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The biggest issue that seems to be coming up repeatedly is a better way of navigating to required information, and then presenting the answers at a level that is appropriate to the navigation that was chosen.
Just a thought - there has been talk of a replacement for the FAQ thread? I wonder if that needs to be structured into some sort of giant Index where the top level gives you topic areas, and you drill down on them to other topics in the thread (which may then allow you to drill down further). Ideally the final level would basically be a link to the relevant section of the standard Calibre documentation, but if the required answer has not yet made the documentation it can be in a post of the thread.
My idea is that one would not ever read through the thread in order, but treat it is a series of "in progress" pages that will eventually be migrated into the standard documentation as they settle down and become more polished. Once a page has made it into the standard documentation it would either be removed from the thread, or that particular post marked as obsolete/supseded.
That would mean that we would still need threads about a specific topic that is under discussion, but ideally such threads would be focussed on a particular issue, and would naturally die when that topic reached its logical conclusion.
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