The original thread with a request for forum improvements is dead because of a bug in the forum system, so I'll just have to start a new one.
Anyway, one feature that would be nice to have is to have every thread display a list of references to the thread.
So if I would post a link to another thread in this thread, then that other thread would show a reverse link to this thread.
Let's say someone is discussing an USB problem and someone gives an answer and adds a note: "See also xx's answer here: xxx". If googling and entering any of these two threads, it would be nice to be able to know about both of them.
It is also quite common that people manages to create multiple threads for the same problem. Sometimes, half the answers are given in one thread and half of the answers in the other thread. Right now, some forum user has to add a post linking A->B and another post linking B->A.
Another thing is that the Keil FAQ pages links to a number of articles. But for a specific issue - such as a linking problem - the FAQ page often links to multiple forum threads. It would be nice if someone who googled and reached one of the threads could see a link to the relevant FAQ page and hence be able to see the references to other forum threads covering the same issue.
If the forum code can scan through a post and locate html references, it should be possible to scan through all posts in the database and check which of these html references that leads to other Keil forum threads to set up the cross-index.
Here: http://www.keil.com/forum/docs/thread17220.asp
Yes, I like that idea as well. I'd also like to have a feature to list possibly related threads based on keywords when posting to reduce the number of duplicate questions that we get.
Bug fixes first, I'm afraid.
90% of the '251 posts are '51 posts, combine the two
Erik
"90% of the '251 posts are '51 posts"
I think it's probably (a lot) higher than that!
Perhaps it'd be better if the actual device part number (or, at least, manufacturer & family) were "required" fields to start a thread?
This would also help the ARM section - where so many different ARMs (7, 9, Cortex-M) all get bundled together...
perhaps???
Perhaps it'd be better if the actual device part number (or, at least, manufacturer & family) were "required" fields to start a thread? I only do micros so I would not know, but i think it could be easy to require a match to a device in the Keil devicelist.
One problem this would cause would be that a lot of posts would end up in non-specific (generic) if that did not require the entry of a random device from the devicelist.
I'm sorry, this comes to me "on the installment plan" what I just realized was that the likelyhood that someone spamming about "we will write your dissertation for you" would not know the name of a device. thus, if you implemet it, do not use a 'drop down' list
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