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Jump to unread comments in Idea Exchange

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a week ago

Many of our ideas have pages of comments on them. The sort of "board-view" of the idea exchange tells me how many comments I haven't read. I want to jump right to the unread comments like I can in the forums. Today, I need to click on the comments link and then slowly click "Next" until I get to the page that has the unread comments. I can't even tell what page I need to stop on to see the unread comments.

This should work more like a forum board where I can click on something that takes me to unread comments.

Provide Options for collapsing threaded view to show only thread titles

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on 10-15-2009 10:29 AM

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Following the upgrade to version 9, we've have some internal users note that when viewing the forum in "Topic" view (threaded) that all the post replies are shown at the board view. For long discussions with more than 10 replies or so, this can make the user have to flip through several pages before getting to the next thread.

REQUESTED FUNCTION / IDEA:

Provide a toggle option in user profile controlling threaded view to expand all or collapse all threads. At the board view, implement the familiar [+] [-] type widget next to the discussion balloon icon (or maybe the balloon could have the +/- on it ) to allow users to expand / collapse individual threads to see all replies. This toggle icon would only appear on the board when the user had their profile selected for topic (threaded) view vs linear view.

Better visibility for RSS

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on 03-03-2009 04:14 AM

Lithium provides great possibilities for RSS feeds. With Advanced Search, anyone can create custom feeds with practically no limitations.

However, many users never find the feeds as they are hidden in the Options or Search Options dropdowns.

How about making the RSS logo prominently visible in every place where you can create a feed?

These should include feeds from

- community level (new topics / new posts)

- board level (new topics / new posts)

- post level (replies)

- search options (custom feed based on search terms)

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JuhisH, I agree with you. When we have the option to subscribe to content with RSS, why hide it and make it hard to find, especially when RSS is a common action an end user would look for. This is a question we ask ourselves quite often. Thanks for bringing this up!

Social Bookmarking for all Community content (opt-in)

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on 03-26-2009 10:37 AM

We have identified that allowing users to actively share their own content or that of other members could help grow the community and add value for our members. Having seen the social bookmarking icons in the Ideas tool, how can we utilize this within all threads, or better yet, all posts?

I envision this as either part of the signature, i.e., check box "Add Social Bookmarking Bar to my Signature," or embedded in the User sidebar of each post (again, maybe an opt-in feature). Alternately, if not available on a post level, add the bar automatically to the title-bar area (on right?) of the first post in a thread. This perhaps would be a community-level auto-opt-in setting with an opt-out checkbox for the message composer.

This is about choices on how to share content - both at the community level and the thread/post level.

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I saw this one coming

. Good idea, no doubt. In order to be consistent with how we share the social bookmarking bar "share this" in ideas and blogs, we will have a similar way for adding the bar to forums. Question for you all: Does it make sense to have the "share this" option for all posts or only for the root message (thread)? I think the latter makes more sense.

Auto Expiry of Placeholders

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on 12-18-2008 04:22 PM

As clutter goes, I think it would be great if placeholders (you know...when you move posts) can be set to expire (delete) after a set period of time. I think a week is sufficient time for the OP to come back, discover their post has moved, and go about their business.

This could be either a global setting, or perhaps a per-action setting like "mark placeholder read-only" is today. Perhaps the Admin could set the default expiry time and optionally choose "Placeholder Expires" or "Never Expire" when moving a post.

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Agreed! We'll look into this. Thanks for the idea.

Deeper Twitter (Tweet or ReTweet) integration for Blogs/Forums

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on 07-07-2009 05:45 PM

I don't know about you, but we are integrating Twitter pretty heavily into our community suite, and we'd really like to see a more visible option to tweet about (or retweet) a blog article (than is available in the current Share module.

I really like the BackType 'Tweetcount' feature for Wordpress blogs, which gives you the ability to twitter about the article, or retweet it, as well as showing how many people have done it already.

I'd like to see the (optional) ability to turn a feature like this on for a blog, and help in the syndication and promotion of our content.

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Support for other browsers!

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on 01-31-2009 11:26 AM

there should be better suport for Safari,Goole Chrome, Mozilla 5.0 (PLAYSTATION 1.00)

here the problem,when posting the message invalid html becomes visible err i like typing in html but the editor is both faster and easier!

its Very annoying i had to download firefox just to use the forums!!

My profile

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Thanks for the feedback about the inconveniences you all are facing with other browsers. We are working towards better support for Safari and Google Chrome.

Subject Only View for Ideas

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on 12-02-2008 02:29 PM

As more and more ideas are posted, the length of the page grows excessively. I think it would be great to view a list of the submitted Ideas by Subject only. THink of this as similar to browsing a board in the Forums... you can view only the thread titles... and must click to view the entire post. I think an optional view like this for Ideas would be great.

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This feature is now available in the 9.x series! We just released it last week. You can see the idea titles along with the number of votes, author and status. There is also an option to switch to the old view to see the idea along with its message content.

Subject Line Customization for Moderators

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on 03-10-2009 03:08 PM

I would like to be able to customize the color of a thread subject line, for example. This would be espeically helpful for Floated Threads. Or is this a feature I just missed?

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Floated threads within a board are styled in a different manner so that they stand out. Although, all floated threads are styled the same way.

Duplicated Stickies

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on 12-02-2008 02:27 PM

Sure would be great if a 'floated' thread wasn't duplicated in the 'main' threads list. It's odd to see a thread appear twice (within close proximity) when someone posts to a floated thread.

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Maybe the concept of floating a thread on a board should be designed differently altogether. Apart from using it for board announcements, what are the other use cases around floating a thread?

Improvements to the spell checker - it's not that useful now

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on 04-02-2009 01:38 AM - last edited on 04-02-2009 01:42 AM

I know the text editor was not created by Lithium, but maybe something could still be done.

Our forum used to just have a plain text editor, and all Firefox users could use Firefox's inbuilt spell checker, which was pretty good.

Now in our latest version we use the standard spell checker and I have to say it's pretty poor.

- it is missing a lot of technology-related words so it is not of much use on a tech forum. For example in this post, it doesn't know "Firefox". Or "ok" - only "OK" in caps.

- it is in US English. We have a lot of UK visitors and they feel offended that their way of spelling is deemed "incorrect".

- it opens up in an ugly pop-up, is slow and sometimes gives a "ERROR: JSpell is already attached, or jspellInit has not been called before calling jspellCheck." error.

- it goes through the words one by one and that's just too annoying in a long post with lots of tech words that are written ok, but missing from the checker.

There's a few options:

- Add UK spelling

- Add more tech words. I can send in a long list for our forum, but I think they should be available for all other Lithium forums as well.

- Somehow enable the browser spell check also for the graphical editor (it works in "Edit as html" ).

Message Edited by JuhisH on 04-02-2009 11:42 AM

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Allow SKU or Model Number Collection

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on 02-17-2009 09:47 PM

It would be nice if there was a way to add an extra entry box to the message editor for SKU so that if a post references a specific product the customer is discussing or needing support for, trends can be identified. This would allow Communities to bring data and action-required trends back to other business teams.

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Jason, thanks for the idea. Mark, the use cases you specified were really helpful, especially auto tagging. In the scenarios you specified, do you see a need to track which user tagged a post with what product type? For reporting purposes (number of posts for a category, the number of threads started, number of solutions, number of views, etc) does it matter?

Better ways to see Kudos.

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on 04-08-2009 03:40 PM - last edited on 04-08-2009 03:40 PM

i think there should be a better way to see how many kudos a user has recieved In both profile and forum posts.

So there can be better ways for everyone to see how many kudos each user has!

Maybe under post count in the forum post and uder statistics.

Message Edited by Greed on 04-08-2009 05:40 PM

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Couldn't agree more with you on this idea. Publicizing kudos count for a user is perhaps a good way of encouraging people to use this feature more. Any other thoughts from other folks on this one?

Automatically give kudos for accepted solution

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on 03-17-2009 02:53 AM

This is pretty straightforward - usually when someone accepts a solution, she does not give any kudos to that post.

So there could be an option to set an accepted solution to automatically also give 1 kudos.

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Thanks for the idea JuhisH. I'd like to hear more about why you would want a behavior of this sort. Is it to encourage more of use of Kudos in your community or to make the accepted solutions stand out better.

Upload images without putting them in the Image Gallery

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on 06-01-2009 12:43 PM

The vast majority of images used on our forum are only used once and therefore do not need to be kept in a gallery. It would be great if we could choose to embed the image without putting it in the user's gallery.

Because most images are used only once, with the current image gallery implementation I will need to increase the 1000 image limit in the gallery in about one year. If not every image had to be saved in the gallery, I would not have this problem.

Of course, you can still embed images the old way (attach to post, then edit and hyperlink the image), but it was not intuitive for many forum users.

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Hey Laura, Thanks for the idea. We add images to a user's gallery as they upload in order to keep track of images used by a user in the community. Although these images are mostly used only once, apart from the image limit issue, it does not hurt to have them there. Maybe automatically grouping images used in posts into a set makes sense.

View Only Solved Threads

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on 12-02-2008 02:11 PM

I wish I could filter a board or category to view only the solved threads. Our users have asked for this and I think it would be a great way to get started on a 'Tribal Knowledgebase'. It would quickly allow a user to view the questions and answers... Our Moderators could also use this when deciding what content to create/port into a Wiki.

I'm thinking an option within the "Board Options" dropdown but... I'm open to placing a button or link elsewhere as well.

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Jump to unread comments in Idea Exchange

Provide Options for collapsing threaded view to show only thread titles

Better visibility for RSS

Social Bookmarking for all Community content (opt-in)

Auto Expiry of Placeholders

Deeper Twitter (Tweet or ReTweet) integration for Blogs/Forums

Support for other browsers!

Subject Only View for Ideas

Subject Line Customization for Moderators

Duplicated Stickies

Improvements to the spell checker - it's not that useful now

Allow SKU or Model Number Collection

Better ways to see Kudos.

Automatically give kudos for accepted solution

Upload images without putting them in the Image Gallery

View Only Solved Threads

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