For(u)m Follows Function - TTAC Gets A New Discussion Area
For a while, TTAC has had a forum hidden in the depths of its technical innards that’s gone almost wholly unused. Most of this had to do with the forum itself, while being a part of TTAC, requiring a different user login that was entirely separate from your WordPress commenter login.
Well, we fixed that, and some other stuff. This is TTAC Forum 2.0.
If you click the link above — or the Forum link in the main menu — you will notice you’re taken directly into the forum and you’ll already be logged in. There’s no need for an additional user login anymore.Also, you will hopefully notice the new solution looks a hell of a lot better than the old one. We are relying on a more common software package for the forum this time around, so those of you who are members on forums elsewhere will likely find the UI very familiar.
There’s likely still a few kinks we need to work out. For instance, you will need to upload your avatar manually for now if you want it to match your WordPress login. However, we hope to make it a pretty seamless experience between commenting on an article and moving to a forum thread.
Please give our new toy a whirl. If you find any bugs, feel free to post them in this article’s comment thread for now. I will work on adding another section in the forum to report issues for the forum itself.
Enjoy!
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Forum link is borked as of 2059 AEST
So DW is not gonna get a TTAC year long ATS to fall in love with??
Garage and signatures section in the user CP (profile section) don't seem to be working in Firefox or Safari for me. Also the default time zone was GMT but that was an easy to fix in the user CP.
Just gave it a cursory whirl in a new tab...seemed to work ok, descending into a specific thread, even. And I have ghostery and a lot of other protection mechanisms for both virus and privacy issues, but no apparent conflict. A brief list, Comodo I/S, Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware, Spybot v 1.x, an adblocker, etc. But I haven't found (not that I looked hard) an explanation for red vs blue envelopes on the left, on my first visit. Couldn't have been the obvious visited vs. non. But this is close to what I was hoping for. Much now will depend on spam control, moderation, etc. plus editorial oversight of the architecture of the forum structure. But BRAVO! A good first cut at a step forward... Carry on, ever onwards, into the fog (as said by Oat Willie).