Open Stack

What I think the essential features for any user support forum are:

1. ability to up vote so the best answers bubble to the top.
2. for the original poster to be able pick the answer they used.
3. the chance to edit answers so they don't become stale.
4. they system searches the forum when you go to ask a new question to
reduce the number of duplicates.

People want answers out of these kinds of forums, not having to sift through
post after post trying to find the correct path through to an answer (if one
even exists). I took a look at the XenForo forums and I didn't see these
features. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Everett

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Chad Keck <chad at chadkeck.com> wrote:

> 1) I think this is a great idea...
>
> 2) I would highly recommend XenForo as a platform for the forum (
> www.xenforo.com). Check it out if you haven't seen it before. As someone
> who moderates a handful of forums and participates on maybe 100+ it is the
> best I've seen/used.
>
>
> -- Chad
>
> On May 2, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Jordan Rinke wrote:
>
> > I had a number of discussions with various people at the summit about
> creating a forum for openstack (forum.openstack.org) and everyone seemed
> to think it was a good idea especially for user support and discussions for
> people who are not likely to use a mailing list. So I have 2 questions...
> >
> > 1. Is anyone against creating a forum?
> > 2. Does anyone have a specific forum software they suggest we use?
> >
> > Once I have it all configured, we will need to determine the categories
> and get moderators etc for each category. Stephen Spector will be the keeper
> of the kingdom in that regard so if you would like to help out just let him
> know.
> >
> >
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