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pinned Regex topic like in the old forum

01 Aug 2017, 16:55

Should we have a pinned topic like in the old ipb forum specifically for regular expressions?
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/1237 ... pressions/
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Re: pinned Regex topic like in the old forum

01 Aug 2017, 19:07

feel free to create one if you have time
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Re: pinned Regex topic like in the old forum

02 Aug 2017, 00:45

This sounds like an argument for thread categories, i.e. tags.

I started reading that thread, its a 72-pager. Although in theory I like the idea quite a lot, I don't think that any forum questions lend themselves well to being bunched together, you can't then easily discuss them or come back to (extended discussing) an old question. (I was actually wanting to post some content on page 2, which would have appeared on page 72?!)

Also, whether you combine questions into one thread or not, it will be hard to meaningfully search for a specific RegEx question. They are one of the harder topics to find good keywords for. This is one reason for my tutorial approach, to anticipate good keywords where possible:
jeeswg's RegEx tutorial (RegExMatch, RegExReplace) - AutoHotkey Community
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=28031

If all RegEx questions had a RegEx tag, then they would be much easier to find.

One possible solution would be to give OPs and mods the ability to add question tags to a post, stored in a database. You could then search for posts with a specific tag. E.g. each month I could check for new posts with a RegEx tag.
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Re: pinned Regex topic like in the old forum

02 Aug 2017, 07:32

I see. I was thinking bunching up questions isnt the best, i wanted to know why we had one before...
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Re: pinned Regex topic like in the old forum

02 Aug 2017, 07:42

because regex in particular is a very noob unfriendly subject and there was initially IRC the idea of creating a central place to help with it.
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Re: pinned Regex topic like in the old forum

02 Aug 2017, 08:16

Makes sense... I'll leave this as it is for now.
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Re: pinned Regex topic like in the old forum

02 Aug 2017, 09:47

Although I appreciate your good intentions joedf, I've been considering to make a complaint about the excessive amount of pinned topics on the forum. :think:
It would be nice if one could hide pinned topics, at least those which one have read.

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Re: pinned Regex topic like in the old forum

02 Aug 2017, 12:16

@Helgef You're totally right. Hmmm... It's pretty bad in Scripts and Functions, but not so bad in Ask For Help...
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Re: pinned Regex topic like in the old forum

02 Aug 2017, 12:27

Scripts and functions is indeed the center of my dissatisfaction :problem:
Related, imo, announcements should be on the board index page only.

I'd like to point out that it is most annoying during phone browsing.

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Re: pinned Regex topic like in the old forum

02 Aug 2017, 15:31

I think that's just how phpbb works tho ... :/
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