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Posted by bothacker 
Google Groups
September 09, 2009 02:20AM
I just wanted to make a friendly suggestion to the adminstrators to move this forum to better software, or at least to Google Groups. This forum is painful to use!

The makerbot group on Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/group/makerbot) seems to be thriving, and may well eventually supplant the RepRap forum if something isn't done to improve it.

Would there be an objection to experimenting with a RepRap group?
Re: Google Groups
September 09, 2009 03:44AM
What exactly are the problems here, is this not just a matter of preference?
Re: Google Groups
September 12, 2009 08:33PM
Issues I am having:

* To see what's new, I almost always have to re-login.

* I haven't been able to find a single page that lists all of the new posts across all the forums since my last visit.

* Unless I'm mistaken, it seems that I have to "mark as read" each forum individually each time I visit, so that next time I can see what is new.

If someone can point me to a better way to interact with the forum software, I'd greatly appreciate it! smiling smiley
sid
Re: Google Groups
September 13, 2009 06:53AM
1) it's your browsers fault not the forums winking smiley
deleta all reprap cookies, log in and check "keep me logged in" box

2) True, that's only dne by the rss feed available from your adressbar; there's no such search&getnew as in vbulletin p.e.

3) you can mark as read all farums at once with index.php?0,markread,0 afaik
but yes since there's no search&getnew there's also noresult on the index.php

Let me say it the other way around:
there are NO new posts here at all... just unread ones grinning smiley

'sid
Re: Google Groups
September 13, 2009 05:54PM
sid Wrote:
> 1) it's your browsers fault not the forums winking smiley
> deleta all reprap cookies, log in and check "keep
> me logged in" box

Tried this in Safari and Firefox... If there is a "keep me logged in box", I can't find it.

> 2) True, that's only dne by the rss feed available
> from your adressbar; there's no such search&getnew
> as in vbulletin p.e.
>
> 3) you can mark as read all farums at once with
> index.php?0,markread,0 afaik
> but yes since there's no search&getnew there's
> also noresult on the index.php

As I said originally, this software is painful to use smiling smiley

But that's ok... If everyone else likes it, I'll make do.
Re: Google Groups
September 14, 2009 07:55AM
I don't like Google Groups because the RSS feed from them truncates the posts.

This forum outputs all the post to RSS, so the easiest way to follow it is with an RSS reader and just visit the forum to post.


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