The FAQ page seems to be a useless anachronism at this point. It must go.
1. it is not easy to edit, certainly not by someone without direct access to the installation. Thus it often stays in its original form, regardless whether it actually addresses the questions of the particular site.
2. it is entirely static. It would be better implemented as a part of Pages extension. The Pages should come with the FAQ sample page, entirely editable in the back end and placeable in a location of the site's choice.
FAQ page musdie!
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Re: FAQ page musdie!
+1phpdummie wrote:2. it is entirely static. It would be better implemented as a part of Pages extension. The Pages should come with the FAQ sample page, entirely editable in the back end and placeable in a location of the site's choice.
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+1 as well.Mess wrote:+1phpdummie wrote:2. it is entirely static. It would be better implemented as a part of Pages extension. The Pages should come with the FAQ sample page, entirely editable in the back end and placeable in a location of the site's choice.
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Re: FAQ page musdie!
The OP is throwing the baby out with the bathwater, though. The page doesn't have to "die"; it just needs to be made more dynamic and easier to edit.
Of course, why should somebody without access to the installation be able to edit the FAQ? It's not something that I'd want most users to do anyway. If you make the page editable in the ACP, you'll need to handle all of the languages that the FAQs may be in, too. It's possible, of course, but is the effort worth it?
There are plenty of other items that more boards should probably edit (like the ToS and Privacy Policy) that currently require somebody with installation access to do, so what makes the FAQ special?
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Of course, why should somebody without access to the installation be able to edit the FAQ? It's not something that I'd want most users to do anyway. If you make the page editable in the ACP, you'll need to handle all of the languages that the FAQs may be in, too. It's possible, of course, but is the effort worth it?
There are plenty of other items that more boards should probably edit (like the ToS and Privacy Policy) that currently require somebody with installation access to do, so what makes the FAQ special?
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Re: FAQ page musdie!
Appearing as a link on every page and having lots of text to edit contrary to the ToS and Privacy Policy.Pony99CA wrote:so what makes the FAQ special?
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As discussed in the topic that I linked to, the Privacy Policy and ToS links should appear on every page. Lots of sites have those links in their footers.Louis7777 wrote:Appearing as a link on every page and having lots of text to edit contrary to the ToS and Privacy Policy.Pony99CA wrote:so what makes the FAQ special?
Regardless, if this is about making things easier to edit, it shouldn't matter how many pages the items are displayed on. The same technique used to make the FAQ easier to edit could probably also be used to make the Privacy Policy and ToS easier to edit.
Of course, if you accept the OP's premise that the FAQ be eliminated, then I disagree with that completely.
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I have no objections to that but the default footer should be redesigned in order to hold more links. Do we want that to happen?Pony99CA wrote: As discussed in the topic that I linked to, the Privacy Policy and ToS links should appear on every page. Lots of sites have those links in their footers.
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That's really off-topic for here, so I've posted my thoughts in the Tos, Faq, Search and Policy pages shouldnt be cached in searchengines topic that I linked to previously.Louis7777 wrote:I have no objections to that but the default footer should be redesigned in order to hold more links. Do we want that to happen?Pony99CA wrote: As discussed in the topic that I linked to, the Privacy Policy and ToS links should appear on every page. Lots of sites have those links in their footers.
I only raised the issue because if those links are on every page, the FAQs aren't very different at all.
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+1 for an easy way to edit the FAQ.
Of course the build in FAQ are of great value to Users new to online forums in general (although those people are getting rare). However, it would be awesome to add forum-topic-relevant FAQ setting the general tone for user communication and - well - FAQs
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Of course the build in FAQ are of great value to Users new to online forums in general (although those people are getting rare). However, it would be awesome to add forum-topic-relevant FAQ setting the general tone for user communication and - well - FAQs
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Sounds more of an extension request to me -1