Hello David,

Yeah, agreed. It could be confusing as people might think commenting on the stream would also add a comment on the discussion. We're still thinking of a proper strategy for this as it is configurable in EasyDiscuss to use a full WYSIWYG editor, it could be quite impossible to duplicate the contents of the comment into EasyDiscuss. It's a real tricky situation.

Maybe just disable the 'comment' and just 'force' people to go to the discussion and comment there? (in the meantime until you figure out something more elaborate). It is very confusing and we are seriously thinking of disabling discussions in groups because of this.

Hi Mark,
I agree with David. Why not put a link there that will take the user to the existing discussion to post a reply and hide the comment link.

That makes sense. A quick stop gap until you come up with an idea.

Thanks for sharing guys

Hi Mark,
This should also be true for the Kunena stream that is generated. Disable the COMMENT link and add a REPLY TO DISCUSSION that will take you to the forum post to post a reply.

Hi,

We will see if we can include this in the future.

Hello all, please allow me to leave my input regarding this issue since it has been here for a long time (when easyblog and easysocial were integrated with other social components)
i think Mark and the team should go deeper into finding the right approach to handle this. As we all know easysocial will need to work in a logical way with other components such as easyblog, easydiscuss, jreviews, kunena .. etc.

disabling the comment is just not the correct methodology. we need to find away that people can interact with all feed activities without the real need to get redirected to another page.
i believe the correct right approach is how the photos are behaving right now ( a pop up window). i know it might be realllly tricky thing to achieve, but it's the right approach and it needs to be implemented if we are going to use extensions along with easysocial.

image a newsfeed stuffed with easyblog, easydiscuss, jreviews content but you can't engage with them all unless you get redirected to another pages. that won't be Not a great user experience n will eventually drive some users away( users are lazy)

Hello muhanad,

Yep, you are right but there's 1 issue to this. EasyDiscuss for instance allows you to use a full fledge WYSIWYG editor and EasySocial does not allow that to happen. This is where it all get's really tricky. Imagine if you post a reply in EasyDiscuss with some html tags, it would then be stripped off and your content might look different in the comments vs on EasyDiscuss

Hi muhanad,

I don't like the popup approach, it is much easier and practical to take you to the actual discussion so you can post your comments, this is true for Kunena and ES Group Discussion.

Hi Mark,

no need for WYSIWYG when replying thru newsfeed i guess. if they want to visit the page of the discussion, they can always do and get full discussion page with more details and WYSIWYG. we need to find away so easysocial makes sense in all areas, whither it's working alone or with other joomla extensions.
but here we need to be careful as well. is the system is working vice versa ( are they comments made under easydiscuss would show up under the comments in newsfeed? ) if yes then we can call it a perfect solution

Hi Checksum, yea i guess some people would prefer being redirected to the page so they can view full thread before posting. butt i always try to avoid redirecting users specially when you have kunana, jreview, easyblog and easydicuss. imagine how many clicks they need to go through in order to participate. i guess mark and the guys can always make it optional

Thanks for the heads up on this Muhanad

I also find easydiscussion comments in the stream very confusing. i would greatly greatly appreaciate your help disabling comments on the discussion posts.

As I understood there was solution found there. The code:

.type-discussions.streamItem.es-stream-full.stream-context-discussions .action-title-comments.streamAction {display:none !important;}

But unfortunately it does not work for me. Maybe it's for Group's Discussion application, not for EasyDiscuss??

hey dalia (and of course everyone else who wants to use it)

the code snippet you posted here that I shared on the other topic was indeed for group discussions and not easydiscuss streams.

however you can try the following code and this should get rid of the comment link on your easydiscuss stream:

.type-discuss.streamItem.es-stream-full.stream-context-discuss .action-title-comments.streamAction {display:none !important;}

hope that helps and have a nice day

Yes, it helped me to have a very nice day!! Thank you!

Thanks for updating Dalia, glad that your issues are resolved now