Ideas how to develop the forum software further?

Discussion in 'AfterDawn feedback & suggestions' started by dRD, Nov 16, 2004.

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  1. flip218

    flip218 Moderator Staff Member

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    It might. Alot of newbies post simple questions in the advanced forum thinking that is where the people with the most knowledge hang out. What they don't realize is our members browse the whole forum.

    I've moved so many threads from the advanced to newbies, because they are simple questions. There really aren't that many true advanced questions, but they do come along. Or you could just combine the two and make a DVD-R forum.
     
    flip218, Jan 24, 2005
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  2. kinza

    kinza Regular member

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    i think merging the two dvd-r forums is the best choice. some memebers don't know if questions are advanced or not.
     
    kinza, Jan 24, 2005
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  3. mryoda

    mryoda Member

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    hm, I have hardly come across a site that uses fusetalk (except MM's forum)...

    btw, I agree changing the name for dvd-r forums can help... perhaps putting ADVANCED in caps at the front.. people just see "dvd-r" and dont bother reading all the way to the end..

    anyhow good luck with all the upgrades... as for me I've been looking around for a possible solution, and i might give "galleon" forum ( http://www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/forums/index.cfm ) a try ( hopefully it has some semblance of admin CP ), and add what i need on top... heh..
     
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  4. flip218

    flip218 Moderator Staff Member

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    The only problem I see with combining the two, when a true advance question comes along I wouldn't want to see it get lost among the many newbie threads.
     
    flip218, Jan 24, 2005
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  5. dRD

    dRD I hate titles Staff Member

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    Thought I might resurrect this thread. Some of the ideas listed here I have finished now. Some are still open. Here's the list that I plan to implement next (not in any particular order):

    -"profile" pages for users -- each user nick on forums would link to his/her own profile page, if there's one. This would list: short description by the user, user's homepage (if entered one), gender (if they wish to publish one), birthday (again, based on the user's selection), list of 20 latest threads they've posted to, list of software items they've commented, maybe an optional image and maybe an optional "journal" they can update.

    -major changes to the sig system that would allow turning off sig viewing when browsing the forums.

    -PM alerts within the forum pages, so the page shows you when you have unread PMs.

    -possibly pages next to thread titles in forum_view pages that would allow directly to take you to the page number X if the thread has several pages.
     
    dRD, May 14, 2005
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  6. flip218

    flip218 Moderator Staff Member

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    dRD,

    When do you think you'll make it so we can check a box to delete certain PMs from our box? It would make clean up sooo much faster :)
     
    flip218, May 14, 2005
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    Nephilim Moderator Staff Member

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    That would be awesome. My inbox is becoming gargantuan.
     
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  8. Noqoilpi

    Noqoilpi Regular member

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    That what happens when you are such a slut. I hate it when a "Inbox" is gargantuan. ;o)

    *Edit* Need to learn to type someday.
     
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  9. zippyd

    zippyd Active member

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    I'm hoping the same will be applied to the subscribed threads list....?
    I tried cleaning up the list one night as I had never unsubscribed to any threads..... after unsubcribing to 100 threads individually I gave up....lol
     
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