File this one under forum suggestion for the Early Intel Macs forum:
Now that more new users are becoming aware of the Early Intel Macs (EIM) forum (namely, as topics on pre-2013 Macs, posted originally on product model forums, are migrated to the EIM forum), there’s now an abundance of topic titles which don’t indicate what kind of Mac a topic’s question pertains. Part of this is the nature of moving older-model topics/questions away from a product-oriented forum over to a platform/product-era forum, and part of it is a limited awareness for writing a descriptive topic (not uncommon, especially for first-time posters looking for support/help from the community).
Folks have managed, over on the PowerPC Macs forum, to not need to develop model-specific topic prefixes beyond “Resolved” (for threads whose questions were answered/resolved). This may speak more to the fewer models in production when Apple made the switch to Intel, and/or perhaps questions tend to be centred on processor-based (i.e., G3, G4, G5) questions rather than model-based questions.
Question: For the EIM forum, might the moderators consider evaluating, in y’all’s own time, the benefits of adding (optional-use) topic prefixes for model-specific questions? In short, these would amount to topic prefix “tags” for the following models (possibly with two or three hues to distinguish between portables, desktops, and pro/enterprise):
The uncoloured “Resolved” tag would, of course, still have its usual utility, as it comes in handy from time to time.
[Unannounced update, 2023.10.09: The moderators quietly made the inclusion of Prefix labels mandatory when creating a new post on the EIM forum, but as of this update, are yet to create a discrete, “General”-purpose Prefix label. Presently (and confusingly), “Resolved” is listed beneath a section called “General”.
[Proposal, 2023.10.10: add a “General” Prefix label, discrete from any other Prefix label. Leave it the default Prefix label hue. Additionally, modify the “Resolved” Prefix label to an implicitly inactive shade of grey:
Thanks for reading and for evaluating this forum suggestion, whether up or down.
[2023.09.11 edit: changed the red-hued selections to orange, owing to the rejoinder reply I made earlier this day.]
[2023.09.18 edit: adding the possibility of a gold-hued Prefix title label — perhaps black text within a gold label — for OpenCore Legacy Patcher (OCLP) questions.
Now that more new users are becoming aware of the Early Intel Macs (EIM) forum (namely, as topics on pre-2013 Macs, posted originally on product model forums, are migrated to the EIM forum), there’s now an abundance of topic titles which don’t indicate what kind of Mac a topic’s question pertains. Part of this is the nature of moving older-model topics/questions away from a product-oriented forum over to a platform/product-era forum, and part of it is a limited awareness for writing a descriptive topic (not uncommon, especially for first-time posters looking for support/help from the community).
Folks have managed, over on the PowerPC Macs forum, to not need to develop model-specific topic prefixes beyond “Resolved” (for threads whose questions were answered/resolved). This may speak more to the fewer models in production when Apple made the switch to Intel, and/or perhaps questions tend to be centred on processor-based (i.e., G3, G4, G5) questions rather than model-based questions.
Question: For the EIM forum, might the moderators consider evaluating, in y’all’s own time, the benefits of adding (optional-use) topic prefixes for model-specific questions? In short, these would amount to topic prefix “tags” for the following models (possibly with two or three hues to distinguish between portables, desktops, and pro/enterprise):
- iMac (or, as iM4,1–14,4) [update: deployed and now active]
- Mac mini (or, as Mm1,1–6,2) [update: deployed and now active]
- MacBook (or, as MB1,1–7,1) [update: deployed and now active]
- MacBook Pro (or, as MBP1,1–10,2) [update: deployed and now active]
- MacBook Air (or, as MBA1,1–6,2) [update: deployed and now active]
Mac Pro(or, as MacPro1,1-5,1)kept out (for now, even as new threads on EIM can be — and are — about these Mac Pros)- Xserve (or, as Xs1,1-3,1) [update: originally proposed with MP in orange; deployed as red]
- OpenCore Legacy Patcher (as OCLP) (wherein text within the gold label is black, for easy legibility).
[Unannounced update, 2023.10.09: The moderators quietly made the inclusion of Prefix labels mandatory when creating a new post on the EIM forum, but as of this update, are yet to create a discrete, “General”-purpose Prefix label. Presently (and confusingly), “Resolved” is listed beneath a section called “General”.
[Proposal, 2023.10.10: add a “General” Prefix label, discrete from any other Prefix label. Leave it the default Prefix label hue. Additionally, modify the “Resolved” Prefix label to an implicitly inactive shade of grey:
- General, or similar (wherein label is left in the default Prefix label hue — white on dark theme, dark on (default) light theme).
- Resolved (for threads whose original question was answered and/or problem fixed to the original poster’s satisfaction; render label as a shade of grey to show its completed/resolved status and to distinguish these as troubleshooting threads which no longer demand priority attention on the EIM index page)
Thanks for reading and for evaluating this forum suggestion, whether up or down.
[2023.09.11 edit: changed the red-hued selections to orange, owing to the rejoinder reply I made earlier this day.]
[2023.09.18 edit: adding the possibility of a gold-hued Prefix title label — perhaps black text within a gold label — for OpenCore Legacy Patcher (OCLP) questions.
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