Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

[Open Source]

Re: Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

There are a couple other subactions that I know of, like news, profile, and members. The only useful one is recent. You can check simplemachines.org for more info if you like. That's where I got this information. Also you can post the #'s here, or PM me and I will post them in the Administrative Announcements section. But right now, my wife is waiting for me to watch a movie. Let me know if there are any problems with the feed.

[Fenyx]

Re: Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

Thank you so much for your efforts, Open Source!! The RSS is the best! I'll give it a few hours/days to test it out. But so far it's working fine.

Here's the List of Forum sections and their corresponding numbers for the RSS feeds per section.

Important Information
Announcements
Administrative Announcements board=59
Kubuntu Announcements         board=24

Documentation                 board=13
FAQ                         board=53
Customization/Optimization Support board=6
Experimental                 board=25
Kubuntu User Testimonials         board=23
Bugs                         board=26

Kubuntu Discussion
Kubuntu Breezy Support         board=51
Installation and Boot         board=43
Software Support                 board=27
Hardware Support                 board=28
Network Support         board=29
Processor Specific Support         board=34
64-bit                 board=5
PPC                         board=31

Kubuntu Hoary Support         board=52
Install and Boot                 board=12
Software Support                 board=2
Hardware Support                 board=3
Networking                 board=4

Kubuntu Dapper Drake         board=54
Install and Boot                 board=55
Software Support                 board=56
Hardware Support                 board=57
Network Support         board=58
New Features Request         board=48

Other Desktop Support         board=35
Xfce                         board=19
GNOME                 board=36

Everything Else         board=14

Newbie Support
Help the New Guy                 board=7

General
Miscellaneous Linux Info
Coding/Scripting                 board=18
Gaming                 board=16
Artwork                 board=30

Off Topic                         board=37
Distribution Showdown         board=11
Classifieds                 board=22
Geek News                 board=17
Anything                         board=15

KubuntuForums Feedback
Site Improvements                 board=8
Forum Ideas                 board=9
Dynamic FAQ                 board=10

Multilingual Kubuntu Support
Spanish
Noticias De Kubuntu                 board=42
Instalacion y Arranque         board=38
Instalacion y Arranque         board=39
Soporte de Hardware         board=40
Misceláneos/Chat General         board=41

French
Installation et Premier Lancement         board=44
Support Logiciel                 board=45
Support Materiel                 board=46
General                 board=47


P.S. I just can't seem to get them to line up properly...

[kubicle]

Re: Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

The RSS-feed is working nicely, thanks for that. A great addition to the functionality of the forum

[Fenyx]

Re: Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

Can I some more questions?
1. What's the difference of posting on the main part of the Documentation section and on the Customization/Optimization sub-section?
2. What's the difference of posting on the main part of the Off Topic section and on the Anything section?

The first question is more related to my upcoming project to port (that is, copy-paste-quote ) some of the HOWTO's from ubuntuforums.org to this forum.

[Open Source]

Re: Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

The difference is that there should not really be any posts under off topic technically. All off topic posts should be listed under anything. Consider Kubuntuforums.net as a whole, a forum. Then every category (i.e. Discussion, General, etc.) would be a subforum. There are no posts directly under Kubuntuforums.net, instead they each fit into a "sub-forum". The difference between Documentation and customization is that, documentation should contain general, common, how tos for Kubuntu whereas customization should contain, extra more in depth specialty how tos (stuff you don't need to know or do, but is fun to try). If this isn't clear, please reply.

[askrieger]

Re: Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

I think what we need is a sticky post or something that everyone has to look at the first time they try to post that tells them what goes where. I don't recall seeing anything like myself when I joined. I'm going to bed now, but I'll try to do a draft tomorrow.

Please let me know if there already is such a thing and I missed it.

[Fenyx]

Re: Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

Sorry for the not-so-immediate response. My sister had to use the PC (using XP... yuck. )

So if I understand correctly:
Off-topic: should have no posts directly in it. Everything in there should be under Anything else (or the appropriate sub-section).
Documentation: for the general and essential how-to's, while the customization is for the more in-depth but non-essential part? Kinda confusing distinction, but should work So for example, if I were to quote-post the "HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers" from the other side, I post it in the main Documentation part? But if I were to quote-post, say the "HOWTO speed up boot process using InitNG" or the "HOWTO for Composite Managers" I'd post it in the Customization/Optimization section?

@askrieger: I don't think there is such a thing, and I think that something like that would be good. Maybe in the FAQ section or the Forum rules? Do we even have a "forum rules" thread?

[Open Source]

Re: Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

There is no description on how to or where to post topics as of yet.

Jucato: you are correct in your examples; that is the purpose of those forums/subforums.

Askrieger: that would be great if you could write something up to post in the administrative announcements as a sticky.

[askrieger]

Re: Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

I'll get to work on it, tonight, but I'll be stealing a lot from your previous post

[Open Source]

Re: Some Forum Questions and Suggestions

No problem, thanks for the work.