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Can we start a thread where we give feedback on the improvements we would like to see to the site?

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Greythorne · 13/02/2011 15:46

Maybe this has been done before, but I thought MNHQ might find it useful feedback, even if for complicated technical reasons or because the MN old timers would go mad, it's not possible.

Here goes:

  1. Proper buttons for bolding, italics etc instead of the DOS era keystrokes.
  1. When you scroll over a thread link, it shows you the first few lines of the first post
  1. The thread originator is shown on the list along with the latest poster.

Anybody else?

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DamianTech · 14/02/2011 15:07

@Greythorne

Maybe this has been done before, but I thought MNHQ might find it useful feedback, even if for complicated technical reasons or because the MN old timers would go mad, it's not possible.

Here goes:

  1. Proper buttons for bolding, italics etc instead of the DOS era keystrokes.
  1. When you scroll over a thread link, it shows you the first few lines of the first post
  1. The thread originator is shown on the list along with the latest poster.

Anybody else?

  1. I see no reason why we can't have buttons above the reply box living alongside the hints section to the right, meaning people can edit whichever way they choose. So long as there isn't a great resurgence of hatred for the idea, it'd probably help those who are more used to the MS Word way of things.
  1. There are some technical hitches with this. Mainly it wouldn't be practical to have more than about 1 line of text in a tooltip, since having big boxes appear over every single thread link would be distracting (and a nightmare for older PCs). And the work required to get that single line for each thread is quite taxing, so I don't reckon it'd be worthwhile doing unless the idea gets a lot of popular support.
  1. This is easily done if people are happy with the change. It does mean you have to remember the first nick is the latest and second the author (or whatever), but hopefully it'll be clear? What do people think?

Appreciate the feedback from you guys as always. It's always nice to hear some ideas to improve the talk pages. Brew

~D

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DamianTech · 14/02/2011 15:32

I may be dangerously close to foot-in-mouth syndrome here, but the idea as I see it is that watched threads consists of all the threads you're interested in, and TIO is obviously all the threads you've posted on. If you're interested in a thread and have posted in it, then surely you'll also be watching it? Similarly if you're not interested in a thread you've posted on you can unwatch it (or even hide it). Do we need this level of customisability for TIO? On most forum programs the concepts of watched threads and threads posted in are basically the same thing anyway.

I'm not sure what's happening with the thread hiding, it seems to be working for me. Are you properly logged in, i.e. you get Log out/Inbox/etc. links at the top of the page? And do your hidden threads appear in the last hour/last day pages too?

Don't worry, I'm not ignoring you. Just trying to keep my forum posts from becoming full-blown essays. Too much of a good thing, or something like that. Wink

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