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Your NNF usage case!

append delete Kroc

I would like to design NNF around practical uses, rather than features for features' sake. The access control update I'm in the middle of adds a ton of functionality to NNF that I hope will solve a lot of the needs of users who want multi-faceted forums with a range of users.

If you're using NoNonsense Forum, or plan to, could you please let me know what it is you're using it for, what you need to achieve with your users (aside from NNF itself) and what NNF could do to make whatever it is you are organising simpler.

Thanks kindly, and especially all those who are actually using NNF, I am overjoyed to know that regular users out there are using my software and may never even consciously realise how much less of a hassle it has been for them to be using NNF than some other software. :)

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append delete #1. NickPfen

Hi Kroc, here are my answers:
1. I intend on using NNF to supplement my blog so people can discuss all things regarding my topic. I'd like people to contribute their ideas, insights, wisdom, and compassion in the forum. Community is my goal, but community without the dysfunction of being online all of the time (cough, facebook).

2. I want my users to contribute heart-felt articles based around the idea of my community.

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a. See my post from this forum topic: http://forum.camendesign.com/nnf_request_blog_to_forum

b. I think it would be awesome where people could change the look and feel of the forum to their preference and upload articles. Kind of like an open source blogging platform within a community. Rather than downloading wordpress and creating a blog to post articles into space, users could have the same functionality but post within a community.

append delete #2. Kroc

Building a community is very difficult thing, I want Camen Design forums to be a success, but I have no idea how to do that. What I have done is to begin with the tools and ensure that contributing is as easy as possible. In that way I feel that NoNonsense Forum has been a success because even though the forums aren't busy, I do believe that they have allowed people to say some things that would never have ever been said using any other forum software (and all the hurdles that entails).

“Kind of like an open source blogging platform within a community. Rather than downloading wordpress and creating a blog to post articles into space, users could have the same functionality but post within a community.”

Isn’t this what a wiki is for? Forums are more for the discussion aspect where as wikis are better for the holding of articles. Of course, it's my opinion that the design of wikis needs a complete rethink because they are as much a barrier to entry as the bloated forum systems are.

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