Homenagem Ana Picasso

[Revenge]

[dastinger]

Está quase

[GODfromage]

Vai ser o nosso próximo aspecto?

[EsCk]

Os avatares vão passar a ser em forma redonda também?

[Joca]

Só o do Queijo

[GODfromage]

Levas um merecido Like.

Sou só eu que vejo aí um layout rede social alike?

[Revenge]

4.0 - Q&A Forums

One of the most distinctive uses for a forum is that of a 'knowledge community', where users visit in order to get help with a problem or question. Our own Pre-sales forum uses this model, but we also have many customers who run forums that are almost exclusively knowledge-based (such as Roxio and Evernote).

IP.Board 3.x introduced the concept of a "Best Answer" flag, allowing topic creators and staff the ability to highlight the reply to a topic that they deem best answers the question. This shows a snippet of the post in green at the top of the topic. Many sites now use this feature, but for IPS4 we wanted to expand the functionality offered for these types of forums.

Question & Answer Forums

Forums in IPS4 will enable you to set a forum as a "Q&A Forum". This adjusts the forum to be specifically designed for knowledge sharing. Instead of topics and posts, it has questions and answers.

On the forum index, the forum will be shown as a Q&A forum with its forum icon (unless you've set a custom forum icon for that forum):

Forum View

When you enter the forum, instead of the normal topic listing, you see a list of questions:

You'll see here that questions that have a best answer are indicated with a green checkbox. You'll also notice that one of the stats on the right hand side is 'votes'. In Q&A forums, questions can be voted up or down by users, in order to give them more visibility. More popular questions will bubble to the top (depending on the age of the question). You can of course still order by more traditional methods, if you wish.

Popular questions from the past 30 days are also highlighted at the top of the forum, providing an up-to-date 'knowledgebase' that other users can see. Using our own presales forum as an example, if someone asked a question about an important feature and it was voted highly, other users visiting the forum would see it right at the top, which is great for content visibility and helping users get the answers they're looking for with minimal fuss.

Question View

Clicking into a question shows an adjusted topic view:

The question (i.e. the first post) is shown at the top of the page on all pages, with answers listed below. You'll see that replies can also be voted up and down - in fact, this determines the order in which answers are shown inside the question. Popular answers, as determined by the community, will appear at the top, with worse or incorrect answers being pushed down. This is great for quickly finding the best information for the question at hand; in IP.Board 3.x, all too often a high-quality answer will appear in the middle of a topic and unfortunately go unnoticed by the topic creator or others looking for an answer. You can still sort answers by date, if you prefer.

In the screenshot above you can also see the first post is marked as the best answer. "Best Answer" always appears at the top, regardless of its vote count.

Question/answer ratings are separate from reputation, so you can of course still "Like" posts even if you don't think they're a good answer to the question.

Conclusion

So that's the new Q&A feature for IP.Board. We think it'll a big step forward for knowledge-driven communities using IP.Board, or even individual forums in other communities (like our pre-sales forum), helping users find answers to their questions more efficiently, and ultimately making your communities more useful.

Conceito muito interessante e acho que podemos aplicar isto no FNF.

Em vez de termos um tópico de perguntas, passamos a ter uma secção para isso, onde cada pergunta tem as suas respostas com uma delas a ser a principal.

[dastinger]

O Archie vai ficar triste.

[GODfromage]

Será útil.

[Mini0n]

Bom conceito, tipo stackoverflow.com.

O problema é que quando isso sair, em 2020, já vem tarde.

Edited May 14, 2014 by Mini0n

[Revenge]

Bom conceito, tipo stackoverflow.com.

O problema é que quando isso sair, em 2020, já vem tarde.

O Administrador de lá já veio dizer que está praticamente pronto.

Como já tinha dito, prefiro esperar mais 1 ano, do que fazerem como fez a vBulletin com a versão 5, que lançaram à pressa, e passado 1 ano ainda quase toda a gente usa a versão 4, pois a 5 é bugs atrás de bugs.

Não esquecer que foi é rewrite de raiz onde não aproveitaram código quase nenhum da versão actual.

[Tourniquet]

E loading de gifs "on demand"?

[Mini0n]

Bom conceito, tipo stackoverflow.com.

O problema é que quando isso sair, em 2020, já vem tarde.

O Administrador de lá já veio dizer que está praticamente pronto.

Ah, nice. 2017 então.

[DSR]

Mas quer dizer que ainda não há qualquer previsão para o lançamento da nova versão?

[Revenge]

Não há nem nunca houve. Avisam dias antes.

Apenas sabes que o momento está para breve quando lançam a beta para os. Devs experimentarem.

Ps: E como se trata de uma versão feita de raiz, nao sei se nao será melhor esperar pela 4.0.1, que aposto que vai sair passado 1 ou 2 semanas no máximo lol

[Jokeman]

Olha, upvotes/downvotes como no Reddit.

[EsCk]

Não. Sinceramente, aquele sistema parece-se mais com o Yahoo Answers.

[Revenge]

4.0 - Front-end Responsiveness Round-up

We've previously shown how responsiveness works in the AdminCP, but I'd like to briefly introduce responsiveness on the front end, and pick a few views to show you as examples (this will be a screenshot-heavy entry!)

What is responsiveness?

Before we get to that, allow me to recap what responsiveness is. Responsive design is a method by which you design one page in such a way that it adapts for the available screen space on the device the user is using. This means that one theme handles both the full desktop view and the condensed mobile view with some clever CSS, in contrast to 3.x where we had a separate mobile skin.

When we took the decision to use responsive design for IPS4, one key aim was to ensure that the mobile view isn't feature reduced. We want all functionality and all areas of the suite to be available regardless of device, and with only a couple of exceptions we're on track to deliver this.

Primary navigation

In mobile view, the primary navigation collapses and moves to a menu accessible with the icon in the top-right. The breadcrumb becomes a 'Back' control, taking you up a level from the current page:

The primary navigation, when opened, looks like this:

Moderation

Given that the responsive theme supports all functionality, this naturally includes moderation. IPS4 support full moderation capabilities regardless of the device you're using. Here's an example of moderating images in Gallery. Notice the menu to quickly select types of content to moderate, as well as the floating toolbar at the bottom of the screen to choose actions.

Settings page

Taking the settings area as an example, here's the same screen at the three supported breakpoints - desktop, tablet and mobile.

Profile view

Here's profile view (which we covered in more detail here) as seen on a phone:

Calendar

Calendar views on mobile:

Conclusion

So that wraps up this round-up of responsive views. Naturally, there's many more views than this in the suite and we can't show screenshots of every single one, but hopefully this entry has given you a taste of a variety of views, and a better idea of how we're approaching mobile users in IPS4.

As always, screenshots are from pre-release software and are subject to change before release.

Toda a gente tem os seus gostos, mas para mim esta é a melhor Skin que já vi um forum usar.

Até agora, sempre que saia uma nova major version, primeiro não se gostava da nova Skin, depois lá entranhava, até que se passava a gostar. Acho que desta vez o pessoal vai gostar logo á primeira.

Muito bom o facto de agora não ser necessário haver 2 Skins, uma para desktops e outra para mobile. A Skin simplesmente ajusta-se ao tamanho do ecrã. Mesmo no Desktop, se reduzirmos o tamanho da janela, a Skin vai ajustando.

[Perks]

Existe algum sitio onde se possa testar ou ainda está mesmo em segredo dos deuses?

[Revenge]

Segredo dos Deuses.

Provavelmente já existe Devs escolhidos a experimentar.

[Mini0n]

Mal era se, em 2014 (se sair este ano), tivessem de andar com 2 skins diferentes...
A responsiveness é mais que obrigatória a esta altura do campeonato.

Mas sim, está simples e clean e isso torna-a gira. :Y:

Edited May 19, 2014 by Mini0n

[cRaZyzMaN]

até em mobile tá nice

[DSR]

Muito bom mesmo. A ver se isto sai pelo menos este ano.

[NOX]

o mais importante , vai ter versão BLACK ? :-..

[Revenge]

até em mobile tá nice

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