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Former Member
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What I have in mind is a 'home' at WCG-forum for members where a member can post his/her ideas, views, opinions about a range of topics. Currently, the threads are organized by only one method: by general topic section/areas. My suggestion is to add another method: by member-name. While the search mechanism provide a means to cover searches based on all other methods, I think a blog-thread for members provide a functionality which the search-facility can't. Such as...
----------------------------------------1] The blog-thread will take away the functionality for searches according to member-name -- and that will leave searches to what it does best: search about topics/ideas independent of originator/source of the topics/ideas. 2] A member is freed from having to select which area/thread to post his/her post. My premise is that a topic has a multi-dimensional fabric of interwoven ideas/topics so that it is difficult to pin down a post to a specific area. For example, a BOINC-reported error for a GPUdoneWU that may be affected by a possible WCG's server issue -- what area for a post on that: BOINC, GPU-support, or Website-support? Tough call, I'd say. If the current organization is continued, there will have to be millions of threads, each very specific, before there is hope that an off-topic post will always find the right thread. That, is clumsy, inelegant, and inefficient. 3] I've seen some post that is more like a diary (see this, and this, and this ) which is at odds with the industrial-mentality behind the 'Post-your-questions' theme of the current form of the WCG forum. For the implementation, I suggest two threads for a cruncher: one 'Read-only' thread, and one 'Inbox' thread. The 'Read-only' thread is written to only by a cruncher-member. Guests-crunchers who would like to send the cruncher-member a post need to open a thread under the cruncher's 'Inbox' thread, and once that post is posted in the cruncher-member's Inbox, the guest-cruncher Read-only will have a post indicating the details of the guest-cruncher's post. It doesn't seem desirable to have every cruncher have this feature. A certain level of forum-participation, for example sounds to me like a reasonable requisite before a cruncher is granted the proposed forum-feature. In any case, the implementation details, governing rules, policy and the likes -- I leave to WCG. ; ; andzgridPost#759 ; [Edit 3 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 19, 2013 10:52:04 PM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I predict that there'll be a number of future posts that will refer to all the text-content of an app_config file, much like there has been a number of posts containing text-contents of an app_info file. Currently, there is no structure or organization to manage those content. For example, a cruncher posts an app_config as part of a discussion, a query is raised by another cruncher, the app_config (or parts of it) is re-typed in the response post, etc. There is so much duplication, random locations of posts containing app_config settings, etc in those kinds of discussions.
The proposal I aired in andzgridPost#759 can be used to house a cruncher's app_config or app_info settings. Here, anytime a cruncher wants to share or refer to the particular settings in his/her app_config, that cruncher need only share the link to his/her WCG 'home' that refers to the exact app_config. No need to duplicate the text and with that possibly introduce errors while sharing or referring to the contents of an app_config in a discussion anywhere at the WCG-forum. This is just an example of a specific use of a WCG 'home' that makes use of a centralized place for individual WCG crunchers -- something that the Search function can not match in efficiency, and elegance. ; ; andzgridPost#776 ; |
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Former Member
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Here's another case where a cruncher's WCG 'home' can be put to good use.
----------------------------------------Like the data in the text in an app_config.xml or app_info.xml files, the text-snip of the stdoutdae.txt file is also commonly used in posts as central to a discussion. Take this post as an example, if there were a WCG home available for the cruncher, that cruncher could have used his/her WCG 'home' to house the text-snip of the stdoutdae.txt, and next only need to share/indicate the link to that post in any discussions the cruncher chooses as relevant. That would have left focus to remain on the central question of the main-post without that focus possibly getting distracted by the details of the text-snip of the cruncher's stdoutdae.txt file. The discussions thus flow through orderly and concisely on the main-post with all the details housed in a separate window in another post under a cruncher's WCG 'home'. ; ; andzgridPost#797 ; [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 8, 2013 9:11:37 PM] |
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twilyth
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As I understand it, over the next 6 months or so, WCG will be looking at redesigning this site. For example, the device profile section is I think regarded as a high priority.
----------------------------------------I think that period is just to look at what ought to be given priority and how it should be approached though, IDK. I was away from the forum here for several years so I don't really have a good idea of what has been going on. However I can tell you that since I came here from Uninted Devices in 2007, the forum software has been a sore spot for a lot of people, myself included so I'll be surprised if that doesn't at least make the list. And while there have been some incremental improvements over the years, anyone familiar with any of the commercial forum software packages will understand just how much of a disparity there is. Accordingly, IF and maybe that's a big if, one of the changes is that we migrate to a more typical and feature-rich package, one of the features that is common is what you are suggesting. Except that in a std implementation, the poster has a great deal of control over access to the blog content. So rather than trying to push for the adoption of a feature that would have to be bolted onto the software we are currently using, your efforts might be better directed toward the scrapping of the current software and the adoption of more standard software which would have this feature already built-in and supported. I think you would find a lot more people getting behind an idea like that.   [Edit 2 times, last edit by twilyth at Jan 8, 2013 9:55:13 PM] |
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Former Member
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As I understand it, over the next 6 months or so, WCG will be looking at redesigning this site. For example, the device profile section is I think regarded as a high priority. ... I also see the project-settings area as something that needs to be revamped to make it better respond to new possibilities from expanded choices brought about mainly from GPU-computing.... anyone familiar with any of the commercial forum software packages will understand just how much of a disparity there is. The disparity is so wide indeed as to be invisible.So rather than trying to push for the adoption of a feature that would have to be bolted onto the software we are currently using, your efforts might be better directed toward the scrapping of the current software and the adoption of more standard software which would have this feature already built-in and supported. I think you would find a lot more people getting behind an idea like that. I got used to WCG as being slow-to-adapt (and there's likely very good reasons for that) so that a bolt-on approach may fill the gap in the interim. The forum could conceivably be tied to crunching-operations, T-shoot info and history, machine-specs, BOINC-messages and the like -- possibilities that the current forum-software is not even aware of. So, here's to wishing that any new forum-software for the WCG-forum will be amoung the best out there with specific features that are integrated to a cruncher's crunching-operations.; ; andgridPost#798 ; |
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