Thread collecting feedback for the newly launched forum.
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Edit: Rearranged my first post a bit for a proper preview of the pinned topic.
Awesome work on the newly launched forum, looks great!
A couple of things that occured to me so far:
- The banner on top should probably direct people to the āwebsiteā category instead of ābugs & errorsā, as the latter is for OF bugs, not forum bugs, afaik.
- @arturo it seems the ātrust levelsā (i.e. moderator permissions) have not been carried over. any way to fix that, or elevate the trust levels of the former mods?
- would it be appropriate to generally shrink vertical whitespace a bit (e.g. in the topic lists and category lists), so as not to waste so much vertical space? It seems thereās an awful lot of scrolling involved currently ā¦
p.s.: love the markdown support!
Thanks, re the mod permissions.
Another thing: Currently, Iām using the preference āConsider topics new when: I havenāt viewed them yetā, but now I have 6400 new topics - any way to globally mark them as viewed (as this, I think, is probably an issue of the migration)? Does that make sense? Still getting used to how to track activity with āthe discourse way of doing thingsā. 
yes iāve set that flag to the same setting but donāt think thereās an option to globally mark all as read
ā¦ I canāt login with my old account nor my github accountā¦ (safari 6 mac 10.8.4)
I asked for a new password by clicking the āI forgot my passwordā button but I didnāt receive anything
I tried to log-in with my twitter account ā¦it asked me for my email, I entered it ā¦but I got an error because it was used by my old accountā¦
anywayā¦ I had to make a new email account in order to log inā¦
is the Git-hub option working for others?
@igiso the reset email can take some time before arriving, mine came after half an hour or so. also, look in your spam folder to see if it ended up there.
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as a side note, the reset password email was pretty quick for me ā maybe as @bilderbuchi sugests check spam.
Love this new site! Github login isnāt working for me in Chrome, I get a āThis webpage has a redirect loopā from persona, something about invalid creditials even though it did link into my github acct properly and I provided pretty all the permissions. Not sure what else to do to diagnose w/o posting a huge dump traffic dump.
It looks like there is an attempt to redirect to a 192.x.y.z address, instead of back to forum.openframeworks.cc. This is pretty weird because the redirect_url query parameter points to forums.openframeworks.cc
iāve disabled mozilla persona logins in case thatās what was causing trouble. also for old accounts you just need to ask for a new password, trying to login with github, google or twitter will create a new account
Just wanted to say that I like the new forum too! Good job!
I would also echo @bilderbuchiās comments re: whitespace - if thereās a way to tweak it, would be niceā¦
And also, I seem to vaguely remember that I was marked as an āadvanced userā or something similar in the old forum, and wondering if that corresponded with the trust level visible in the new forum?
Anyway, just detailsā¦ Main thing is: thanks for the update 
Is there a way to change my username? When I registered on the forum forever ago, I used my old internet handle and then subsequently changed it to my new-ish one. In the migration, my old-old username became my current user name, and the username I had on the previous forum is now my ānameā.
I demand @ summons!
thereās an option in the admin settings that says āAllow users to show their full namesā itās enabled but it doesnāt seem to do anything, it could be that it just enables them in the profile and not in the posts or it could be a bug, will look into it
oh, and yes you can use @ to notify someone
Yepp, itās a cool feature. What Iām saying, though, is that my username here is āadcā, because thatās how I registered on the forum forever ago (and then I changed it to āadmsynā).
But now, Iām back to āadcā, and it thinks my actual name is āadmsynā. So if you go, say, @admsyn then I donāt get summoned 
I am in the same ghost-naming situation.
ok, iāve found an option to allow username changes, you should be able to change it now
Great, that does the trick, thanks arturo!
I love discourse. And Iām very excited to be able to use the forums now. The old forms consistently rejected me ā¦ and all I wanted to do was help ā¦
Nice migration work!
yes i had to migrate all the data using sql queries and some tables are not complete, although the date of posts is correct some tables store the date of the post again and those might not have the correct data, i think it is only the latest post of every category so once those change itāll be ok
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