Jakub B:
James,
I hate to hijack the thread, but in regards to bettering the forums / community, please make them 'better' for one, the moderators do not update their 'sticky' (example: http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/572822) also I find it difficult that a user cannot 'private message' another user (for questions), they first have to ADD them as friend, to simply message them, there are a lot of things I see that need to be done to increase the transparancy for community members and make the forums more efficient. Why not turn this into a Q&A like stackoverflow / yahoo questions/answers.
/end thread hijack
Private messaging is coming in a future release (I believe the next one in fact, but not sure). Till then, yeah, you can't do it, and we hear you, I want this feature too
I'll go through and update the 'sticky' posts to ensure they are accurate.
As far as a Q&A like stackoverflow, currently you can mark posts as a question and subsequent posts as an anwser, but I know it's not the same thing as stackoverflow. Something like that (the KnowledgeBase) is available in Liferay 6 EE but liferay.com currently runs 5.2. We want to do the upgrade early next year as resourcing permits. Once that happens, then we can do this pretty easily.
