Feature?

[Former Member]

Has proboards ever thought of adding create a proboards blog or a proboards group?

[Ryan Roos]

Mar 27, 2013 10:53:31 GMT -8 @womenonly said:

Has proboards ever thought of adding create a proboards blog or a proboards group?

ProBoards itself has a Wordpress Blog on our website.

If you mean let people sign up for blogs, we added the Falling feature to boards for this reason. It's simply a matter of time before someone (possibly ProBoards) designs a theme and template that is laid out more like a traditional blog. And with falling enabled threads will act like blog posts with comments.

I don't know what you mean by groups. We already have member groups, but I suspect you mean something more. Can you please elaborate.

Thank you.

[Former Member]

Mar 27, 2013 12:43:30 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Mar 27, 2013 10:53:31 GMT -8 @womenonly said:

Has proboards ever thought of adding create a proboards blog or a proboards group?

ProBoards itself has a Wordpress Blog on our website.

If you mean let people sign up for blogs, we added the Falling feature to boards for this reason. It's simply a matter of time before someone (possibly ProBoards) designs a theme and template that is laid out more like a traditional blog. And with falling enabled threads will act like blog posts with comments. Women only said: I will check my forum for  the option of falling threads.I do not know what falling threads do.

I don't know what you mean by groups. We already have member groups, but I suspect you mean something more. Can you please elaborate. women only said:Yahoo and google allow create groups. I do not mean use their layouts and templates. I really do not care for their templates and layouts.

[RedBassett]

Mar 27, 2013 13:34:27 GMT -8 @womenonly said:

Mar 27, 2013 12:43:30 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

ProBoards itself has a Wordpress Blog on our website.

If you mean let people sign up for blogs, we added the Falling feature to boards for this reason. It's simply a matter of time before someone (possibly ProBoards) designs a theme and template that is laid out more like a traditional blog. And with falling enabled threads will act like blog posts with comments. Women only said: I will check my forum for  the option of falling threads.I do not know what falling threads do.

I don't know what you mean by groups. We already have member groups, but I suspect you mean something more. Can you please elaborate. women only said:Yahoo and google allow create groups. I do not mean use their layouts and templates. I really do not care for their templates and layouts.

Falling is an option the the settings for individual boards.

The two "groups" services you are referring to are essentially fancy list-serves.

[Ryan Roos]

Hi @womenonly

Falling prevents new posts from bumping the thread. So any board that has all it's threads falling will remain in the same order the threads were created in regardless of how many replies each thread gets.

This is the exact behavior you need for a blog or journal. Let's say you created a thread yesterday and today. The one today will always be on top even if people only comment/reply on yesterdays. So on a board where all threads are falling chronological order is maintained. And in a board where it's not, a falling thread will slowly drift away as new threads and replies to others are made. In that case you could use it to let a thread die without locking it. Or if it's a thread between two people that the rest of the forum doesn't care about, let it fall away and those 2 can keep talking without it constantly popping back to the first page for everyone. Falling has many uses.

As RedBassett said those are essentially fancy list services. I've used yahoo groups in the past. I see no reason why you couldn't mod your board to work in similar ways. You don't want their layouts or templates so I'm not sure what your specific goal is. I can tell you that the yahoo group I was a member of basically was just like a very simple forum for the most part. I joined using my Yahoo account, just like someone would join your forum using their ProBoards account in v5. The group had a specific topic, just like boards typically do. There was a place for discussion, just like a forum. And there was a place for file uploading and sharing, just like a forum. I can't speak for Google groups, but Yahoo groups is essentially just a really unorganized and basic forum system. So you already have that on ProBoards. If I were a middle aged woman looking for a discussion space I could stumble upon your forum just as easy as a Yahoo group. I don't see the difference as far as a feature request goes. Your forum is a group system, it's just a very advanced group system.

[Former Member]

21 hours ago Ryan Roos said:
ProBoards itself has a Wordpress Blog on our website......
"I don't know what you mean by groups. We already have member groups, but I suspect you mean something more. Can you please elaborate."

Thursday,3/28/2012
womenonly said.
I used yahoo and google as examples of websites that have create groups.I could not think of any other
websites that still allow the option of creating one's own group. MSN used to.

I would like to thank everybody for their help.