Dear All,
Sorry English again.
The way the fora that are nowadays in practice look more or less the same.
Subdivisions galore and switching between categories is a bit cumbersome.
Sometimes discussions could fit into several categories at the same time.
Sometimes forummembers get angry if remarks are made that doesn't fit
in with their idea what is on topic or not. See remarks about motorassist in
a thread about muscle-powered trikes.
E.g. the Velomo Hi-Q2 - leichtes Fully-Pion-Quad
That could fit in Trikes (and now Trikes/Quads) Velomobiles, eBikes, Cargobikes
Workbikes, Workquads, RaceQuads, Protoype, Work-in-Progress. Indeed what
@TitanWolf says we need not too many subdivisions
At the moment my ideal Forumsoftware would be entirely tagdriven. The whole
presently used taxonomy could be scrapped afaiac.
As writer you can tag your comment with the tags you find appropriate. The members
of the Forum could subscribe to the tags that pique their interest. A tag-cloud or tagbar
would make it possible to look up other threads in the Forum. Also a combination of tags
to subscribe to would be interesting.
So if you open the forum, your special interest threads (date-limited) are shown right away.
Point of discussion would or could be if tag-creation is free or regulated. A prescribed set
of tags are to be used or the writer can make up its own (in limited way perhaps).
Probably I also would favor a GUI that offered vertical scrolling only, at the same time
limiting the length of sentences so as to create better readability. Sometimes posts are
totally unreadable with ease because of the overlong sentences, specially if one has the
window expanded to the whole screen.
Having looked a little bit around I found that Xenforo als offers the possibilty of using tags.
Would probably cost extra money. I seem to remember having seen tags here, but could be
mistaken about that.
Have you ever been looking into these possibilities, perhaps
@Reinhard. (Oh, please not again
only a "Nein" or "Ja"; yeah, I know you're a man of not too many words.
)
Up to now after after some cursory searching I found
http://flarum.org/ that comes close to
what I seem to envision. Open source and still in beta. But dear reader: YMMV!
Any thoughts anybody?
(Oh, BTW this not a suggestion or wish to overhaul this whole forum. I can perfectly "live" here
and like it immensely in the present form! What Xenforo offers is/seems state of the present art
)
Salut les gars! HansNL
