Davis Maybe when a new user signs up on the forums, there should be a popup explaining core features. They should be prompted to edit their settings too. It should have a way for extension devs to add information in there too.
Davis meetdilip Common practice on forums. That's not acceptable in my eyes. A PM? Gmail for example, when you first sign up for an account, it gives you a little tour of the features of gmail. it goes around highlighting things and explaining what they do.
jordanjay29 If this is added, I hope it's extensible so that major extensions can plug in. Otherwise, sometimes people don't know what features are there outside the core featureset (and even that can be changed, by disabling Tags or Likes or whatnot).
jordanjay29 meetdilip That may be misleading if, as I mentioned, a site has certain extensions disabled. You don't want to instruct someone on how to use Tags if they're not enabled.
Davis meetdilip That's ridiculous. We can create something like I'm describing without workarounds (that's basically what you're describing)
Davis meetdilip I'm trying to find an example that moves around in the UI and points to each thing. But pretty much