paulvt:
Also, if you look at the categories: …, Platform Development (“[…] questions about system packages”, Locatisation (“[…] come up with solutions”), Design (“questions and proposals […]”), … General (“If your question […]”). It is all about questions, this probably why Jolla went by AskBot in the first place?
I think ‘Question’ there should be ‘Topic’. It’s old thinking. Askbot was a Q&A site, Discourse is a forum. Askbot had Questions, Discourse has Topics.
I wrote about this here:
Yes of course you should be able to correct typos. And remove posts, if they’re wrong or based on a misunderstanding IMO. Repost if that happens. That’s what I meant by ‘sparingly’.
Wiki and summary OPs - like XDA - are clearly useful. (Not so sure about wiki non-OPs. We’ll see how that goes. )
That was an addition to your post, which wasn’t there when I first read it, and did not get notified. A good example of an edit that should not have done after 12 hours IMO.
‘not very handy’ is an…
Let’s forget about askbot and move on!