This is my first post here since I just received my FW 13 with AMD Mainboard. I was scrolling a bit through the forum trying to find useful hints on what to look out for while getting started with my FW.
During that process I found that the forum is quite hard to navigate if you are not searching for a specific term. In my opinion that is mostly because for example with the FW 13, all the topics, regardless of the mainboard that is used, are sorted into the same category. I think that there is some potential to improve the experience for the users here. Many of the topics in the FW 13 topic are really related to a specific mainboard/CPU generation, so I think it would really help to find interesting topics quicker, if there would be sub-topics for each mainboard/CPU-generation at least.
Those do help a bit, but I noticed that they are only really used in the Community Support section, whereas in Framework Laptop 13 there are no tags for the different versions of the FW13.
My opinion is that tags should only be used in cases, where one post could fit into multiple possible options. For example if I would have issues with the SD module on my FW13 AMD, I would probably open a topic in Community Support with the tags framework-laptop-13-amd and expansion-card (although a tag for the SD module would fit even better)
However, since a FW13 can only be one of (currently) five different versions at the same time, sub-categories of the category Framework Laptop 13 would be more fitting imo.
Another issue I noticed is that the categories Framework Laptop 13 resp. Framework Laptop 16 and Community Support are a bit ambiguous, at least how they are currently used by the community. Both categories offer a space to ask and discuss questions, and whether a specific question should go into one category or the other is not really clear to me. But that is kinda off-topic for this issue and could best be discussed elsewhere I guess
Yes, that would probably get you there most of the time, however there might be cases where people only write about “Ryzen” or omit the “AMD” (or simply misspell it like I did in my first post ^^ ) for other reasons and in that case the workaround would fail. I’d consider this a solution for a problem that does not need to exist
Which category are you suggesting the tags for? If for Framework Laptop 13 respectively Framework Laptop 16 then the last two could probably be ignored since FW13 and 16 have separate categories for themselves.
But at the risk of repeating myself: I’d strongly prefer subcategories as tags are really not meant to be used as “choose exactly one out of n” which would be the case here. Or am I missing some strong arguments in favour of using tags?
At the end of the day a solution will only work if a) users accept it by themselves or b) moderation “enforces” it with a) of course by far being the preferred way. So the solution with the best user experience will have the greatest change of achieving that goal.
Welcome to the community and thanks for the suggestion! We did a bit of a revamp for the Community Support category and Linux subcategories, added those tags for filtering posts. Do you think it would help if we add the device tags under the Framework Laptop 13 category?
