Thanks @phenomlab
@julian said in User journal:
I think the idea behind a user journal is that it doesn't necessarily fit within the pre-defined categories in the forum, so you post it in your own personal bucket of... stuff?
I think that's right, imagine a health forum that wanted to give someone a journal space to track their progress with notes and photos. Or house remodeling. Or your works in an art school. Or anything else time bound or progress oriented. In these cases, I would expect: 1. at least one canonical thread for each user that was discoverable in their profile, 2. they have control over visibility, 3. they are the only one posting content there, by default.
This use case is also interesting to me because I don't think most other products are doing a good job at it, and nodebb already has all of the UX/I to do this well.
I guess the other way to do this would be to have one topic per entry, which might be better with use cases like allowing others to comment on every entry?