How can we improve the visibility of unanswered questions on the forum?

willynils

How can we improve the visibility of unanswered questions on the forum?

I came up with three suggestions:

1) Add a prominent unanswered question filter on each thread that only shows unanswered questions, and sorts by: a) the number of people tracking it, and then by b) the date posted

2) Show a related unanswered questions box

3) Add a statistics page that, for each thread category, shows: a) oldest uncommented question b) oldest unaccepted answer question c) latest response comment by the owner of the question d) number and percentage of commented questions e) number and percentage of unanswered questions

quark

This forum uses Vanilla so any features have to be part of Vanilla or available through a plugin. If we want anything else then someone has to create a suitable plugin.

willynils

Thanks quark for the info. I did not know that the forum uses Vanilla, or that it was even possible to create plugins to change the forum functionality. It might be a good idea to create a plugin that seeks to foreground uncommented and unanswered questions. Currently, it is hard to quickly discover these by browsing the forum threads.

_vk

There is an unanswered button in forum, that links to:

http://forum.processing.org/two/discussions/unanswered