Forum: Heterotic Beast – Topic: Evaluating HB for Azimuth Forum

Our current software supports a categorization scheme for posts. When you submit a post, you choose a category for it. The category shows in the summary line for the post. The categories can be used to filter the list of posts. I believe that Andrew uses this, for example, to view just the posts in the category Technical. Also, the visibility of posts can be controlled at the category level. For instance, the category Strategy can be made readable only to members.

To what extent are such mechanisms supported in HB? We could have separate forums, e.g., one for Technical, but is there a more fine-grained way to classify the posts?

Forum: Heterotic Beast – Topic: Evaluating HB for Azimuth Forum

Feature Request: ability to preview a post before submitting it.

Forum: Heterotic Beast – Topic: Evaluating HB for Azimuth Forum

Hi we are currently experimenting with HB, and considering switching over to it. I’m going to use this thread for any feedback, questions or feature requests from the group.

HB provides the essential functionality that we need, which includes Itex and Markdown. So does our current forum software, which is an installation of Vanilla that has been customized by Andrew Stacey to generate MathML and do other good things. We’re happy with the current software, but Andrew is moving on, and we are setting up a new server independently of the nLab. I won’t be able to support this modification of an old version of Vanilla. So we’re motivated to change to a supported package, and Andrew pointed us to the Heterotic Beast.

So the challenge will be to see if I can get the Azimuth group to accept the new package, which is fundamentally similar to what they have now, yet will inevitably differ in form from what they are quite comfortable with now.

I will be posting “feature requests” here that come from that perspective. Please take them with a grain of salt, and don’t do any work on our behalf that you wouldn’t want for yourself – especially because the group might not reach the consensus to make the change. In any case, these feature requests might give you something useful to think about.

Forum: Heterotic Beast – Topic: Bugs

That a good resolution. Thanks.

Forum: Heterotic Beast – Topic: Bugs

Minor: Account names get lowercased. I created an account “David Tanzer” from the signup page, but it gets recorded as “david tanzer.” I find it somewhat unsettling to see proper names in lower case. But its easy enough to workaround by updating the database.

Forum: Heterotic Beast – Topic: Can I view the source text for other people's posts?

Hi, is there a way to see a read-only view of source text of other people’s posts, just as it appears when one edits one’s own post? It’s useful for getting ideas from other people, with respect to formulas and formatting.

Thanks,

David Tanzer

Azimuth Project