Better Organization For RallyPoint Discussions?

SSG Andrew Dydasco — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 16:56:14 -0500

I really like the RallyPoint Discussions (or Answers, what ever you want to call it) feature. However, does anyone else agree that there should be some more organization to it? Currently, you can only browse the popular/recent discussions, and sifting through those can be tiresome. If RallyPoint implemented a forum-like feature, where topics could be separated and easily navigated through, I think discussions would have increased involvement, and people searching for specific topics to discuss would find things a lot easier.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 25 at 2013 5:05 PM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 17:05:03 -0500

I agree. We are duplicating the questions! I think they have that --> Popular tags, click on the topic and you will posts in that topic.

Response by 1SG Steven Stankovich made Dec 25 at 2013 5:33 PM

1SG Steven Stankovich — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 17:33:14 -0500

I believe the "tech guys" may be working on something like you suggest PFC Dydasco.  MAJ Weiss, CPT Kletzing and their team are working real hard to constantly improve the site as a whole.  The "search" feature was recently introduced and they welcome input through the "Feedback" feature to the right of the page. 

Response by SSG Andrew Dydasco made Dec 25 at 2013 5:56 PM

SSG Andrew Dydasco — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 17:56:48 -0500

I appreciate it, Sir! Thanks for the response and I'm looking forward to the updates!

Response by CPT Richard Riley made Apr 7 at 2014 9:03 PM

CPT Richard Riley — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:03:09 -0400

Not sure what direction you're going to go with the 'search engine' but I'm aware of a platform that when you START a discussion, if too may key words match an already existing thread instead of beginning a redundant discussion you are taken to the thread that closely mirrors your topic.
I've had reasonable success with the search box here, but have found that there are still discussions I've missed due to being unable to find them for what ever reason. Incremental improvements are accepted better by users than whole sale changes. I can't imagine that hosting or space is a problem but figure at some point you'll migrate to your own server.
Haven't thought about how you're going to retain open thread discussions and also have group selective threads but will see what I can figure out.

Response by MSG Wade Huffman made May 20 at 2014 7:41 AM

MSG Wade Huffman — Tue, 20 May 2014 07:41:13 -0400

I'd like to resurrect this topic with a couple suggestions.

First of all, I would like to see the option of sorting discussions (Answers) by date started. I understand we can sort responses within the discussion by date, but I am referring to sorting the discussion threads themselves by date created. For those of us who came into the game 'late', it would be nice to go back in time so to speak and review some of the old discussions without having to scroll through hundreds or thousands of screens.

Secondly, I have a few discussions under 'my discussions' that were merged into other threads and there is no way to 'unfollow' those threads (just the one it was merged into).

Thoughts?