I think the new sidebar navigation of discourse obscures important links like code of conduct. About page and privacy policy so I suggest having a dedicated footer in place for these.
It might be worth mentioning clearly somewhere that admin can view everything on the website even private messages.
There should be a gdpr cookie notice , it is available as a plugin.
Some forums disable browsing user directory. I don’t have any link right now but I read somewhere it adds load on the server to list that page when there are thousands of users - https://discuss.kde.org/u/
Do we need trust level 4 for new joined users even if they have invent account? I think trust level 1 or 2 might be enough. trust level 4 gives way more control. Anyone will create an invent account and instantly get higher trust level. This is just a thought.
The favicon is white on white when browser theme is light
The landing page can also have categories listed so that we can see all the categories.
Have a tutorial post educating users how discourse works. And also a commonly asked question post. These can be made as a wiki which users above certain trust level can edit.
I’ll update the post when I find more points. Also happy to help in any ways possible.
Isn’t that required only if we use non essential cookies? Currently when visiting the website while not logged I get 0 cookies and then logged in I get the session cookies (but those are required for being logged) and a logged_out_marketing_header_id cookie. The last one looks more suspicious but I didn’t find any explanation about it online
I do not know the exact law about it, but I think even the plugin that is offered in the discourse forum is not suitable as it just informs the user. As far as I know rather than informing the website should take consent before using or loading the cookies. The essential cookies may be exempted from this I do not know for sure.
I agree that I don’t trust myself enough to be given Level 4 privileges…
Another minor point that I’ll mention is that in the “Discuss” logo in the top left corner the last ‘s’ is cut off a bit. Otherwise I’m quite satisfied with the setup so far.
This new forum is really incredible
Compared to the old forum, this one feels more modern and welcoming.
The @Konqi bot is friendly and one of the best welcome bots I’ve ever seen in a discourse instance.
The color scheme could have more resemblance to breeze in my opinion. In terms of design, everything is simple and well laid out, so there is nothing to complain about.
I find it very useful depending on the type of question because it can make it easier to avoid reading a huge thread to find the minimally correct answer.
Hello, a feedback regarding the format of the emails.
I guess it would be good to rename the email format of the FROM field to KDE Discuss <noreply@discuss.kde.org> and the subject prefix to [KDE Discuss] in order to be able to quickly identify in the email inbox which emails are from this KDE forum and which are from others.
I participate in a few other forums that use discourse, and they all use the same setup, which makes it a little tricky to tell them apart quickly without actually opening the email.
I guess this change would not be so complicated to make.
1 - It currently shows like this in Gmail:
My suggestion is to configure discourse in order to show like this:
2 - Same for the From field in the email body. This is what we currently have:
This is what it should look like after configuration in the discourse:
