@Smash
I've been trying to get the UI put together... I'm doing it all in my spare time so it could be this weekend or a few years away, depending on how much time I have =)
My goal is really just to improve the forum for both the current dedicated users as well as make it easier to get acclimated to for new users... it's a balancing act.
I just thought of a new idea for the forum home page.
It's not always obvious what forum a post is in when you see it on the forum home page.
My idea is to add the forum to the display of topics.
It could be something like "Forum X: Topic Title", "Topic title in forum X" or going with icon idea there could be an added icon denoting the forum with something like an OS Logo.
Also how are the other ideas like post icons on this thread coming along?
Are you working on them or decide against them?
DEFINITELY a Rick Text Editor.
And email notification would be nice (you posted a reply to me on another thread that this was something you were considering when you got around to it . . . you also said that RSS feeds were already an option, but for those of us that have a primitive dial up, maybe the email notification option would be better).
A "preview" post feature would also be good. Right now you can sort of do that by submitting and then editing, but that is a workaround and it only "lasts" for as long as you can edit (which I think is 15 minutes after you post). Sometimes it takes a little longer if you want to modify the post substantially, and the 15 minute edit function sometimes "expires" (this happened to me once). A "preview" might prevent that from happening.
I said it before in another thread, but I'll say it again: My compliments on your maintenance of this forum, especially if it is, as it is, on your own time and dime.
I found a workaround to the RSS feed for us archaic dial up users (those few of us who haven't stepped into the 21st Century and put our stubby pencils down). I put all the threads I'm interested in on my "Favorites" list. It's kind of tedious because the list grows (haven't trimmed it down yet, but that will help), but at least it gives me a way to go immediately to the thread I want to look at without searching for it.
@The Geek,
Take a look at the huge list of Topics with NO-Replies. Need some method to keep them active for some (Reasonable) period of time.
A (Solved) topic is a +10; A try is a +5; A don't know is a 0 AND A No-Reply is a -25 to others looking at this forum including those providing the revenue stream.
Regards,
Rick P.
Didn't read all of this - just hit the latest reply link when Lighthouse offered that:)
But I wonder what font is set for this forum? The screenshot at the beginning is quite different from how it looks for me (I have a tendency to delete fonts, as Lighthouse knows well, LOL).
Edit - might be Verdana? Figures ...
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