Nabble - Nabble New Features

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-04-21T11:48:42Z

Cool. The new views work on every forum/list with my nice new MacBook Pro. However, the new views seem to be written such that, on Safari at least, the option to view the previous page does not work as you would normally expect to do. It seems to require a double click on the left arrow and I haven't figured out how to go the previous page using track pad gestures.

Please regard this as a request to continue to provide & maintain the old style views.

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-04-10T16:58:18Z

The 'new view' option gives me nothing on some lists (e.g. the Gails mailing list) except the first post in a thread. I'm using Firefox 2.0.013 on WinXP. This thread I'm posting in now works fine with new views.

It was a good call to keep the option to see old views, many thanks.

Re: The recent changes: skins, etc.

2008-04-01T21:53:17Z

Yes, you can . In "Edit this forum", there is a tab "Customize appearance". There you can select a predefined style (color, fonts etc), or you can copy and use the predefined CSS as a base to modify it to set your own styles.

Note that if you have a website, then the easiest way to make your forum fit with your site is to embed it into your site. The help article is here: http://www.nabble.com/help/Answer.jtp?id=36

After you embed it, you can use the "Customize appearance" feature to further tweak your embedded forum appearances.

Re: The recent changes: skins, etc.

2008-04-01T20:05:36Z

Hi there. I'm brand new to Nabble (I think I just sent this as an email to the Nabble admin; sorry about that...) and I have lots of questions. I'll just start by asking one, though: Are we able to create our own skins for our forums, rather than using the predefined skins?

If the refrigerator and television weren't so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any walking training at all.

Re: Design and function requests for embedded forum

2008-03-17T20:51:55Z

Will,

Excellent answers. Thank you very much for your attention.
-Paul

Paul J Betzold

CAROL JONES REALTORS®

Cell - 417-343-9971

paul@caroljones.com

www.SpringfieldHomesGuide.com

Re: Design and function requests for embedded forum

2008-03-17T17:37:28Z

Thanks for your message. Please see my response below:

Paul Betzold wrote:

1 - Is it possible to set it up where a forum creator can make a post "Sticky" where it stays at the top of the forum at all times, or until that creator releases it? That would be handy for making announcements, or posting the "Rules".

We will have this feature in our next version. We expect to release the new version in about a month or sooner.

Paul Betzold wrote:

2 - I like to place graphics as a header to make the page attractive. Is it possible to hide the Nabble-placed name at the top of the page, (Maybe by making it white), so that someone in my position doesn't have the forum name repeated at the top of the page?

Yes, we will allow that in the next version.

But I looked your forum http://www.springfieldhomesguide.com/agent_questions.asp - seems to me, you should place the forum description (your graphical header and the html below it) into your embedding page - you can put all that html in your embedding page and place them above the nabble embedding js code. This will put the header above the Nabble block. It will look nicer, but I agree, it will be even better if you can hide the Nabble name.

Paul Betzold wrote:

3 - Can we add a running "Views" count to each thread?

Yes, but again, in the next version. We will have a lot of new things in the next version.

Paul Betzold wrote:

4 - Is it possible to have each user account keep track of the date, and time of the last message they read on a given board, so that the next time they visit; we will know what messages we have already read?? Alot of boards use cookies to track this, but that has a distinct flaw...If you visit from a different computer than the last time, the "New" messages will be inaccurate. If you can setup the software to keep track of the last message we viewed, (While logged in), for the boards that we frequent; it would not gum up your server with a bunch of saved messages, just a time, date, and forum address. That way we wouldn't have to rely on the inaccuracy of cookies to tell us what we've missed. It would be accurate no matter what computer we log in from. The system already keeps track of where, when, and how many messages we've posted...Why not the date, time, and location of JUST the last message we read in a given forum?? I would think that would be easy comparatively.

This will be a no for now. To do this accurately, we will have to keep track of what posts are visited by each user, which for us will amount to a lot of tracking. Do you know any forum that does this kind of precise tracking? Right now, we simply reply on the browser to change the color of the visited links. It works for people who access a forum from a main computer, but not if you have multiple computers. Sorry, we may do it in future but not now.

Paul Betzold wrote:

5 - Is it possible to give a forum creator the ability to ban a specific user from posting on their board?

Yes, in the next version.

Paul Betzold wrote:

Thank you very much for your willingness to accept user input. I love your boards, the simplicity, and ease of use are unmatched. Thank you for your consideration, and I respectfully await your reply.

Thank you for using us. Please do complain if there are things you need or things you don't like.

Design and function requests for embedded forum

2008-03-16T21:10:57Z

I have a few points I'd like to make,and request.

1 - Is it possible to set it up where a forum creator can make a post "Sticky" where it stays at the top of the forum at all times, or until that creator releases it? That would be handy for making announcements, or posting the "Rules".

2 - I like to place graphics as a header to make the page attractive. Is it possible to hide the Nabble-placed name at the top of the page, (Maybe by making it white), so that someone in my position doesn't have the forum name repeated at the top of the page?

3 - Can we add a running "Views" count to each thread?

4 - Is it possible to have each user account keep track of the date, and time of the last message they read on a given board, so that the next time they visit; we will know what messages we have already read?? Alot of boards use cookies to track this, but that has a distinct flaw...If you visit from a different computer than the last time, the "New" messages will be inaccurate. If you can setup the software to keep track of the last message we viewed, (While logged in), for the boards that we frequent; it would not gum up your server with a bunch of saved messages, just a time, date, and forum address. That way we wouldn't have to rely on the inaccuracy of cookies to tell us what we've missed. It would be accurate no matter what computer we log in from. The system already keeps track of where, when, and how many messages we've posted...Why not the date, time, and location of JUST the last message we read in a given forum?? I would think that would be easy comparatively.

5 - Is it possible to give a forum creator the ability to ban a specific user from posting on their board?

Thank you very much for your willingness to accept user input. I love your boards, the simplicity, and ease of use are unmatched. Thank you for your consideration, and I respectfully await your reply.

- Paul

Paul J Betzold

CAROL JONES REALTORS®

Cell - 417-343-9971

paul@caroljones.com

www.SpringfieldHomesGuide.com

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-03-05T17:43:09Z

New view/IE7 - When I try to switch it gets as far as showing the "Loading..." message for the post I'm in. But like I said, my home computer is a pos, so that's probably the problem.

Breadcrumbs - I like the current format fine but for the redundancy.

One other thing now that I'm thinking about it. With embedding, the "Forum Name:*" = Title can be redundant as well. Perhaps the ability to resize it, or an option to not show it.

-Edward

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-03-05T16:33:36Z

Thanks for your input. Please see my response below:

Tagruato wrote:

Keep it as is. I'm a member of a phpBB forum that recently subdivided a single forum into 3. The practical impact of this was to see recent posts in all three forums you had to click into and out of each. The end result has been one of the sub-forums has continued on as the original had and the other two sub-forums have languished. So the way you have it, showing the latest posts from all child forums in a single view, really is the way to go.

Thanks for the input. We will keep the current view, but we will make it simpler. We will also provide a standard phpBB/vBulltin view, just because a lot of people are used to it. We can also add another view - the view you asked in your other post. The forum owner can select a default view for his forum, and the users can select his own individual view as well. The forum view options should be available in a month or so.

With the standard phpBB view, we will also provide a link at the top to "show all threads" - this will allow users who are stuck in phpBB view to view all threads from all subforums immediately.

Tagruato wrote:

Maybe it's something I'm doing wrong, but the repetitive links in the top left of my forum are a real head scratcher. Specifically, "Forum | Tagruato" both linking to the same place. What's up with that?

Good point. The two links are for the breadcrumb trail. So, if you navigate to a child forum, you will see the full bread crumb trail. But I do agree with you that the two links are redundant. Also, it seems that the links don't need to show in the top forum page.

So, how do you like the breadcrumb trail to be?

Tagruato wrote:

I brows using IE7 on my old broke down computer at home. The "new view" "threaded" doesn't load. It could be an IE7 issue, it could be my computer. Just thought I'd note it.

Nabble should work fine with IE7. What error did you see? Also, can you try clear cache and see if you still get the same error?

Tagruato wrote:

Lastly, thank you. Your forum rocks and what you've managed to do with it rocks and the fact that it exists rocks and yes and have some idea of what has gone into making it what it is and am all the more appreciative because of it. Honestly.

Thank you!

Tagruato wrote:

Now if only I could figure out how to get people to participate...

Yes, that's the hard part.

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-03-05T15:01:50Z

p.s. One feature that was nice in a threaded forum I used to frequent (Slate's The Fray before it was upgraded) was the ability to expand all threads (show authors/dates/subject lines) from the forum front page, both individually and as a whole. In this way, you could get a taste for a thread or see if someone you like is in it before deciding whether or not to enter it. It's a feature that was common in old-school threaded forums. bspeak is an example, (you have to register to expand/collapse the threads).

-Edward

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-03-05T14:50:02Z

Keep it as is. I'm a member of a phpBB forum that recently subdivided a single forum into 3. The practical impact of this was to see recent posts in all three forums you had to click into and out of each. The end result has been one of the sub-forums has continued on as the original had and the other two sub-forums have languished. So the way you have it, showing the latest posts from all child forums in a single view, really is the way to go.

That said, I do have a couple notes:

Maybe it's something I'm doing wrong, but the repetitive links in the top left of my forum are a real head scratcher. Specifically, "Forum | Tagruato" both linking to the same place. What's up with that?
I brows using IE7 on my old broke down computer at home. The "new view" "threaded" doesn't load. It could be an IE7 issue, it could be my computer. Just thought I'd note it.

Lastly, thank you. Your forum rocks and what you've managed to do with it rocks and the fact that it exists rocks and yes and have some idea of what has gone into making it what it is and am all the more appreciative because of it. Honestly.

Now if only I could figure out how to get people to participate...

-Edward

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-02-28T15:37:22Z

I think the designs for the second one are good for categories, but I don't think they should replace forums (well, it might be cool to have this so that all forums also had category views, and just get rid of the category/forum distinction). So, in essence, I guess maybe I do like the original new idea.

I'm not too keen on the Google groups style. I kind of like most things about the Nabble layout; mostly, I just think it needs some aesthetic adjustments (and I think the new views help for the actual posts, but the forum screen is still the same style, except for colors and such, if you change them).

Re: Better Web Addresses

2008-02-26T12:51:42Z

Your url http://www.nabble.com/International-Business%2C-A-Survival-Guide-for-the-Road-f31754.html can be shortened as http://www.nabble.com/-f31754.html which will redirect to your full url. The forum name in your URL is kept there intentionally for search engine benefits. For example, if there are people searching for "international business survival", they are more likely to find your forum if you have the keywords in the URL, and they are probably the best audience and contributor to your forum.

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-02-26T12:36:54Z

Factually speaking I actually like the way the forums front page is designed, though lacking some color(which I really don't care) I think the interface is clean and clutter free to work.

The only change I would suggest is some eye-candy/color to the pages.

Thanks for great work.

Better Web Addresses

2008-02-24T00:12:49Z

Is there a way to change the web address for my forum. The usage of the forum title is to long and not easy to remember for people that I want to visit the forum.

design ideas for forum front page

2008-02-23T12:31:15Z

The Nabble team is trying make design changes to the forum front page. We'd love to hear what you think.

Our questions are:

1. The current forum front page shows both the forum structure and the list of threads, for example, here, and here. Do you like this current design? If you don't, how would you like to change it?

2. phpBB and vBulletin separate the forum structure from the thread list, for exmaple, phpBB, vBulletin. With this design, when you go to a parent forum, you only see the list of child forums, and you need click another link to see the threads. Do you like this design?

3. GoogleGroups shows some threads from each child forum, for example, here. How do you like this design?

We'd appreciate your thoughts.

Re: Embedding/redirect

2008-01-20T12:18:24Z

Thanks for reporting this. We will fix the link in the next release.

Embedding/redirect

2008-01-17T19:32:40Z

In a Nabble help file, I see the following text:
"You can also check this option if you want to redirect Nabble visitors to your page …"

The link on 'check this option' doesn't seem to say anything about redirecting Nabble visitors to your page. Is there really a way to do this? That would be very nice, if so.

EDIT: Ah, I found another page that led me to know how to do this—however, that one link is misleading.

Re: Smileys with Darkness

2007-12-31T18:39:21Z

They work well. The new styles are cool, too.

Thanks!

Re: Smileys with Darkness

2007-12-30T04:59:32Z

Hi Cordilow,

We have fixed the smileys and now they work with dark backgrounds.
If you still see the old ones, please refresh your page by pressing F5.

We also have delivered two new predefined styles for forums: Moonlight and Desert.
Enjoy!

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

Re: old framed view

2007-12-30T04:53:05Z

Dear Carel Struycken,

We would like to inform you that this bug has been fixed.
Please let us know if you still see the problem.
Thank you for choosing Nabble.

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

Re: old framed view

2007-12-24T13:27:59Z

Thank you for contacting support.
We are investigating the problem and will release a fix soon.

old framed view

2007-12-24T12:23:06Z

How do I keep Nabble from reverting back to the new view after I have set it to the "old framed view"?
I find the framed view much easier to read and so would like to keep it that way.

Carel Struycken

Re: Smileys with Darkness

2007-12-12T04:07:12Z

This is a known issue.
Actually, they really are transparent gifs.
The problem is that pixels in those images can't have a partial translucent value.
So rounded corner usually have the white etched because they were made for white background.
Soon we will convert them into PNG-24 in order to solve the problem.

Also, users can send smileys to Nabble, but we will have to recreate them from our style.
We have to do this in order to keep things consistent and it might take some time.

Smileys with Darkness

2007-12-11T23:40:09Z

I've found that the smileys with the Darkness theme have some white etched around them. It seems they're not transparent gifs. Is this easily fixable?

Can Nabble users send in new smileys to add to the list? I don't have any off-hand. I'm just curious.

Re: The recent changes: skins, etc.

2007-12-11T22:35:12Z

Ah—cool. That makes things nice. Thanks!

Re: The recent changes: skins, etc.

2007-12-11T10:56:10Z

Cordilow wrote:

I'm curious about the need to enter URL's instead of forum names, though. What is the advantage, just out of curiosity? Even if it's just to discourage doing it a lot, I suppose that's fine with me. Does it add some more flexibility?

This is to allow duplicate forum names. Forum names no longer have to be unique.

Re: The recent changes: skins, etc.

2007-12-11T08:36:26Z

Hi Cordilow,

Cordilow wrote:

Wow, the new stuff is pretty nice. I'm curious about the need to enter URL's instead of forum names, though. What is the advantage, just out of curiosity? Even if it's just to discourage doing it a lot, I suppose that's fine with me. Does it add some more flexibility?

I will leave this question to another member of the Nabble team, because there are some details that reside out of my scope.

Cordilow wrote:

Anyway, I like the skins. I've noticed something with Darkness, though. Some of the words in my manual stylesheet stay black and they don't show up. They're surrounded with h3 and b tags, I think. They show up in the mode where you edit the forum, though. Everything else seems to work fine, so far. Go to this URL to see what I'm talking about:
http://www.nabble.com/Creative-Works-f14604.html
Up at the top, and down on the bottom, the invisible words are there. You can select all to see them.

Also, I'm curious if child forums can be made to inherit the same skin as the parent. It is nice, though, that if you view the threads of child forums from the parent, they show up with the theme.

EDIT: I see the child forums do inherit the skins! This is nice. I guess it just takes a few minutes for it to start working or something.

We are glad that you liked the new styles.
Also, you can fix the H3 problems in your skin by adding the following piece of CSS to your style:

h3 { color: #eeeeee; }

You should also wrap the bottom text with <p> and </p>.
Please try that and let us know if it worked.

We will deliver more predefined (canned) styles soon.
Thanks for choosing Nabble.
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

The recent changes: skins, etc.

2007-12-11T01:21:55Z

Wow, the new stuff is pretty nice. I'm curious about the need to enter URL's instead of forum names, though. What is the advantage, just out of curiosity? Even if it's just to discourage doing it a lot, I suppose that's fine with me. Does it add some more flexibility?

Anyway, I like the skins. I've noticed something with Darkness, though. Some of the words in my manual stylesheet stay black and they don't show up. They're surrounded with h3 and b tags, I think. They show up in the mode where you edit the forum, though. Everything else seems to work fine, so far. Go to this URL to see what I'm talking about:
http://www.nabble.com/Creative-Works-f14604.html
Up at the top, and down on the bottom, the invisible words are there. You can select all to see them.

Also, I'm curious if child forums can be made to inherit the same skin as the parent. It is nice, though, that if you view the threads of child forums from the parent, they show up with the theme.

EDIT: I see the child forums do inherit the skins! This is nice. I guess it just takes a few minutes for it to start working or something.

Re: Alarm in calender

2007-10-17T11:56:08Z

This forum is for Nabble support only. Please post your question to the appropriate forum and delete it from this forum.

Alarm in calender

2007-10-17T02:34:05Z

When I make an new appointement in the callender, I set the alarm to 1 day to all participants. But no one gets an e-mail. We just get an e-mail when we make a new appointement or change the appointement. How can I get an e-mail to remind me of the appointement?

Forum creator can now move threads from his forum

2007-05-28T22:48:29Z

Careless users may post to the wrong forum, or ignore the forum hierarchy, causing theirs posts to appear in wrong places. Forum creators can now move these threads to any forum.

If you are the forum creater, log on, and you will see "Move thread to another forum" link in all thread pages. You should be aware of the following:

You can create child forums within your forum and catalog threads by moving them into appropriate child forums.
You can create a trash forum to move trash threads into it. Or, simply use Nabble's Trash forum
Only two people can move a thread: the forum creator, and the author who started the thread. If you move somebody's thread into a forum created by somebody else, then you cannot move it again.
The author who started a thread can always move the thread anywhere he wants. He may move it back into your forum if he objects your move, so please be careful and be polite.