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cybereality for now, only image files can be uploaded. I plan to add more support soon, but to add uploads it requires regex-like input and I didn’t have the time to figure it out when I was setting everything up.

    vmjcv I like helping others, past versions had a tab for unanswered questions, is there a similar option now?

    On the main page of the forum, all new and unread posts are highlighted:

      There is also an arrow on the top left corner of the screen. If you click it or roll over it shows the most recent topics and the ones that have new posts or no replies are highlighted in white.

        vmjcv I like helping others, past versions had a tab for unanswered questions, is there a similar option now? TwistedTwigleg

        Currently there is not a tab similar to unanswered questions like how it was in Vanilla. This is in part due to there not being questions and discussions anymore, Flarum has them all as the same type: discussions.

        As the others have mentioned though, you can see the replies to a topic by looking at the post count and whether it is highlighted or not to know if there is new posts.
        In the future we might be able to add something like the unanswered questions page, but currently there is not a similar functionality.

          TwistedTwigleg We have a plugin for selecting the best answer, similar to vanilla (though I have no idea how a best answer looks currently) but I didn’t realize I needed to set it manually. Now it is set on all the help tags and I also added a secondary question tag that can be added to any discussion.

            TwistedTwigleg though I have no idea how a best answer looks currently

            Maybe the answer, to be "best" should get some critical number of likes?

              Tomcat TwistedTwigleg though I have no idea how a best answer looks currently

              Maybe the answer, to be "best" should get some critical number of likes?

              I think the “best” answer is supposed to be the answer that helped solve the issue, like how it was in Vanilla. The user who made the discussion can select the “best” answer (and forum staff).
              I think it is better that way, as it prevents “best” answers from becoming a popularity-based thing. 🙂

                TwistedTwigleg I think the “best” answer is supposed to be the answer that helped solve the issue, like how it was in Vanilla. The user who made the discussion can select the “best” answer (and forum staff).
                I think it is better that way, as it prevents “best” answers from becoming a popularity-based thing.

                Well, in theory there could be 2 things: the best answer as picked by the OP and the "most popular reply" as per upvotes, but we don't really currently have a up/down voting in here such as exists on slashdot or reddit(and i think the reddit godot community already fills that niche).

                Also, at least on Reddit, the most upvoted post usually ends up being a joke or the incorrect answer.

                I usually will "like" a picture of a cat (because I like cats), regardless of the post's content.

                cybereality It appears that old forum links are not redirected to the new threads. This is not a high priority, but it's fixable. I had to do that once for a PHPBB forum, let me know if you need help with that as well.

                Coming from a search engine looking for answers, it gives the impression that the forum is offline/dead. The only reason I know to go to the front page and copy-paste the thread title into a forum search is because I'm aware of what happened here.

                The first day I was clicking on broken links, I thought the forum was temporarily down again. All those search engine results have the resemblance of being inaccessible and lost.

                EDIT: Fixed the quote. This new software is overwhelmingly modern for me to navigate comfortably.

                Yes, I know. I believe I can fix it, but there is a lot going on right now. We have all the data backed up, so it's just a matter of writing the scripts. I will speak with the admins about it.

                  cybereality ...there is a lot going on right now

                  I believe it! Just FYI from a user perspective. I can find things just fine in the meantime.

                  Yeah, we are working on redirects. Right now, I am thinking the easiest and best solution is to have a rewrite rule in the forum's .htaccess file, but getting it right is going to be tricky. For example, we need something like this:

                  But to convert URLs from:

                  • https://godotforums.org/discussion/<ID>/<Topic Name>
                    To the following:
                  • https://godotforums.org/d/<ID>-<Topic Name>

                  If anyone has experience and/or ideas on how to do this, please comment! I am going to do my best to get it working, but I'm not very experienced in this kind of thing 😅