Forum Updates

14/09/2023

Watching Working Group Topics and Categories

As a follow-up to the previous update, we have made changes to facilitate on-boarding for the forum.

The take-home is this: join your working group!

If you do this you no longer need to specifically watch the announce topics, we’ve made it so that members of a working group automatically watch specially tagged topics (the announce topics).

We’ve also set the default so that members of a working group will get notified of all new topics in their working group sub-category. This has the added benefit that you can then reply to an email about a new topic that have actions on the forum. Supported operations are:

  • +1 or like: likes the post
  • watch: watches the topic
  • track: tracks the topic
  • mute: mutes the topic

So if you reply to a new topic just with the word watch you will receive all subsequent replies to that topic.

These changes, combined with the ability to join a working group when you sign up, are designed to reduce the barriers to users getting the information they need when they join the forum.

Working Group Navigation Bar

A section has been added to the left hand navigation bar to make it easier to find and join working groups:

wg section

These are links to the relevant “About” topic for each working group which detail what the group does, who are the important people to contact, what topics to watch (less important if they join the group and this is done automatically).

This is also an attempt to reduce the barrier to users finding the right place to go to join a working group.