of the answers as solutions.

1. Can we have this ability back, to mark answers as solutions? https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/68627-ability-to-upvote-responses-to-my-own-trouble-shooting-posts/
2. Having the ability to upvote helpful answers (but which are not the solution) would also be useful.
3. And can we also have a Solutions leaderboard widget: https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/85002-solutions-leaderboard-widget/

3. Events calendar subscription all-day events still not resolved

This problem is still not resolved, where all-day events blot out the calendar: https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/80308-correct-configuration-of-all-day-events-in-community-calendar/

 

4. Datamanager subforum

This seems like a good idea, but it's been lost in the VW Wishlist subforum, as my posts above have been, so would also benefit from have a subforum for the forum.

https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/90440-vw-forum-needs-a-datamanager-subforum/

 

I belong to a group blog (30000 members) and they have a meta-page to raise issues, suggestions and problems about the forum. Might something like that be helpful here? I see this forum as critical to being able to operate with VW, I'm surprised VW does not involve themselves more in it. Rhino's forum is slightly better, Sketchucation is probably the best working forum.

 

This forum definitively needs to enforce a users VW platform (win/mac) and version  - that wastes a lot of time, and if I don't see (or already know) that info I wont go and look at topic.

 

(a good forum is almost as important as the software IMO as there's plenty of good CADs that are basically useless without a user-group working out how to operate.) 

[Christiaan]

What I'm finding now is that we can't even upvote any answers to our own trouble-shooting posts at all. The forum is starting to feel decidedly broken.

 

I've added items 5 & 6.

Edited June 24, 2022 by Christiaan

[Christiaan]

@Matt Panzer @Gunther @SteveJ @JuanP sorry to loop you in but I don't know who else to ask. Can you bring this thread to the attention of somebody who can address it?

Edited June 24, 2022 by Christiaan

[JuanP]

@Christiaan Thank you for bringing this up. We seem to have some platform updates that may have caused issues with the forum. We will look into these issues asap.

[Christiaan]

Thanks @JuanP

[Christiaan]

Forum request spotted in the wild:

 

[JuanP]

@Christiaan Thank you for the reminder...Energos forum ✔️ 

It is under the General section.

Have a great weekend!

[Christiaan]

4 minutes ago, JuanP said:

@Christiaan Thank you for the reminder...Energos forum ✔️ 

It is under the General section.

Have a great weekend!

Great, thank you. Did you just add that? Can we have all threads with Energos in their title moved to there?

[Christiaan]

And while you're at it can we have a sub-forum in Feedback called "Forum"?

 

And have all these posts moved to it:

https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/search/&tags=forum

Edited September 30, 2022 by Christiaan

[JuanP]

49 minutes ago, Christiaan said:

Can we have all threads with Energos in their title moved to there?

I moved some of the most current posts to the new Energos area - Some others I think are irrelevant at this point.

 

[JuanP]

1 hour ago, Christiaan said:

And while you're at it can we have a sub-forum in Feedback called "Forum"?

 

And have all these posts moved to it:

https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/search/&tags=forum

Done - I moved the most recent and relevant posts. 

[twk]

Much welcomed changes, thanks @JuanP.

 

And thanks too to @Christiaan, you're a legend for keeping these discussions going and effecting change!

[Christiaan]

🙌🏼

[Christiaan]

On 9/30/2022 at 7:59 PM, JuanP said:

Done - I moved the most recent and relevant posts. 

Brilliant, thanks @JuanP. I'm currently unable to post anything into the forum sub-forum though. The permissions need updating I guess.

Edited October 3, 2022 by Christiaan

[JuanP]

7 hours ago, Christiaan said:

I'm currently unable to post anything into the forum sub-forum though.

I updated the permissions, could you try again and confirm? - thanks

[line-weight]

Looks like it works for me now.

[Christiaan]

40 minutes ago, JuanP said:

I updated the permissions, could you try again and confirm? - thanks

All good, just posted this one:

https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/101884-better-management-of-wishes-granted/

 

[Christiaan]

Intriguing.

 

[Christiaan]

I've changed the original post in this thread to a list of all requested improvements to the forum, to keep a better track of them.

[FBernardo]

Hi all, is there a Dark mode setting for the forum?

[Christiaan]

yeap

 

[FBernardo]

2 hours ago, Christiaan said:

yeap

 

 

Thanks @ChristiaanI have never noticed that because it's at the very bottom and I think I never scrolled that far! Thanks 🙂

[Christiaan]

I've divided the list into two categories now: tweaks and major features.