Features To Add?

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

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.

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...

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

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Megalith

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

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

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

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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

FELIPE NO

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 ^^

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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

FELIPE NO

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.

How ya doing, buddy?

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

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by gren

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.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Lord Styphon

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.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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

How ya doing, buddy?

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Quote:

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.

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.

FELIPE NO

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.)

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?