Hi Dave,
I see that I'm back to being gkornbluth again. Thanks for that.
Glad you're looking int the log in persistence issue.
My two cents on RSS feeds, if incorporated, they should be as flexible as possible. What works for one user, or in one situation,may not work for another. Not being able to hone in on the specific need for a situation will just add to the "noise" in our in-boxes and eventually be tossed aside.
As far as differentiating between saved searches and favorite posts I'm not sure how you view the difference but I'll take a shot.
When I'm researching a challenge, I find that I drag the links for relevant posts into a desktop folder so that I can review them and piece together an solution.
I guess that's "saved searches".in your view.
Is favorite posts a rating system? If so, I feel that it's not particularly helpful in this application.
What has made the forum so useful and Interactive Tools my choice for CMS, is the amazingly responsive, no nonsense, professional culture that you've offered us.
Not having to wade through the endless array of meaningless commiserations and re-quoted (bloated) posts that don't offer any real insights, which overwhelm many forums is a gift.
The forum should be, again, my view, a lean, mean, problem solving machine. I've got questions, it has answers.
Anything that muddies that up, favorites, votes, social media, best sites, should be kept as far from the main forum interface as possible.
To that end, search shortcuts and features, user assigned sub-categories for CMSB post topics, so that the growing number (currently over 26,000) of posts are not all lumped into one large bag, saved searches, recommendations based on search criteria, re-instituting the "focus" highlight on search result lists, and anything else you, or we can come up with that makes the forum leaner and meaner would work.
I'd also encourage a protecrted way to privately contact a user off line. (Like eBay and Amazon
And while I'm at it, I'd include more user oriented, how to documentation. This is key, since the forum is really a one size fits all solution. There are search experts, coding experts, and beginners all utilizing the same resource.
For example, I see that you were able to include links in your preceding post, but I don't have any idea how to do that.
Maybe some sort of monitored documentation wiki would be beneficial (although fraught with it's own issues).
BTW, any ideas on how to improve on the WYSIWYG spellcheck opinion (check spelling as you type, default to on, add words to dictionary, etc) ? I know that http://www.phpspellcheck.com/ incorporates these features and more, but may not be able to be integrated. I'm sure there are other solutions.
Best wishes to all for the holiday season and for the upcoming year.
Jerry Kornbluth
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