Hello!

First off.. Is this an official Nabble announcement? That you are making a new forum services?
If so, what does it mean? Our current Nabble forums/communities, will they be improved or what will happen with them?
Also. What kind of new forum service are you developing? Community boards? Modern forums?

If you are making new forums like the current ones, but with improved interface and such, I would like to see an "Accept Solution" function.

What should happen is that you should be able to Accept a reply as the solution. By clicking "More" (drop down menu) there will be a text saying "Accept as Solution". But only the author of the thread and user  with rights will be able to Accept solutions.

When the topic is solved, a Solution icon will be shown before you enter the topic. (Like the Pinned icon, next to the topic title). When you enter the topic, the icon will also be shown to the left of the title. The Solved icon will also be shown next to the correct answer.

Exampel:

The question:

 How do I change my password?

"I have problems to retrieve my new password and login. Please help.."

The correct reply/answer:

 Re:  How do I change my password?

"Clear your web cache and update the page.."

The Solved icon  will be shown in the main title.
The Solution icon  will be shown only on the correct reply/answer.

Also. When you enter a solved topic, a text box or link will be appear that will say "Topic is Solved! Go to Solution." When you press "Go to Solution", you will be directed to the correct answer of the topic.


On top of this, you should also be able to give replies a "Thumb Up" or "XP". If a user find the answer as good, they should be able to give a Thumb Up/XP by clicking "More" and then "Give Kudo/Thumbs Up/XP". Every registered user will be able to give kudos.

Then of course, the user who retrieve the Thumb up/XP will get 1 point for this, then we also need to create some kind of point system that can be shown via the profile. In this way, other users will be able to see how many Thumb up's / XP that user have got.

Best regards,
Noken.

Hi again,

Also. Before you enter the topic, (in exampel forums or board) the solved icon should be visible to the left of the name. (Just like the pin or lock icon.)
It should not be pinned to a specific section, or it could be if you want to. But the idea is for other users to know that this topic is solved.

This is how it should look like:

Before you enter the topic it should look like this:

When you have entered the topic, it should look like this:

 

Please note that this images is from another Community Board that I have build.
You don't have to worrie about the design, but this is how the Solved and Solution icons should appear.

Also. This funtion is more for people who want community forums with boards.

- Noken

Hi Noken, this is not really an official Nabble announcement.  At this point, we Nabble developers are playing with some new forum code to see how it works out.  Nabble is quite big and includes features like mailing list archiving that we would rather leave out of a new smaller, simpler product.  We do appreciate feedback like yours to give us ideas of the kind of features that our new code should be flexible enough to support.  And we plan to use this forum as our internal development discussion so that anyone who is interested can contribute ideas.

I just wrote the code to create a new thread today, so that gives you an idea how far we are from a serious product.  It will be a while.

I see. Looking forward too see the result. In my opinion, I think you don't need to create a brand new forum services. Just continue to work on the current ones by replacing old stuff with new tech.

The "Accept as Solution" function is something you could add.
Thanks btw for answering back. :)

- Noken

Noken, we are considering making the core code open source and allowing anyone to add modules.  Then you could add a module to implement your "Accept Solution" function.  What do you think?

fschmidt wrote

Noken, we are considering making the core code open source and allowing anyone to add modules.  Then you could add a module to implement your "Accept Solution" function.  What do you think?

 Please let us know what features you want."

Yes, we could do this. But the question was which features we wanted to see in your upcoming product. With that said, many users want to see a function like this, especially if you have many questions in an active community. So people can see accepted solutions and easier find answers to their questions.

This is something that Lithium is using for their community boards/forums aswell.

- Noken

This function is something that also could be added to the current Nabble forums, as an extended macro.
Like the pin/lock icon function, this is something similar. A icon that shows that the thread is solved. :)

- Noken