[Site Feedback] Forum bugs?

[cos]

Did we ever figure out where the right place to post about forum bugs is?

[Arete_Hime (Ultra-Sadist Delinquent)]

@cos

Should we have a category here for reporting and solving problems with this Forum software, its UI, or its configuration? There doesn’t seem to be any category that’s clearly the right place for such posts, so they’ve been scattered around several categories so far.

Can you give examples?

And see this topic on how to give site or forum or app feedback, among other things:

Posting Guidelines and Forum Housekeeping -- a How To for Memrise staff, regulars, leaders, and members

##Topic starters: You can start any topic you like, but please follow these guidelines when starting a topic about a course you created or are a contributor to, or when you want to leave feedback about the site, apps, or forum. This is to make it easier to find your topics in the future and to hopefully make the forum less disorganized. If you start a [Course Forum] topic: Please put [Course Forum] at the start of the title of your topic. Also please add the tag course-forum to the topic, se…

@cos

Did we ever figure out where the right place to post about forum bugs is?

Web Bugs if they’re bugs. General Discussion I’d say with the prefix and tags given in the linked topic if it’s feedback.

[cos]

Can you give examples?

Examples of problems with the forum software? You can see one example right here in this post - not being able to make tags. We’ve seen a few other posts about problems with the forum. I have another one now but I’ll make it a separate post.

We ought to have a category for forum bugs, or an explicit declaration that “web bugs” is not just the memrise web site but also this forum site.

[Arete_Hime (Ultra-Sadist Delinquent)]

we “just” have to wait until some users become “Regulars” before testing that again…

Can the new regulars (@sifushano, @pdao, @Hydroptere, @TinyCaterpillar) create new tags? (but please first look here to see if a good existing tag isn’t already available, and please think before you make the tag to make sure it makes sense; better to have a few good ones than many bad ones.)

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

I think I am able to create new tags. But I don’t really know: when I type in a tag, I have no indication other than the number of occurences of a tag… when I see “x1”, how should I know if this counts my own typing in of a tag, or the previous use of the same tag…

[Arete_Hime (Ultra-Sadist Delinquent)]

When the tag already exists you’ll see something like indonesian x2, as a search result under the input field. When it doesn’t you’ll not see the x2. You’ll only see my-new-tag, which you can then click to use.

You can try it with this topic. Create the tag with an edit, and then delete it again.

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

I probably can: I doubt that “vengeance” or “already” or “avellana” were tags…

[sifushano (Shano 師傅)]

Yes, the capability to tag and recategorise became apparent as soon as I attempted it – so I backed away quietly from my test in the production environment and no tagged and recategorised posts were unnecessarily created that day …

[TinyCaterpillar]

I just tried adding a “test-tag” tag to this thread, and it seemed to work. It was added to the universal list of tags, then removed from it once I deleted it from the thread.