I have to say, the feelings of a purge towards CORE and everything related (including the userbase) is real.
This content will preserved. Forever.BUT there is a huge amount of gold too. As long as this forums content stays preserved for google searches and linking from the new one it should work well, and sort of fits with dragging the userbase kicking and screaming into the “shiny future” ;)
Same here. In the context of my main job I have to use Discourse, although until now I wasn't aware of that. In fact, I always found the UX so bad that my assumption was that it was part of enterprise license deal with a certain vendor that does their marketing stuff.I opened my account, already hate the new layout and organisation with a vengeance.
Combined with what other users already mentioned I can't really understand the decision and how it was carried out.One of the biggest strenghts of TrueNAS, for non-enterprise versions, is its community; some would say its biggest strenght. This strenght has been built year by year by knowledgeable users post after post on this forum. Switching to another one, for whatever benefits you have identified, without porting its content is going to deal a huge blow to this strenght.
"Forever" as in "CORE will be maintained forever alongside SCALE"?
I can't seem to edit my previous post anymore, but I should also mention most of the other forums I belong to are also using discourse, so I'm already somewhat familiar with and used to the different navigation and layout style it providesI realize I'm an insignificant member of this community but I'm one of the few who is happy to the switch to discourse. It's not that I prefer the new forum so much as I prefer writing in markdown.
It's certainly a moot point now, but back in the days of maintaining some of the plugins on CORE, I would have been much more active providing documentation and guides on this forum for the plugins I created, if I would have been able to do that in markdown.
I'm just really sad to see so many of the veterans who provide the real value to this forum are so unhappy with this change, they my stop being such active members. That's what's really going to hurt this community as a whole.
Such a thing is possible here as well, my point being the necessity of the community being educated in how to use such tools.and the ability to mark issues as "Solved", which also boosts their visibility for users searching or potentially posting duplicate questions in advance.
Discourse seems to be pretty polarizing, probably in large part because it works differently than most other forums. I myself am kind of ambivalent on it, even as I run two Discourse sites myself--but as an admin it's great to work with. I do mostly favor Markdown over BBCode, though.I'm just really sad to see so many of the veterans who provide the real value to this forum are so unhappy with this change
Unfortunately, permissions in this forum don't allow users to edit their posts. Not sure why that is.I can't seem to edit my previous pos
Ask and you shall receive:necessity of the community being educated in how to use such tools.
Other than the recent creation of the "TrueNAS for VM Storage" section, I don't see that this was an actual issue.One of the major problems with this forum--which apparently was seen to be insoluble, to the point of chucking it in the bin and replacing it with a new one--was the massive proliferation of subforums without apparent rhyme or reason, with the result that people had no clue where they should post.
Which is mostly useless, since threads with no apparent solution (of which there are many) can't be necro'd with "Same issue...was there any resolution?"This content will preserved. Forever.
This is a very double-edged sword.the ability to mark issues as "Solved", which also boosts their visibility for users searching or potentially posting duplicate questions in advance.
"It happens at all" isn't a particularly useful metric, but how often it happens is. If it's happening a lot, that's a valid indication that the layout isn't working that well.First, unless there is literally one choice, new users will often post in the wrong place, so using that at a metric is not really useful.
Not really. You're right that "Applications and Jails" doesn't belong as a top-level forum (and why does Storj--and only Storj--get its own subforum there?), but that's far from the only issue:Second, the top-level structure is actually quite reasonable
But on discourse (at least other discourse forums I belong to), when a post is marked as solved, the op has a direct link to the later post that "solved" the issue. It says something like "Solved by username in post#X" - post#X is a direct link to the solution. There is no need for endless scrolling.a post marked "Solved" on the Discourse forum. The "solution" was that the previous user was trying to use the driver on a version of the hardware that was specifically not supported by the driver.
So, I wasted time scrolling endlessly through the post to find out that the problem as posted in the thread title was never actually solved.
I don't think that's true of "most" threads where there's a problem in need of a solution, but it is true of many. But it isn't the intent that marking one post as a solution means readers should ignore the rest of the thread. And where it truly is a group effort, a user can post with "I combined X, Y, and Z, and that fixed it," and mark that as the solution.Most threads though don't have only a single correct solution