Interferon Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 I read somewhere the ability to mark a topic reply as the answer is going away in IPB version 5. Is this true? This would be a big problem for us, as we currently use a Q&A forum for our bug tracking system. I filter by unsolved topics to find what I am supposed to be working on, and mark my own replies as the solution when a bug is fixed. bernhara 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 The Q&A forum type is going away but there will still be the ability to mark your replies as a solution in forum topics, very similar to how your can now in a Discussion forum type. Interferon and Ibai 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interferon Posted May 31 Author Share Posted May 31 Cool, I don't even know what the difference is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 I personally find this to be a step in the right direction. I was always kind of confused at the layout of Q&A forums, and find the natural flow of discussions in a typical forum to be better. And with the ability to mark as helpful and solved, you get all of the primary attributes of Q&A. Matt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonya* Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 (edited) ... slowly disappearing... Edited June 2 by Sonya* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted June 3 Management Share Posted June 3 16 hours ago, Sonya* said: ... slowly disappearing... The upvote/downvote view has been removed in v5, but the functionality to highlight the best content, feature the answer, etc still remains. We're just removing the slightly dated QA view where comments can move around breaking the flow of the conversation. Interferon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonya* Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 I know. I do not miss Q&A, but a sorting option by rating. Votes was the only possibility to sort "by users opinion". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interferon Posted June 3 Author Share Posted June 3 (edited) 3 hours ago, Matt said: The upvote/downvote view has been removed in v5, but the functionality to highlight the best content, feature the answer, etc still remains. We're just removing the slightly dated QA view where comments can move around breaking the flow of the conversation. We had a lot of complaints about the answer being moved to the first reply, so people could not follow the conversation. The "jump to solution" link worked a lot better. Edited June 3 by Interferon Matt and SoloInter 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted June 3 Management Share Posted June 3 2 minutes ago, Interferon said: We had a lot of complaints about the answer being moved to the first reply, so people could not follow the conversation. The "jump to solution" link worked a lot better. Agreed. SoloInter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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