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Support => Forum and Website Discussions => Topic started by: Telumehtar on April 18, 2005, 11:29:54 am

Title: Summary Threads or Design Document Page?
Post by: Telumehtar on April 18, 2005, 11:29:54 am

There are a LOT of posts in these forums, and it\'s REALLY hard to find some things that have already been mentioned - which leads to the usual \"you\'re stupid for asking a question again\" thing that is pretty much the one thing that annoys me on forums in general.

So, a suggestion is to have someone / some people in charge  of getting decisions finalised and summarised. There are various ways this could be done...

1. Have \'sub-boards\' (I\'m mainly thinking of WishList here), entitled \'Closed Discussions\'. When a discussion reaches it\'s end, either when the devs have decided \'yes - we want that\', or when the fans have said they would like it (even if the devs haven\'t approved it yet - it\'s just a recommendation put forth to the devs), the topic(s) relating to that discussion are deleted and a new thread is added to the closed sub-board giving an overview of the points, and the final outcome.

2. Have a completely seperate webpage detailing problems/wish list discussions that have been closed. It would act as a knowledge base for people with problems, and a recommendations-document for the dev team (like a design doc, but not finalised).


I\'m willing to make a \'test idea\' for 2 if people are interested. This project seems to be spiraling outwards and upwards, and I would love to be able to see the future of the project by looking through just one place, and not gleaming little bits from here and there. I would be willing to go back through some old forum topics and make a structured page for the dev team, that would effectively be the bugTracker, but without the technical info, and obviously not mixed in with too many comments (it would be post-discussion items that have been decided upon or closed).

Thoughts? Comments? A better suggestion?

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Post by: Moogie on April 18, 2005, 07:38:34 pm

If we did this, nobody would read it anyway. People don\'t even read the sticky threads. It would be a waste of time.

You can do it if you like, but I\'m just warning you not to expect it to work. :)

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Post by: Telumehtar on April 19, 2005, 09:09:53 am

Actually, that\'s quite a good point... Hrm, I might just whack it together in an hour or two - it won\'t look that pretty, but then I\'ve only wasted an hour and a half instead of days ;)

Gah - I\'m just a sucker for trying to make things structured... heh