New forum suggestions and feedback

[Joe]

@Brook

I would personally archive the old forum rather than import it here (or if it’s already here, put it in an archived forum, perhaps per category if need be) like you said, a lot of those threads are a mess and it would take up too much of your time.

Never! I have never left behind a forums old threads through 15 years and five different forum/CMS tools (OpenACS, Joomla plus a bridged in forum, Drupal 6, Drupal 7, and now Discourse).

And, I don’t want to add more categories. It’s just too much for casual users. New users already post in the wrong category about half the time. Sometimes I think to move it to the right one.

@Brook

No need for a plugin, it’s built in

Go to a thread, click on the spanner (towards top right) click on select posts, then choose what you would like to do with them

You’re right! That is so not intuitive. I’ve looked for that feature a bunch of times…but, since it exists, I’ll give a try to not auto-closing topics so quickly. Thanks for pointing this out! I’ve even googled this question a couple of times, and tied poking around a bunch and never stumbled on the right incantations to make it happen. This was one of the big things bugging me about Discourse (which is already much better than we have any right to expect free software to be).