First thing I see is that when I posted in the thread, the pin in front of topic did change its direction. Next what that this thread was moved to the bottom. In Announcements page, that is not good at all. Have to search around for where the thread went.
Is there a way to set it up so that I see the username of who posted last in the thread?
@Jotne, one thing that may affect you is you cannot edit imported posts (i.e. your top post in 📌 Tool: Using Splunk to analyse MikroTik logs 4.0 (Graphing everything) 💾 🛠 💻 📊).
I have a few thread that I use the “top post” as the “index” — so the lack of edit IDK what to do when it comes up…
Now MikroTik does correctly redirect old forum URL to the this new forum - which I was worried about since I have external site like GitHub that link back to forum discussions. But my “trail of links” will get broken if I cannot edit old posts
Same here, the post stuck in pending state so a newly user that needs to post something important now needs approval to attach files in the post? what’s the criteria for you to have permission to post images or files?
This is really bad. I need to be able to edit my old posts. The Splunk post may have been edited 50+ times. Nor can I delete imported posts that has been written by me.
Hope they can fix that.
Naah, the good Mikrotik guys did a very good job with the migration.
It is the inherent structure of discourse with badges and trust levels that is - while surely constructed in good faith - pure folly.
https://forum.mikrotik.com/badges
https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/
I haven’t come across a 20 character minimum for posting comments before, but thats probably because I rarely post anywhere online (much to learn; no wisdom to impart)
Added “svg, txt, log, rsc” extensions to allowed upload types.
I am completely, entirely lost.
Have no idea how to actually navigate the forum, many things aren’t even links - I can’t open them in a new tab. For example, the “Router OS” blue breadcrumb. If I want to go somewhere, I have to open the forum homepage in another tab and then choose a “category” (it’s a subforum, ffs, not a “category”!).
Usually I dwell inside the “beginner basics” subforum. It no longer has cross-forum pinned topics. I have lost access to new RouterOS discussion threads and everything else that was there. Not happy about that.
The amount of whitespace is atrocious! For simple one-liner posts, FOUR of them fit on my desktop screen vertically before I have to scroll. For regular posts, this is a big giant “LOL”.
The font size is so mindboggingly huge that I can read it from 1.5 meters away!
As I’m typing this, I have THREE lines of my reply visible. Just three (3!!!). The reply box doesn’t even play along with what browsers have long-implemented, and that’s the ability for users to resize the textarea as they see fit.
Good for you for making the forum better accessible and nicely scrollable to gen-Z users and their phones and their finger exercise.
However, please do remember that you’re not running a meme board for bored teenagers and that your users and visitors are primarily people with computers and monitors.
Changed the conf to allow editing posts without time limit.
On the latest topics listing it shows some sticky topics right on top.
https://forum.mikrotik.com/latest
Can this be changed globally? I kind of dislike to have 10 sticky topics I have to scroll by until I reach the real latest topics.
You can unpin those for yourself.
I just did 
lol, self explaining UI this is called. 
Out of all of the potential forum software you guys picked THIS one. Seriously? It’s absolutely horrid, every time I come across it on the internet I absolutely loathe using the stupid thing and largely just give up because its about as intuitive as a Dark Souls quest line
You’ve taken a forum that was basic but entirely functional, and objectively made every important and useful part of it worse. Why?
XenForo, for example, might have been a closer match in terms of both design and usability. There was also a discussion some months ago, during which it was somehow claimed that PHP-based forums can’t scale and that only Discourse - with its Ruby + Postgres + Redis stack - is capable of handling high traffic volumes.
XenForo runs on PHP 8, uses MySQL, and can also integrate Redis. It can scale horizontally by adding as many PHP containers as needed. And when it comes to database administration, dealing with data corruption in Postgres can be particularly challenging. In my experience, MySQL with InnoDB is much easier to administer.
But that said, it is what it is. Hopefully, this Discourse instance will evolve into a great place again.
Please add some video extensions either. With some max size limit of course. Videos are often required to describe some issues.
Good.
Before or later - if I may - we will need also .zip and .pdf (the .zip would anyway be a “catch all” of sorts, as it was on the old board software).
I hate it when people embed a video. Post a link to where you put the video.
Added: pdf, zip, tar, tar.gz also.
And what the problem?
First, you need to search where to upload it. Second, external link could become unavailable after some time. And third, providing external link is a security issue.
Forum availability and speed is much better today. Yesterday it responded with a HTTP 5xx error almost on any action. Keep on tuning! 