Tell me how to make the forums more user friendly. Over the next few weeks, I intend to completely revamp the forums. Any thing you can think of, add here or start your own thread. Regards to all. Rajiv.
What are your suggestions, people
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We will have a solution by the end of the year. I am tagging it as definite "todo"
We will have a solution by the end of the year. I am tagging it as definite "todo"
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Good ideas
I will look into the wiki. The search features are already available under advanced search. Let me know what is not clear. Thanks for your input.
I will look into the wiki. The search features are already available under advanced search. Let me know what is not clear. Thanks for your input.
maniramasamy
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I think its really a good idea to keep the information arranged by the categories so people don't have to go thru all the forums to find the information they need. Some may find it little trouble intially as it is common with adapting any change. I vote for it!
Thanks
I think categorizing is better. But I am not the only person involved here. If the vote is close, I will categorize, I think.
I think categorizing is better. But I am not the only person involved here. If the vote is close, I will categorize, I think.
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Rajeev
This forum has provided me with a lot of useful info in the past; I continue to contribute and look for answers to my questions on this forum.
For me, categorizing makes it too restrictive. I have voted for not to restrict questions to categories.
Other suggestion I have:
-it is a good idea to upload the mp3 files from the telecon you regularly hold. What would be nice is to have the mp3 files created by questions\postings.
Rajeev
This forum has provided me with a lot of useful info in the past; I continue to contribute and look for answers to my questions on this forum.
For me, categorizing makes it too restrictive. I have voted for not to restrict questions to categories.
Other suggestion I have:
-it is a good idea to upload the mp3 files from the telecon you regularly hold. What would be nice is to have the mp3 files created by questions\postings.
Keep open and mp3
Hmm. OK. I will try to figure out a solution that provides a good middle path for the postings.
For the mp3 recordings by question, that I think would be hard, because we are in live conference. But if you have a method of doing it, I would be delighted to implement it.
Hmm. OK. I will try to figure out a solution that provides a good middle path for the postings.
For the mp3 recordings by question, that I think would be hard, because we are in live conference. But if you have a method of doing it, I would be delighted to implement it.
long timer
I have been on this forum from the pre 2002 (when the passwords reset and we had to take on new log in names). Over the years I have seen that on really busy days important posts just dissapear in to page 2 and 3 due to a torrent of posts from new members who typically have not searched the data base but post single question posts and they are gone when they get the answer.
Categorization while still allowing people to post will at least restrict people to some categories and I am all for it. It will make the forums more readable.
I have been on this forum from the pre 2002 (when the passwords reset and we had to take on new log in names). Over the years I have seen that on really busy days important posts just dissapear in to page 2 and 3 due to a torrent of posts from new members who typically have not searched the data base but post single question posts and they are gone when they get the answer.
Categorization while still allowing people to post will at least restrict people to some categories and I am all for it. It will make the forums more readable.
1. CAtegories are useful to separate the posts into different folders . After all people in one portion of the process (say greencards) will prefer to focus on that issue.
2. Thanks for removing the confirmation code from the search function. The capthca was not clearly visible and usually led to a 2nd code for me when I mistyped.
3. I do not like the new system where the thread is folded in and only the last post is expanded. The user has to select the format linear/hybrid etc. While it does make for a cleaner look to long threads, it does not help with active threads that have multiple new posts daily.
2. Thanks for removing the confirmation code from the search function. The capthca was not clearly visible and usually led to a 2nd code for me when I mistyped.
3. I do not like the new system where the thread is folded in and only the last post is expanded. The user has to select the format linear/hybrid etc. While it does make for a cleaner look to long threads, it does not help with active threads that have multiple new posts daily.
I couldn't agree more! The whole thread folding thing could be a user selected option.
Rajeev
a friend working in IT suggested looking at voice xml for doing this. I will post further updates when I have looked at it further.
Voice XML
Cool. I am not sure how that would work (I am familiar with the basic structure of vXML).
Cool. I am not sure how that would work (I am familiar with the basic structure of vXML).