Geeklog Forums

I see forums here for people discussing building new plugins, new blocks. Hell, even the people building new Geeklog have a forum.

But where is the forum for people to discuss building Geeklog-based sites? Or being a newbie to the GL world, maybe there's a whole nother place to be looking and I just don't know about it.

Jefficus

Do you feel there is not a forum category that fit your question ?

There are several that are site builder related already - essentially broken up by topics. Anyone using Geeklog is building a site of some sort.

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That's exactly the problem - there's a forum for each plugin. But what about discussions that span multiple plugins? Take my other post regarding content structure - that question spans many plugins, so it doesn't specifically belong in any one of the existing forums.

I suspect that there are a lot of people out there doing cool things in the way they combine and interconnect the plugins and features of Geeklog, as a new GL user, I'd love to cruise through collected discussions of that nature to help get up to speed and see some of the tricks of the platform.

The best place I've found so far is this General category, but even that is tagged as "General Help: Any Other Problems?" What I'm talking about isn't so much help related as it is about having a water-cooler area to talk about current projects, techniques and the like.

But if you haven't had a need for such a place by now, maybe I'm the only one who sees it as necessary.

Jefficus

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Sounds reasonable. I don't think there are many questions on this topic, but it is worth the try. What name would you suggest? We might need name that must be distict enough from the General Help.

Blaine, I vote for that.

Sam

Personally, I hate it when someone posts 10 questions in one topic - I think thats bad style.

It makes it a lot harder to reply - as I may not want to answer all 10 of your questions. The forum is designed to organize content by threads and 10 questions are really 10 separate topics. Break up your questions and thats gives a better chance others will reply.

Thats my anyway for what it's worth

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Currently the General Help categories has ten times more discussions than other forums. It seems that some people do need an area to discuss how to customize gl or make use of the gl features to meet their site needs.



Sam

I appreciate your point about shotgun topics, Blaine. And certainly, when you view the forums as primarily a Help interface, your position makes perfect sense. In all likelihood, a solid threaded discussion system would be a better solution to my issue. But that would be redundant with the mailing list. It is probably better suited to the kind of use I'm talking about.

Sure 'nuff, I just went and took a closer look at the geeklog-user archive and it has exactly the kind of conversation I'm talking about. But I hate the interface pipermail presents it with. Too bad there isn't a way to present those archives in a way that looks and feels more like it was integrated into this forum system. That would really crank up the juice on this site as a support/learning resource.

Jefficus

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We do have the geeklog-users list and it may just be there by default as I much prefer the forum be used for user related questions. A lot more users will likely see the question and subsequent answer.

It may be that there is a need for another forum category but ... I would not suggest the forum topics here are only for users looking for help - although they mostly are. We have a lot of active posts over the past week about development ideas and new plugin projects. We also have posts from new users posting about their sites and looking for feedback.

The Forums are best for collaborating, sharing ideas or asking questions. To be effective, it's best there be one topic per thread or it gets as confusing as using email.

We have forums now for Help, New site announcements, resources and ideas, plugins, blocks, installation, general feedback etc .. Based on your initial post, It appeared you have several questions that probably fall into several of the existing forum categories.

We have to offset adding more forums with confusing members as too which forum to post to. Then trying to find what your looking for will be even harder.

I like to hear new ideas so don't take my comments negatively. I'm just playing back another perspective.

Some of the current forums like "General Help" have a lot of posts because we converted all the previous site content (which used to be all story/articles) to the the forum some 9 months ago when we added the forum.

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