Closed Bug 456605 Opened 17 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Labs forum: "mark all as read"

Categories

(Websites :: mozillalabs.com, defect)

Product:
Websites
Component:
mozillalabs.com
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: hello, Unassigned)

Details

It would be nice if there was a way to "catch-up" (mark all as read) from the summary view.
Perhaps this extension would do the trick: http://lussumo.com/addons/index.php?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=348
Does anybody even care about the forums anymore?
Alex, ping?
To be honest I think most of the few remaining active users would rather just see the forum go back to SMF. It worked well and you didn't have to throw extensions at it to get useful features that you would expect any forum to have...
Another week goes by and still nothing. Does this mean that Mozilla doesn't care about the forums?
2+ months and no changes other than the addition of reCAPTCHA to prevent spam. I guess it's time to send a nice complaint letter to the webmaster address. Maybe that'll get us somewhere...
I understand that you are unhappy with the move away from SMF, specially since you work on it. And I also understand the frustration of seeing simple bugs like this one still unresolved. All I can say is the webdev team is already aware of the labs forum bugs, and doing what they can to work on all Mozilla sites.
I'm sorry for the complaints, but I am really annoyed with the way things have been handled: Forum conversion was made with absolutely no input from the users. Users have complained about missing features and suggested that we go back to SMF, but nobody has responded. It doesn't take 2+ months to decide what to do with the forum.
Any more updates on this? It would be nice to see an active Mozilla Labs community again, but as long as Vanilla is being used, I don't see that happening.
At this point it's quite obvious that Mozilla no longer cares about the Labs forums. It should not take 5 months to figure out that Vanilla was a mistake...
6 1/2 months after the bug was filed, and still nothing. Meanwhile, the forum is being bombarded with spam, and the main page doesn't even work anymore. I guess it's time to start an unofficial mozilla labs forum to give users a much better experience.
We will very likely be moving away from the current forums, and are just finalizing the setup of the new system.
In my opinion, you would be best to stick to the forum solution - just use something other than a bare-bones forum system with limited features (whether it be SMF, phpBB or some other system). Google Groups presents many new problems: Registration at a third-party site (not everyone has a Google account) You have to join each group separately Less collaboration between projects No general discussion area (eg discussion of things related to Mozilla or Mozilla Labs as a whole but not necessarily a specific project) Good luck with the new setup. I don't plan to join any of the groups as I prefer forum-based discussion to discussion groups.
(In reply to comment #13) > Google Groups presents many new problems: > Registration at a third-party site (not everyone has a Google account) Agreed that the required Google account is undesirable, and eventually we will probably look for a replacement solution (in the long term, though). > You have to join each group separately You don't need to join to read the group, and it's two clicks to join (assuming you already have an account, which you only need to do once). > Less collaboration between projects ? > No general discussion area (eg discussion of things related to Mozilla or > Mozilla Labs as a whole but not necessarily a specific project) http://labs.mozilla.com/discussions/ The first one is for general Labs discussions.
I'm not sure what I was getting at with less collaboration between projects, and somehow missed that first group on the list. I still say that the best option is to go back to a discussion forum. Prior to the Vanilla conversion, it worked quite well. Vanilla just didn't work out, though I'm not sure why nothing was done about it for almost 7 months.
(In reply to comment #15) > I still say that the best option is to go back to a discussion forum. Prior to > the Vanilla conversion, it worked quite well. No, it did not. It was a mess, painful to use and painful to see. The security hole in it was just the last straw. In any case, that is irrelevant for this bug. Implementing "mark all as read" is WONTFIX.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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