jQuery Forum

Hi 

Nice initiative, 

Just wanted to let you know that I have visited this site with; ie, firefox, chrome and safari and each and every browser is warning me about this site being unsafe to enter....something about the certificate this site is using. 

You guys may wanna look into it. 

Take care. 

 I can't sign-in using Safari either. I think it's something to do with how webkit handles cross-domain cookies.

Awesome job John. Congrats !!
I love this forum and never heard about zoho, which looks great too

Thanks!

This is great. I've also starting the dislike Groups. A roll back to Usenet would be far better.

I look forward to reading some great items and ask for and receive some greats tips!

Mark.

 FINALLY. Not my first choice of forum software, but at least its not a discussion group.. With jQuery being the leader of the javascript frameworks, I could never understand why their support was back in 1980.... groups died the day the first forum was invented. Now we may all finally get the answers we've been looking for straight from the source

 just something i've wondered about, doesn't zoho community cost per month to have a basic package? wouldn't it better to have a annually subscribable service that doesn't impose restrictions on your own hosting or a open source software instead?

Nice to see this forum getting up and running.  

There needs to be support for the Tab key in this RTE, though!

I have never heard about Zoho. But it looks great. Definitively, the forum will help both experts and beginners and also will provide a way to stay-in-contact with other folks around the world.

Just a note, when I have subscribed to the feed (http://forum.jquery.com/feed) via Google Reader, the title was "Zoho Discussions". I think it should be something like "jQuery forums".

 don't suppose anyones figure out how to "go to last unread post" in a thread from forum view, getting a bit annoying now.

In certain browsers, if you click "Reply to this topic" without being signed in, it pulls down the reply form, but then covers the page with a gray div. This is happening in Chrome and Safari on both Windows and Mac. In IE8 the form loads, but the browser's loading bar keeps going like it's hung up on something. It's fine in Firefox 3.5.

Also, the file attachment functionality doesn't seem to be working - it just hangs with the loading spinner (Chrome Mac).

When you reply to a post, more often than not, it seems to automatically insert a leading space into the RTE.  Several of the replies in this very thread indicate the existence of this problem :)

Is there a ( easy) way to quickly find unanswered questions?

 The forum doesn't work at all (blanks out on any action) in Chromium for Linux (Ubuntu 9.10).

A JQuery Forum is a sensational idea! I was shocked when I found there wasn't one.

I really think using this forum software is a mistake, but it's better than a newsgroup.

You have to enable third-party cookies in order to sign in, it looks like.  That's a major flaw, in my opinion. I don't see where you can subscribe to a forum or to a thread, either, both of which are essential to a good forum, but maybe that's going to be fixed with the other issues mentioned above?

Is so simply, beautifull and better than googlegroups... Good Job!

 The constant AJAX loaders definitely do begin to grate on the nerves...

More annoying to me so far is a strange issue I have encountered when using multiple code blocks in the same post. At least in Chrome, the RTE tends to start putting strange horizontal scrollbars and changing the text style.  Starts to feel like fighting with MS Word, where the editor just doesn't want to let you put your cursor where you want and type.

Perhaps I should be reporting this in some Zoho support forum?  Let me know, Dhan.

Here is a screenshot of what it starts to look like.  Here is a permalink to a post I made in which this happened. Note the nested scrollbars and weird inner scrolling that happens in between the two code blocks.

Also for me in Chrome but IE is even worse!

Look at the same post!

                 It's a shame the old phpBB jqueryhelp.com forums disappeared. This Zolo thing is just as bad as Google Groups IMO, but with more intrusive AJAX.

Also I cannot work out how to                         change my username! I didn't even get to choose one, it was just pre-allocated I think

 All the extraneous AJAX makes for a sluggish UI — tapping pagedown/pageup or other scrolling actions seem to be delayed and/or sputter.

 I'm not sure where my username came from since i was known as Jaggi on jQuery help forums before. Seems you just took the first part of my email for this username which is invasive as it gives away info i might not want and is not very pretty as to what it was before.

 @rajaram: I appreciate you trying to help, but that's not what I was talking about. I don't want to follow a whole forum, or have to manually click follow on each post I reply to. In phpBB they had a user setting that allowed you to automatically follow any topic you start or reply to, along with the option to disable it on a post-by-post basis. That way you're only getting notifications for topics you choose to be active about.

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Though follow/disable is available on a post-by-post basis, managing the list of followed topics is made easier here. You can go to "My Area >> Watchlist" to disable all the notifications from a single screen. 

Thanks for your feedback & keep posting them. This will help us to evolve better.

--

Rajaram.I 

John, you should of tried the Wildcat! Internet Net Server, one of the early pioneers in mail/file hosting systems since the 80s.  Multi-device interface, not just the web; TRUE offline mail system, RFC mail readers, GUI interface, Console Interface even dialup if you need that. :)  plus with its hallmark File Library Storage system, account/access GROUP based security system, expiration system, subscription system, AVS system, even a ListServer if you need it!  250 API system in all major languages, builtin-PHP system,  WCX (Wildcat! Basic) Embedded language support.  jQuery is also part of the package used for the mail tipster Popup Display.   We are currently adding 3rd mail display format for users to use - this stupid  blog topical dump style.  People want it but it doesn't beat our classic system in GETTING people their mail and following the post/reply system.

Well, I'm unimpressed with Zoho, so far.  As I move around, the menu/navigation options change drastically.  There seems to be no consistency.  Very confusing.  Additionally, although there seems to be a way to add a group and manage groups you belong to via your profile, I can't see how to do it.  There is a way to create a brand new group, but I can't see how to add one to my profile.  I've tried from that profile page and from the JQuery group page.  So far, so bad. 

That explained it why I got email from Zoho and got redericted to some Zoho and the zoho there exactly looks like this forum. This transition made me a bit confused without a banner that said "jQuery migrated to Zoho", or something.

My suggestions to this changing phase...

I received the email about the change, informed my login at Zoho and clicked the "I forgot my password". This is strange because I didn't forgot it, I don't even remember having an Zoho account. It would be nicer if I received an link in my email that could redirect me to the page where I setup an password, or vinculate my login with an existing zoho account.

Then I created my account at Zoho and when I click at "Groups", it says "You're not in any groups"... Hey, I just got an email telling me that I already was in JQuery Forum... this sounds strange to me.

Well, besides these little problems, this UI seems to be far away better than Google groups... that UI really sucks.

Congratulations!

I've never used Zoho before so I have no idea how well it works. I'm more used to vBulletin types of message boards. But I love message board much more than discussion lists. I think it should work out great!

 Right place to give my first impression I guess.

I find the general feel of Zoho a bit messy as in "all over the place", if you see what I mean, but I think it could be fixed with proper styling (including scaling down size dramatically -- including fonts and paragraph separations). Somehow, I feel like being in a candy box as it is now and it doesn't really suit the minimalist approach I generally associate to jQuery.

I dunno about functionalities but I admit I was completely lost at first. "Sub-forums" don't seem to be clearly separated (and I really appreciated the fact I had jquery-dev and only jquery-dev in my gmail inbox). I'm guessing it's just a question of configuration and getting used to it but, while I appreciate the automatic imports the Zoho guys provided (and oh is it a nightmare sometimes), I would have preferred to have access to jquery-dev only at first then be given the possibility to add more categories/sub-forums... not being forced into seeing everything at once.

The constant ajax polling is a bit annoying but I can understand why it happens.

So-so for me right now but, then again, it's like an entire new world.

Before I figured out how to log in, I was (unwittingly) reading and posting as "guest".  At some point, I tried to reply to a question and got a pink popup telling me to type in some characters "shown below", or something like that. Well there were no characters shown anywhere; just the popup.  Attempts to publish the comment failed.

(Firefox 3.5.7 on Linux, if it matters.)

 Another minor issue: clicking on the little "[53 replies]" links results in an error page (bad link). Try the one for this very thread :)

Thanks for the invite. I've never used Zoho before, but I trust that your post-GGroups due diligence will pay off.

And if you find Zoho doesn't fit after a few months, move again -- imo, jQuery is what we're really excited about and the forum/group/whatever is just icing on the cake.

It was down most of the day but now that I get in look promising!

Thanks

 A great improvement over Google Groups :) Although it does still make me wonder: Why didnt you bother just switching to an opensource forum software such as phpBB, SMF, or PunBB....or even vBulletin? I'm assuming its server costing issues, correct?

Very enterprise... have you guys looked at http://accounts.zoho.com? It's more hardcore than Google Accounts which span multiple applications and it's just a forum... O_o 

It's very annoying that there is no indicator of posts awaiting moderation.  When you click on them and discover that fact, you cannot back up a page.  The same blank page keeps reloading. 

I'm not sure if it's a Zoho issue, or a per-forum setting, but we could really use some kind of pagination for long posts. This thread's a great testament to that - it gets pretty messy having 60+ replies all on one page.

Also, it'd be nice to be able to jump to the last page from the thread listing page. That way we wouldn't have to scroll through all the replies we've already read.

 This is a great initiative. Keep up the good work..

That's a good news. I hope it helps jQuery team to improve jQuery faster. 

The search box is not pixel-perfect and has a small glitch (i.e. in Safari, the drop-down on the left side of the search box is longer than the search box itself)  

Please have a look at the attached screenshot to see the problem...

Cheers,

Behrang

I think for the most part, it should take some getting used to, and a few notification changes on the part of the Zoho guys.

However, I just had to say that I'm _very_ impressed by the generous donation that the ZOHO peeps have made and their willingness to support our community. Several of their guys are already here fixing problems for us in real time. _That_ is invaluable, and something that probably wouldn't have been possible with an open-source install, or on google groups. So props to the zoho guys that are in here fixing stuff for us!

If I may add, after making a few code replies to questions in the forum I've noticed two things:

Syntax highlighting of any sort would be very helpful. I don't think it would have to be anything too intense, but something similar to the syntax highlighting of code on StackOverflow would be quite sufficient. It's just tough to go through code at times when its all black and grey.

I hate when I accidentally press `enter` twice. I end up with two code blocks that I have to merge together by backspacing in each individual line until I reach the end of the code block. Might I suggest that we have some sort of shorthand for saying "Make this into a code block when I press submit" that could also be used to add code references inline. One of the best features of stackoverflow is the ability to add backticks to variable names inline (e.g. `$.ajax()`) and have it format like code.

I would venture to guess that the biggest issues that we're going to have with this forum will probably revolve around the fact that we have a lot of code to post, so making that function easy to use and very bug-free is probably going to be a key to acceptance.

Thanks again! Nice Move!

Alex Sexton

P.S. When I previewed this message, I noticed that the message shown to me was "This is preview!" - and while I guess, is probably valid, it seems like it should probably be "This is a preview!" - not a huge deal though...

" You can follow any topic ..."

I've tried for at least one hour now, and I can't find out how to follow a topic.

And the bookmark link doesn't seem to do anything at all.

A number of the actions in the Post Actions box seem to be broken, as of earlier this evening.  I was able to do a Move Topic earlier, but clicking it now seems to do nothing.  The follow topic, lock topic, move topic, amongst other links, all seem to do absolutely nothing when clicked.

Also, since this is the new jQuery support forum, we should probably recommend to the Zoho folks that they shouldn't be using <a href="javascript:;" />, which is on all the links in this troublesome panel

the RTE could also do with a 'remove format' button

i've read this thread with amazement. i struggle to understand the reasoning behind the decision to use this software. (zoho corp sound like a good bunch, it's just the software i'm referring to). i feel compelled to express my opinion, because the jquery team do take on board the opinions and feedback of the community.

very interested to hear others' opinions as they arrive on this forum

it looks nice but it seems to be on maintenance very frequently. 

Is this the issue with the forum or the server?

Thanks

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 guests can publish empty posts? i do say, w t f

edit: empty post has since been removed, some feedback about this would be nice ;)

It keeps telling me that my account is not confirmed with a button to continue

i don't have a link in my email for confirmation of my account. How should I do it

p.s. found it

now my profile is confirmed

thanks to the manual :D

got to say i have to use ctrl+f for finding my post here,

will be good if there is a some sort of paging in the tread

I can't seem to find view "new" post.  It is time saver!  Otherwise as forum grow it is hard on the finger to scroll the mouse to look for new post in the thread.

http://ongetc.com (COAddOns project)

 not sure what they've done but now ( in IE8 at least ), the back buttons now require 3 clicks to go back, maybe a couple iframes somewhere? i must say i agree with the people saying that there's too much ajax and clicking to browse this new forum.

didn't know where else to put this post, so if it's in the wrong place i apologize.

Some other forum software has the option to list posts in reverse-chron order, It makes finding the newer post a bit easier, but some don't like it because of the unatural reading order. A button, or option, to skip posts already read would go a long way towards resolving the long-page issues that seem to be quite predominate here.

How do I change my password? I hate confusing websites that force me to post questions like this - poor usability! Form over function. 

Glad you setup a new forum. Anything to reduce the spam. 

What's the goal time-wise to get posts moderated around here?  There are posts from 5 hours ago that are still "Awaiting Moderation"

 Good Job! Waited long for this step.

If you could make discussions out of the API comments - which you can track here in forum or under a function in API - that would be great!

The RSS feed lists one entry for every *reply* instead of the standard one entry for every *topic*. It makes it tough to follow with my feed reader.

Is anyone else having the issue that "Keep me signed in" doesn't do anything?   I know it's just not this computer as I am on one of three computers at any given time, and none of them "remember" me as logged in....

I've already had two replies I made showing "guest" because I hadn't realized that I wasn't remembered upon returning to the forum

I think any type of bulletin board functionality over google groups is great. It will just take some getting used to.

Some thoughts:

The one thing that is incredibly annoying though is that "Loading" animation. It is sort of nice for leaving replies but when opening a post..... lose the animation and just open the page.

RTE always seems to add one space at the begining of the reply. (FF3.5)

If you hit enter it formats as a double space in the RTE but is formatted as a single space in the post.

Might be nice when a post is edited it should say, "Lasted edited on: date/time". Make it easier to understand when someone quotes text but it is different in the original post. Very low priority.