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ReadyNAS Board Restructure Complete
Note - These changes were complete on Nov/29/2018 - Please let us know if you find any inconsistencies.
Hello ReadyNAS Community,
I’m pleased to announce some upcoming changes...
While I agree that it would be nice to have a new/old app section... How do you move things between them? Things become depreciated and it's difficult to dissern sometimes. In my ideal world I would see an Apps section, and under that, a board for each app. Then you can have topics or posts for each app under just that apps board. When someone wants to research an app, they just go to the apps board and it's easy to see what's been going on lately with an app... A way to mark something as activly supported or legacy from inside the board would be also be great. You'd see the active development boards (or apps) at the top, then the legacy underneith. Ideally, this would be a field in the board for the app that could be changed, or as a much easier stopgap, just something in the app name. Then a sticky at the top of each board highlighting what the app can be used for, the major features and FAQ... Maybe a download link, etc.
so for a visual example... ReadyNAS forums / ReadyNAS Apps / RN OS6 Apps / Plex (Active/Legacy) / Board with posts (stickies at top)...
Since I'm just spitballing here, I'll point out the flaws I see in the hopes someone can improve on my idea...
Where do you put the Apps section? Under the OS version (RN OS6, etc.) to indicate compatibility? What if there's an update to OS7 and the app makes the leap? Start a new board for the app and lose potentially useful info in the jump (though it would still be under the old OS/Apps area)... Probably other problems I'm not seeing yet.
x219c wrote:
Since I'm just spitballing here, I'll point out the flaws I see in the hopes someone can improve on my idea...
One problem here is that the apps are coming from third parties. Some are distributed by Netgear, some are distributed by others (for instance, rnxtras.com), some are directly shared (for instance, poussin's dropbox), some are manually installed (for instance, crashplan).
Also, in some cases there is duplication (different OS-6 packages for the same application).
I don't see Netgear manually creating a new forum area for each app (though it would be useful).
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