July Dreamwidth Documentation Suggestions Thread

[ivorygates]

This is the July thread for suggesting new FAQs, suggesting changes to existing FAQs, posting errors in existing FAQs, and for changes to/additions to/errors in site copy which is not FAQs.

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FAQs on LJ we should have on DW, and other issues

[cesy]

I thought there was a FAQ on volunteering, but I can't see it in the list of all FAQs, and searching for "How can I help" produces no results. Where is it, or am I misremembering?

Incidentally, searching for "official communities" doesn't produce the FAQ on that. Is there any easy way to improve FAQ search or add keywords to FAQs? Searching for "accessibility" in the FAQs only produces the RSS FAQ.

Is there a FAQ which covers the fact that Dreamwidth isn't available in other languages, and why? Should it go in the list of things that LJ has and DW doesn't?

Also, that "What's missing" FAQ doesn't appear to include LJ Talk or LiveJournal Messenger, or the Schools Directory.

There doesn't appear to be a FAQ on the mobile interface. Should this be added? Is there a direct link to it anywhere, or how are people meant to discover it?

LJ also has http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=259 which is rather useful.

Is any of http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=159 relevant to DW? What about http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=74? Should that also be in the list of paid account benefits at http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=153?

Is http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=135 worth having on DW?

Should http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=24&q=memories include the fact that memories can't be imported?

On http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=153, should it be split into two FAQs, probably linking to each other but separate?

Also, "Ability to create polls" should now be split into "Ability to create polls in own journal" and "Ability to create polls in paid communities" or something like that, given the recent changes.

Should that FAQ also be split to show which features are relevant to journals, which to communities, and which are true for both? Though I guess the communities bit will look a bit bare at the moment.

Re: FAQs on LJ we should have on DW, and other issues

[msilverstar]

FAQ search is soooo bad right now, and when I hit the no-matches condition, which I do a lot, it's even worse.

try to search for : user name tag - which is in faq 87 -- I get nothing.

Turns out that this search does an exact string match, doesn't break up the words and try to match all of them. Making people guess the strings is pretty much the worst thing you can do to search, I'd almost rather not see a search at all.

Re: FAQs on LJ we should have on DW, and other issues

[cesy]

Is that worth making into a suggestion, then, at http://www.dreamwidth.org/site/suggest ? To match words individually rather than exact string match?