chainBB beta update - sub-forums
One of the struggles that I've had with chainBB recently is where to put all the forums that are being requested by the community. Up until today, I was conflicted between the notion of "adding new forums for users" and "trying to keep the forum index uncluttered". Some sort of solution was required, and after some chatting with a number of individuals, bringing over the concept of a sub-forum seemed like the best approach.
Today sub-forums are now live!
Sub-forums from the Forum Index
The concept of sub-forums is pretty simple, it's that a forum can have a parent forum to live within. Traditional forum software has used this concept for decades at this point and it seems to work pretty well.
Before today, I had an entire "group" of forums dedicated to Steem. All 6 of the forums were displayed on the homepage and that took up a lot of room. With sub-forums (as shown in the screenshot below), the additional sub-forums for Steem now take up MUCH less space and now Steem can live alongside all of the other crypto forums.
It worked so well that I decided to mirror the same setup for Peerplays!
Sub-forums when viewing a Forum
You can also access these sub-forums from the parent forum, as shown in the screenshot below. You would access this page by clicking "Peerplays" from the forum index on the homepage.
This allows easy access to all of the sub-forums for that specific board and allows for infinite nesting of forums within one another.
A forum for Bitshares & Peerplays
https://beta.chainbb.com/forum/bitshares
https://beta.chainbb.com/forum/peerplays
Both Bitshares and Peerplays have strong communities already here on Steem, but that doesn't mean it can't be even stronger. Being siblings in the Graphene family I felt it was fitting for it to live right alongside it's brethren.
With Peerplays launching soon I setup the same type of forums as Steem (to coordinate witnesses & developers, etc), and I need to do a bit more research on exactly what would work best for the Bitshares community.
That's it for now, just a small update to help organize things a bit more. My focus is very much on organizing the data and not adding a lot of frills yet. Building the strong foundation of chainBB's UX is going to be critical for adoption.
Can we get a politics forum?
Any suggestions on how it would be organized or what tags it would use?
This is great @jesta! So cool to see it all being implemented one piece at a time. No stress, you're doing this lightning fast.
Only two things keep my from spending the majority of my time on ChainBB currently:
Thanks a lot for the update again! To infinity ... and beyond!
Thanks! This is one of the things I love doing with projects, these micro-feature rollouts. It's how I feel a beta should be run, quickly adding new features and not being afraid to remove any of them that are terrible.
I started experimenting with how some of these more social media type features would work in chainBB. Nothing to show yet, but I'm on it.
As for sorting comments - I've added it to the roadmap :)
your work is beyond awesome @jesta...
... in not so distant future all Graphene ecosystem will get proper attention and you will be one of those who contributed greatly to that :-)
I'm hoping so, I really would like to see the entire graphene family succeed. They all need forums IMHO too ;)
like and follow me and read my first story plzz someone needs your help desperately
like and follow me and read my first story plzz someone needs your help desperately
Don't spam the same message and please start writing with punctuation or I will not be the only one downvoting you.
ok thanks for your advice.I will surely work on it
Good to hear. I'm rooting for you to succeed. =)
Off the subject, but is it possible to follow someone directly from chainbb. I'm discovering lots of new posters and would like to follow them directly from chainbb.
So many great updates. Thanks!
Hey @jesta This really is a good update for the forum as a whole! Nice.
Can I suggest something here? As this forum platform is pretty much new; an option to add new sub forum title would be a welcome change in my opinion. And this will go in this way:
I came with this idea just after realizing there is no Movie section here.
Thanks.
For sure! I have a draft written for a system that could accomplish this, I just haven't started coding it yet. I do really want to let the people who want to use chainBB decide what sections exist and how it's all organized.
Awesome. Keep up the good work. (y)
Nicely done @jesta, sub-forums setup looks really nice and functional too, which is more important :)
Awesome update and impressive speed. Can't wait for some of the sub-forums to be rolled out :)
Sub-forums are a great addition to chainbb, and I'm glad they're now a thing
@jesta, please i use my phone for chainbb and am having trouble on how to post here on the site as an advice from a friend.....can you help me out with some navigating tips please?
There should be a big green "New Post" button on the top of each forum as well as "Reply" buttons on every post. These should be visible on mobile (just checked). Are they not for you?
Not on mine, but i can post through forums now. Have posted twice via chainbb, thank you sire.
Thanks for sharing! A link to your post was included in Steem.center wiki article about ChainBB. Thanks and good luck again!
You've now created the most comprehensive overview of chainBB yet! rofl.
Nice work, I'm going to have to look around at more of the stuff you guys have been working on.
Thank you very much! The wiki article was created by @seablue who also opened a topic in ChainBB asking users to help keep the page useful and updated. Thanks and good luck again!