Also, is there no way to subscribe to a thread (to get email alerts about new replies?) Without that, people have to remember to pro-actively come back to the forum again and again to look for responses.
I like vanilla's simplicity, solid markup, good looks, and thriving user community. I also like that there was a mediawiki integration solution just sitting there waiting for me :)
okay email notifications are in place. it must be done per-thread and can't be on by default (the plugin does not support that). what do folks think of this?
John - Can those links be moved into the new comment box? Upper left of the page is totally unintuitive from a UI perspective, and also totally non-standard. I never would have thought to look for them there, and I doubt many other people would either.
scott- i'm not much of a vanilla hacker yet, but that is an excellent idea. bug me again in a week or two if i haven't done it by then. also, do you have an example that you can show me, so i can mimic the layout?
craig- hmm, i figured we'd keep both channels, but maybe it would be wise to decommission the email list. after the forum has a few weeks to get rolling i'll ask folks on the email list what they think.
<i>also, do you have an example that you can show me, so i can mimic the layout?</i>
??? Virtually every discussion board on the internet has this. You'll need to be a registered user of a forum to see it, so I can't point you to one in specific, but try joining almost any discussion forum, go to make a post and look around in or near the Post Comment area - there's almost always a Subscribe option. In this case, I'd do it as a set of radio buttons directly below the "Format comment as" options.
scott-- yes i've seen them, i was wondering if there was a particular combination of wording and layout that you, scott, particularly liked, so i could copy it :)