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Recent content by JoelR

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    Forum Admin Failure

    A large part of the problem of hobbyist forum admins is that we define our success based "engagement activity." We think more members and more activity equates to success. We really need to redefine how we internally measure success: if you are fulfilling the community strategy and objectives...
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    Postbit Information

    We overbuild the postbit on desktop We underbuild the postbit on mobile
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    Telling people to search for the answer

    Designs with what i affectionately call Big Searchbox made their way to enterprise and professional community solutions several years ago. Discourse, Salesforce, Higher Logic all have this same design principle. Their customers overwhelmingly tend to use their software for support, so it makes...
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    Do any of you not care about mobile users?

    Trying to take into account the huge diversity of screen size is only going to get harder and harder. Several years ago on my primary forum, I had a user complain that my forum site seemed so empty on his extra wide curved UHD 40" monitor. I mean, yeah, there's probably going to be a lot of...
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    Lurkers

    Some thoughts in general: 1. Forums are structurally and fundamentally bad at incentivizing new members. Our basic design and user flow hasn't advanced in over 20 years 2. I've come to the conclusion - and professional community management has arrived at the same conclusion, especially on...
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    AI posts make you lose motivation...

    I would be more worried about the day when we CAN'T distinguish between normal human posts and AI posts. The number of users and discussions focused on AI for content posting is distressing. AI can be incredibly powerful in so many other ways, not just content posting or content generation...
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    Would you use nulled software, addons, or themes?

    One of the really interesting observations about the legacy forum ecosystem is that - as some developers "upscale" their clients while others continue to cater to a low cost / entry level - the piracy will follow the appropriate markets. There are enterprise community software like Salesforce...
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    Pages of replies!

    One of the interesting perspectives of Discourse is that mega threads usually become tangents of conversations or status updates. Most conversations are actually discrete, with a beginning and ending.
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    Do you "look into" your staff members?

    Are you running your forum as a professional business? Or are you running it as a fun hobbyist social forum? In no way am I critiquing the purpose of the background check. All I'm pointing out is that we should match the efforts of the background check to the purpose and point of the forum...
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    Do you "look into" your staff members?

    I think the better question is ... Why do you care? What would you do with that information if you happened to know their real name and general location?
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    Posting repeated topics (reply amounts)

    On a serious note, I think this could be a valid strategy if you're looking to drive engagement for the sake of engagement. Its great at driving more posts. However ... My critique of this strategy is that you will find yourself rehashing volatile topics (IPS vs XF! XF versus IPS!), which...
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    Invision Is Invision worth its price? Why or why not?

    The open ended Pages application, where you can build databases of content such as articles, dictionaries, recipe sections, etc. is very powerful and doesn't quite have the same match in other platforms. IPS is an acquired taste. They don't pretend to cater to the freewheeling legacy forum...
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    Posting repeated topics (reply amounts)

    Did you ... Recycle this topic?? 🫢
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    nodeBB - it's not for supper

    It's really smooth on mobile, nice job! I haven't come across many NodeBB so it's great to try it out in person. Have you been able to check into the settings to see if they offer anything interesting?
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    AAF got a gift yesterday!

    You got a forum for sale?? 😄
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