DJ-Leith wrote:and see the Who is online
27 users online 1 registered, 0 hidden and 26 guests
I guess the 'logged in users' vs 'guests' is often between 1 to 8 and 1 to 30. IIRC the guests are always more than 50%.
We'd need samplings covering various times of the day, 24 hours (global audience), day of week, including which days are customarily non-work-days in each culture, over a long and random sampling of the year, but I see your point. (There have been times when I've been the only user on the board, including hidden.)
However, anyone who wants to avail themselves of knowing automatically when there is a new post in a thread or forum that they're watching can register, thus receiving e-mail notifications and the more refined icons.
So, to some degree, some % of the anon browsers aren't quite as interested in the specific status of a given topic.
The reasons why I pointed you to the OpenOffice
Survival Guide is that:
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2. They have put their version of
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as an Announcement (or sometimes a sticky) in several prominent places.
As have we. It's at the top of each individual sub-forum: NS Support, FG Development, this one (Metaforum), etc.
IIRC, when I proposed it, I might have suggested that it be in Board Index as well, but at the time Giorgio chose not to. One has to go *somewhere* after Index, and it's true that clutter-creep makes things less accessible and less likely to be read. It's a balance of concerns, which can always be revisited.
I recall that you have been trying to help everybody by writing sticky posts / guides. You are also concerned that there may be 'too many stickies'. Their Survival Guide allows them to 'have their cake and eat it': one thread with a contents post followed by lots of content in each post below. Some of this then links to more specific information elsewhere. Hypothetically, you - The Team - could combine the excellent "Firefox links: help yourself" and other stickies as topics within a more general 'master sticky'.
Great minds think alike -- all three of us.
When one of the recent stickies was proposed, Giorgio said,
Giorgio Maone wrote:What about a "Guides/Hints/Docs" subforum, to reduce sticky-creep with its burden on scrolling and information overhead?
I agreed; rest of the team was fine with it; it's on his TODO list, which probably reaches halfway around the world by now.
3. Did you also notice that they have a Tutorial section?
Did you notice that
NoScript Home Page has a link to a Tutorial *Video*?
... although admittedly, it's not that conspicuous.
I might suggest to him that that link be made more conspicuous, and perhaps a link to it from here (NS Support and/or Board Index).
Whoa, great minds inspire other great minds. I'll add a link to that video in
NoScript Quick Start Guide, right after posting this. Thanks!
Also, the very first listing on Board Index is to
NoScript FAQ, yet the board questions indicate that
many don't view it.
(not singling anyone out; just the most recent example of the same question asked several times within the past few days, when the answer is in the FAQ.)
... where the FAQ are also at the top....
.... After these the most recent posts (in non-sticky threads).
However, you do
NOT see the
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at this point. It
is in
all of the sub-forums.
I speculate that it could be a "global announcement" as defined at
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http://forums.informaction.com/faq.php
Everyone's mileage varies, as they say; I usually go from Index to a specific sub-forum rather than general categories (NS, FG, Extras), unless clicking an e-mail link. But again, there is the overload and "creep" issue.
I'll ask Giorgio to consider all of your well-thought-out suggestions, along with the OP itself, which is still pending somewhere on that TODO list... btw, you wouldn't happen to have a few hundred thousand (dollars, pounds, euros) lying around, to let Giorgio hire paid, full-time assistants to do these "housekeeping" chores while he continues to
add more protections,
tweak existing ones, and try to get
NoScript 3.x for the desktop released, would you?
As always, please keep producing your clearly written posts / tutorials.
Thank you for your interest, and for your words of kindness and encouragement.
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