Idea for a xenforo plugging

[Blobbenstein]

If you use Gmail you will see that you can assign a 'label' to an email so that it can appear in two folders at the same time.
I wondered if you could do the same with a forum, so that a thread could appear in two subforums at the same time, eg in 'animals in the news' and 'uk'

Just an idea for you IS....


eta: I suppose it could get complicated with different rules for different subforums.

 

[Second Summer]

If you use Gmail you will see that you can assign a 'label' to an email so that it can appear in two folders at the same time.
I wondered if you could do the same with a forum, so that a thread could appear in two subforums at the same time, eg in 'animals in the news' and 'uk'

Just an idea for you IS....


eta: I suppose it could get complicated with different rules for different subforums.

It's a good concept, but unfortunately not something I have time to work on. Something a bit similar is coming soon, though:

The next version of the forum software will have support for thread tags. So a thread can be tagged with multiple labels. E.g. a thread is posted in the Current Events forum, but is relevant to multiple areas of the board, so is therefore tagged with 'news', 'religion', 'vegan' etc.

So if you navigate the board by tags instead of forums, then you kinda get what you're suggesting here. Kinda.

(And yes, we did have tags before, but it was just an add-on, and it wasn't working well, so I removed it. This time around, tags will be part of the core software, and therefore hopefully working much better ...)