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Sithrandel
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Post by Sithrandel »

I was just wondering whether implementing the usergroups of phpBB might be a good idea. If this was done by OS then it could prove an easy way to have a reminder of what OS users are talking about when comments are posted in various places.

It might help me decide whether or not to plough in with a response or whether it would be totally irrelevant :)
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Post by Ankka »

Usergroups are cool.

I support this :)
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Post by Disto »

Usergroups?
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Post by Elvish_Pillager »

I want my own personal usergroup! :P
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Post by turin »

User-groups by OS seems like a good idea; often new users assume we know what OS they are using, which causes about 2/3rds of the suggestions given to the user to be completely pointless...
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Post by Disto »

What is a Usergroup!
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Post by xtifr »

The problem with trying to group users by OS is that not all users are limited to a single OS. Within a few feet of me, I have machines that run Debian, Solaris, FreeBSD and Windows.

I'm not saying the idea is utterly without merit, of course. I just want to make sure there's some flexibility on the system.
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Post by scott »

Maybe OS could just be listed somewhere in the phpBB interface
On the apple forums it's part of the signature, but it could be under or in lieu of location (since only about 50% of people actually list a location)
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Post by Sithrandel »

xtifr wrote:The problem with trying to group users by OS is that not all users are limited to a single OS. Within a few feet of me, I have machines that run Debian, Solaris, FreeBSD and Windows.
Similar here (Mac & PC 12cm apart)... but given the choice... do you play Wesnoth equally on all or prefer one machine?
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Post by turin »

Well, you can, IIRC, join multiple usergroups. So you could just join the linux usergroup, and the mac one, and the windows one, and the "other" one... 8)

If that's not how usergroups work, than ignore this. ;)
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Post by Viliam »

xtifr wrote:The problem with trying to group users by OS is that not all users are limited to a single OS.
Such people could choose to belong to more usergroups.
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