Please Post Site Suggestions Here

Submitted by JoeInTenn on Sat, 01/14/2006 - 02:08. Site Suggestions
Posts: 499

Due to the recent announcement of the server changes I have added an area to the forums for people to post site suggestions and requests for added site functionality. I know that many of you have already posted what you would like to have added to the site, such as support for subscriptions, but it will work out much better if everyone will post their suggestions and requests one more time to this forum which is set aside specifically for those types of requests and suggestion. This will help us by having all of the requests and suggestions in one place.

We will look over all input and take each request and suggestion under serious consideration. Let me be the first to say thank you to all of the Mepis family for your input and thank you for all of your help with Mepis development. I also want to thank Warren and the core Mepis team for upgrading the server. This will be a great benefit for the users of Mepis and this site.

How about stickies?

Submitted by m_pav on Sat, 01/14/2006 - 08:30.
Posts: 959

1. Many forums have a few stickies that assist with the simple queries that are asked most frequently by noobies.

2. Topic headings - for example the forums page having a small number of subjects or topic titles into which relevant topics are posted.

3. Subscribers get early access, but by how much? 1 week, 1 month? Apart from supporting a fantastic distro and the people working hard to make it so, what's the difference? I did a trial sub and found the public mirrors had the same versions.

4. changelogs - variances between the releases E.G. Simply Mepis/MepisLite/SOHO Server etc., or a list of changes since the last releases.

The suggestions I have, are

Submitted by carlops on Sat, 01/14/2006 - 09:18.
Posts: 2299

The suggestions I have, are of various nature, that may not be 100% site suggestions, but here goes:

1. Information on compatibility issues in debian pools and remedial action
Sometimes an upgrade from the debian pools may lead to problems with nvidia drivers, hwdata problems and the likes. The site might put up a big fat warning if such issues occur. Moreover, it would be cool if the Live CD offered the possibility to get a repair packge from the Mepis site (say a previous version of HWdata) and install it back on the hard drive to make the Mepis install work again.

2. Hardware compatibility guide.
I know this already exists on Mepislovers, but...
The Mepis Control Centre could offer a script to run a kudzu -p (or sth like it), send the output to a file, and the upload it to the site via a PHP script. That script should then parse the file and load the info into a database. The user could then add comments for all found hardware (especially if it requires special action, works out of the box etc).

Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question

Mailing list for 'hot' issues

Submitted by carlops on Fri, 02/03/2006 - 03:38.
Posts: 2299

It might be a good idea if people could subscribe to a mailng list via the website, so as to receive important notifications, like the warning Warren posted about not upgrading from etch. Other announcements could be done via such a list as well (via opt-in system), such as availability of new RC, update in Mepis pools etc.

Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question

Site Additions

Submitted by distro7 on Fri, 02/03/2006 - 12:36.
Posts: 93

Would like to see 'Printer Friendly' Icon for all pages. Thanks.

To us newbies, the obvious sometimes isn't obvious!

Web address conversion to link

Submitted by mdmarmer on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 12:51.
Posts: 1027

Sometimes web addresses are not converted to links

for example I think this one won't be

http://news.google.com

But this one (space in front in column 1 of line) is

http://news.google.com

Also the link at left for mepislovers points to
http://www.mepislovers.com which works, but

http://www.mepislovers.org works more quickly

Thanks

Mike

Also drlizau and joeintenn -- if you are the ones to fix this, can we have your e-mail addys -- an e-mail might work well for some questions rather than a post

List of Repositories

Submitted by Baldy on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 13:57.
Posts: 153

How about a complete list of the up to date current repositories,with a list for the special software ie:wine,audio,patches, you get the idea. It would beat the heck out of changing the lists everytime a new version comes out. But then hey I am getting lazy in my old age.

emoticons

Submitted by psionides on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 14:58.
Posts: 87

Fix emoticons Smiling because currently every emoticon automatically adds line break, and that's not always what the person writing post wants.

Or maybe install a real forum like PHPBB, then you wouldn't have to fix or add anything Eye-wink

Additions

Submitted by distro7 on Sat, 02/18/2006 - 20:32.
Posts: 93

How about a Goto Top button on every page??

To us newbies, the obvious sometimes isn't obvious!

I have to agree on the apt

Submitted by rijelkentaurus on Sat, 02/18/2006 - 20:49.
Posts: 147

I have to agree on the apt repository suggestion. It's one of the most important things to have right on your system, and it can be a pain in backside, especially for new folks. I figure that making sure people know where to link for Etch security updates is even more important.

phpbb

Submitted by drlizau on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 04:51.
Posts: 4864

we had once, for a short time, and it was hacked, and we lost the lot.
so we returned to Drupal which is still functioning.
Evil

interesting comments

Submitted by drlizau on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 04:51.
Posts: 4864

Sometimes web addresses are not converted to links
for example I think this one won't be
http://news.google.com
But this one (space in front in column 1 of line) is
http://news.google.com
Also the link at left for mepislovers points to
http://www.mepislovers.com which works, but
http://www.mepislovers.org works more quickly
Thanks
Mike

but i haven't yet found anywhere to sort this out.

Menu and link broken

Submitted by Pantheus on Sun, 04/30/2006 - 02:41.
Posts: 220

The menu on the left of the mepis.org page used to have a very valuable link " http://www.mepis.org/tracker " which led to the latest posts in ALL categories. Now that link is missing, and using a bookmark or typing produces a " page not found ".

Please bring it back !

Ken
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In a world without walls and fences nobody needs Windows and Gates!
User #104362 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org

mepis.org/tracker is back!

Submitted by Pantheus on Mon, 05/01/2006 - 03:20.
Posts: 220

Just noticed that mepis.org/tracker again works to display the " recent posts ' .. not back into the menu (yet ?) but a bookmarked url DOES work !

WooHoo !

Ken
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In a world without walls and fences nobody needs Windows and Gates!
User #104362 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org

i suspect human error

Submitted by drlizau on Mon, 05/01/2006 - 23:31.
Posts: 4864

because planned changes to the server config get emailed to me in advance.
There was planned some beautification of the site - and I think that the essential tracker went AWOL.

learn from existing forums

Submitted by maYo on Sat, 05/27/2006 - 20:11.
Posts: 52

I suggest that this whole site be converted to a forum form just like the one they have at:

http://blenderartists.org/forum/

Everything from announcements and news to tutorials for beginners should be in this forum. I've seen these same type of sites and they seem pretty standard. I figured some site developers must be maintaining them. I looked at the bottom of the page and I found this:

I don't know how much these forum owners pay, but the end product seems very efficient. Point of my suggestion is, why bother figuring out what to do with this site? Why not just do what everyone else does at the moment?

Quote:Why not just do what

Submitted by drlizau on Mon, 05/29/2006 - 06:54.
Posts: 4864

Quote:

Why not just do what everyone else does at the moment?

never been my way in life

An easy to find minimum system requirements note

Submitted by mehemiah5 on Tue, 10/03/2006 - 17:09.
Posts: 7

should be somewhere in the downloads page, mepis cd page, or maybe the features page. but i havn't found the "minimum system requirements" anywhre here.

scatch that, i found them
where do i delete post?
Watashi wa omoide ni wa naranai sa

As easy as the date noted?!

Submitted by rudi.kuin on Tue, 10/03/2006 - 17:13.
Posts: 363

Look at the string date mehemiah5;
This string is ancient...
Although it is a good suggestion!
But you can edit and delete your text and just say you're sorry, hahah!!!!!

Thanks, Ruud.

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Search Tool

Submitted by kid_sphinx on Sun, 10/08/2006 - 15:35.
Posts: 1

Would Greatly appreciate a search tool for Forums

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