Site Improvement Requests, 2008 Q2

[Buddy]

To be able to add anchor text and more characters in sig lines. Oh, and youtube.

[ashe]

Thanks, Ashe. (BTW is that pronounce 'ash' or 'ashy'...in any case, I think ashy.

the e is silent, cuz i'm pretentious like that.

[ashe]

Oh, and youtube.

what about youtube?

[nianfong]

you are most welcome

[Bär]

'Silent E' could be your rap name.

Hey - how long is the default set on the time allowed to delete a post? Could we maybe lengthen that a bit?

[Royal Dragon]

What is the word on the Chat feature?

[nianfong]

been busy setting up things here. WIll start looking at options again next week.
123flashchat hosted option is still on the table. $100 a year, but it's a pretty nice interface.

[Dmitri]

100 a year sucks... It would be OK if we have at least 10 people committed to chipping in...

Maybe post a poll about it? Something like "How much would you commit to chipping in per year for the chat feature?" And choices of $0, $2, $5, $10, and 'more than $10' and then see how many vote for what amounts, and if we get close enough to 100 (which we might) then it's worth it.

Just an idea anyway... at least we'll have a clue about how people feel about it; there aren't that many people who chat, ya know...

[nianfong]

well if we went with that option, I could personally just pay the $100 a year, it's no big deal to me. devere has also offered to pay any differences too, but I'd rather he didn't have to. Anyone chipping in would be nice, but not necessary. I'd of course rather have a one shot license fee though.

-Fong

[Bär]

I searched but I think no one has mentioned it yet; a spell check utility would be nice.

[ashe]

I searched but I think no one has mentioned it yet; a spell check utility would be nice.

that's what firefox is for.

[Bär]

Damn hippies & their open source gadgets!

[ashe]

Damn hippies & their open source gadgets!

just make the switch mang! FF checks your fields AS YOU TYPE. you don't even need to take the extra step of spell checking when your done. then just right click on a misspelled word and the corrected possibilities are already there.

it's a life saver for me, cuz i sux at da' spellin. i needed it for three words in the first paragraph alone!

[Dmitri]

It does mark the thread, but not the forum unless ALL threads are marked as 'read'. I.e. on the old board it was an "OR" (i.e. the rule was "mark forum read if ANY of the new threads were read"), but here it's "AND" (i.e. the rule is "mark forum read if ALL of the new threads were read")

Here's the "test sequence":

• Wait until more than one unread thread appears in a forum.
• Enter the forum and click on one of the unread threads (the orange box or the title, doesn't matter).
• Go back to the forum and reload the page.

Results: on the old site, the forum is marked as 'read'; here, the forum remains as 'unread'.

Hope that makes more sense...

ahh I got you. you want the OR functionality... hm... not sure how to change that.

OK, here's an alternative to that request (yes, it is that important to me! ):

Make the 'Mark topics read' link(s) at the top-right of each forum (which link to viewforum.php?f=14&mark=topics, where f=... is the forum ID) redirect straight to the main board index, instead of (after the annoying delay) returning back to the same forum. Think about it, why would anyone ever want to mark all topics in a forum as 'read' and still return to the same forum?!

That would completely solve the problem I tried to address in that earlier request, and the change to the viewforum.php should be trivial -- find the place where it processes the 'mark=topics' parameter and change the redirect to go to the board index instead of that same forum. Should be one place...

This will save bandwidth and time for anyone who uses or will ever use the 'mark topics read' feature.
(And, I will be in your debt for the rest of my days... )

Thanks

[Bhassler]

Under the friend and foe tab on the User Control Panel, I would like to see a 'Mortal Enemy' designation. These would be users that I don't want to ignore, but I just want everyone to know they're my mortal enemy, and I'm actively working to subvert them in any way possible-- not because I dislike them, I just think it's important to have a nemesis in life. I'm hoping for John Wang and at least one other. I was thinking of Felipe, but everyone knows if Felipe was really your enemy, you'd be dead.