solved Multiple forums

My Ning 2.0 network is not a commercial site in itself, but has forums (A) for offers and requests for many kinds of service, and (B) for specific topics, inside topic-focus groups.

All the forums of the A type are aggregated into one page of text with active links to each kind of offer or request:

Editing Offers Requests
Translation Offers Requests

etc.

Any member of the network can use these forums without any further joining process, while only members who have joined a group can post to the forum in that group (though anyone can see the forum).

It is not clear to me if and how multiple forums can be set up and managed in Jamroom. Is there a specific page of advice on the matter that we can be directed to?

Thanks, Peter



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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)
updated by @researchcooperative: 04/16/15 11:09:40PM

Multiple forums in a single profile has never been done (as far as I know). You can set categories for the forum so have those as forum categories. Like the ones Jamroom.net uses here.

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum

Or you could create 2 profiles and have a forum each.

For the matter of permissions. These are setup in the QUOTA CONFIG tab of the forum module:
ACP -> PROFILE -> PROFILE FORUM -> QUOTA CONFIG.

Its the "Can Post to Forums" setting that determines if users can read and write, or just read.

Setting up forum categories will work for me, as the category shows up with its own URL, and has its own search icon for all the messages inside that category. Wonderful!

/publish-science-network/forum/editing-offers/

= sitename/profile_name/forum/category

Making another profile to set up another forum will also work. Thanks. Eventually I will be able to put titles and URLS for all forums in a text box on the home page somewhere.

I wonder if there is any advantage for search optimisation (Giggle etc.) in having (in the forum URL) a profile name that includes terms related to the forum content, as in the example above.

....

Now I realise I can stucture this more directly..

/editing/forum/editing-offers

Where Editing is now the profile name, and specific topic categories can be hard-wired in the forum under that name.


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/15/15 07:47:44AM

I recommend NOT trying to think what giggle may want and building for them. Build for what your users will find interesting and let the Search Engines find what you have.

Now that Giggle has Chrome they'll be using metrics like:
* "Which website did users of chrome choose after they used the search term xxxxxxxx"
* "How long did they stay there"

So using the URL to try to trick Giggle ( are we using that term because we dont want them to find us? ) into thinking your content is more relevant than it really is, is a bad plan.

Everything I have read elsewhere tells me that your view of the matter is correct. Personally, that is how I want to work.

Nevertheless, I am curious about whether or not domain names have much consequence for the results generated by search engines.

For people they obviously do, so I should design the site in a way that creates more- rather than less-meaningful URLS for users of the network.

I suspect not using Giggle's Crumb will not help much to make me invisible. I use Firefox, but Giggle is my daily companion. Something like water and air. Thanks.


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)
updated by @researchcooperative: 03/17/15 05:50:38AM