Features To Add?
 

What features are currently missing from GFF that you would like to see?

Ever since we switched to vB3, I've been asking you to bring back the total number of posts in a thread in the corner of posts.

http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/Please.jpg


Last time you were in chat, you said you'd do it too, so can we please have it back? Even the temp forums have it.

[03:02:55] <Q-chan> If forums are to be redesigned, can we PLEASE have a total number of posts in a thread digit next to the post number? ( "out of 45" for instance)
...
[03:03:12] <Mercarios> Q-chan; sure
[03:03:20] <Q-chan> I'll hold you to that
[03:03:27] <Q-chan> that was the only thing I missed from the switch to v3
[03:03:29] <b33rf0x> Q, 3.5 gives you a lot of other cool stuff
[03:03:32] <Q-chan> otherwise everythign was better

:shade: :(

The arcade, most deffenatly. Some of the older smilies too would be great...

I'd like to see the user rating system back. That was a pretty cool feature.

I'm also wondering what this "Junior Member" business is about.

Files are now limited to their resolutions too (lol only image files nub). Is this implented to save bandwidth and space, or just the default settings that didn't get set yet?

Agree on the first point.

"Junior Member" is a default user title. Some people haven't been arsed to change them yet, clearly.

The color of the posting box needs to be changed to solve light-text-on-light-box effect. Also, I can't delete my posts anymore; please give that feature back.

I don't think we ever had that feature on here.

Oh really? I seem to recall it. Anyway.

The "Level" function is obviously not working. Gotta fix that. :)

Calendar needs to be fixed. It goes from 2000-2006, but it should go into the future, not the past.

Users cannot delete their posts, and it has been this way for as long as I can remember. The reason is to make sure users can't cover their tracks when they post something they're not supposed to. Even if they edit their post and remove the content, at least the post entry will remain for evidence.

Somebody actually uses the calendar?

Well, if it's gonna exist...

Not being able to change your birthday without Administrator consent. :(

I'd like an option taht shows the post statistics for a specific forum, like who has the most posts in the Sewers, Animespot, CC,... .

I'd like to see the rating system out of GFF, frankly. It becomes a petty little thing people do, and it's hardly authentic. And before you accuse me of having a poor rating on the OLD GFF, I welcome you to check out the archives when they come back up. I had an average of 4.2, I think.

The journals I would naturally want to see come back. But I like the added Wiki button. I don't think that was there before. Or was it?

ANd Dope, we never could delete our own posts. Only edit them.

O YEA. THE REPORT BUTTON. I miss it already.

Also, BLINK. ^_^ unless i did that wrong? its always worked for me in the past

It was there before, just under Quick Links.

It's there. I know you're hyper from GFF coming back and all, but...

Yeah I don't think ratings are so necessary either. Apart from the bi-annual "do you check/care about your ratings" thread in CC I don't feel that they're as widely used or cared about as in the past. I think everyone is capable enough of making up their own opinions on people, and if someone isn't liked around here I think it's obvious enough to them without having to look at the missing boxes next to their flag.

I'd like to see ChocoPie back, hopefully you didn't lose the code again. :(

edit: any chance of having the whole Who's Online list on one page instead of a default of just 25 per page?

Levels and Chocojournals.

That's a lot of wasted space just for a flag, though.

The male/female icon next to the username is missing.

ChocoPie was clever, but I don't know how necessary it is.

I won't give up asking for Chocopets!

I hate to say this but I'm going to have to agree somewhat with Dopefish on the ChocoPie thing. As one who used to run an FTP server it was nice to see a posting history divided into the different sections of folks who were requesting the password to access my server. That way I could make that determination whether or not I wanted to give it out or not...

And as other have said... the little gender icon and the level indicator...

At this very moment, I'd like to have the quick reply feature back in PMs.

I really want to see CHOCOPIE back. I LOVE CHOCOPIE!!!!

Although ratings aren't necessary, I still like having it back. I'm not one of those popular members, so it's nice to know, through the ratings, if people here actually like me or not XD

Seconded on both counts. Especially CHOCOPIE. I'm a slut for stats and fancy graphs.

My Journal ChocoPie looked so much like Pac-Man I was hoping that, if it was brought back, the slice that wasn't mine would just be a circle.

It would be nice to have the Chocobo themed default usertitles back, if possible. And the reply message windows just don't look right the way they are now.

I'm really not sure if this is possible, or has been done before, but I'll give it a shot.

I'd like a "forum favorites" section. An option where you can add your favorite forums to your list, and block others. Face it, some people just don't post in Community Commons. Others don't post in the Music forum, so there's no point in focusing on them while you're enjoying your stay at gff.

It's just an idea, but I would find it quite useful. Like a subscription to your selected forums, or a list which you can pay more attention to over other subforums which aren't tendering to.

I would appreciate that as well. It would be very convenient to be able to block threads from certain forums from showing up when using the 'New Posts' button.

You can subscribe to forums by clicking the "forum tools" dropdown at the top of the thread listings within a forum and clicking the obvious option. Then the forum(s) you subscribe to will appear listed in your User CP.

Dunno about blocking out forums you don't want to post in though; but then if you go with using your subscribed list that pretty much gets rid of them anyway, doesn't it? :p

edit: oh yeah, the new post search, didn't consider that. Guess it would be useful to block out specific forums in that then...

I noticed that in the Member List there's no ability to search for a member.

Having that back would be a real plus.

Chocopie! I know it's all but critical at the moment but it was really a cool feature.

And it would be great if it could be non-case sensetive, as it has been in the past.

i'd like the gamingforce sharing system back....that was nice...

The "My Posts" link at the top of the page, aswell as Chocohost and an increased avitar size limit (should be 30k).

It's in the same spot it was before, right under the spot where you can choose which page you want to be on there's a thing that says "Search Members." There's also an advanced search option that you can select as well.



I want quick delete back. ;_;

Also, how about "who quoted me"? It's good to know when you're being talked to/about/noticed in general. :p

Light Set.
 

I once again request a light set be created.

EDIT: I probably should have put this in the feature thread so I think someone should merge it into that. Okay!

I could of sworn there was a Search Members on the Members List page without being a dropdown menu.

What happened to the Quick Quote button that allows you to quote the message in the quick reply box? :p

MARQUEES of course.

Also, chocopie.

Also, while you're here fixing things, any chance of making it possible to see a list of how many posts each person has in any forum, like you can with a thread by clicking on the number of replys on the forum screen.

That makes little sense but I know what I mean. It was a feature of the original vb2 boards way back in the day but you took it off for some reason.

Here's a more comprehensive feature request compilation :D

Features on pre-VB3 GFF

1. Specify the number of total posts in a thread in each post - http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/Please.jpg
2. Per-user post statistics for specific forums

Features on GFF not yet re-implemented

1. Arcade
2. Chocobo-themed default usertitles
3. Chocojournals
4. Chocopie Statistics
5. Chocosig Hosting
6. GFF Favicon
7. Higher post-per-page options
8. Marquees
9. Moderator/Administrator Title Graphics
10. Quick Quote button (for quick-reply)
11. Quick Reply in Private Messages
12. Show all posts of a specific user in a thread at a single page
13. Show forum leaders in forumdisplay.php view
14. User Ratings
15. Who Am I A Buddy Of?
16. Who Quoted Me?

Enhancements and New Features

1. Adsense
2. Chocopets
3. List all attachments of a user / in a thread
4. Report button for own posts
5. Special marker for threads user already posted in
6. Quick delete

Bug Fixes

1. Calendar needs to be fixed. It goes from 2000-2006, but it should go into the future, not the past.
2. Fix "Online/Offline" text size problem in User Profile

I would like to have the moderator/administrator icons return, please.

That's basically my main request, too. I liked easily finding threads that I had posted in by just clicking on a top button (instead of finding my member page and clicking the "search for jazzflight's posts" thing)

Arcade is a big one. Too bad I have to get my top high-score back on Tomato Bounce. :(

I've hacked it in for you =)

Advanced Search, search for member name "Jazzflight" and list by thread. It's how I've been doing it ever since I came here.

How about the big thread title before the postbits?

Hacked is right...when you Quick Reply, your "hack" doesn't quite catch up and says, for example: "77 of 76". :)

That's kind of unavoidable, considering that Quick Reply doesn't reload the whole page now.

Unless I do some Javascript DOM hacking or something, but that's a bit unnecessary.

Quick reply is incredibly fast, thanks to this, though. Very nice job. I'm very impressed, and I'm eagerly awaiting the return of ChocoJournal. Any ETA on that?

just a question: Is the restriction about sig gone?

for a sig maker it can befun because you can do anything now for sig, but as a user I don't want to see some wallpaper in sig, like there is now (well they ar enot wallpaper but they are king of big >.>)

But it can be (and was) easier.

Why would the restriction on sigs be gone?

I don't know if this belongs here or not, but whenever I go to the main index page of GFF it nearly always hangs my browser (Firefox) for at least 1-2 seconds. Problem on my end?

It might be due to the gigantic list of names under "Total members that have visited the forum today". I've turned it off for the moment, does it improve performance?

Oh, please keep it off. It was un-important.

Yes, it does. A lot. Keep it turned off, please?

Quick reply rocks. But now we need its counterpart: quick delete.

It was :XBOX: and extended the main forum page by at least half.

I don't see why anybody would want to know if a person has been online today. Isn't that what their profile tells you? "Blah was last online September 23rd, 2001 @ 5:32 PM" helps the people who are wondering when Blah user was last online, but a endless chain of users probably doesn't get used.

Being able to see the start of a post after doing a search is really nice, since it allowes you to quickly see if it's relevant to your search or not.

I'd also like to see the return of "who quoted me?"

We need Chocosig back.

Double Post:
I haven't heard anyone say we need Spell Check back. But we do.

Fixed that for you. Being a foreign would definatly (<--- See?) benefit from ChocoSpell, but I would much more like the forum being back in almost the way it was before the Great Crash©.
And as far as I can see, you can download some kind of spelling thing by clicking the http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/im...r/spelling.gif-picture in the reply box.

As for Chocohost, why not just use www.photobucket.com ?

As for me, the only thing I really crave is the Chocojournal back, but as this is high on bobo's To-do-list, I really just am seeing what's happening.

That's technically a vb2 feature, not a new implemetation.

It'd be nice if we could have the higher posts per page option back; I miss being able to view 100 posts per page >_>

Can it be possible to add a report-button for your own posts too? On the odd occasion I post in the wrong forum and want it to get moved - in which case I use the report function.

You should probably thank the Jelsoft developers for implimenting AJAX into vB3.5

[Edit]
Where are my big titles? Any admin with style access can do this.

I'm seconding the request for the "Who am I a Buddy of" feature. That was a rather interesting feature.

LeHah mentioned this in another thread, but I want to make sure it is here on the official list: the icon on the threads pages that indicates you are subscribed to the thread needs to be turned on.

It works for me...

The icon shows up just fine for me.

http://host.kg13.com/gff/management/...ption_icon.png

The little chocobo icon thing that used to be at the top of all my tabs in firefox isn't there anymore. I kinda liked it since when I had pages from outside of GFF open I could tell which were from here without reading subjects.

I'm asking, again, where the user rating system went. I enjoyed this, and thought it was interesting to get feedback from other users.

Hmm, I dunno what happened. I logged on just now and saw that the icons were back and said "Hey! Someone fixed it!" but then I see that no one did anything. What the hell. ;_;

To ease backups, the ability to display or save an entire thread in text-only mode would be cool. As is, you must select

PRINTER FRIENDLY

then click on

SHOW ALL POSTS ON ONE PAGE

Still waiting for the "My Posts" link.

The chocobo icon is actually being used at Serious Business right now, even though I provided a candidate replacement. One of the admins should take it from there and pop it into the forums directory.

The feature where you can view all your previous posts would be great ("My Post"), I sometimes forget which forum I posted on and I like going back sometimes to see other replies and stuff!

This feature is available in your profile, under 'Forum Info'. I would rather not have it back together with the 'New Posts' button where it also was before.

Chocojournals... Who am I a buddy of... ChocoDecide ( I know I wasn't the only one using that!). Arcade definately. When you post in a thread, it's subscribed automatically. I haven't noticed if Who Quoted Me is there but if not, bring it back. And the tracking for PMs.

I just really want the journals. Sometimes they were more interesting than the boards.

Oh and Chocopets. You promised!!!

Get to work BOBO!

I love visual effects and the GFF blue default is starting to get old. Maybe even an alternative to switch to so everyone can be happy. It's a new GFF so maybe we should make it look new too.

It can be a community event thing and have people design themes. It'll be nice.

Anyone else feel the same way?

Blue is what makes the forum unique, idiot.

Would it be possible to show the number of users browsing a forum under the subscribed forum list in your User CP. It only does so for the main index page.

Requesting a lime green theme, with urine yellow text as default. :boxing:

wlle i don,t really want a new color theme, because all my sig (and a lot other member sig) will become ugly (because of the blue background we put when we want transparency, for the file to be lower 50kb)

I'll reiterate one that hasn't been fixed yet that is quite important:

Plus, we really need to fix how attachments don't open in a new window. That's how GFF had been set up since forever and it's really annoying that it doesn't do that now.

Personally, I want the 30k avatar limit back. I'm on 56k, and it doesn't bother me, so PLEASE? None of my old avatars are within limits now, and I don't want to go back and resize ALL of them.

ALSO, GIF avatars allowed, PLZ.

And if you DO reintroduce Chocohost, please have it use a numbered system like the avatars, so that way you don't have to refresh your cache to see a new signature.

Howabout auto-subscription to a thread when you make a post? Is there a way to do that in vBulletin as it is, or is it a hack?

..Check your user CP.

Soooo.....light set?

I don't remember if we had it before, but maybe an "I'm online now" indicator in posts, probaly paralell to the flags. I know it's kind of useless, but....it's an idea....the space just looks blank without the user rating pips there, if you don't plan on bringing user raitings back it would make the space look less empty, and even if you do, it would still work if you make the indicator small enugh.....

We want moderator icons (in postbit) back. Isn't that right, Kaleb G?

if the sig restriction are still there, can you at least put them again in the signature tab in the CP...

there a few sig that don't follow the restriction now ...

Seconded.

Another thing I haven't seen mentioned here (or maybe I missed it) was that the "Go Advanced" button at the bottom of the "Quick Reply" box would automatically make a makeshift preview within the text input window along with the WYSIWYG preview at the top.

Is there any way of bring that back? I can't count the times I've already fucked up posts just because I get lost in long lines of open and end vB tags. ;__;

That works.

Features on pre-VB3 GFF

1. Per-user post statistics for specific forums

Features on GFF not yet re-implemented

1. Arcade
2. Automatic Tracking for Private Messages
3. Automatic Makeshift Preview when 'Go Advanced' reply button is clicked
4. Chocobo-themed default usertitles
5. Chocojournals
6. Chocopie Statistics
7. Chocosig Hosting
8. Gender icon
9. GFF Favicon
10. GFF Lite Color Set
11. Higher post-per-page options
12. Moderator/Administrator Title Graphics
13. Quick Quote button (for quick-reply)
14. Quick Reply in Private Messages
15. Show all posts of a specific user in a thread at a single page
16. Show forum leaders in forumdisplay.php view
17. User Ratings
18. Who Am I A Buddy Of?
19. Who Quoted Me?

Enhancements and New Features

1. Adsense
2. Chocopets
3. List all attachments of a user / in a thread
4. Option to automatically request read receipt in private messages (prior implementation pops up a dialog box).
5. Report button for own posts
6. Special marker for threads user already posted in
7. Quick delete

Bug Fixes

1. Calendar needs to be fixed. It goes from 2000-2006, but it should go into the future, not the past.
2. Country Flags extending footer in user postbit (may be Internet Explorer specific) - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...rinch/ieff.png
3. Fix "Online/Offline" text size problem in User Profile
4. Inconsistent country flags sizes: http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/im...gs/England.gif http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/im...ong%20Kong.gif http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/im...d%20States.gif http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/im...ags/France.gif

This is the last update I'm making. If you find this useful, feel free to update, or reflect as a tracking device in the alpha post.

Just in case no one mentioned this before.

There also used to be a search history or last 10 searches things.

Anyway, gimme my "Philippines" flag please. The graphics file exists: http://gamingforce.com/forums/images...hilippines.gif. Currently it's looking for a "Philippine.gif" instead of "Philippines.gif".

It may have something to do with the fact that "Philippine" is listed under the home country profile options instead of "Philippines."

Can someone tell me why the avatar limit is 20k instead of 30.

I agree. Many people will argue that:

A full page of avitars will take a dialup user 71 seconds to load. While that is a long time, not every user has an avitar, not every avitar is 20kb, and users have the ability to disable avitars. I say up the size to 30kb aswell.

Seeing as how the avatar size was 30k before the crash, an argument is not necessary.

I don't know if this feature is back and I am looking the wrong place, here, but is the Who Quoted Me? feature back? I use it a lot and I have yet to find it. =/

It's not back yet, and it has been addressed before. Seems like bobo's too busy with putting up the backup.

Another feature I liked is the date a thread was made besides the name of the member who made it, if it's possible to implement that again.

I am in favor of seeing the user rating gone for good as well. Any word of confirmation on this?

Just to clarify, it's not a light color set but a set with all of the superflous crap removed from the postbit, taking it down to name, avatar, title, with most of the graphic buttons removed and replaced with text links.

It's just a more pleasant way to view the forums for me. I don't need to know what everyone's level, member number, join date, gender, nation, and rating is.

Oh and BTW: If you don't pick a flag, it defaults to the United States. I'd like to see that fixed, to where if I don't pick a flag, it displays no flag.

Does anyone know why gender icons just dissapeared.

It'd be nice to see user ratings back. It was voluntary to take part anyway, so what's the argument?

Because everyone on the internet is male, there wasn't a purpose for them originally.

It's that some people want legitimate ratings, and the system--as it was--allowed too much, "I rated you a one for lol and then more lol." At least, that's what I see the argument to be.

For the record, you might want to limit the number of characters in a custom title. I was double checking to see if HTML really was disabled in the titles, and it ended up with a nicely messed up table.

The "Who Quoted Me?" feature was very nice, but I really miss being able to view the Buddy list, as to who's on mine and who's I'm on, and whether they're mutual or not. That was really convenient. Not sure if somebody already mentioned it, but I thought I'd second it if it has.

Because you mollested your question marks and they all ran away in cowardice from your posts.

Also... Robo Jesus mentioned this in another thread, but why hasn't this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...bestofluck.gif been made into a smiley yet?

:burnnn:

We really need to get the search wait time back to the pre-crash amount of 10 seconds. 15 is unbearable.

How about an option to show all your posts that have new replies (Only red folders in "my posts")?

I don't know how feasible that is, mainly because of ambiguity in what is truly a reply to your post. That is, a post may succeed yours, but it may not be a reply to your post; it may be intended as a reply to another post.
The only good way that I can immediately think of to do this is to say that replies quote the original post (or part of it), which is, more or less, the "Who Quoted Me" feature. (With the exception that your request would require each quoted portion to have some sort of identifier to make it possible to identify a quote with a certain post.)

Free.User, try this link:

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/search.php?query=&searchuser=Free.User&exactname=1 &starteronly=0&forumchoice[]=0&childforums=1&titleonly=0&showposts=0&searchdat e=0&beforeafter=after&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=de scending&replyless=0&replylimit=0&searchthread=0&s earchthreadid=0&saveprefs=1&

All threads you have posted in that are bolded have new replies since your last visit.

That's what I was recommending to people but they said no. :(

For God's sake SOMEONE MAKE A LITE SET. (I promise I'll shut up if you do.)

I've made a Lite Set.

Tell me if it sucks, I've never used the lite set before so I don't know how it's supposed to look.

But I don't see arguments for a better system, just for the abandoning of the old one. It just seems like the mindset of these people is to get rid of it because they have ideas about how it might be getting misused, and so let's forget about everyone who gets something positive out of it.

So who are these people that are judging everyone based on some boxes under someones posts anyway, and why are their malformed opinions and practices carrying more weight than those people who just get a bit of throwaway fun from the system? Those other ones? The judging ones? Fuck 'em. The rating system is for us, not them.

You misunderstood me, or I wasn't clear. The replies don't have to be directly to you or contain a quoted portion of your post, rather any unread post after yours. If I search for posts by user, (Free.User), I get all the threads I posted in. This would filter out any threads where your post is the last post, (or threads that you have read but your post isn't the last post), and only show threads that have unread posts after your post (In other words, only show the red folders).

Thank you Bigblah, here's what I think needs to be done still:

- Some kind of partition between the avatar/name space and the post

- Remove borders/background from avatar space (now that I think of it, if you could just do a 1px border instead of the border, inner border and bg, that would be great.

- The old lite set had the forum descriptions and (# viewing) removed as well, and I liked that. (less clutter)

- Thread ratings were all removed as well.

I think that's about it. If more comes up I'll post it here.

:sick:

I don't see this but, how about a "next, previous" button in the PMs?
If it's not too much trouble..

Looking good now. just a few more things:

- Remove space between posts if possible
- Alternating post colors?
- The line below the date and time of post should be lightened, it's nearly invisible right now.

I just remembered something we're missing.

Do you guys remember we used to have a section at the bottom of the home page with the "Daily Age Limit for Sir VG's Women"?

Can we bring that back, please?

Quick search now shows posts instead of threads.

(I'll see what else I can change after work. It's been a busy week)

That works MUCH better. Thanks.

There was a small subtle feature that I kind of missed.
Basically, when you selected "Last page" on a thread link with multiple pages, it took you not only to the last page, but also the last post as well.
Do you think this can be incorporated again. It was very handy for me.

There's one thing I just noticed that needs to come back: Thread Creation listing on the forum page.

So if you were visiting Board Support, this thread would say:

Features To Add?
bobo (Started on March 1st, 2006)

(Or something like that)

When you click the number of posts in a thread to see the "Who Posted?" screen, before you could click on the number beside everyones name and see just their posts listed but not anymore. Can this be brought back somehow?

I'd like to continue the motion of the "my posts" link. being able to see where i had posted helps me look for where to reply. if i have to wait for a couple of pages in-between, it deters me from even bothering. (;>_>)

Could we add the View Journal in the dropdown menu above the avatar of someone's post?

How about a nice, albeit useless, but interesting "avatar mural." The page could just generate, say, a 10-by-20 "wall" of people's avatars. It could be generated by various options: top posters, random from anyone with avatars, whatever else may come to mind. Meh, just something that came to mind while looking at albums murals over at last.fm.

- I'd love to see the "Who Quoted Me" feature back.

- The "ChocoPie" was really nifty, I think

- I'd actually like to see the rating system back.

I'll throw in the Members Gallery for readdition, if only as a tool for us to do something about the growing number of users who aren't using the Profile Picture to display things other than pictures of themselves.

Gender icons, please. That little grey box next to the usernames is kinda pointless without them.

Also, add me to the list of people who want the rating system back. Or a rating system, at least. It doesn't necessarily have to be the same one. Other systems exist on other message boards, like the dotting system on @forumz. I don't post there, but I know of their dot system, and it seems pretty decent. More interactive than the one-time rating system the old GFF had, at least. Instead of rating people once anonymously, you can give them a green dot whenever they say or do something in a post that impresses you, or a red dot whenever they say or do something that makes you think they're a raging fuckwit. They get a PM saying what post they were rated for, and a little message from the person who rated them (if they choose to send one). The accumulation of dots over time = their user rating.

I'm not necessarily advocating we use that system, but it's just some food for thought. If the old rating system is gone for a specific reason, there ARE other rating systems out there.

You can select your gender preference in the User CP under Edit Options: Undisclosed/Male/Female. Can't think of others...

EDIT: Nm, I just realized they're not appearing... they were before when the board reopened.

The gender icons seem to have been appearing on and off, then disappearing again just as quickly. I've seen then randomly appear from time to time. And whenever I make a quick reply post, I can see my OWN gender icon (but no one else's). Though as soon as the page is refreshed, it disappears again. Seems like the gender icons are kicking around in the system SOMEWHERE. They're just not showing up most of the time.

Actually....they still apear in your profile where they should be.....even when you refresh the page, they're still listed. So....the icons themselves are still on the server. I also just got a PM, and the icons show up there, even when you refresh the page as well. It's almost like....they're hiding out in PMs and Profiles but are nowhere to be seen on the main forums other then for a fleating time span for some reason....

Also I would like to add...could change the new message, sent message, Read Message, Forwarded Message and Replied-to Message icons aswell as the reply and forward buttons in the PM box to match the rest of the forum? They look a little strange....for the simple reason the default ones don't mach the forum....with their white borders and all....

btw, I suggest to add the star rating system like in the old GFF. They could be used to show whether a member is liked or rather hated by community.

I usually just leave my custom title blank, but now I've noticed that any japanese text entered in there ends up ending with &#. Can someone do something about this because it's really annoying.

Yeah, I'll second the request for not allowing Japanese characters to be used in custom titles.

There's also a few characters in character map which removes lines, reverses text, and so on. There's like 5 of them, and I'm not even joking.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2...titled2yu1.png

I'd love to stay as this, and be a unique individual(lol) as I discovered it(lol) if it doesn't get fixed or cannot be fixed. Either way I'll leave it up to bobo, and I'll leave it in my custom title like this for a few days so people can see what I'm talking about.

I'd like to second this request.

Well, you're using IE for starters, which probably means you don't have the latest language packs, either. Eleo drew this to my attention in irc awhile back, and if he can see it, I'm sure others can too.

It doesn't work in your IE but that doesn't necessarily say it doesn't for others. I checked on my old, slow 400MHz Pentium 2 box and it doesn't display everything as reversed either, but it seems to only apply for older computers or ones missing language packs.

I request a small radio button or check box at the bottom of the Create New Thread box, say, underneath "Disable smilies in text" that says "Ban Elixir from this thread".

And then when it's switched on, if Lix ever tries to view the thread, he gets a denied message and gets forwarded to yahoo.com or some porn site.

Not at the rate you're going.

I would also find this feature suggested by Colonel F.T. Skills very useful. Nothing is worse than having your thread invaded by someone making irrational "points" and subsequently whining that he's "not allowed to have a differing opinion".

Not really sure what language packs I'd be missing since I haven't had any webpages pop up that are all boxes (for example, Oolong's owner's webpage displays fine on this computer).

PS, I didn't know a P4 with 2GB of RAM running WinXP Pro with SP2 was an old slow computer. :(

2GB of RAM what the hell.

Oh well. I'm not sure then, but as I am seeing a difference when I change custom titles, it probably isn't client side(firefox) and on my older computer it's the exact same thing as what you're getting.

If you have SP2 installed then I really have no freaking clue. That's the only essential thing my old computer that is missing right now.

Did anybody mention Chocopie?

I'm not going to read this thread, but I want Chocopie.

HP/MP/EXP bars for that old school GFF look.

I know it's been said a million times but "Who quoted me?" needs to be brought back. : /

"My Posts" needs to be brought back : /

I always thought the feature "who quoted me?" was very usefull. :)

EDIT: Just seen that Bobo is already working on this.

I'd still love to see the two smilies I mentioned in this journal entry be made official. Some people are already using them and linking off my PB account :tpg: . In the comments there didn't seem to be any ngetivety towards them at all.

Sorry to post this in this thread. Didn't wanna make a whole thread about it unless someone thinks it nessecary then fell free to spilt this off.

I noticed that I no longer get a pop up that asks if I want to have a read receipt when sending PMs anymore. Without it, I always forget to manually click the box, so it would be nice to see that again... ;)

Both of those smilies are awesome, and should be added. Since we have an endless supply of smilies which are never used(such as :aargh:, :love:, :naughty:, :shh:, :superhappy:, :cool: and others(which are pretty stupid, really.)) I think adding some which we would use would be a great idea.

Does User CP -> Edit Options - > Show New Private Message Notification Pop-up no longer work anymore?

Must not, I have all the boxes checked...

EDIT: Actually, isn't that just a pop up to let you know a new PM has been received? Don't recall if it's working, but I meant the window that pops up when submitting a new PM to someone, asking if you want to track the message. That however isn't working.

I reckon most people were tired of having that box pop up, I know I was. Do you really need to know if someone has read your PM or not? The thing seems pretty useless to me.

I prefer not having the message box pop up, that's pretty annoying. If I were intent on tracking the message I'd make sure to check the option beforehand.

I agree. No pop up box = good. Who cares about tracking messages.

As far as the Lite Set goes (nice job on it, BB), I've got a couple things I want to bring up about it.

An annoyance I'm running into is that in the old Lite Set, if the poster had an avatar, it'd function as a direct link into the user's profile--as we lack a Profile button to get there directly under this set (unless I'm missing something glaringly obvious), having this functionality back would be nice. It did not work for avatar-less folks, but I don't think that's too big a deal. And I'm well aware of the dropdown menu, but this was quite convenient.

Another variation is that in the old Lite Set, the header still had GFF's banner (where it is removed here). As it's light, the new change makes sense and is something I like, though I just thought I'd bring it up.

Yet another variation would be that there was a pipe bar (|) seperating the Edit, Quote, and Report links. That, and they were originally positioned at the bottom-right of a postbit, but the new positioning seems more intuitive.

Did you do anything to your sig to make the link span the entire space where your image shows up, Jan? I've accidentally hit it a couple times. ;_;

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm a bit behind on the implementation of the Lite Set (still need to code in galen's proposed changes).

The link spanning the entire postbit is just a matter of vbcode sequence -- if the [url] code is outside the [right] positioning code, the entire space gets linked.

I think that little trick Jan uses should be outlawed. It's just annoying as hell when you try to click the page to scroll down and end up getting linked to his journal.

Is there an option in Firefox which allows wheel clicks to scroll, but not to click?

I haven't come across the option so far, but I'm using a pretty outdated version of firefox. It would also be nice if people with hugeass sigs didn't link to, like, livejournal or some place which nobody bothers with for good reason.

I have a laptop and I use the arrows to scroll. Thus the need to click on the page first.

I'm not trying to trick anyone! I didn't even know it was like that, but now I see what you mean. Is there a way to have the sig image with a link and to the right without it being a link across to whole page??

As I said, you do [right][url][img] instead of [url][right][img].

Oh. Thanks! Missed that. ._.

One thing I noticed is that adding a title for a link is different then before the crash. Any reason for this? Not that I'm really complaing about it. I guess there's no difference. >__>

There's no change in the vBcode. It's still [url]{param}[ /url] and [url={option}]{param}[ /url].

Yeah but... I mean actually putting the title in. It's like before there would be two boxes poping up for us to insert our info but now you insert the url into the box and then there is no second box instead the area to type in is highlighted. So you just it in that way. : /

I suppose the vB development team changed it to ensure behavioural consistency across the vBcode buttons.

Requesting the "Local time indicator" to return. It's useful to know other's local time since we have users from all over the world. Can this be done?

As in the indicator in the profile of the user back in the old GFF.

I don't know if this has been said, but I'd like for there to be someway to link to the journals from the users profile or from the drop down menu when clicking on their name in the forum. Like there used to be.

I'd like to see that the world map didn't expand when you place your cursor on it. I can't see the right side of the map once this happens, and I'm on 1024x.

Plus, it's worse that it's clickable so you can't scroll to the right when it's enlarged.

Is it possible to remove the line that seperates your post from your sig, in your opinion.

You know, funny enough, that's how I have always felt about the pop up as well. But without it, I always forget. As for why to use it, no reason, just like to know if the people I PMed have got the message. Whether they reply or not is up to them... :D

Can't say I'll care if it comes back or not. Just am lazy is all! ;)

I'm pretty sure it is, but why would you want to do that?

I certainly wouldn't want people to be able to remove the line. I hate it when forums have it all seamless.

Just put your little pic there that makes it look seamless Megalith. Everything looks cluttered without the seperation, in my opinion.

I don't know if it's just me, but before the crash, when there was a new post in a forum, I would click on the thread title in the "Last Post" colum and it would take me automaticaly at the of this thread... but now it always take me t at the first post(on the first page) of the thread.

is it normal? because I would really like that have that feature back ^^

It's not just you, and we know how it started.

This might be some sort of a bug, but it seems that the "Go to first new post" button next to a thread takes me to posts from March 5th onwards within that thread.

A long long time ago I used to be a big (not OO big) poster here. Now I edit Wikipedia. I've been noticing with threads like "favorite car", etc. type that it would be really useful if you could do "my favorite car ever is the [[Chaika]]." and it would output in the format "my favorite car ever is the Chaika." I am not sure if it'd take too much board hax to convert format when posting but I think it'd be useful for quick referencing things in a comprehensive web resource. It doesn't have to be wikipedia (it just seems to be the most broad). You could have it link IMDb or you could allow for prefixes like [[imdb:Tampopo]] could search imdb for tampopo, since finding the ID would defeat the purpose. I don't know how easy/hard it would be... but, it seems useful to me. Then again I don't come here so often anymore so :)

That actually sounds like a fucking AWESOME idea. However, this is bound to be overused and used for advertising so...

It's similar to the suggestion for the [google] tag, which I implemented. It was removed the same day due to the HTML exploit.

In short, any vBcode that involves putting a user defined string within tag parameters is a security risk. Therefore, none of the above ideas can be implemented until the vB developers make their vBcode parsing more robust.

Hm. Could you make the site use relative links where possible instead of absolute ones? I can't directly access gamingforce.com from school because it's banned under "game-playing" content. But GFF's IP address and fire.xelium.net aren't banned. The only issue is that they link back to gamingforce.com/whatever. If you could fix that, it'd be much appreciated, because I'd love to visit GFF from my school.

It used to be relative until bobo put in the new URL system, I'll bring this up in the other thread.

Capo, yeah... I can see it being overused and I suppose I can't think of a way to fix that.

Bigblah... could it be done without paramters to the tag... such as:

foo = <i>foo</i>
[W]foo[/W] = <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/foo>foo</a>

I am not sure how adding foo twice would work... but... would that allow for a vulnerability? Or,can you not define new tags. Curious.

Question... why everyone in GFF now has the "administrator label"? Is there error in the system?

EDIT: Damn... april fool... allright you got me...

What I meant was HTML tag parameters, not vBcode tag parameters. In your example, the code substitution would involve <a href=.....{param}>, and thus, having a user defined string inserted into the <a> parameter. That is the security risk which has been, and can still be, exploited.

Still waiting on this.

I'll repeat what Capo said in the Chocojournal thread and say Chocopie is something else that would be very nice to have back.

So, want to give everyone e-mail at gamingforce.com?

https://www.google.com/hosted/ -- I just found that interesting.... I don't know if they support doing it for so many names but it's a pretty cool thing. Not sure how it works but, thought I'd mention it (if no one else has)


Ah, Bigblah... I wasn't even thinking... you can obviously do a fair amount given that power... since, you could close the tag and start up a new one or whatnot. It seems like the sort of problem that someone somewhere should be able to fix. Like... whatever method is used to make sure my <a href=site>site</a> doesn't work here... coudln't that do the same within the VB code? so that only plain non-tag-ified text worked? I am probably once again overlooking something, though :)

That sounds rather useful guys. We should definitely implement that somehow.

I thought of something.

How about seeing if we could add a "quick quote" option.

Instead of going to the post reply page when you hit the quote button, it puts the quoted text in the quick reply box.

I don't really like having to load the post reply page to quote something.

Or is this something already suggested.

Certainly a feasable option. Invision Power Board I know supports the feature. It's a matter of whether a version that works with vBulletin can be made or exists.

Oh, I know it's something that's feasable. I use SimpleMachines Forum (which is not nearly as fancy as vBulletin or IPB,) and it has it.

Edit:
Messing around with a copy of vBulletin on my computer (WAMP setup, yadda yadda,) the functionality is pretty much there, but it's limited (in that it doesn't quite do it the way I'd like it to.)

Well, this isn't exactly what you wanted, Merv, but there is already the option for quoting the last reply to a thread right here in the quick reply box. For some reason the box is there, but you aren't able to click it.

Umm, my suggestions:
-add smilies box to the quick reply button
-Printer friendly button feature, so we can view the thread in printer friendly format.

Well I always forget the smilies command, so...

No, we'd rather not.

Click on "thread tools" at the top of every thread to access the print version.

Speak for yourself. :boxing:


:fish: :fishing:

Oh, why??

In that case I shall point and laugh heartily at you!

Because it requires what I was messing around with in order to work.

How it works, is that the quick reply box is normally locked, until you hit a quick reply button that unlocks it. What the button does, is it sends in what post you're replying to, then you're able to check the box to quote it, however, it only adds the quote until you submit the post.

It's close to what I'm thinking of, and it would work, but not quite, ya know.

What I was looking for was pretty much that, except it puts in the quote text for you.

I think it can be done with Javascript, if I get around to testing it.

I don't know if it's been said, but we should get the who quoted me option back.

Could someone put the superscript and subscript tags back in please?

[sup] and [sub] if memory serves.

We had those?

Anyway, just added them to the vBcode roster. Enjoy your H2SO4 and E = mc2

Don't know if it would be useful or not here (maybe in the My Stuff forum), but I've seen a feature around where portions of a post are hidden until users accomplish something, such as reply, say thanks, or obtain some given number of posts. A quick search came up with this: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=97366

Maybe? Maybe not? Up to you.

Just noticed that those little poll icons next to thread titles don't get ticked when you've voted. This shit needs to get sorted before Best Song Contest 06.

I mentioned this way back in the beginning of March, and I've yet to see it implimented.

Please bring back the "My posts" shortcut!
Check out Serious Business... or better yet, have it as a sublink in a drop down menu when you click on "New Posts". That's how it was pre-crash, and I think a lot of people will agree with me that it was better that way. And please don't give me that "don't be a lazy assbandit" bullshit; It's absolutely no annoyance to the people who do not want it, so they shouldn't be complaining.

Can we also get some new arcade games please?

Seconded. Indeed, that would be rather helpful.

Sure, "Who Quoted me?" has been mentioned several times, but I'm throwing in my vote for that as well. :)

I have terrible memory, but I think I remember this: at one point, when you quoted someone in a thread, you could click on something in the quote and it'd take you back to the original post. I'd like to see that again.

We need Chocopie.

Also, for bobo to expand on ChocoJournal a bit might be nice, a bit more freedom?

The GFhome was very nice while it lasted also.

Ooh, yeah, I forgot about that feature. I don't believe it was in the last iteration after 2 crashes ago, but it did work like that previously.

Cheers buddy. 90o is always the right angle...

I want the 'who quoted me' feature back so I don't have to waste my precious brain space trying to remember which threads I am trolling.

If somebody already mentioned this feature you're just going to have to suck it up and take this as a reminder, because I'm not reading 9 pages of "WE ARE MISSING :ROIRHUHRRH# SMILEY"

thankyou for your time ^o^

Another note about quotes: it used to show when the original post was posted in the quote. I know it's a little thing, but I've been finding myself missing things like that a lot...

Oh man, I miss the "Who Quoted Me?" feature so damn much. Please bring it back ASAP. It seems I'm not the only one who has expressed a desire to see it again, too.

Is there no way to delete posts?

Only mods can delete posts. Sorry!

Just to add to the list of things I've said that won''t happen:

Perhaps dynamic image resizing... or at least in journals.

Also, I broke'd the journal. If you insert a broken "HTML comment", things break if you go back to edit the post; even though things look okay whe people read the entry and/or comment. For example,

Broke'd the intarweb.

Whoever decided to space stickied threads from regular threads, good idea. Thumbzup from me.

Double Post:
OH WHAT THE HELL MILES GO AHEAD AND MAKE A THREAD ON TIHS VERY TOPIC

WTF

I don't know if anyone has suggested this, but a "preview your entry" for ChocoJournal would be very handy.

Why aren't the gender icons showing up these days? The option is this there, so why aren't they being displayed?

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g5...e/GFF/icon.jpg

Doesn't look like a problem for me.

I can't see lurker's gender, though! There's a ? where there should be a gnder icon! Bobo must solve this internet mystery for me!

I don't see gender icons either....on very rare occassions, I will see one, and I don't know why that is.

Gender icons do show up in profiles though, if that helps.

UPDATE: Oh my. After my post went through, I saw my own icon here, but it only showed up for my latest post. Then, when I refreshed the page, the icon diaappeared. Maybe there's wrong wrong with the coding.

That's the way it works for me as well. Strange that it works fine for some but not everyone.

Or your web browser.

Oh no, it's not that.

I tried looking at this thread in Firefox, IE, and Opera, and between all three of them, I did not see the gender icons.

They all show up for me on Firefox.

I just tried accessing the site with IE and there's no gender icons either. Oh well, it's not like it's important. If I want to know someone's gender, and I rarely do, I can just check their profiles, which only takes me a mere three seconds to do.

*shrug*

I don't know what to tell you then. If it was the way GFF was coded, it would be sustained and not erratic. I know that I've never had a problem. If you look at the top of this page of this thread, you'll see Agent Marty doesn't have one, but that's because gender icons weren't in place before he registered and he hasn't altered his User CP at all (which would change him to a ? if he didn't pick one). But that's about the only issue we're aware of.

Gender icons never worked for me in either IE nor Firefox ever since the last crash.

For me, they only show up on my own posts. Weird.

Seconded. This was a very nice feature.

About the gender icons: there's not even an option for what your gender is anymore. WTF.

So what? Has it changed since you first set it? And do I want to know?

There is an option, regardless. User CP -> Edit options.

yeah, I'm stupid.

Why is there now a 60 second wait in between posts? Was this the result of the 4chan invasion?

Yeah, it's a temporary measure I randomly applied. Is it extremely inconvenient?

Not really. I was just curious as to why it had been implemented overnight. It only truly interferes with my posting in the Testing Forum. No big deal. :)

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I remember that when you used to click the number beside a thread in the 'Replies' column, the list that pops up used to let you be able to click the number beside a person's name and see all their posts in that thread. Are there any plans to bring this feature back? It was pretty useful for when you wanted to find a specific post from someone quickly, especially in larger threads.

Bobo, on the hella off chance that you read this, I would like to prop or rate posts within threads.

Please implement this asap.

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/5523/props3bx.png

Lurker, just edit in props.

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/5523/props3bx.png

I couldn't agree more with this suggestion. I think I mentioned it a ways back, but I am reiterating my interest in seeing this feature to come back.

I can't express how annoying it is when you want to find someone's particular post in a GIGANTIC thread and have to go along at extremely slow speeds to find that reference point or whatever it is you're looking for.

Is this something Blah could implement? I WILL GIVE HIM $1 FOR IT. <3

Looks like April was the last mention of this, but I place a vote for that neat "Who Quoted Me?" feature. Unless it's there already, but somewhere I can't see.