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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
It's optional now and people are using them. It's been our experience that *enforcing* thread prefixes is not practical. What if a user wants to talk about multiple devices of the same vendor? What if he does not want to talk about the company but not about a specific device?
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What if you have 3 prefixes?!
- Gen3
- Opus
- Bookeen (or "n/s" or a blank one - as a generally prefix)
BTW: I'm a games designer and this means "making up rules" and believe me "you can either use it or not" is no good rule...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
Why doesn't it make sense? It makes sense that it immediately pops up all threads of a particular prefix. If you are concerned about missing threads that are not prefixed, you can always browse the forum itself, use the "New Posts" feature, or use the Search feature in general (if you are looking for something specific).
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If you are a new user ALL threads are new to you. Sorting with optional prefixes is absolutely useless in that case (and I believe it's new and relatively new users that'll need the most help in finding information for their device)!
Idea: Can't we use tags?
If we had some useful categories, like e.g.:
- Opus
- Gen3
- General
- Bookeen
- Content
- Accessories
- Troubleshooting
- Developer
- News
(like the subforums now)
that are shown with tickboxes underneath the textbox (similar like the smilies on the right side) and have sorting by this tags.
(Plus it's mandatory to use at least one tag...)