How do I find my own discussion threads?
I posted 3 discussion threads yesterday. Two of them I found and was able to respond to responders. But the third thread I cannot find again for the life of me. --This website is so incomprehensible!!!-- I got an email about a reply to it. The email reminds me of the title of the thread, "Inline Help file could use a fat index", but it doesn't have a link to click through and reply. It leaves it up to me to find where in the forums the thread is. So, I went through my icon to the dashboard, in the hope of finding links to my threads there. Nope. No luck. The dashbord... I don't understand of what use it is. With most websites having a forum, the dashboar is a place you can find links to everything you ever posted, profile, statistics and whatnot. In this dashboard, instead of links to threads I started, there is a copy of a reply I received to a desperate posting I put in a music sharing group when I could not find where the help forums were; so someone is telling me to "chill out". Great! But there's no way to reply unless I find where that thread is. And then I get copies of postings by other people to that music group that I didn't want to join, but did so out of desperation. Dozens of postings... IN my dashboard. Why? Why not show me a link TO the group, and let me go there?
This website is one of the most confusing I've seen in a long time.
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Click your name in a thread and a list of every thread you ever posted on will be listed with the latest one listed first. BTW that's a shortcut for using the Activity menu above and selecting my posts.
In reply to Click your name in a thread… by mike320
Ah, thanks!
In reply to Click your name in a thread… by mike320
Thanks
In reply to Click your name in a thread… by mike320
Thanks a lot!
Or simply use the forums just as you would on any other similar site - go to the main forums index (click "Forums" under the "Support" menu), click the name of a forum (eg, this one, "Support and bug reports") to see a list of recent topics. Then simply scan the list visually to find the one you started. That's all I have normally done for the several years I've participated here, exactly the same as the dozens of others forums I have participated in regularly.
In reply to Or simply use the forums… by Marc Sabatella
Well, that's exactly what I did, but I could only find two out of the three.
Been forum-ing since the days of 9.6 kbaud modems, friend. I'm part-venting, part-reporting weaknesses. Hopefully the maintainers will take heed. This design is not intuitive. Maybe it seems intuitive once you get used to it; but it is not intuitive to someone new to this website. Like clicking in one's name to see past threads. That is NOT standard. I would expect clicking in my name would lead to my profile, as it does in most websites. The list of all the posts should be in my dashboard. THAT is what the dashboard is for. This is all backwards.
In reply to Well, that's exactly what I… by danw58
Can you explain which thread you were unable to find by simply going to the index page for the forum as I described? It's possible some glitch occurred that caused it to not show - such glitches do happen periodically.
Anyhow, again, not saying there isn't room for improvement, but what I described should work, so if there is a particular problem with it, steps to reproduce the problem would be helpful in fixing it.
EDIT: if you mean the "inline help" thread, you posted it in the Documentation forum (not a bad place for it at all), and it does in show up there in the list for me when I enter that forum. I guess the trick here is remembering which forum you posted to. For now, knowing that clicking your name will get you the list of recent threads should hopefully help.
In reply to Can you explain which thread… by Marc Sabatella
It is this one:
https://musescore.org/en/node/275463
Thing is, I just looked again and still did not find it looking at the indexes; maybe I started it in a funny forum. I had to click on my name again in order to find it.
Ah, Yes, you got it! I did post it in the Documentation forum. Now I remember.
Well, this info: the forum in which it is, and a link to it, should be in the email notifications that are sent. This is standard for forums. You guys should port this to PHPBB, which does all such things automatically. I used to manage a website, years ago, (an open source game I was the lead of), with forums. I set it up around PHPBB and it worked like a charm.
In reply to It is this one:… by danw58
You're right - including the name of the forum would be useful. Presumably that would be trivially easy to add, way easier than porting. But do note if you have the email, you don't need to know the name of the forum, or of the thread, or even of the web site - all you need to do is click the "View it on MuseScore" link right there in the email.
As for porting, I have no horse in the race, but I suspect that would help only with the forum portion of the sites, which is actually only a subset of the content that needs managing, and then there would be more headaches matching the look & feel and the navigation of yet another component. On the other hand, if I were the one managing the forum, absolutely no way would I even consider re-inventing that wheel; I'd just live with the inconsistencies. So we'd be right back to the same basic issues, just in a different form.
In reply to You're right - including the… by Marc Sabatella
Ah, I though I was speaking to the big boss here ;-)
I didn't notice the link in the emails, and I looked for one...
I see why, it is so close in space to the "unsubscribe" link that they look like one link. Unsubscribe should be way down at the bottom, and in a smaller font. That is the standard most people expect.
Yeah i have the same problem, I'm just going to comment to be able to click on my own name lol