Cleaning the forum (POLL) (1 Viewer)

[marshall]

I like the "forum for each major release" idea.

It would be nice to have a search feature where you could choose which release version, or all versions, you wanted to search.

 

[tourettes]

I like the "forum for each major release" idea.

It would be nice to have a search feature where you could choose which release version, or all versions, you wanted to search.

That sounds like a good idea. Also there are some categories (for example developing) that could be common for all versions.

 

[Eeyore]

this topic has obviously died, but I think it needs to happen. it is way too hard to find any useful information

in particular the tips forum...most of them are out of date.

 

[Spragleknas]

I'd rather see the stickys get re-evaluated after a certain amount of time.
No point of deleting old posts, are there?
Before you think otherwise, please read;
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=938&highlight= (2004)
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=710&highlight= (2004)

But YES; the forums does need to be ".cleaned".

 

[Efros]

Another idea that struck me was to have a forum for each individual main program area item, Mymusic, MyTV, etc. seems to me that some of the forums are way too vague and it is sometimes difficult to decide where a particular post should go.

 

[mzemina]

Okay - By "cleaned" I hope you mean that the applicable information is transferred and reformatted (if necessary) then placed into the appropriate section(s) (sometimes the same info needs to be placed into more than one location for ease-of searching) of the MP wiki?

 

[Spragleknas]

mzemina: Yes, but most iumportantly; updating, replacing or removing stickies

Efros: Thought about that myself. Could/sholud be a "sub-menu"

 

[csberto]

Difficult to do this arbitrarily as there are still some issues after 12 months that are relevant. It would have to be done on a topic by topic basis which means huge amounts of work for someone. I think that an archive would be useful, after 6 months inactivity the thread is purged from the active forum and deposited in a read only archive.

I support your suggestion to create a read only archive of inactive threads.

 

[devo]

I believe that the forms could use some trimming. I understand that there is a wealth of information but a lot of it is dated. With a program such as MediaPortal that is constantly under development and changing, information can get stale fast.

There should be no reason that I can think of to keep really old forum posts that may be irrelevant in terms of using MP 0.2 and will often just confuse people in finding the information that they need.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Yes, but a great topic of conversation.