Re: Hi there - is my free Nabble forum going to have advertising on it?
Posted by Deanna Freedom on May 24, 2015; 11:48pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Hi-there-is-my-free-Nabble-forum-going-to-have-advertising-on-it-tp7594848p7594856.html
Hi Greg,
There are advantages and disadvantages, I guess, with embedded forums. I don't know enough about web coding to know if the Refresh issue can be fixed. It's a minor irritation, but it bugs me. Have you noticed it? Normally when you're on the web, hitting refresh refreshes the page. On an embedded forum - at least the ones I've tried so far (2 of my experimental ones and now yours) - the address in the browser doesn't change as you navigate, and hence hitting Refresh loads the forum index page rather than where you were. It's minor, but it's such a basic feature of navigating the web that I find it annoying. As well as Refresh, the same problem would occur if you navigate away from the thread you're on and then go Back.
There are some interesting features of Nabble. All the integration with email lists/newsgroups and the fact that you can take part via email will have its uses. I was tempted by that email thing a bit, and I'm emailing my reply now. OTOH, it's not a great deal different to clicking on a link to take you to the topic in a browser. I'm looking for a forum I can set up for general users (an allotment association - and some of us are getting on a bit) and I also find some of the Nabble features and layouts pretty confusing. Replying last time, which I did in the browser, I wanted to put that bit in bold, and there isn't a bold button. OK, I'll put it in html, I thought, easy - forgetting that all my paragraphs would be concatenated unless I put paragraph or line break tags in as well! Then if you reply to an email leaving in older text, as most of us do habitually, that all gets quoted on the forum, including all the superfluous bits, unsubscribe links, your antivirus has checked this email, you name it! What forum doesn't have basic formatting for text? Answer: Nabble. Maybe there's a way and I missed it. The old folks on my forum are going to end up in a mess in no time.
The topic sections and topics all seem to be mixed up on Nabble, which is confusing. And yeah, for people like me, a good upkeep of the help files is really important. I'm not a novice - I ran a forum for years and do a fair bit of programming - but I don't do much web stuff, so up-to-date help is worth a lot to me.
I've found another embeddable forum host which, for about the same money (less, in fact) for the ad free version, does a much better job on the things that are important to me. It might be bad form to mention them by name on a rival's help forum. They took a bit more scrolling through the search results. It has way better features - the admin options are packed with tweaks you can do without any coding. It's way better structured. Its help files are excellent. And for the more advanced tweaks, they have detailed guidance. Even integrated chat rooms. It's so good that I'm even wondering if not being able to refresh the page you're on is such a big deal...I've just emailed them to ask if there's a fix for that.
But a linked forum isn't such a bad idea either. Many of them allow you to grab the styles from your website and put them in your forum, or you could just tweak to make them similar. Yes, you end up with two different sites, but with links between them, it's not a big difference from being on different sections of the same site.
Cheers,
Deanna
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Hi-there-is-my-free-Nabble-forum-going-to-have-advertising-on-it-tp7594848p7594856.html
Hi Greg,
There are advantages and disadvantages, I guess, with embedded forums. I don't know enough about web coding to know if the Refresh issue can be fixed. It's a minor irritation, but it bugs me. Have you noticed it? Normally when you're on the web, hitting refresh refreshes the page. On an embedded forum - at least the ones I've tried so far (2 of my experimental ones and now yours) - the address in the browser doesn't change as you navigate, and hence hitting Refresh loads the forum index page rather than where you were. It's minor, but it's such a basic feature of navigating the web that I find it annoying. As well as Refresh, the same problem would occur if you navigate away from the thread you're on and then go Back.
There are some interesting features of Nabble. All the integration with email lists/newsgroups and the fact that you can take part via email will have its uses. I was tempted by that email thing a bit, and I'm emailing my reply now. OTOH, it's not a great deal different to clicking on a link to take you to the topic in a browser. I'm looking for a forum I can set up for general users (an allotment association - and some of us are getting on a bit) and I also find some of the Nabble features and layouts pretty confusing. Replying last time, which I did in the browser, I wanted to put that bit in bold, and there isn't a bold button. OK, I'll put it in html, I thought, easy - forgetting that all my paragraphs would be concatenated unless I put paragraph or line break tags in as well! Then if you reply to an email leaving in older text, as most of us do habitually, that all gets quoted on the forum, including all the superfluous bits, unsubscribe links, your antivirus has checked this email, you name it! What forum doesn't have basic formatting for text? Answer: Nabble. Maybe there's a way and I missed it. The old folks on my forum are going to end up in a mess in no time.
The topic sections and topics all seem to be mixed up on Nabble, which is confusing. And yeah, for people like me, a good upkeep of the help files is really important. I'm not a novice - I ran a forum for years and do a fair bit of programming - but I don't do much web stuff, so up-to-date help is worth a lot to me.
I've found another embeddable forum host which, for about the same money (less, in fact) for the ad free version, does a much better job on the things that are important to me. It might be bad form to mention them by name on a rival's help forum. They took a bit more scrolling through the search results. It has way better features - the admin options are packed with tweaks you can do without any coding. It's way better structured. Its help files are excellent. And for the more advanced tweaks, they have detailed guidance. Even integrated chat rooms. It's so good that I'm even wondering if not being able to refresh the page you're on is such a big deal...I've just emailed them to ask if there's a fix for that.
But a linked forum isn't such a bad idea either. Many of them allow you to grab the styles from your website and put them in your forum, or you could just tweak to make them similar. Yes, you end up with two different sites, but with links between them, it's not a big difference from being on different sections of the same site.
Cheers,
Deanna
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