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luckylipgloss · 23/11/2004 09:12
I'm a long time lurker and have to say that I find the board really tricky to navigate, and somewhat limited in scope, kinda dated. Are there still plans to switch to another format?
tech · 23/11/2004 20:25
Hi there,
Have been musing the idea of clickable member profiles - like you could upload a picture if you wanted and write something about yourself. Then clicking on a posters name would bring it up if it exists. We could do this quite easily if people want it.
We may still move to vBulletin for easier administration etc. I'm not very decisive though so I'm not sure. We did buy it. I personally don't like the 8-posts-per-page-all-in-boxes thing you get with standard bulletin boards, so we would probably customize it to look more like this if we did switch. The simple layout we have is very easy to read I think. Threads of over 200 messages get a bit out of hand and long though.
Having said that, I think there are some advantages to a more "usenet-style" structure, where you can see which post was answering which post. What we might do is add a "reply" link by each post and allow you to switch to the tree type layout if you want (similar to the way you can now "flip"). That's feasible. Don't want people getting too confused though. And if you just add a message without saying which it's a reply to, what happens... orphans at the bottom? Stick them in in time order alongside? Dunno. I'm reminded of Garth in Wayne's World... "we fear change"
tech · 23/11/2004 20:44
Hi Stich, Try pressing Ctrl-Home. That will take you to the top of the page. Ctrl-End takes you to the bottom. PgUp and PgDn move a screen at a time. If you're on a Mac it's Command/Apple-Home and End.
tech · 23/11/2004 20:50
Hi Hatter,
Threads I'm on will show you the last three days of threads you are on. We could up this I guess. Threads you've looked at is more tricky. We'd have to store all those details somewhere and we get so many page views it would be unmanageable. What we are going to add though (soon, promise) is a "watch this thread" link on a thread so you'll have "threads I'm watching" as well as "threads I'm on". I think that's probably what you're after.
tech · 23/11/2004 20:57
We've got no intention of doing that hunkermunker. Or some boards do that newbie / seasoned / old-timer progression as you post more and more. I can see what they are getting at in some respects, for example you can see if an inflammatory comment is from a newbie you can more easily think troll and ignore it. But I think in general they are clique-y and divisive.
Hi Roisin, I think we'd store profiles under nickname as well as user id so if you changed your nickname to "ShamefulSecret" briefly, then that nickname wouldn't have a profile.
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