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Thoughts about forum categories that have probably outlived their usefulness
As a volunteer member of this community it is not my place to tell the people who run this forum how they should run this forum; it is also not my place to tell people who visit this forum what kind of help they might receive when they visit this forum. Instead, I want to lay a few facts on the table about some of the expectations that people may have when they use the forum to seek support for problems that they may be experiencing with their Joomla websites.
Fact 1: There is no official support for any version of Joomla available via these forums. These forums are operated by volunteers who give their time freely to help others as best they can. Sometimes we may be able to offer step-by-step instructions; sometimes we may only be able to give general pointers to information and sometimes our advice might be confronting (that is to say, sometimes the best advice we can give is to inform people that their problems are bigger than they thought). Above all else, this is a self-help forum where it is up to people to choose to follow our advice or not.
Fact 2: There is only one stable version of Joomla available at this time (which is J! 3.9). All other versions of Joomla are obsolete, meaning that the Joomla CMS developers or bugsquad members will not be making patches for older versions that have reached their end of life. In order to further make this point clear, J! 1.0, J! 1.5, J! 1.6/1.7/2.5 are "officially" dead. J! 4 is currently in alpha testing; it is not yet stable. The reliability of releases of J! 3.x that pre-date J! 3.9.0 is entirely a matter for individuals who use them and the resourcefulness of the volunteers who may be able to give some advice.
Fact 3: Problems happen (and sometimes they happen without someone being aware that they've happened). The best way to prevent problems with websites is to keep them maintained with up-to-date software; talk with the people who run the webhosting services where websites are housed; make sure that you have a way of restoring your website so that, when problems happen, you can carry on "business as usual" while you find out how to deal with your problems. The success or failure to resolve problems is a matter for the people who own or manage websites; it's not "Joomla's fault" that something went wrong or that something can't be fixed.
Fact 4: Problems don't "just happen" because of updating to a newer version of Joomla. The cause of most problems is user negligence; I am as guilty of being negligent as the next person. When we analyse the causes of problems—particularly the problems that surface when we update from one version of J! to the next—we usually discover something that we put there, buried somewhere and for reasons that we cannot remember, and it may take hours (if not days) of painstaking detective work to discover that it was our fault that we didn't take the necessary precautions before we updated from one version of J! to the next.
Fact 5: There is no such thing as updating from J! 1.x to J! 3.x. Updating implies that it's something automatic that happens if you click a button. Migrating from J! 1.x to J! 3.x involves converting the database as well as replacing (or updating) sofware components; the process of migrating from J! 1.x to J! 3.x could take many hours (or days or weeks) before it's completed. On the other hand, updating from J! 3.8.13 to J! 3.9.0 might only take a few minutes.
Having outlined these facts, my question—primarily directed towards the people who manage and moderate the forum—concerns the continued usefulness of several forum categories that currently exist for people to seek "support" for obsolete (i.e. "officially" dead) versions of Joomla.
What are the benefits for members of the community to expect help regarding:
a) "reporting bugs" with;
b) finding "extensions" and "templates" for;
c) seeking assistance about "SEO" about;
d) "coding", in respect of;
e) continued operations with products (e.g. Google reCAPTCHA v1.0) that are officially dead, used with;
f) compliance with regulatory changes (e.g. the EU "cookie law" and GDPR) in respect of;
g) compatibility with webhosting business practices (e.g. discontinued support for outdated or deprecated versions of PHP) used with
J! 1.0, J! 1.5, J! 1.6/1.7/2.5?
If there are benefits in retaining the forum categories that relate to these matters, I should be grateful if someone would explain them to me. If there are no benefits in retaining these forum categories—if we, as members of the community want to send a clear message about what the word "obsolete" means—maybe it would be an idea if they were closed?
Fact 1: There is no official support for any version of Joomla available via these forums. These forums are operated by volunteers who give their time freely to help others as best they can. Sometimes we may be able to offer step-by-step instructions; sometimes we may only be able to give general pointers to information and sometimes our advice might be confronting (that is to say, sometimes the best advice we can give is to inform people that their problems are bigger than they thought). Above all else, this is a self-help forum where it is up to people to choose to follow our advice or not.
Fact 2: There is only one stable version of Joomla available at this time (which is J! 3.9). All other versions of Joomla are obsolete, meaning that the Joomla CMS developers or bugsquad members will not be making patches for older versions that have reached their end of life. In order to further make this point clear, J! 1.0, J! 1.5, J! 1.6/1.7/2.5 are "officially" dead. J! 4 is currently in alpha testing; it is not yet stable. The reliability of releases of J! 3.x that pre-date J! 3.9.0 is entirely a matter for individuals who use them and the resourcefulness of the volunteers who may be able to give some advice.
Fact 3: Problems happen (and sometimes they happen without someone being aware that they've happened). The best way to prevent problems with websites is to keep them maintained with up-to-date software; talk with the people who run the webhosting services where websites are housed; make sure that you have a way of restoring your website so that, when problems happen, you can carry on "business as usual" while you find out how to deal with your problems. The success or failure to resolve problems is a matter for the people who own or manage websites; it's not "Joomla's fault" that something went wrong or that something can't be fixed.
Fact 4: Problems don't "just happen" because of updating to a newer version of Joomla. The cause of most problems is user negligence; I am as guilty of being negligent as the next person. When we analyse the causes of problems—particularly the problems that surface when we update from one version of J! to the next—we usually discover something that we put there, buried somewhere and for reasons that we cannot remember, and it may take hours (if not days) of painstaking detective work to discover that it was our fault that we didn't take the necessary precautions before we updated from one version of J! to the next.
Fact 5: There is no such thing as updating from J! 1.x to J! 3.x. Updating implies that it's something automatic that happens if you click a button. Migrating from J! 1.x to J! 3.x involves converting the database as well as replacing (or updating) sofware components; the process of migrating from J! 1.x to J! 3.x could take many hours (or days or weeks) before it's completed. On the other hand, updating from J! 3.8.13 to J! 3.9.0 might only take a few minutes.
Having outlined these facts, my question—primarily directed towards the people who manage and moderate the forum—concerns the continued usefulness of several forum categories that currently exist for people to seek "support" for obsolete (i.e. "officially" dead) versions of Joomla.
What are the benefits for members of the community to expect help regarding:
a) "reporting bugs" with;
b) finding "extensions" and "templates" for;
c) seeking assistance about "SEO" about;
d) "coding", in respect of;
e) continued operations with products (e.g. Google reCAPTCHA v1.0) that are officially dead, used with;
f) compliance with regulatory changes (e.g. the EU "cookie law" and GDPR) in respect of;
g) compatibility with webhosting business practices (e.g. discontinued support for outdated or deprecated versions of PHP) used with
J! 1.0, J! 1.5, J! 1.6/1.7/2.5?
If there are benefits in retaining the forum categories that relate to these matters, I should be grateful if someone would explain them to me. If there are no benefits in retaining these forum categories—if we, as members of the community want to send a clear message about what the word "obsolete" means—maybe it would be an idea if they were closed?
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Re: Thoughts about forum categories that have probably outlived their usefulness
I second that. Please can all boards that are not Joomla 3 be locked ?
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Re: Thoughts about forum categories that have probably outlived their usefulness
Thanks, @Webdongle. I wasn't prepared to advocate a complete/wholesale closure of all forum categories that relate to [officially declared] "end-of-life" versions of Joomla. I still see some marginal benefits in allowing people to ask questions about migrating from older versions of Joomla as a pathway to migrating them to J! 3.9 (or whatever is the current stable release of Joomla). I also understand that some people may be stumped for answers about why EOL versions of Joomla cause problems (or become susceptible to attack) and to allow people to ask for advice about what might the best way(s) forward.
Even though these kinds of questions have been asked thousands of times before, it may not hurt if people ask them again (although we'll probably just give the same answers to those same questions). Asking the same question doesn't produce different results (as a general rule).
Sometimes—very rarely—I see people provide new insights about old versions of Joomla, ways of tackling environmental change (e.g. using Google reCAPTCHA v2.0) with old versions of Joomla as a way of perpetuating the life of websites built with these old versions of Joomla. For those reasons, it may not necessarily be a good idea to completely shutdown all the forum categories relating to antiquated versions of Joomla.
Perhaps a few "general questions" or "how to migrate" categories may still be useful. I really can't say. I'm not disagreeing with you, @Webdongle, but I'm not sure that it would be a good thing either.
Even though these kinds of questions have been asked thousands of times before, it may not hurt if people ask them again (although we'll probably just give the same answers to those same questions). Asking the same question doesn't produce different results (as a general rule).
Sometimes—very rarely—I see people provide new insights about old versions of Joomla, ways of tackling environmental change (e.g. using Google reCAPTCHA v2.0) with old versions of Joomla as a way of perpetuating the life of websites built with these old versions of Joomla. For those reasons, it may not necessarily be a good idea to completely shutdown all the forum categories relating to antiquated versions of Joomla.
Perhaps a few "general questions" or "how to migrate" categories may still be useful. I really can't say. I'm not disagreeing with you, @Webdongle, but I'm not sure that it would be a good thing either.
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There are several guides in J3 migration forum about migrating to J3 from previous versions.
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Re: Thoughts about forum categories that have probably outlived their usefulness
We will look into this, but I do not think we will lock or archive all the old version forums.
In any case I have locked the installation forums for those old versions.
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In any case I have locked the installation forums for those old versions.
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Well I can see that users with old versions need somewhere to post ... because if they don't post we can tell them we dont support the old versions. And If they had nowhere to post we could not reply telling them we wont support them until they upgrade.
But if the boards for the old versions were locked then users could post their 1.5/2.5 problems on the general board ... we can just as easily reply there that we don't support older versions.
But if the boards for the old versions were locked then users could post their 1.5/2.5 problems on the general board ... we can just as easily reply there that we don't support older versions.
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I'm fairly sure you'll change your mind (about locking old forum categories) over time. Good start by locking down the "Installing J!" for all those ancient forums! Keep going.
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Forums such as beta testing of 1.0-2.5 and 3.x can be entirely deleted.
It's even worse on many of the international forums. Many sub-forums for obsolete versions and none for current version.
It's even worse on many of the international forums. Many sub-forums for obsolete versions and none for current version.
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I think that the next forum categories to lock are:
There are obvious other practices that people can employ (that are peripheral to the improvements with the evolution of in PHP, such as caching, compression and reducing the number of HTTP requests) but I don't believe our primary focus involves suggestions for short-term improvements in respect of websites that were created five, ten or more years ago. There may be other benefits by changing the webhosting platform ... and good luck if you can still find webhosting providers who offer software "support" for J! 1.0 or J! 1.5.
It is a well-established principle among website developers that sites need to be overhauled and made-over about every two years; sites that are not overhauled or "updated" tend to become forgotten or considered relics not worth the trouble involved in visiting them.
I hope that my latest suggestion—to close the "performance" categories for versions of Joomla that are no longer in active development—will be considered favourably. Thanks.
- Performance - 1.0.x viewforum.php?f=268
- Performance - Joomla! 1.5 viewforum.php?f=433
- Performance - Joomla 2.5 viewforum.php?f=616
There are obvious other practices that people can employ (that are peripheral to the improvements with the evolution of in PHP, such as caching, compression and reducing the number of HTTP requests) but I don't believe our primary focus involves suggestions for short-term improvements in respect of websites that were created five, ten or more years ago. There may be other benefits by changing the webhosting platform ... and good luck if you can still find webhosting providers who offer software "support" for J! 1.0 or J! 1.5.
It is a well-established principle among website developers that sites need to be overhauled and made-over about every two years; sites that are not overhauled or "updated" tend to become forgotten or considered relics not worth the trouble involved in visiting them.
I hope that my latest suggestion—to close the "performance" categories for versions of Joomla that are no longer in active development—will be considered favourably. Thanks.
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Would it be easier to say all except? That would be a shorter list than the ones to lock.
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Of course it would be easier to say that (and I've written something along those lines before: see viewtopic.php?f=7&t=960705) and look where that got me!
Therefore, based on my past experiences, it may be too adventurous to recommend wholesale closure of large portions of the forum and because those, who manage the forum, are (shall we say) "risk averse" to too much radical change, I've decided to approach this matter differently.
By tackling one small portion of the problem, one piece at a time, I'm hoping that the end result—the ultimate closure of these obsolete parts of the forum—will eventually be realised. It will take time and some of the suggestions will be controversial. I'm just trying to steer a cautious path and avoid the opprobrium of certain key players—they know who they are—who have strongly resisted the suggestions that I've made in the past.
One thing is patently clear from the recent changes that we've seen: the level of nuisance, spam and necroposting forum abuse has been significantly reduced. The forum moderators are now exercising their powers without being hamstrung in having to facilitate discussions on dead issues and their obligations to the community to arbitrate in such matters (regardless of their personal views).
I haven't seen much involvement from the forum moderators in respect of my suggestions about locking categories or topics. Perhaps they disagree with me; perhaps they agree with me. I don't know. Maybe they feel it's better to stay clear of the argument and allow things to evolve without their public involvement?
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A couple of months on ...
To my great relief, when a couple of forum categories were closed, the level of necroposting/time-wasting "questions" posted on the forum eased considerably. We're now into the second decade after the release of J! 1.0/1.5 and, although it is evident that a number of website operators have only recently had their eyes opened by
a) webhosting providers removing PHP support required to operate J! 1.0/1.5,
b) the successful hacking of J! 1.x websites,
c) the inability to maintain J! 1.x websites because of the inability to obtain extensions for them—most of these developers have left the business, and
d) it's just impossibly difficult to continue to stay in business in the real world when people are rely on obsolete technology that that no-one else uses today.
I think there's further room to reduce the availability of some of the older forum categories that still exist on this forum and it would be a welcome sign to see further efforts made.
For what it's worth, I guess.
To my great relief, when a couple of forum categories were closed, the level of necroposting/time-wasting "questions" posted on the forum eased considerably. We're now into the second decade after the release of J! 1.0/1.5 and, although it is evident that a number of website operators have only recently had their eyes opened by
a) webhosting providers removing PHP support required to operate J! 1.0/1.5,
b) the successful hacking of J! 1.x websites,
c) the inability to maintain J! 1.x websites because of the inability to obtain extensions for them—most of these developers have left the business, and
d) it's just impossibly difficult to continue to stay in business in the real world when people are rely on obsolete technology that that no-one else uses today.
I think there's further room to reduce the availability of some of the older forum categories that still exist on this forum and it would be a welcome sign to see further efforts made.
For what it's worth, I guess.
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There's a chance that we may see some remodelling of the "board index".
I would like to see a couple of changes that will hide the forum categories that have now been locked.
See the attached images.
I would like to see a couple of changes that will hide the forum categories that have now been locked.
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See my last post. In addition to hiding a few sub-forums from the Board Index), as I tried to indicate in those images, how about we tidy-up a couple of other forum categories?
As we all know, there are no sub-forums displayed for the old J! 1.0 forum category; there are sub-forums: they're just not displayed. How about we extend the concept to the J! 1.5 and J! 2.5 forums, as well?
Except for a couple of sub-forums that have been locked, people can still use all the sub-forums that exist around the place. Why don't we just hide (i.e not "advertise" them) the existence of a few of them? We might actually deliver a better narrative—bring people to the realisation that they're behind the times—and encourage people to use to the current version of Joomla if we don't promote the outdated forums.
As we all know, there are no sub-forums displayed for the old J! 1.0 forum category; there are sub-forums: they're just not displayed. How about we extend the concept to the J! 1.5 and J! 2.5 forums, as well?
Except for a couple of sub-forums that have been locked, people can still use all the sub-forums that exist around the place. Why don't we just hide (i.e not "advertise" them) the existence of a few of them? We might actually deliver a better narrative—bring people to the realisation that they're behind the times—and encourage people to use to the current version of Joomla if we don't promote the outdated forums.
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My previous two (unanswered) posts apply. In addition, to these unanwered suggestions and questions, can someone please explain the current relevance concerning the forum [sub-category] shown in the following screenshot? Maybe this shouldn't appear on the Board Index? Maybe it should be chucked away altogether?
We have a wonderful opportunity to overhaul the Board Index that hasn't changed much in five or more years. Let's do it, eh?
We have a wonderful opportunity to overhaul the Board Index that hasn't changed much in five or more years. Let's do it, eh?
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Remove the clutter from the Board Index of forum.joomla.org
My previous three (unanswered) posts apply.
Newcomers to the Joomla forum are presented with an overwhelming display of "choices" and a lot of the information on the Board Index is not only outdated, it's actually unhelpful. I would like to see the Board Index made a little simpler and less cluttered.
The Board Index is so large that, in order to display an image of it, I have to create three screenshots to demonstrate just how cluttered it is. Therefore, the Board Index together with a few simple suggestions to remove parts that are mostly outdated and rarely referenced from the "main page", could be considered in the terms below:
It really would be nice to get some feedback (even if people think my suggestions are a waste of time) from someone, please.
Newcomers to the Joomla forum are presented with an overwhelming display of "choices" and a lot of the information on the Board Index is not only outdated, it's actually unhelpful. I would like to see the Board Index made a little simpler and less cluttered.
The Board Index is so large that, in order to display an image of it, I have to create three screenshots to demonstrate just how cluttered it is. Therefore, the Board Index together with a few simple suggestions to remove parts that are mostly outdated and rarely referenced from the "main page", could be considered in the terms below:
It really would be nice to get some feedback (even if people think my suggestions are a waste of time) from someone, please.
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Re: Thoughts about forum categories that have probably outlived their usefulness
Sorry, I do not think we can apply your request. We will archive some of those you mentioned in the future, starting most likely with the arrival of Joomla 4.
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Re: Thoughts about forum categories that have probably outlived their usefulness
Thank you for getting around to looking at the matter and for the time it has taken you to reply. So, in other words, you're saying that the Board Index, that has remained unchanged for the past five years, is acceptable, it's not uncluttered, and it provides useful, up-to-date and relevant information to assist new users of the forum to find what they're looking for? Is that what you mean when you wrote "I do not think we can apply your request"?
Now, let's be absolutely clear on this. The timeline for arrival of J! 4 is vague: it could be anywhere from six months to a year away. I'm not asking to **archive** the older whatever-I-mentioned. I'm asking to not advertise the whatever-I-mentioned. It's like a five minute job, right? So, for the sake of not being prepared to invest five minutes in uncluttering the Board Index, to "hide" (for want of a better description) some of those areas that have been dead for five years or so, we're just going to have to wait until the arrival of J! 4? Is that what you're saying?
In effect, the whatever-I-mentioned (that's been hanging around this forum for the past five years) will just have to hang around for six years before someone's prepared to spend five minutes and do a bit of housekeeping now?
This is the feedback-about-how-the-forum-looks category. I don't know why I bother to provide feedback. Sorry, Olaf, but I consider your reply dismisses the hours I've invested in providing feedback. I'm not too happy about it.
Now, let's be absolutely clear on this. The timeline for arrival of J! 4 is vague: it could be anywhere from six months to a year away. I'm not asking to **archive** the older whatever-I-mentioned. I'm asking to not advertise the whatever-I-mentioned. It's like a five minute job, right? So, for the sake of not being prepared to invest five minutes in uncluttering the Board Index, to "hide" (for want of a better description) some of those areas that have been dead for five years or so, we're just going to have to wait until the arrival of J! 4? Is that what you're saying?
In effect, the whatever-I-mentioned (that's been hanging around this forum for the past five years) will just have to hang around for six years before someone's prepared to spend five minutes and do a bit of housekeeping now?
This is the feedback-about-how-the-forum-looks category. I don't know why I bother to provide feedback. Sorry, Olaf, but I consider your reply dismisses the hours I've invested in providing feedback. I'm not too happy about it.
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Re: Thoughts about forum categories that have probably outlived their usefulness
Thanks for the feedback, I have looked into this and yes we are constantly changing things and we do lock/move/archive and create forum boards.
(e.g I did remove some of the forum boards today, which you mentioned as well)
But yes, to make the answer short I think we still need the Joomla 2.5 sub forums on the main index, and I will look into removing some more sub forums from the index within the next few month.
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(e.g I did remove some of the forum boards today, which you mentioned as well)
But yes, to make the answer short I think we still need the Joomla 2.5 sub forums on the main index, and I will look into removing some more sub forums from the index within the next few month.
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Few months? The next few months?
Please explain what the "Community Magazine Editors" forum has to do with the arrival of J! 4?
If we can hide the subforums for J! 1.0, what is preventing us doing the same thing for J! 1.5? Is that also related to the arrival of J! 4?
And why is the "J! 1.5 bug reporting" forum advertised on the Board Index? The forum is locked. Do we advertise locked forum on the Board Index? Is this related to the arrival of J! 4?
It's a five minute job. Really, it takes an inordinate amount of time to get things happening, doesn't it? C'mon, let's try to work through this together, please.
Please explain what the "Community Magazine Editors" forum has to do with the arrival of J! 4?
If we can hide the subforums for J! 1.0, what is preventing us doing the same thing for J! 1.5? Is that also related to the arrival of J! 4?
And why is the "J! 1.5 bug reporting" forum advertised on the Board Index? The forum is locked. Do we advertise locked forum on the Board Index? Is this related to the arrival of J! 4?
It's a five minute job. Really, it takes an inordinate amount of time to get things happening, doesn't it? C'mon, let's try to work through this together, please.
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Excellent! Thanks.
It wasn't that difficult.
Excellent! Thanks.
It wasn't that difficult.
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Is there a purpose in advertising on the Board Index the sub-forum for Joomla Community Magazine Editors? As far as I can tell, the Community Magazine team hold their own discussions elsewhere and not on the forum here.
Do we need this Joomla Community Magazine Editors forum at all? Perhaps we can just remove it from the Board Index? Is this one of those things that we need to wait until the arrival of J! 4?
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It's been a couple of weeks. I've asked a few questions but I haven't really had any answers.
I would love to know the answer to the question about the Joomla Community Magazine Editors forum. What is that forum category used for? Is it still needed? Don't the JCM editors have their own place, not on the forum, for their meetings/discussions? Can we remove this forum category from the Board Index?
I would love to know the answer to the question about the Joomla Community Magazine Editors forum. What is that forum category used for? Is it still needed? Don't the JCM editors have their own place, not on the forum, for their meetings/discussions? Can we remove this forum category from the Board Index?
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Re: Thoughts about forum categories that have probably outlived their usefulness
I have removed the category from the front page.
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It has been a month since we've seen any follow-up action connected with the suggestions I've made. I realise that it takes many days to carry out some of simple forum management activities but, eventually, we do see some results.
I refer to two forum categories here. It is a well-known fact that J! 1.5 is dead. It has been dead for over seven years.
J! 1.0 has been dead for longer.
Can someone please explain why the J! 1.5 sub-forums are advertised on the Board Index when the J! 1.0 sub-forums are not? I have asked on several occasions for the J! 1.5 sub-forums to be removed from the Board Index. Apparently it is too hard to do this at this time. We have to wait until J! 4 has been released (which, could be anytime between now and Christmas ... but I don't know what year that may be).
So, I ask again, can we just remove from the Board Index the list of sub-forums that are listed under the forum category "Joomla 1.5", please? We can reduce some of the Board Index clutter and we also send a better message to members of the forum that J! 1.5 is dead ... dead, buried and all-but-cremated.
Thank you.
I refer to two forum categories here. It is a well-known fact that J! 1.5 is dead. It has been dead for over seven years.
J! 1.0 has been dead for longer.
Can someone please explain why the J! 1.5 sub-forums are advertised on the Board Index when the J! 1.0 sub-forums are not? I have asked on several occasions for the J! 1.5 sub-forums to be removed from the Board Index. Apparently it is too hard to do this at this time. We have to wait until J! 4 has been released (which, could be anytime between now and Christmas ... but I don't know what year that may be).
So, I ask again, can we just remove from the Board Index the list of sub-forums that are listed under the forum category "Joomla 1.5", please? We can reduce some of the Board Index clutter and we also send a better message to members of the forum that J! 1.5 is dead ... dead, buried and all-but-cremated.
Thank you.
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It's been another week since I last asked the same question about de-cluttering the board (but removing the list of J! 1.5 sub-forums from Board Index). This is not going away. Please respond.
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It's been another week since I posted a message to this discussion topic. It's been another week waiting for a response.
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Can anyone explain why this forum still considers the Joomla! 1.5 forum category needs to be advertised in the way it is on the Board Index. I keep asking this question and the one person who can provide an explanation—who is online as I am writing this—is missing in action on the question.
Please, can we just remove from the Board Index, the list of sub-categories advertising the Joomla! 1.5 forum. Thanks.
Please, can we just remove from the Board Index, the list of sub-categories advertising the Joomla! 1.5 forum. Thanks.
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Can anyone please tell me when we will see the list of J! 1.5 sub-forums removed from the Board Index (in the same way as there are no sub-forums for J! 1.0 listed on the Board Index)? I'm only talking about removing the list of J! 1.5 sub-forums that appears on the Board Index. I'm not talking about removing the sub-forums themselves.
I'm trying to be patient but only logical conclusions I can draw (in the absence of an answer) is that either (a) the people who manage the forum actually want to advertise the continued existence of J! 1.5 on the forum's main page—the Board Index—or (b) no-one is managing the forum structure. If it's a case of (b), I wonder how well prepared the forum will be when (or if) J! 4 is released as a stable platform? Certainly, J! 1.5 cannot be considered stable, can it?
I'm trying to be patient but only logical conclusions I can draw (in the absence of an answer) is that either (a) the people who manage the forum actually want to advertise the continued existence of J! 1.5 on the forum's main page—the Board Index—or (b) no-one is managing the forum structure. If it's a case of (b), I wonder how well prepared the forum will be when (or if) J! 4 is released as a stable platform? Certainly, J! 1.5 cannot be considered stable, can it?
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Not having received any feedback from the people who manage this forum—perhaps @ooffick is in witness protection—it appears the forum will still be advertising J! 1.5 and J! 2.5 as stable, supported commodities over the next five to ten years. Yes?