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Recent Discussion Board Changes
Nokia Ron | 15 April, 2008 17:34
I imagine that almost everyone has noticed the new changes in the Forum Nokia community discussion boards. The most striking change is the removal of descriptions for many forums. The reason for this is to clarify what is forum in itself and what is a group of forums with sub forums. Removing these generally redundant descriptions will allow us in the future to shrink some icons and make more forums viewable without scrolling down. For those that do like the descriptions we plan to add them back in as context sensitive pop-ups later this year.
I personally felt that the idea of having a forum like Location Based Services have a description of "Use this forum for discussion of Location Based Services" as foolish and almost insulting to our members.
All of the Parent forums with child forums now have a listing of the sub forums until we have context sensitive pop-ups. The forums that are stand alone have no description.
The other step that has happened is many sub-forums have been promoted to a higher level. The most recent was the Widget/Widset forum was promoted up from a sub forum of Web Technologies. Other notable changes are some of the feedback channels were merged into others and the parent folder was removed. At no time are messages lost they are simply put into another category.
We have other plans to merge forums I think Games will merge into the General category both on Symbian C++ and Mobile Java forums. They simply do not have enough traffic to keep them separate.
Please feel free to let me know how you like or dislike these changes and other changes you'd like to see.
Ron
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Re: Recent Discussion Board Changes
croozeus | 16/04/2008, 05:46
How would be an idea to add sub forms to Python?
We could have them like, Standalone applications, Py2sis/Ensymble Problems, Standard modules, Extensions, etc (after having well thought upon the sub forums, we could decide what they would be)
As it is Python is getting very popular these days.
Best Regards
Croozeus
Javascript programming
donelson | 16/04/2008, 16:58
It's not clear to me where to post for discussion of Javascript programming for the S60-N95...
"General Browsing" or "Browsing and Markups"
Should there be a programmers' forum for S60?
With sub-forums for Java, XHTML, Javascript etc?
Re: Recent Discussion Board Changes
gaba88 | 17/04/2008, 17:46
the forum moderators should now definitely think of having a sub forum in the python dibo which should deal making stand alone applications i.e. use of py2sis and special focus on symbian security issues concerned with PyS60.
thanks
gaba88
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Sorcery-ltd | 15/04/2008, 18:28
Hi,
While you're making this change please can you sort out the name of the Symbian C++ sub-forum "Porting Symbian C++ to S60" - which has never made any sense. The description used to clear things up a bit but without it I don't see why anyone would use the forum unless they were coming from UIQ - which is quite rare. It should also include BREW, Windows Mobile, embedded Linux platforms etc.
Possibly it should be merged with the Open C forum to create a Porting to S60 / Open C forum. Perhaps there should be a top level Porting to Symbian / S60 forum with Open C, the current porting forum and future port enablers (like Qt).
Up to you guys, but I think the current name needs to change and the Open C board will probably want to get a bit broader in scope anyway.
Mark