Each Blog should come with its own Forum

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    As for sharing tags across forum and blog, I’m not sure that would be acceptable to the search engines who connect with our tag system; most search engines don’t search forums at all, or do so as a last resort, because the information there is generally considered to be low signal to noise. Don’t know how they handle that technically, though.

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    drmike · Member ·

    Actually I was thinking that Bruce wanted staff to add in the SMF system to blogs here. That wouldn’t work as SMF will only work sitewide the bbpress does here for these forums. It would mess up with the individual blogs.

    Sorry for the confusion. :)

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    carocat · Member ·

    The only reason I am currently debating moving away from wp.com is a lack of a simple forum, like this I suppose. I absolutely love it here and I am useless at any website related stuff. I’ve had my own domain for ages and I’ve installed the wordpress software months back trying to get used to doing it on my own, but I don’t see myself do that any time soon, as I kept messing things up. :(

    Of course I could have a forum elsewhere and just link to there, but as the original poster said, it’d be great if it could be implemented.

    I’m a bit confused after reading this thread now.

    Posted by Mark: “Thanks for your suggestion. This is something only you have suggested and as such is going to be low on the list of priorities compared to features requested by other users.

    Does that mean if enough people are asking for the feature you would think about implementing it or is it literally a case of ‘it can’t be done’ due to whatever issues?

    Maybe I missed some replies in which it was explained better, it’s late over here, so apologies if my question has been answered already. :)

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    timethief · Member ·

    @carocat
    As this is a long Easter weekend and as staff have weekends off I’m not clear if that means Mark is off tomorrow or not. What I am clear on is that this is a matter that ought to be directed to Mark via a feedback. :)

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    trent · Member ·

    Forums would be nice for those that would like them, but in reality, wordpress.com (run on wordpress MU) is a blogging service and not really related to forums. It is really easy to get WordPress and bbPress working together (as well as other forums) on another host, but not on wordpress.com (and other wordpress MU) installations. If you want, http://install4free.wordpress.com is a free service that will install WP for you and we can help anyone that wants to integrate with bbPress over in the forums there. As trying to get forums here is a policy issue, do as timetheif mentions and send a feedback in on Monday or Tuesday (depending on when they open) ;)

    Trent

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    carocat · Member ·

    Cheers for the replies. I was going to send a feedback after Easter and link back to this thread.

    Thanks again. :)

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hi carocat,
    Yesterday Mark posted to say that he does not wish to receive feedbacks with links back to forum threads as he does not have time to read through lengthy forum threads. What he wanted to receive was feedbacks with all necessary information contained within them.

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