Forum usability issues

- Where is the global forum search tool? (search all forums simultaneously)
- How can the user list all his own posts?
- Notification of replies feature?

Suggestion: get better web forum software, for example: https://www.woltlab.com/

Discourse.org would be great for GLI forums

@ zimo - yeah, at a $100/month it looks an absolute bargain!

When you are browser in a forum you can find the search bar.

Cannot list all his own posts without trick.

Yes, there will always be notification for replied.

 

BTW: I really want a new forums more than everybody else. Discourse has a open source version so money is not the main problem.

The main problem is how to transfer all the data from the old forums to the new forum.

@Glitch it’s only $100 if you use their hosting, $10/month w/ docker other hosting, and it’s open source software like Wordpress. So yeah, total bargain!

I appreciate this forum.

@zimo, I assume their hosting is not accessible from China, same as wordpress.com

@alzhao I would assume their hosting would be unavailable, but it’s possible to self-host like the current site

The main problem is how to transfer all the data from the old forums to the new forum.

it’s possible to self-host like the current site


In some cases the web forum software vendor will perform migration from old forum to new forum.

If you tell me which forum software you are using now I can obtain a price quote

@BLi
bbpress → discourse

it seems it is possible to import data from bbpress to discourse

have a look here alfie