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Geek Culture / Forum Upgrades !!

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Jack LOL
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 13:11 Edited at: 28th Oct 2006 13:15
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post here all forum upgrades suggestions u have in mind!!!

Well here is some of mine:

1. A PM (Private Message) system so that users will be able to send private messages to other users like most of the forums have.

2. Add where the "last post" area a "Today" if the post is today or "yesterday" if the post was yesterday.

3. A Tooltip with the first line of the thread content appear when u put the mouse over the thread title.

Well thats it for now..

(forgive my english) lol?! xD
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El Goorf
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 14:28
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1 has been babbled on about for some time now. im fairly certain that by now if it was gonna be addded it would have been. theres always the MSN and such links at the bottom of every users post if you wish to contact them.

2 i dont see the point of

3 sounds like a reaosnable idea. when people put "i need help" for the thread title, being able to quickly glimpse the first line could be useful.
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CattleRustler
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 16:39
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Quote: "3. A Tooltip with the first line of the thread content appear when u put the mouse over the thread title."


If this is implemented FOR GOD SAKE please make it OPTIONAL, or at least dont make the whole post bar be the hotspot, make it some small symbol somewhere off to the edge of the screen that will trigger the popup for that post. Tooltips everywhere the mouse goes drives me insane!!!

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 18:00
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Can you bookmark threads? Maybe you should be able to be the moderator of your own thread.

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Kohaku
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 18:14
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That way you can make everyone say that they love your applications!


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Xenocythe
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 19:02
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moderating your own threads will go out of hand... but bookmarks would be awesome...


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Michael S
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 19:48
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Quote: "Can you bookmark threads?"

I think you can

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Jack LOL
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 20:11
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Well thanks for the comments, and about that "today" thing, i'm just posting on some other forums and in where they have this option i found it more easy when checking if the thread is up to date, insted of starting to check for the "today date". hope u got what i said here

(forgive my english) lol?! xD
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xCept
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 20:28 Edited at: 28th Oct 2006 20:29
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I've always been rather annoyed by the apparent bug when doing a thread search, then clicking on a thread from the results and then hitting the back button to see other results, unless there is already a fix that I am not aware of.

In FireFox I always get the prompt "The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from cache" and I have to hit OK or Cancel each time, and in Internet Explorer I get a dead page with the message "Warning: Page has Expired."

Opera is the only browser which seems to work okay, but that is not my default browser. I can also get around it by opening up the links in tabs using FireFox but it'd be nice if I didn't have to do that all the time.
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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 22:48
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I'd like to see for new threads in the message bases that don't specify the language (Newcomers Corner, 3 Dimensional Chat, and 2D All The Way) a radiobutton that has "Darkbasic Classic" "Darkbasic Enhanced" and "Darkbasic Pro". It won't let the user post the new message until he/she pushes one of those choices. So we won't have to ask which one their using. And add that choice somewhere in the message... like under "Posted" so we see what language it's for before we even read the message.

And just like last time this was talked about (when I was here)... I'd like to see a new addition to the stats to the left of each persons messages... Languages: xxxxxxx.
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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 23:02
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Quote: "I've always been rather annoyed by the apparent bug when doing a thread search, then clicking on a thread from the results and then hitting the back button to see other results, unless there is already a fix that I am not aware of.

In FireFox I always get the prompt "The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from cache" and I have to hit OK or Cancel each time, and in Internet Explorer I get a dead page with the message "Warning: Page has Expired."
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That's not a bug that's what the browser generates not the forum it's like trying to connect with sql and then refreshing it

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soapyfish
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 23:40 Edited at: 28th Oct 2006 23:40
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Quote: " I've always been rather annoyed by the apparent bug when doing a thread search, then clicking on a thread from the results and then hitting the back button to see other results, unless there is already a fix that I am not aware of."


Open the threads in a new tab. For example, if you search for "physics" you'd get a list of threads with that in the title. Then any particular thread you want to read can be opened in a new tab. When you've read it just close that tab and you've still got the original list of phyics threads in the first tab.

It would appear I've been bitten by the coding bug yet again...
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Zotoaster
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 12:19
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Just to clear things up, I didn't mean things like banning people and stuff, but maybe from your thread, and maybe you could delete your own thread if you wanted without waiting for another mod to do it.

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David R
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 14:34 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 14:44
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Quote: "That's not a bug that's what the browser generates not the forum it's like trying to connect with sql and then refreshing it
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Actually it is kind of a bug, since there are ways around this issue which most sites implement

EDIT: Don't quote me on this though. I'm 80% positive there is a way around this; but it depends entirely how Apollo functions

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Benjamin
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 14:42
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Quote: "That's not a bug that's what the browser generates not the forum it's like trying to connect with sql and then refreshing it"

Have you ever heard of punctuation?

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 14:52
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He's probably heard of it, but using it is a different and virtually impossible matter.

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Jack LOL
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 15:54
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Oh i forgot something i wanted to be added:

A post counter (that users can c eachother post count).

(forgive my english) lol?! xD
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mm0zct
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Posted: 30th Oct 2006 17:50
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that last one was removed with good reason as it encouraged spamming to up one's post count

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BiggAdd
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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 01:39
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How about Code appears in the same colour format in DBP when typed into the forum.

Like:

Make object cube 1,10 will appear in blue etc to make it easier for people to read when someone is giving help.

I dont know if thats possible though, dont know anything about building websites.

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FoxBlitzz
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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 02:39 Edited at: 31st Oct 2006 02:47
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I don't really like the Flash applet that's being used to display images on these forums. All it does is mess up the scrolling region, and make the image take longer to appear. The Latest Post button is good, but I noticed that clicking on Latest Post when there are no new posts takes me to a rather boring page acting as a prompt. I would rather have it just be a generic pop-up prompt. Would save download time and not look so bare-bones.

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 03:05
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If you use the "latest post" button when there's new posts on the last page and the page before, it just shows the first post on the first page.

Also, sometimes if you view a thread using the "latest post" button and then use the browser back button to return the the thread list, the "latest post" button will remain and the thread won't be marked as read.


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FoxBlitzz
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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 04:45
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Quote: "the "latest post" button will remain and the thread won't be marked as read."


All forums are like that, silly. When you hit the back button, it doesn't redo all the script things, so it still appears unread with the Latest Post link.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 06:46
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Quote: "don't really like the Flash applet that's being used to display images on these forums. All it does is mess up the scrolling region, and make the image take longer to appear."


I agree... Also if you want to continue reading the thread while the image is loading or refer back to the image, it's a pain. I liked the old popup better.

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 06:54 Edited at: 31st Oct 2006 21:25
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MMmmm I'm pretty happy with the current state of the forums. It would be nice to have a post icon that lets you know that you've posted in a thread, like a dot on the folder (not every forum does this, but it's real nice). All it would take is an inner join or two in the SQL query and maybe 5 more icons.

Edit no I take that back. I do not like the page dropdown box. It just seems like such an odd way to display the pages. And I don't really like how the newest post / last page links were implemented. I love the functionality, but I wish it was done more like phpBB ( http://www.delvarworld.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1 ) where there are little icons next to the OP's username that you can click on to bring you to the newest post. The links next to the title of every thread kind of make everything a bit cluttered.

Edit: Ok, also, for the love of crap, auto parse the links! Use PHP, search for http:// , search from there to a space or a comma, take that string, and make it the URL and autoparse URL tags around it. This is the only forum I've been on that doens't do it automatically. It really bothers me.

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 14:40
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Quote: "If you use the "latest post" button when there's new posts on the last page and the page before, it just shows the first post on the first page."


Mine was doing that too, however since upgrading to the latest IE7 and getting all the updates ... it seems to be working here now.

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FoxBlitzz
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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 22:55
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Quote: "Ok, also, for the love of crap, auto parse the links!"


You know, that has bothered me for a really long time. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

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