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Guyon
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I would like an email sent when someone replies to a forum which I posted in. with the ability for me to shot off any more notifications of more posts to that particular thread.
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AlecM
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Post counts are a bad idea.

Rich, when is DBDN going to be integrated into all this?

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A search option... This is the first forum that I see that dont have one... or if it have I dont see it #)



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Shadow Robert
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look at the bottom of the page

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How about being able to search for people ?

And how about a PDA/WAP friendly version of the site - my Blackberry machine doesn't know what to do with the log-in button...


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Searching for people and searching for posts that you've started are the best ideas.

This statement is false
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Richard Davey
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I know it wasn't required, but I've added some new little emoticons to the set because I felt like it

Anyway, off for a

Will be back tomorrow with some more forum updates (some of which are off this thread).

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er well when you change avatar or name all of your posts are updated..but you change sig, they aren't.

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Richard Davey
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Correct, I might change this in the future but not at the moment. Right now it saves a whole load of un-needed SQL overhead doing it the way I do.

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Wik
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Select all for source code thingys!!!!!!
This would be extremely helpful for selecting code in the 20-line challenge!!

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Mattman
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how about Copy and Paste

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yes,
but selecting it is hard!

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Pincho Paxton
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I'd like the last ten posts on the Home Page.

I'd like the people currently online to be in alphabetical order.

I'd like new smilies, these are awful at representing what they are supposed to mean. Like.. a smile looks evil!

Not 'last page'......... have page numbers.

On Home click a reply and go to that exact reply.

Sounds familiar!

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andrew11
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Quote: "Select all for source code thingys!!!!!!"


It's called [ctrl] + A.

The people online should be links to thier profiles.

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I don't like Ctrl+A

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Richard Davey
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"I'd like the last ten posts on the Home Page."

You have the most recent post for each board anyway. This can go somewhere (Devnet home page perhaps) but not the forum index.

"I'd like the people currently online to be in alphabetical order."

Easily done, but why?

"I'd like new smilies, these are awful at representing what they are supposed to mean. Like.. a smile looks evil!"

Nope. I like having unique smilies that aren't ripped from elsewhere.

"Not 'last page'......... have page numbers."

Too messy. I hate forums that do that. How useful is it, I mean do you actually know what's on page 8 as opposed to 12? More useful would be instead of "last page", "last read post".

"On Home click a reply and go to that exact reply."

Probably better to work as above.

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I actually prefer the last 5 posts on the homepage as well. Another feature would be a notification of whether someone is online next to their avatar.

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Quote: ""I'd like the people currently online to be in alphabetical order."

Easily done, but why?
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I wrote a reply to a topic, and I wanted to know if that person was still online to answer me. I looked at the online members, and it was a bit confusing.

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las6
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Ability to filter *cough*..raven's posts out.

actually, to be able to see 5 or 10 last posts would be extremely nice.

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Mattman
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You can filter Raven. That feature is coming soon I believe.

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Eric T
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How about...

Putting the last 10 posts we made, inside our login page, under the forums part(right above the post count).

And is there a way to filter out certain people form seeing BMP img's, cause when i am on 56k, its a f*ck*n mess...

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Arrow
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Posted: 9th Oct 2003 12:59 Edited at: 9th Oct 2003 13:00
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There's not a whole lot of point to see who's online, it's not like we spend most of our day here


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las6
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Actually seeing what board has gotten new posts (since the last time you checked it) would be extremely useful, right now the top level view is very unuseful. This would also be logical, as you already present the new posts in blue (on normal board view).

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Pincho Paxton
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Quote: "There's not a whole lot of point to see who's online, it's not like we spend most of our day here "


Well, some of us like more of a realtime interaction occasionally. If you want a reply to a question, and it is an important question aimed at a certain individual, like some people ask Raven questions, then you want to see if that person is still online. Also you want to know how busy the site is going to be.

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Quote: "Actually seeing what board has gotten new posts (since the last time you checked it) would be extremely useful"
I was gonna ask that too, but since there are so many people around here most boards post like every 5 minutes!

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Richard Davey
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Quote: "but since there are so many people around here most boards post like every 5 minutes!"


That is true, the list would stay nearly always blue.

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Kharnor
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I'd like a "whole word" option for the forum search - I just searched for "plain" and got a bunch of topics with "complain" and "explain" in the title.

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How about a button under a users post that takes you to a list of all their codebase entries.

And in the codebase would it be possible to have a .txt download of the code, I am too lazy to copy and paste into a new text document and rename it
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How about a word count instead of post count.

Actually it's probebly pointless, but it'd be interesting to see how many words I've posted compared to some people who've posted more than me, yet there posts are usually "lol", or " ".

Would this even be easy to achieve?(Yellow thinks no)

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Mattman
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Um,, would take a bit, but using the strlength() (i think thats it) it could be done. So it would be a hard task, but possible

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It's not impossible, just not much use (and counting the overall string length isn't the way to do it).

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Mattman
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its not? hmm, then how?

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I still think it'd be very interesting to compare. Or maybe we could have a little option on the bottom that shows
-Top Posters
-Longest Active Members
-Highest Word Count
-Points(or if we have some system like that)

Stuff like that may encourage more help around here.



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"Top Posters" - Raven
"Longest Active Members" - Raven
"Highest Word Count" - Raven

It's really not a contest

I think there should be something like who spends the most time here.

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Mattman
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er, That would be me

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LIES, MEEE!!!!!!!!!


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How about being able to edit the title of your own post Would be very helpful if you added screenshots, or updated a model. Or if you wanted to say "Updated! Screenshots PG 3!"

Having backslashs ( ) in code snippets would be nice as well

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Quote: "Stuff like that may encourage more help around here."


It's either that or Spam.


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I would also very much welcome the ability to change the name of threads which you started.

For example, in the Work In Progress forum, instead of creating new threads, just rename the old ones.

"MyGame First Screenshots" > "MyGame Beta Screenshots" > "MyGame Pre-Release Beta" > "MyGame Beta is here "


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I would also like the ability to edit thread names, for reasons already given .

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Id like to see a male/female icon under the avatar... I think female DB users should make themselves known. There just seems to be so few of them.

And also, it might be useful to replace the [Last page] thing with [1] [2] [3] for each page of the thread. So say you posted on page 2, come back a couple of days later and its up to page 4, you can go directly back to page 2 and look at the follow up posts.

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No, [Last Viewed Page] or something would be beter, where it takes you to the last page that you viewed (obviously) or a [Last Posted Page] where it takes you to the last page that you have posted on, though i think [Last Viewed Page] would be better.

Oh, and the ability to change the name of the threads started by you would be good.

The ability to delete a post that you make (like Edit Post, but it would delete it) for when you post something that you then realise you dont want there. Instead of editing it and having a blank post there.

And, to have Mod-like control over your own threads...
For example, if you start a thread and someone posts something that is irrelivant, then you can hide it (not delete, cos that is unfair). And then have an option available to everyone at the top of the thread like Show Hidden Posts which would show all the hidden posts in a different colour or something.

Having a male/female indicator next to Profile, Email etc would be nice to see.

The star System would be nice.

The ability to view the last threads that you posted in would be good too.

All of the ways of bettering the search that have been mentioned i agree with.

A post count would be good (excluding the General Talk, as RPGamer suggested)

That's my two cents.

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Well if your going to hide posts, why have people be able to see them

If the male/female thing was implemented, it would definatly have to be a personal option. Some people may not want their sex released.

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Urm, the hide option would be so that if people(s) started to post off-topic and you didn't want them to, then you could hide their posts so others wouldn't see them, and then when a person comes to the thread, they won't have to sift through 10 or so post that aren't related to the thread (if the haven't got time) to get to the end and see if the question has been answered.

And the ability to unhide post would allow them to see the rest of the off-topic posts (if they've got time)

It would also be a good thing for the team requests (if you don't get rid of them) because if someone posts "*Sigh*" or a whole post on how their game is better etc., then you can hide it so others don't have to read it if they are seriously considering the team request...

Hope i cleared that up.

And yes, the gender selector would have to be optional, and if it goes ahead, i suggest using those little circle symbols things (the pink and the blue ones) to represent gender, then in the profile, show it as "Male", "Female" or "Undisclosed".

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Those little circle icons were the ones i meant JessTicular, a pink one with the cross for female, a blue one with an arrow for male, and probably a gree one with a '?' for undisclosed.

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How about changing it so sticky topics don't expire after time stoping you from posting.
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Quote: "show it as "Male", "Female" or "Undisclosed"."


what if you was born a bit of both?


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use this symbol:


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Following the idea, we should have mod-powers for our own threads. It would be interestening to be able to delete our own threads. Example, if the posts became too much off-topic and we don't like it, or the thread is not needed anymore.

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