Forum Improvements?

Thanks to the maintainers for setting up this resource.  I'm glad that I can connect so quickly with subject matter experts.  It adds value to the Renesas product line.

This forum is usable, but I have to say that it's missing some features.

• Post Editing
• Without this, threads get cluttered up and out of order (i.e.: Become hard to read)
  

• Thread Closure
• There will come a point at which no more replies are desirable.  The OP should be able to close his thread.
  

• Code Formatting

Thanks,

I am going to review your comments with our Moderators and Forum owner. We will start doing a better job closing down and editing posts to keep it clean.

Todd

Can we get the "recent changes" panel to stop showing new empty directories?  It makes it hard to find new forum posts and project files.

This is all good input. My comments:

• Post editing is something I think we can "fix" easily. This ability could be added to normal forum users - restricting it to postings they create.
• Code formatting is possible using the "Preformatted" style. Sometimes it requires editing the HTML directly to correct breaks in the code block. It might be possible to refine this.

All of the posting/editing is based on the Kupu Visual Editor. The forums and Website are built on Plone.

http://pygments.org/

Do the code formatting serverside if you're going to.  Wrap it in a <pre> on the client, format the block at page render time and cache it.  Smaller DB, overhead proportional to post/edit traffic.  No remnants of client side bugs littering your content well after they have been fixed.  It would also leave the possibility of extending it with Renesas Compiler/ASM/whatever-specific syntax elements and the IP all stays on the server.

Can mods sticky threads?  FAQs at the top of each forum might be a good thing.

And by "can mods sticky threads", I mean "does the sticky functionality exist", not "go make FAQs"

I second the Post Editing. I really miss that feature as I tend to post then suddenly remember something I haven't tried yet. In other forums I've been in, double-posting is frowned upon.