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[jcstille]

Hello,

With the current activity rate it has been raised to my attention that quite a few posts are going unanswered. We all appreciate the people that take the time to answer posts, however I realize that some slip through the crack. In order to help with this problem below is a search url that will list all unanswered threads within the last week. So if you are out looking to answer some questions, this link is a great one to bookmark. We appreciate your help with this, and by answering questions you are truly helping this forum be the great community it has become.

Search URL (http://forum.fedoraforum.org/search.php?do=process&replyless=1&replylimit=0&dontcache=1&exclude=12,24,25&order=asc)

[jim]

in the first 3 pages i counted 32 questions that were from the fedora-users Mailing List
running this search gmane fedora-list (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/search.php?searchid=780506) resulted in 102 hits
But since were the new dog on the block we need to take of these as well?

[jcstille]

I will be working on getting a revised search up there, as I did notice that fact. Thank you. This should be finalized tomorrow tonight.

[jcstille]

Update: Thanks to defkewl the link has been updated. This is a new, simple, and very good url for all new posts. Thank you and please use this link to answer new questions.

Thanks,
John Stille

[avij]

Speaking of search.. Is the some specific reason why you allow unregistered users to browse and read the forum, but NOT allow them to search the forum? When I try to access the search page, the forum just gives me an ugly message stating that I should log in before I'm allowed to search.

[PeTzZz]

It is integrated feature of vBulletin. So it is not our "fault".

[Twey]

As a suggestion... how about making the "new posts" link point to the above URL, and sorting the topics in ascending order by number of posts?

[PeTzZz]

I think that the current New Posts link is good enough, because new posts are too fresh to mark them as 'unresolved for a long time'.

Other links can just be used as bookmarks.