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Posted by Brian Story
Brian Story
Courses Plus Student 2,148 Points

A couple forums improvements to help encourage people

  1. Make it easier to post code, maybe click a button that inserts code blocks into the text area. This seems very hard to understand for new users trying to get help.

  2. The up and down vote thing is cool but change it up. The point should be to reward the user for helping and it's not clear enough. It's also not widely used so UX that Shizzle.

Anybody else have ideas on these?

4 Answers

alex mattingley
alex mattingley
7,508 Points
alex mattingley
alex mattingley
7,508 Points

I second the code thing and do the same for images, make it easier to post them. It was really discouraging for me in the beginning trying to get help when I couldn't effectively illustrate the issues I was having.

Marcus Tisäter
Marcus Tisäter
4,886 Points
Marcus Tisäter
Marcus Tisäter
4,886 Points

Yeah, Point rewards for thumbs up is a great idea.

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points
Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points

Code is simple, just mash the spacebar 4 times. lol.

Unless Treehouse were to start hosting our image, the only way is to still use a 3rd party host and move the relevant code in. It's a pain but I'm not going to pay extra just for some image hosting.

Sri Kadimisetty
Sri Kadimisetty
9,770 Points
Sri Kadimisetty
Sri Kadimisetty
9,770 Points

The comments are Markdown enabled and that might be a little foreign for people who are seeing for the first time. But it's a great way to write code.

Inline code is contained within apostrophes ` and

<!-- blocks are indented with four spaces -->

Not having fancy widgets for formatting, keeps the comment code clean. IMO, the slight learning curve is worth it; also because familiarity with Markdown might be useful in many other cases.