[split] email PM text, "find my posts" button, "view latest post" button
Posted: 2011-01-20, 7:26 am
BlutoBlutarsky
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Hi folks, I'll find a better place for this in the near future. In the meantime, please use this thread to post any general comments or suggestions you have regarding the board. If you are having a technical problem with a particular page or function, please also raise that here or via PM to me (or the "Contact Us" page). Also know that we're currently working on some changes that will address some past suggestions and add a few new features... stay tuned. We may not have time to respond quickly to everything posted here, but having all the suggestions in one place will be helpful so that they can be considered in time. For any particularly virulent complaints, please use Contact Us... Thanks all.
_________________ A friend of mine has a trophy wife, but apparently it wasn't first place. --Steven Wright
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Re: Site Suggestions and Technical Issues - Post Here
Posted: 2011-01-25, 1:20 am
BlutoBlutarsky
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Thanks guys... keep 'em coming.
MagooToo wrote: Instead of emailing the standard "you've got a PM..." could you also embed/attach the actual PM content? That would let me pick up PMs via my usual email address instead of having to log into this site, which - as you know - can be problematic from an anally retentive workplace. Surprisingly, such a feature is not available "out of the box" on any version of phpBB, so it would involve a "mod" (i.e. modification to the phpBB software). phpbb.com has a listing of user-submitted mods which have been "validated" (i.e. tested by various folks on the phpBB team and deemed stable enough to release). I looked but there seems to be nothing currently available that we would be able to use (i.e. validated for the version of phpBB to which we will be upgrading... oops, guess the cat's out of the bag... stay tuned). I'll keep my eyes open though. I'd also think making this a user-configurable thing is a must... I'm sure there are people out there who wouldn't want the full text of a PM going in the notification email for whatever reason... ? Based on my knowledge of how the PM system works, such a mod is likely to be pretty involved. I'd like to get a sense of how many people here really want this so I can decide whether to pursue it. Any time you add a mod, that's one more thing to deal with when upgrading to the next version of phpBB (which we'll have to do from time to time, to keep up with security fixes, etc). Good chance it would break things if we just tried to use the same old mod rather than one validated for the newer version. So this has the potential to be a major PITA, obviously. neurosynth wrote: You know what? The "go to most recent post" link has never ever worked for me. It always sends me to the first post. Any idea why?
At last, an easy one! :-) I believe I just fixed this. Please try again now (with a thread you haven't read yet, to rule out any possible caching issues) and let me know if it works for you.
Bluto
_________________ A friend of mine has a trophy wife, but apparently it wasn't first place. --Steven Wright
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Re: Site Suggestions and Technical Issues - Post Here
Posted: 2011-01-30, 1:56 am
BlutoBlutarsky
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neurosynth wrote: The two click thing assumes your name is already showing up somewhere. And there's no prompt inviting people to do it. phpBB3 makes this easier. With our new board, there will be a link to "User Control Panel" on every page. You would click on that and then the first screen that comes up includes an option to "Show your posts." Like this: So stay tuned... And, as suggested, I can always add that same link to the top of the forum index page too (we have room for it) if you think that would help? [EDIT: I'm going to do this... it makes sense to me, and I see it's there on the plain vanilla template I'm working off of anyway.] neurosynth wrote: Something like "View responses to your posts" would really stimulate more interaction I think.
"Show your posts" brings up a listing of every thread in which you've posted, which more or less does the same thing, right? Assuming you're not "watching" the topic and getting emails, you'd be able to tell which ones have received new replies the same way you do now (e.g. icon color, number of replies).
_________________ A friend of mine has a trophy wife, but apparently it wasn't first place. --Steven Wright
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Re: Site Suggestions and Technical Issues - Post Here
Posted: 2011-01-31, 7:26 am
MagooToo
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Thanks for the attention, Bluto.
The PM-text-in-the-mail feature I saw was on a site powered by http://www.invisionpower.com/products/board/ which I suppose is a commercial product rather than a freebie, so, well, shrug, never mind. Would still be cool if you can easily find a mod to support it.
KUTGW. Keep up the good work.
IJMTU . I just made that up.
- useful abbreviations that I'm sure belong in everyone's dictionary.
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Re: Site Suggestions and Technical Issues - Post Here
Posted: 2011-02-01, 6:23 pm
brad 07
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How about a reference forum?
A place mods could place posts that would be useful in the future
Such as George's sex club post or the Golden Times How To I see re-upped from time to time
It would place all that info in a easily found location and clear many of the featured posts out of the other forums
And ghosts could be left in the original forum so they did not just disappear
Just my .02 euros worth
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Brad 07
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Re: Site Suggestions and Technical Issues - Post Here
Posted: 2011-02-04, 11:09 pm
BlutoBlutarsky
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brad 07 wrote: How about a reference forum? [...] It would place all that info in a easily found location and clear many of the featured posts out of the other forums I like this idea and I think we'll implement some flavour of it. I was thinking we are getting a bit cluttered with featured posts in some places, so agreed. neurosynth wrote: Sorry to report that I'm still getting dysfunctional behavior from the take-me-past-the-last-viewed-post link icon. It's really the take-me-to-the-latest-post-in-the-thread-regardless-of-what-I've-already-viewed link icon. If that helps explain any of the unexpected behaviour? neurosynth wrote: Anyway, current symptom is the link takes me forward into the thread, but then the next day it takes to that same spot again. Do you mean it takes you to the last post, and then the next day there are more posts, but it only takes you to the same post (i.e. yesterday's last post)? Any time there are new posts in a thread, the "view latest post" link has to be re-generated. So for example, let's say you loaded the forum index page at 4:20PM. It shows the last post in the "Amsterdam" forum having been made at 3:55PM, along with the link to said post. However, you're too busy smoking a blunt and forget you intended to read some threads, until it dawns upon you at 4:40PM. In the meantime, someone has made a new post (at 4:30PM, say) in the "Amsterdam" forum. But you still have your index page that was loaded at 4:20PM. It only knows about the 3:55PM post, so when you click on the "View latest post" icon, it takes you to the 3:55PM post. Could this explain some of the behaviour you're seeing? Or are you reloading the index page(s) and still not getting the link to the latest post? neurosynth wrote: Is the last viewed post info stored on the server or in a cookie? I ask because I surf ignatzmice from both my laptop and iPhone.
I believe the IDs of the posts you've viewed are stored on the server, but I'd need to research it better to give you a definitive answer. Let's revisit this one after we install the new board... it may work a bit differently (hopefully better) there.
_________________ A friend of mine has a trophy wife, but apparently it wasn't first place. --Steven Wright
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Re: Site Suggestions and Technical Issues - Post Here
Posted: 2011-02-05, 8:50 pm
BlutoBlutarsky
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neurosynth wrote: Are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about the tiny icon next to the thread subject line that looks like an arrow pointing at a page. When it's there it causes the subject text to shift to the right a bit.
Ahhh... we are indeed talking about something different, but I was under the impression that my fix would take care of that too. Now that I look a bit closer, it's apparent that it works differently than the links on the forum index page. This one appears to be an actual bug in our version of phpBB2 and not something I can solve just by editing the html templates, so we'll wait and see if the new version resolves it.
_________________ A friend of mine has a trophy wife, but apparently it wasn't first place. --Steven Wright
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