monkdiscuss
jdporter
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We have a new feature: <b>usergroup-private discussion threads</b>.
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<p>
This lets members of groups (such as [pmdev]) have threaded discussions, just like in the regular sections, but completely unvisible to anyone not in that user group (aside from [gods], of course).
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<p>
Up until now, user groups have always used wiki nodes
for intra-group discussion; but wikis are pretty suboptimal for this purpose.
(They remain useful for other purposes, such as collaboratively maintained documentation.)
The esteemed [chromatic] made such as observation way back when [id://68293|the concept of the wiki nodetype was first proposed]:
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IMHO wikis are best suited to accumulating community resources and keeping them relevant. I do not think that for general discussion that a wiki makes more sense than the usual noding. But if a topic comes up often, summarizing it in a wiki would make sense.
</blockquote>
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So this new feature is intended to replace the use of wikis for discussion.
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If you're a member of a user group, try going to the group's page ([janitors], [pmdev], [breathers of fire], etc.) and see what's at the bottom.
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One main way in which these threaded discussions are different from the regular sections is that nodes are not votable and will always have reputation zero
— the idea being that it wouldn't be fair for a monk to be able benefit [PM XP is just a game|monetarily] from posts which are not accessible to the general public.
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Consequent to that, replies are always shown newest first.
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Whenever someone posts a direct reply to a group — which is essentially a top-level post under a group — it sends a message to all members of the group, something like this:
<blockquote><i>There is a new comment on [pmdev] by [jdporter]... </i></blockquote>
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<p>
This idea was initially floated and developed in
[id://790479] and
[id://880414].
But note that the final implementation of the feature did not adhere to the designs suggested in those threads.
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<p>
If you're in [pmdev], you can see a technical description of the implementation by visiting the new nodetype [usergroupnote]; scroll to the bottom to the documentation.
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<div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-170442">
I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16[523120|,]000 zombies.
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<c>[abbr://]</c> tests:
<ul>
<li> [abbr://whipuptitude]
<li> [abbr://some 'suffix' text|some 'title' text]
<li> [abbr://some 'suffix' (no 'title')]
<li> [abbr://|some 'title' (no 'suffix')]
</ul>