There is a nice post over at Nathan Freemans blog on how to keep the “gurus” involved in the Notes/Domino community. I feel that the forum on developerWorks should be the place to ask questions of those willing to respond but in order for me to get back in the game the forum needs a couple of new features. Below is a couple of suggestions in order of importance (to me anyway):
- A RSS feed per post/thread including all comments. This will make it easier for me to keep up with replies to a post and easily let me stay involved and contributing. I already blogged about this some time back (post)
- Allow me to subscribe to all posts containing a given tag or the results of a search. There are a number of areas I want to contribute answers to in the forum. By letting me subscribe to a RSS feed for a search I would be more inclined to get help since I’m only notified about posts I want to answer.
- Allow me to tag questions and replies to ease future searching.
- Make the respondent rate the reply or at least indicate that the question has been answered.
- Allow me to ignore threads that haven’t been closed/answered when searching (see #4).