Application Specific Boards in the Forum

[danioj]

I would like to float the idea of having application specific boards in the Unraid Forums.

 

I have just spent the past 20 minutes answering posts from Unraid users with questions specific to configuration of applications hosted in a Docker container. I "could" have just referred the users to the specific applications' forum / support source BUT I think that is against the theme, spirit and feel of this forum. So I answered - BUT it probably didn't live in the Docker thread that it was posted.

 

I know I know .... the argument would be that LT don't support specific application configurations and we should refer users to official support sources for the most up to date and valid information BUT I think given that we are getting to the point where we creating Dockers with configurations that are specific to an installation on Unraid (even LT supported Dockers) we would benefit from having a place to post those questions.

 

We could setup the forum in the same way we categorise the dockers:

 

Backup>Cloud>Downloaders>HomeAutomation> etc etc

 

However instead of being about the Docker Container itself the forum would be about the configuration of the application(s) running within it.

 

Thoughts?

[BRiT]

Thats entirely way too much clutter if each application got its own support forum, especially when all thats needed is a thread. Do you create a forum for each and every application from the get go? Or do you create it the moment a person posts about it?

 

One things for certain is it would entirely turn me off from even browsing those forums and posts. So instead of me being able or willing to post simple solutions to some problems posted in the current locations, I would stop reading those posts entirely. I'm sure other might feel the same way.

 

[danioj]

Thats entirely way too much clutter if each application got its own support forum, especially when all thats needed is a thread. Do you create a forum for each and every application from the get go? Or do you create it the moment a person posts about it?

 

One things for certain is it would entirely turn me off from even browsing those forums and posts. So instead of me being able or willing to post simple solutions to some problems posted in the current locations, I would stop reading those posts entirely. I'm sure other might feel the same way.

 

I get that to some degree. BUT I don't think that clutter is necessarily an issue. You can have thread / Board Filters. You also don't have to search and browse the boards you are not interested in. For instance I am sure there are ALLOT of posts in the Virtualisation and Development sections of this forum but I hardly ever post in there. By choice. Whatever is posted in there does not affect my experience one bit.

 

I do agree with your point about selecting what applications should get a board though. How does one decide. My answer to that initially is what apps are popular .....

 

Easy to determine really. How many apps have multiple releases? What apps are LT supporting?

 

Even if you used those two variables you would only have a handful of apps. 8 By my count. That doesn't seem very cluttered to me.

[Squid]

In an ideal world, each and every app should have an individual support thread.  Barring that (because its a pain for the authors / maintainers to administer), each and every repository should have a support thread (which they already do).

 

A lot of the problems with postings is that instead of the user going to the support thread (which is clearly identified in the repositories thread and in community applications) they create a new one.  I would think / hope that at some point in a future build of unRaid, there will be another drop down within dockerMan that would say Support.

 

In the meantime, its going to be the wild west here.