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Should we make answered discussions closed in KLayout?

BigPandaBigPanda
edited May 19 in KLayout Support

Hi, Matthias, do you think we should make some discussions in our Forum closed? I think maybe we could do this as in Github issues, people can make discussions closed when they get the satisfied answer. Or just give it a tag such as solved or something. Then people who has same problem could search and read this discussion and if they have further question, they can cite this dicussion, like stack overflow. In case to have a lot of repeated questions, maybe you can also add a vote and reputation(scores) function. Then we can make this community better and better.

Comments

  • MatthiasMatthias

    Hi @BigPanda,

    thanks for these suggestions. Problem is that the Vanilla Forum software is no longer maintained (https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/39620/higher-logic-has-terminated-open-source-vanilla). Hence, my options are limited.

    I would like to move to another system, but I don't want to risk loosing the information herein. After all, maintaining a forum in a self-managed way is always a huge effort and the available public offers like GitHub communities are not trustworthy to me today.

    Matthias

  • BigPandaBigPanda
    edited May 22

    Get it. If you need me to do something, you can call me. I can use my free time to support you. Even I am quite new in these stuffs, But I can learn.

  • dick_freebirddick_freebird

    I don't want to see anything "closed" or removed, even worse.

    We have an endless stream of newbies and serious but unfamiliar adopters and even if a question is "answered" its nuances or follow-up ones may still want a home. And maybe that home is best, an old on-point thread brought back current.

  • MatthiasMatthias

    I agree with @dick_freebird. Sometimes I see dicussions being reopened, but usually there is enough discipline people would start a new thread.

    Matthias

  • BigPandaBigPanda

    @dick_freebird , ok, then we just make a vote to highlight the best answer.

  • StefanThiedeStefanThiede

    Since klayout uses GitHub source code hosting and issue tracker, why not also use "Discussions" ?
    OpenRoad and clipper2 have these enabled.
    The latter also takes advantage of the feature to move issues to discussions.
    This keeps the issue tracker clutter free.

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