Hi Laurie

A few improvements changes to the forum: (is that better?)

- List all unread posts view. List all the posts you have not read in forum, topic, date order. Serve them up in pages. Have buttons for "go to to next button page", "mark read and go to next page" and "mark all read". Needs a long form and a short form. Link to the posts so we can see the full text and the pictures and stuff.

- Ignore forum, topic. List the threads and topics and allows us to set flags to exclude them from the all unread posts list.

- Ignore user. So we can filter out the regular trolls and thread bashers and clowns. When viewing a user's profile give us a button to click to ignore all posts from that user. Show the list in our own profile and we can remove people from the ignore list.

- Search to offer choice of posts or topics. When searching for something you really want to see the posts not topics that have your search words buried in several pages of stuff.

- Ads page. Sometimes I glimpse a banner ad but it disappears before I can click on it and it takes heaps of random clicking before it reappears. Give us a page with all the banner ads so we can see them at once ... if we want to.

These features are on other forums I look at and make browsing easier and lets us filter out stuff we don't want.

colinwill78 said...
...a top ten posts button, where you can see the best posts in the last couple of days. (ranked by green thumbs i guess) ....

Other forums have that as well as your own post ranked by popularity.

I deliberatley left out the red/green thumb thing but seeing I got a bunch of red thumbs from this, other forums list the number of red/green thumbs received by post and by user. If the user gets too many red thumbs they get automatically sin-binned for a few days.

I'm wondering what it is about this post that caused some red thumbery? I would have thought Laurie would be the one most affected because it would take some work and expense to implement stuff. Maybe the trolls don't want to be ignored.

Filtering sounds like a good idea, filter out the freaks - trouble is there would be nothing left to laugh at and there would be no one to feel sorry for[}:)]

doggie said...

DipsyGriftir said...

Filtering sounds like a good idea, filter out the freaks - trouble is there would be nothing left to laugh at and there would be no one to feel sorry for[}:)]

You would be first freak to get filtered out with a bit of luck.

Good doggie, you just won me a bet, extra valium for you tonight

Search SUX @rse like a vacuum at a gerbil owners club late night get together. Worse than that even it's like someone spiked the punch.

Having a dedicated 'My posts' tab in the drop downs to follow up on threads/questions etc.

Dunno if all know this but at the mo you have to click your own avatar to see your own profile and then click "view [your own name] posts"

getfunky said...

Having a dedicated 'My posts' tab in the drop downs to follow up on threads/questions etc.

Dunno if all know this but at the mo you have to click your own avatar to see your own profile and then click "view [your own name] posts"

Sorta:
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/search.asp?mode=DoIt&member=getfunky

Good ideas.. Keep em coming.. Upgrade is due in couple of week, which will include an improved search, because, yes, the current search is not much good.

Gorgo said...
I'm wondering what it is about this post that caused some red thumbery? I would have thought Laurie would be the one most affected because it would take some work and expense to implement stuff. Maybe the trolls don't want to be ignored.

It could also be that Laurie has provided a pretty impressive forum for us all to use at no cost. Therefore, if you'd have started your post along ths lines of "Laurie, great forum but could I please suggest some ideas" and finished with "keep up the good work, thanks" you may have had less red thumbs?

I like the idea of the most popular posts and a better search function.

Cheers

does anyone else's active topic not work properly? mine always seems to be about 1/2 day behind. not sure why. any help would be appreciated.

About the times I updated fedora 10 to 12, my active topic went about 8hrs out, my theory is it's something to do with the time clock. Although my desktop time is correct, I think this computer now uses GMT when communicating with other computers.

good to see someone bringing a debate for positive change too.

LOL. We'd never hear from some contributers.

DipsyGriftir said...

doggie said...

DipsyGriftir said...

Filtering sounds like a good idea, filter out the freaks - trouble is there would be nothing left to laugh at and there would be no one to feel sorry for[}:)]

You would be first freak to get filtered out with a bit of luck.

Good doggie, you just won me a bet, extra valium for you tonight

I will find you DG!