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Bug 437041

Summary:	Turn off forum-post updates
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Thomas Schindl <tom.schindl>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	denis.roy, Ed.Merks, webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:

Description Thomas Schindl

2014-06-10 07:40:02 EDT

I'm not very familiar with the forum software but it somehow allows user to update their question which to them looks like a nice feature but it does not play well with the newsgroup sync so people like me whose my newsreader to answer will never see those updates.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2014-06-10 10:08:46 EDT

I don't think crippling functionality in modern software to accommodate 1974 technology is a step forward.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2014-06-10 10:09:39 EDT

Sorry, 1986.  I was close, though.

Comment 3 Ed Merks

2014-06-11 01:16:54 EDT

Many of us helpful answering types are perhaps not the most fashionably modern people, but the technology we build at Eclipse is built-to-last.  For me, using a web forum has never seemed like a step forward in functionality, but rather something to accommodate blocked nntp ports...

I'm not sure the details of what Tom is reporting, but changes to posts should at least look like reposts or replys or in some way notify via nntp, otherwise modern technical fashion trends themselves have crippling side-effects.