Nabble - New Features

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-10-09T23:00:54Z

Hi Wade. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We are ready to migrate the Netbeans forums to Nabble2. Here you can find more information:
http://n2.nabble.com/Migrating-forums-from-Nabble1-to-Nabble2-tp3791390p3791390.html
http://n2.nabble.com/Nabble-Releases-Distributed-Architecture-tp3791274p3791274.html

Please confirm that you want to migrate those forums.

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-02-04T11:41:29Z

Thanks Hugo.

Wade

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-02-04T08:48:00Z

Hi Wade. Sorry, we have to wait a little bit more until we release the n3 server. But people can still find the netbeans mailing list archive from google. I will let you know when we are ready.

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

enabling i18n features in nabble forum (i.e.,translate in German and Russian)

2009-02-02T07:03:51Z

Nabble is the one of the most advanced software concepts and implementations I've seen, but there is a leak in core finctionallity. Why don't you allow the user to customize the locale for the embedded products like forum or gallery.

I'm sure that enabling this feature will make nabble well-known also for the such huge countries like russia and others.

Kind Regards,
Y.
http://www.poiradar.com - The home-site in the constellation of country-oriented mirrors: http://www.poiradar.ru, http://www.poiradar.de, http://www.poiradar.com.ua. The sites provide users with information about POI's (abbr. Point Of Interest), and combine structured content with random full-text search.

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-02-01T01:38:14Z

Hugo,

What do I need to do to move the netbeans.org forums to n2? Is it good enough to just write you here? Will my account be moved there too or also, or do I need to create one first? Anyways, I would like to move them to n2 as the n2 forums are the default ones searched from the main page now, so it seems to make sense they be in nabble2 now.

Thanks,

Wade

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-01-07T09:30:24Z

I suppose the NetBeans.org forums fit into that large migration. Is that so? Anyways, I'll check out Nabble2 and if we are able to move them over maybe we'll do it then. I don't have time to check them out today though, but will very soon. Thank you for your help. Nabble is just great.

Wade

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-01-07T09:01:48Z

You have to let us know if you want your forums migrated to Nabble2. After the migration, links on Nabble1 will redirect to the right URL on Nabble2. For example, visit:
http://www.nabble.com/OSGeo.org-f18127.html
http://www.nabble.com/-OSGeo---304%3A-Usermap-for-OSGeo-wiki-tp20146107p20146107.html
Note that you will end up on the n2.nabble.com server (not www.nabble.com).

For now, big migrations must wait a little bit because we are finishing the distributed code on Nabble2, which will be scalable and all servers will behave a just one system. We don't want too much load on the n2 server for now.

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-01-07T08:27:47Z

Hugo Teixeira <Nabble> wrote:

The new ads on the Nabble website are just an experiment -- soon we will change them to look more like ads instead of text from posts. Only the ads at the very bottom of pages are stable (those that point to the LightInTheBox website).

If you want to get rid of ads, just go to Nabble2. Nabble2 is faster, better and much more supported than Nabble 1 (this server).

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

Can we move current forums to Nabble2? If so will they show up in Nabble1, or will there be some link remaining?

Thanks,

Wade

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-01-07T08:21:24Z

You are right, Cordilow, Nabble2 is the right place for new forums. We don't plan to have ads on Nabble2 any time soon (maybe never, if we can make money using other ideas that we have).

Also, see my answer to Wade for the ads details.

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-01-07T08:18:21Z

The new ads on the Nabble website are just an experiment -- soon we will change them to look more like ads instead of text from posts. Only the ads at the very bottom of pages are stable (those that point to the LightInTheBox website).

If you want to get rid of ads, just go to Nabble2. Nabble2 is faster, better and much more supported than Nabble 1 (this server).

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-01-07T07:34:20Z

drdan01 wrote:

Okay, I guess that I'm so new to this that I have to ask....I did see the link ads at the bottom of your above post. And yet, when I visit any of the embedded site examples on here, I didn't see any ad links on any of those sites.

And just for giggles I went to another site (where I'd first seen Nabble in use, which is what got me here) and nowhere in any of their forum threads or messages do I see ads regardless of whether the message is the first in a thread or otherwise.

So are there in fact ads but they are somehow turned-off on these sites?

The fact you saw the ad should be proof there are ads. Whether they are generated when posts are generated from other sites or not I have no idea. The first post in this thread was created directly on Nabble.

After further study, here is the way it is working. If you view a thread in threaded or chronological view then each message has the ad at the bottom. If you view it in the "All Messages" view then you will only see the ad after the first message.

There is then the ad at the very bottom of Nabble pages.

As it relates to the ads within messages, it seems those ads should be targeted to the audience. For instance, hair treatment sounds more appropriate for medical forums or something like that. Programming and development environments, computers, etc would seemingly fit better in the NetBeans, Java, etc forums.

Too, the ads should not look as if the message poster submitted the ad. It should be clear that is an ad generated by Nabble. What if the ad looking like it came from the poster contains subjective material or some competing companies products and folks think the person posting the message sent the content? That can cause some problems, and should be addressed.

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-01-07T06:51:39Z

Okay, I guess that I'm so new to this that I have to ask....I did see the link ads at the bottom of your above post. And yet, when I visit any of the embedded site examples on here, I didn't see any ad links on any of those sites.

And just for giggles I went to another site (where I'd first seen Nabble in use, which is what got me here) and nowhere in any of their forum threads or messages do I see ads regardless of whether the message is the first in a thread or otherwise.

So are there in fact ads but they are somehow turned-off on these sites?

Re: Ads in Nabble posts

2009-01-06T21:32:20Z

I might suggest putting a horizontal rule between posts and ads.

Wade, if you want an ad-free option, I might recommend migrating to Nabble 2. Have you considered this yet? Nabble 2 is superior in most ways. The only real drawback that comes to mind is that child forums can't have multiple parent forums anymore. That's not really so bad, though—it's just a different style.

I don't know if they're planning ads in Nabble 2, but they're not there now. Maybe this is to encourage everyone to migrate.

Ads in Nabble posts

2009-01-06T12:47:44Z

Now days the first message in a thread has an ad appended to it. Seems it needs to be a little less in your face as it looks like it is from the poster. There is a centered ad at the bottom of the page. Maybe ads could show up on the right side or under the first post in a special place a little different color, light gray, with an advertisement message sort of like the one at the bottom of the page. I have had users start complaining. I understand that Nabble needs to make money to fund this service, and I completely agree with that. I'm just suggesting it be a little more out of the post and clearly an ad from Nabble.

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-04-21T11:48:42Z

Cool. The new views work on every forum/list with my nice new MacBook Pro. However, the new views seem to be written such that, on Safari at least, the option to view the previous page does not work as you would normally expect to do. It seems to require a double click on the left arrow and I haven't figured out how to go the previous page using track pad gestures.

Please regard this as a request to continue to provide & maintain the old style views.

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-04-10T16:58:18Z

The 'new view' option gives me nothing on some lists (e.g. the Gails mailing list) except the first post in a thread. I'm using Firefox 2.0.013 on WinXP. This thread I'm posting in now works fine with new views.

It was a good call to keep the option to see old views, many thanks.

Re: The recent changes: skins, etc.

2008-04-01T21:53:17Z

Yes, you can . In "Edit this forum", there is a tab "Customize appearance". There you can select a predefined style (color, fonts etc), or you can copy and use the predefined CSS as a base to modify it to set your own styles.

Note that if you have a website, then the easiest way to make your forum fit with your site is to embed it into your site. The help article is here: http://www.nabble.com/help/Answer.jtp?id=36

After you embed it, you can use the "Customize appearance" feature to further tweak your embedded forum appearances.

Re: The recent changes: skins, etc.

2008-04-01T20:05:36Z

Hi there. I'm brand new to Nabble (I think I just sent this as an email to the Nabble admin; sorry about that...) and I have lots of questions. I'll just start by asking one, though: Are we able to create our own skins for our forums, rather than using the predefined skins?

If the refrigerator and television weren't so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any walking training at all.

Re: Design and function requests for embedded forum

2008-03-17T20:51:55Z

Will,

Excellent answers. Thank you very much for your attention.
-Paul

Paul J Betzold

CAROL JONES REALTORS®

Cell - 417-343-9971

paul@caroljones.com

www.SpringfieldHomesGuide.com

Re: Design and function requests for embedded forum

2008-03-17T17:37:28Z

Thanks for your message. Please see my response below:

Paul Betzold wrote:

1 - Is it possible to set it up where a forum creator can make a post "Sticky" where it stays at the top of the forum at all times, or until that creator releases it? That would be handy for making announcements, or posting the "Rules".

We will have this feature in our next version. We expect to release the new version in about a month or sooner.

Paul Betzold wrote:

2 - I like to place graphics as a header to make the page attractive. Is it possible to hide the Nabble-placed name at the top of the page, (Maybe by making it white), so that someone in my position doesn't have the forum name repeated at the top of the page?

Yes, we will allow that in the next version.

But I looked your forum http://www.springfieldhomesguide.com/agent_questions.asp - seems to me, you should place the forum description (your graphical header and the html below it) into your embedding page - you can put all that html in your embedding page and place them above the nabble embedding js code. This will put the header above the Nabble block. It will look nicer, but I agree, it will be even better if you can hide the Nabble name.

Paul Betzold wrote:

3 - Can we add a running "Views" count to each thread?

Yes, but again, in the next version. We will have a lot of new things in the next version.

Paul Betzold wrote:

4 - Is it possible to have each user account keep track of the date, and time of the last message they read on a given board, so that the next time they visit; we will know what messages we have already read?? Alot of boards use cookies to track this, but that has a distinct flaw...If you visit from a different computer than the last time, the "New" messages will be inaccurate. If you can setup the software to keep track of the last message we viewed, (While logged in), for the boards that we frequent; it would not gum up your server with a bunch of saved messages, just a time, date, and forum address. That way we wouldn't have to rely on the inaccuracy of cookies to tell us what we've missed. It would be accurate no matter what computer we log in from. The system already keeps track of where, when, and how many messages we've posted...Why not the date, time, and location of JUST the last message we read in a given forum?? I would think that would be easy comparatively.

This will be a no for now. To do this accurately, we will have to keep track of what posts are visited by each user, which for us will amount to a lot of tracking. Do you know any forum that does this kind of precise tracking? Right now, we simply reply on the browser to change the color of the visited links. It works for people who access a forum from a main computer, but not if you have multiple computers. Sorry, we may do it in future but not now.

Paul Betzold wrote:

5 - Is it possible to give a forum creator the ability to ban a specific user from posting on their board?

Yes, in the next version.

Paul Betzold wrote:

Thank you very much for your willingness to accept user input. I love your boards, the simplicity, and ease of use are unmatched. Thank you for your consideration, and I respectfully await your reply.

Thank you for using us. Please do complain if there are things you need or things you don't like.

Design and function requests for embedded forum

2008-03-16T21:10:57Z

I have a few points I'd like to make,and request.

1 - Is it possible to set it up where a forum creator can make a post "Sticky" where it stays at the top of the forum at all times, or until that creator releases it? That would be handy for making announcements, or posting the "Rules".

2 - I like to place graphics as a header to make the page attractive. Is it possible to hide the Nabble-placed name at the top of the page, (Maybe by making it white), so that someone in my position doesn't have the forum name repeated at the top of the page?

3 - Can we add a running "Views" count to each thread?

4 - Is it possible to have each user account keep track of the date, and time of the last message they read on a given board, so that the next time they visit; we will know what messages we have already read?? Alot of boards use cookies to track this, but that has a distinct flaw...If you visit from a different computer than the last time, the "New" messages will be inaccurate. If you can setup the software to keep track of the last message we viewed, (While logged in), for the boards that we frequent; it would not gum up your server with a bunch of saved messages, just a time, date, and forum address. That way we wouldn't have to rely on the inaccuracy of cookies to tell us what we've missed. It would be accurate no matter what computer we log in from. The system already keeps track of where, when, and how many messages we've posted...Why not the date, time, and location of JUST the last message we read in a given forum?? I would think that would be easy comparatively.

5 - Is it possible to give a forum creator the ability to ban a specific user from posting on their board?

Thank you very much for your willingness to accept user input. I love your boards, the simplicity, and ease of use are unmatched. Thank you for your consideration, and I respectfully await your reply.

- Paul

Paul J Betzold

CAROL JONES REALTORS®

Cell - 417-343-9971

paul@caroljones.com

www.SpringfieldHomesGuide.com

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-03-05T17:43:09Z

New view/IE7 - When I try to switch it gets as far as showing the "Loading..." message for the post I'm in. But like I said, my home computer is a pos, so that's probably the problem.

Breadcrumbs - I like the current format fine but for the redundancy.

One other thing now that I'm thinking about it. With embedding, the "Forum Name:*" = Title can be redundant as well. Perhaps the ability to resize it, or an option to not show it.

-Edward

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-03-05T16:33:36Z

Thanks for your input. Please see my response below:

Tagruato wrote:

Keep it as is. I'm a member of a phpBB forum that recently subdivided a single forum into 3. The practical impact of this was to see recent posts in all three forums you had to click into and out of each. The end result has been one of the sub-forums has continued on as the original had and the other two sub-forums have languished. So the way you have it, showing the latest posts from all child forums in a single view, really is the way to go.

Thanks for the input. We will keep the current view, but we will make it simpler. We will also provide a standard phpBB/vBulltin view, just because a lot of people are used to it. We can also add another view - the view you asked in your other post. The forum owner can select a default view for his forum, and the users can select his own individual view as well. The forum view options should be available in a month or so.

With the standard phpBB view, we will also provide a link at the top to "show all threads" - this will allow users who are stuck in phpBB view to view all threads from all subforums immediately.

Tagruato wrote:

Maybe it's something I'm doing wrong, but the repetitive links in the top left of my forum are a real head scratcher. Specifically, "Forum | Tagruato" both linking to the same place. What's up with that?

Good point. The two links are for the breadcrumb trail. So, if you navigate to a child forum, you will see the full bread crumb trail. But I do agree with you that the two links are redundant. Also, it seems that the links don't need to show in the top forum page.

So, how do you like the breadcrumb trail to be?

Tagruato wrote:

I brows using IE7 on my old broke down computer at home. The "new view" "threaded" doesn't load. It could be an IE7 issue, it could be my computer. Just thought I'd note it.

Nabble should work fine with IE7. What error did you see? Also, can you try clear cache and see if you still get the same error?

Tagruato wrote:

Lastly, thank you. Your forum rocks and what you've managed to do with it rocks and the fact that it exists rocks and yes and have some idea of what has gone into making it what it is and am all the more appreciative because of it. Honestly.

Thank you!

Tagruato wrote:

Now if only I could figure out how to get people to participate...

Yes, that's the hard part.

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-03-05T15:01:50Z

p.s. One feature that was nice in a threaded forum I used to frequent (Slate's The Fray before it was upgraded) was the ability to expand all threads (show authors/dates/subject lines) from the forum front page, both individually and as a whole. In this way, you could get a taste for a thread or see if someone you like is in it before deciding whether or not to enter it. It's a feature that was common in old-school threaded forums. bspeak is an example, (you have to register to expand/collapse the threads).

-Edward

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-03-05T14:50:02Z

Keep it as is. I'm a member of a phpBB forum that recently subdivided a single forum into 3. The practical impact of this was to see recent posts in all three forums you had to click into and out of each. The end result has been one of the sub-forums has continued on as the original had and the other two sub-forums have languished. So the way you have it, showing the latest posts from all child forums in a single view, really is the way to go.

That said, I do have a couple notes:

Maybe it's something I'm doing wrong, but the repetitive links in the top left of my forum are a real head scratcher. Specifically, "Forum | Tagruato" both linking to the same place. What's up with that?
I brows using IE7 on my old broke down computer at home. The "new view" "threaded" doesn't load. It could be an IE7 issue, it could be my computer. Just thought I'd note it.

Lastly, thank you. Your forum rocks and what you've managed to do with it rocks and the fact that it exists rocks and yes and have some idea of what has gone into making it what it is and am all the more appreciative because of it. Honestly.

Now if only I could figure out how to get people to participate...

-Edward

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-02-28T15:37:22Z

I think the designs for the second one are good for categories, but I don't think they should replace forums (well, it might be cool to have this so that all forums also had category views, and just get rid of the category/forum distinction). So, in essence, I guess maybe I do like the original new idea.

I'm not too keen on the Google groups style. I kind of like most things about the Nabble layout; mostly, I just think it needs some aesthetic adjustments (and I think the new views help for the actual posts, but the forum screen is still the same style, except for colors and such, if you change them).

Re: Better Web Addresses

2008-02-26T12:51:42Z

Your url http://www.nabble.com/International-Business%2C-A-Survival-Guide-for-the-Road-f31754.html can be shortened as http://www.nabble.com/-f31754.html which will redirect to your full url. The forum name in your URL is kept there intentionally for search engine benefits. For example, if there are people searching for "international business survival", they are more likely to find your forum if you have the keywords in the URL, and they are probably the best audience and contributor to your forum.

Re: design ideas for forum front page

2008-02-26T12:36:54Z

Factually speaking I actually like the way the forums front page is designed, though lacking some color(which I really don't care) I think the interface is clean and clutter free to work.

The only change I would suggest is some eye-candy/color to the pages.

Thanks for great work.

Better Web Addresses

2008-02-24T00:12:49Z

Is there a way to change the web address for my forum. The usage of the forum title is to long and not easy to remember for people that I want to visit the forum.

design ideas for forum front page

2008-02-23T12:31:15Z

The Nabble team is trying make design changes to the forum front page. We'd love to hear what you think.

Our questions are:

1. The current forum front page shows both the forum structure and the list of threads, for example, here, and here. Do you like this current design? If you don't, how would you like to change it?

2. phpBB and vBulletin separate the forum structure from the thread list, for exmaple, phpBB, vBulletin. With this design, when you go to a parent forum, you only see the list of child forums, and you need click another link to see the threads. Do you like this design?

3. GoogleGroups shows some threads from each child forum, for example, here. How do you like this design?

We'd appreciate your thoughts.

Re: Embedding/redirect

2008-01-20T12:18:24Z

Thanks for reporting this. We will fix the link in the next release.

Embedding/redirect

2008-01-17T19:32:40Z

In a Nabble help file, I see the following text:
"You can also check this option if you want to redirect Nabble visitors to your page …"

The link on 'check this option' doesn't seem to say anything about redirecting Nabble visitors to your page. Is there really a way to do this? That would be very nice, if so.

EDIT: Ah, I found another page that led me to know how to do this—however, that one link is misleading.

Re: Smileys with Darkness

2007-12-31T18:39:21Z

They work well. The new styles are cool, too.

Thanks!

Re: Smileys with Darkness

2007-12-30T04:59:32Z

Hi Cordilow,

We have fixed the smileys and now they work with dark backgrounds.
If you still see the old ones, please refresh your page by pressing F5.

We also have delivered two new predefined styles for forums: Moonlight and Desert.
Enjoy!

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

Re: old framed view

2007-12-30T04:53:05Z

Dear Carel Struycken,

We would like to inform you that this bug has been fixed.
Please let us know if you still see the problem.
Thank you for choosing Nabble.

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com