The lack of a āMark all as readā button is extremely annoying! The latest view is good in that you see latest posts easily, but having to open/close each post to mark them as read is ludicrous.
I was positively shocked how fast I got answers and how humble and professional replies was.
This forum (community) is one of the solid arguments for Clear Linux.
It certainly didnāt work that way for me. Dismiss new simply removed the topic from the āNewā tab. When I went to the āLatestā tab, that topic was still unread. āNewā only seems to include a new thread that hasnāt been opened before (or dismissed).
I use the forum via the āLatestā tab, where every new comment leads to an unread thread (so you get a reasonable number each day). I like to have things āreadā (call it OCD), which involves a quick open/close of threads Iām not interested in.
Iāve come to enjoy Flarum as a forum backend which has a similar list of posts ordered by last post but includes a Mark All as read button.
In the ālatestā tab, you can see a horizontal lines with label ālast visitā, above is what you havenāt seen, including those you saw but didnāt open.
Everyone has been very helpful. Whatās missing is a critical mass of users. More people would be nice, especially those who might be inclined to contribute in improving the desktop experience further.
A prominent link to the forum in the main pageās top menu would work very well.
Right now it has only 3 entries : About - Developer - Software
Iād suggest : About - Forum - Applications - Developers
First visitors still have the About as a first choice, and can easily enroll into the community in the subsequent visits.
Users who bookmarked the homepage will also be able to find their forum login link easier, as itās always on top, when on a slower (mobile) connection they can click the top link already before the whole main page is loaded.
Changing āDeveloperā to āDevelopersā suggests that there is a community of developers present.
People are posting their issues or suggestions on this forum. I would like to see the updates of work in progress or completed work on this forum in the News or Announcements section updating periodically, if I am not asking too much.
Itās kind of hard to follow on github. There are 372 open issues right now. Sometimes the issue title is completely different w.r.t developer than normal user.