We are in the process of undergoing a private beta of the Movable Type Community Solution, and this is one of the first installations of the latest version of the software. Things won't be perfect, but that's the point at this stage in the game. One can learn a lot more about our Community Solution in our official documentation.
Hi. This is the first comment in the MT Forums.
Thanks for letting me sign in via OpenID. Much easier that way. I like only having to remember one login.
BTW, this text box stretches too far to the right and I can't see what I'm typing. I'll log a little bug.
Ginger - what browser are you using?
Firefox.
I saw the same behavior with FF 2.06 on Mac OS.
Yup - getting the extra width comment box for text.
Another oddity is the difference between the 2 sign-in links - the top one doesn't seem to support OpenID, but the one near the comments field does. I've logged in with my OpenID details, and I still don't seem to be signed in to the site as a whole - just the comments section.
So far i'm lking all of the features for this forum. The templates I still don't like though.. i'm sure they will get better :D
Hi - just some more observations / issues with the way things are setup:
- signing in via OpenID or MT native authentication does not give you the ability to start new topics - it only allows replies to existing topics
- the differences between OpenID and MT native signin are a little jarring. If I sign in via MT authentication I get an MT profile page that aggregates my activity and allows me to upload a profile pic etc. If I signin via OpenID, I get none of that - just a link back to my OpenID page. It seems like a real disincentive to use OpenID in this case - other sites that I use OpenID for don't seem to differentiate in this way.
- Profile pages don't have links back into the forum - the page title still says "Blog Title"
- (nitpicking point) - there is a field in the Edit Profile page for 'how long have you been using MT'. Unless you get the entry format exactly right it doesn't accept anything - and the entry format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS - all of which has to be entered !
Oh - issues with RSS feeds:
- they don't include any replies - just the initial topic posting.
- looks like there's just one RSS feed - no category feeds (or rather for me the category feed is labelled topic feed, and is not the default choice from a category page)
- they are also showing items that are no longer visible in the forum
@anu - I think there should always be advantages to becoming a "member" of a site over being someone who is just dropping by. That was at least the thinking behind providing profiles to members only (in the first release). But you make a good point - technically there should be no reason to impose this limitation. Afterall, it is just an identity.