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GAMIFICATION

I’d like to see a couple of things, that have bugged me before:

1. Possibility to moderate own topics
2. Possibility to delete own post
3. Possibility to subscribe to a RSS feed of a certain topic (not the whole forum)

Also I noticed that the email notifications don’t seem to be working very reliably. Or do I only get constant notifications if I click on the link in every one of them and read that post?

Personally I would love it if the topics in this forum would be categorized better into “Newbie Questions” and “Advanced Questions” and also a better separation between Bug Reports and Library Support for external libraries. Maybe tags could help, but most importantly I think that the 8 main categories could be broken down a little bit more to create a better order.

Visually I would decrease distraction from the discussion by profile pictures (too big for my taste) as well as those long (and recurring) signatures. There’s quite a lot of visual overhead on the discussion pages that make it hard(er) to follow the thread. Maybe the forums at CI could be stackoverflowed a little 😊

I DO like the “fast reply” function as well as the post form (although it would be nice to see the actual thread above that, too).

1. Enhanced Search w/ results display (ajax based). Suggested results with some results
2. Live Support - like Chat. Open for all so that anyone who wants to help out can change its status that “available to help” etc.

1) search by thread
2) solved button
3) to be able to filter searches by solved problems would be nice.
4) a voting system on answers to questions (a bit like stackoverflow).

There is a work-around for item 1 with a Google site search.  However, I would ditto all these feature this user has asked for.

+1 for searching within a thread (without a workaround 😉)

Maybe something like a knowledgebase would also be a great thing to minimize multiple repetitive questions about solutions that can’t be found in the user guide, but users have posted in the forums over and over again. Kind of a moderated comment / discussion section for specific functions / libraries like in the PHP docs… just brainstorming…

I wouldn’t change anything the forum is verygood !

I think there could be a seperate javasript section. There is many questions about javascipt.

It works pretty well for me, but maybe a forum for non-newbs that requires at least x posts to ask a question.

That said, newbs often learn a lot from discussions they don’t quite understand yet. Plus, I’m a semi-newb grin

GAMIFICATION

+1

a notice (like recommendation or anything that can help the person and make him feel that his not abandoned) if no one respond to your concern.

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4) a voting system on answers to questions (a bit like stackoverflow).

+1. for easy finding of good answers.

I would also like to see a way for the author of the topic to make posts stick out more than others. Sometimes when you make important announcements they get lost in nirvana because others are replying to totally different posts. I had that happen a lot and helped me out by posting the same important post over and over again.

Also what bugs me is that some users - no offense - include waaaaay too much in the quote section making some threads very hard to read and follow. I guess, especially for ignited code and its support it would be better to have a comment section per issue and not a linear discussion.

Provide a method for registered but not activated user to resend the activation e-mail, right now, if you didn’t get that e-mail you will have no choice but to create a new account.

*Better Error Reporting ..
*show more bb codes .

My idea is to have a board for each major development release for CI. This way it would be more helpful to find out information on CodeIgniter 2.0, or the 1.7 releases or even 1.6. I currently find it hard to find out what version they run on because half of the time, they don’t say!