Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums
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Ryan, the site owner and father of seibertron.com has been working on improvements to the site and the forums. Below is a list of what he did, we at seibertron.com would also like to know from you how your forum experience could be improved, just click on the discuss topic button and take part in the discussion!
During the past week, I have implemented a ton of minor changes intended to improve everyone's experience here at the Seibertron.com Forums. Now that I've made several rounds of initial changes, I'd like to get your input about what you think could be done to improve the forums. I'd like to have this be an open discussion ... a sharing of our minds. There is no wrong idea, no stupid idea, no idea to small ... let's bounce ideas off each other to see what can be done to improve the forums.
Here are a few things that were changed in the past week:
1. Search engine friendly URLs ... this basically means the URLs for forums, topics and posts are now readable to the human eye. The URLs now also include keywords which will help improve Seibertron.com's results on various search engines.
2. I fixed some CSS (stylesheet) issues. I decreased the margins and padding to bring the whole page up about 30 or 40 pixels. Not a big issue until you're looking at the site on a mobile phone.
3. I fixed the CSS for the "advanced search" so that it would be a dark color on a light background instead of a light color on a light background.
4. I removed the "Smilies" text that appeared above the smilies below the textarea for editing posts. I think everyone knows what smilies are now ... no sense wasting space.
5. I decreased the font size of the text below the smilies, again to decrease the distance between the textarea and the submit button when you are editing a post.
6. I moved the "Moderator(s)" text string to the bottom of the forums and topics instead of appearing below the forum and topic name. If you guys need to find out who the appropriate moderator is for a particular forum, you can now find the links for the moderators at the bottom of the page instead of wasting space at the top of the page. Again, just trying to make the page more accessible.
7. I got rid of a few forums this past week. Merged the Philosopher's forum with General Discussion due to how little traffic the Philosopher's Forum got in the past year (not ever 100 topics). I looked through that forum and didn't see anything that couldn't have been discussed in General Discussion, which is the point of having a "general" discussion forum. I also merged HMW's Maximal and Predacon forums with their respective Autobot and Decepticon forums.
8. I moved the Toy Sightings forum to be a subforum of the Transformers Toys forum. I figured it would be more noticeable if the sightings forum was available in the toys forum. Hopefully this will get some more attention.
9. HMW, Transtopia, and RPG forums are now subforums of the "Feature Forums" section. None of the links changed, I just thought the front page of the forums might look cleaner, more focused, and less intimidating if the individual sub-forums for those sections didn't appear on the Forum's main page.
10. And of course, there's the new BB codes that allow you to easily post YouTube videos, do strikes through text, and easily add spoiler text (finally).
So now I turn to all of you. What ideas do you guys have? No idea is too small, not idea is too unimportant. Small details make the world of difference. Share your thoughts!
During the past week, I have implemented a ton of minor changes intended to improve everyone's experience here at the Seibertron.com Forums. Now that I've made several rounds of initial changes, I'd like to get your input about what you think could be done to improve the forums. I'd like to have this be an open discussion ... a sharing of our minds. There is no wrong idea, no stupid idea, no idea to small ... let's bounce ideas off each other to see what can be done to improve the forums.
Here are a few things that were changed in the past week:
1. Search engine friendly URLs ... this basically means the URLs for forums, topics and posts are now readable to the human eye. The URLs now also include keywords which will help improve Seibertron.com's results on various search engines.
2. I fixed some CSS (stylesheet) issues. I decreased the margins and padding to bring the whole page up about 30 or 40 pixels. Not a big issue until you're looking at the site on a mobile phone.
3. I fixed the CSS for the "advanced search" so that it would be a dark color on a light background instead of a light color on a light background.
4. I removed the "Smilies" text that appeared above the smilies below the textarea for editing posts. I think everyone knows what smilies are now ... no sense wasting space.
5. I decreased the font size of the text below the smilies, again to decrease the distance between the textarea and the submit button when you are editing a post.
6. I moved the "Moderator(s)" text string to the bottom of the forums and topics instead of appearing below the forum and topic name. If you guys need to find out who the appropriate moderator is for a particular forum, you can now find the links for the moderators at the bottom of the page instead of wasting space at the top of the page. Again, just trying to make the page more accessible.
7. I got rid of a few forums this past week. Merged the Philosopher's forum with General Discussion due to how little traffic the Philosopher's Forum got in the past year (not ever 100 topics). I looked through that forum and didn't see anything that couldn't have been discussed in General Discussion, which is the point of having a "general" discussion forum. I also merged HMW's Maximal and Predacon forums with their respective Autobot and Decepticon forums.
8. I moved the Toy Sightings forum to be a subforum of the Transformers Toys forum. I figured it would be more noticeable if the sightings forum was available in the toys forum. Hopefully this will get some more attention.
9. HMW, Transtopia, and RPG forums are now subforums of the "Feature Forums" section. None of the links changed, I just thought the front page of the forums might look cleaner, more focused, and less intimidating if the individual sub-forums for those sections didn't appear on the Forum's main page.
10. And of course, there's the new BB codes that allow you to easily post YouTube videos, do strikes through text, and easily add spoiler text (finally).
So now I turn to all of you. What ideas do you guys have? No idea is too small, not idea is too unimportant. Small details make the world of difference. Share your thoughts!
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Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045028)
Posted by Mykltron on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:29pm CST
Posted by Mykltron on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:29pm CST
The search function is a PITA. How about giving us the choice of searching forum text or forum titles?
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045031)
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:36pm CST
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:36pm CST
I just fixed the "quote" code in the news section so that our quotes from the message board will display properly, particularly with user comments below a news post.
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... oss/17821/
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... oss/17821/
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045034)
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:38pm CST
You have that option when you click on "Advanced Search":
search.php
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're requesting ...
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:38pm CST
Mykltron wrote:The search function is a PITA. How about giving us the choice of searching forum text or forum titles?
You have that option when you click on "Advanced Search":
search.php
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're requesting ...
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045038)
Posted by The Legend on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:45pm CST
Posted by The Legend on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:45pm CST
Large photos are cropped when posted in forums. Can they be auto-thumbed if they are above a certain size?
When signing up to the site forums the verification code is extremely hard to work out. When you can see the code through the speckles the letters and numbers look like they were written by a 2 year old using MSpaint and just look like scrawl. It took me about 15 tries through several hours to sign up.
When signing up to the site forums the verification code is extremely hard to work out. When you can see the code through the speckles the letters and numbers look like they were written by a 2 year old using MSpaint and just look like scrawl. It took me about 15 tries through several hours to sign up.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045043)
Posted by Nemesis_Apoc on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:52pm CST
Posted by Nemesis_Apoc on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:52pm CST
Party Forum Resurrection anyone?
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045046)
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:59pm CST
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 2:59pm CST
Large photo test ...
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045049)
Posted by The Legend on February 7th, 2010 @ 3:07pm CST
Unless you posted half of Banzai-tron's face, test failed.
EDIT- That's better.
Posted by The Legend on February 7th, 2010 @ 3:07pm CST
Seibertron wrote:Large photo test ...
Unless you posted half of Banzai-tron's face, test failed.
EDIT- That's better.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045051)
Posted by The Legend on February 7th, 2010 @ 3:11pm CST
Posted by The Legend on February 7th, 2010 @ 3:11pm CST
The post times are about 10 minutes out.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045058)
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 3:13pm CST
Should be fixed now.
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 3:13pm CST
The Legend wrote:The post times are about 10 minutes out.
Should be fixed now.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045053)
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 3:15pm CST
Ah, much better. I applied "max-width:100%" in the style sheet to images. Now they will scale according to your browser's width. Ugh. I should've done this years ago. I never thought about doing max-width:100% ... I kept thinking that I should have a fixed pixel width.
I applied this change to the front end for the news section as well. Another awesome side-effect is that this will fix the images in the forums and the news section for mobile devices as well.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 3:15pm CST
The Legend wrote:Seibertron wrote:Large photo test ...
Unless you posted half of Banzai-tron's face, test failed.
EDIT- That's better.
Ah, much better. I applied "max-width:100%" in the style sheet to images. Now they will scale according to your browser's width. Ugh. I should've done this years ago. I never thought about doing max-width:100% ... I kept thinking that I should have a fixed pixel width.
I applied this change to the front end for the news section as well. Another awesome side-effect is that this will fix the images in the forums and the news section for mobile devices as well.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045078)
Posted by Skyfire77 on February 7th, 2010 @ 3:54pm CST
Posted by Skyfire77 on February 7th, 2010 @ 3:54pm CST
Night Raid and I mentioned this on the Trouble thread, but just in case: the Mark Topics Read button doesn't seem to be working.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045099)
Posted by YRQRM0 on February 7th, 2010 @ 4:38pm CST
Posted by YRQRM0 on February 7th, 2010 @ 4:38pm CST
That picture thing was the only thing that bothered me, I have no complaints....as long as I can see the whole picture
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045161)
Posted by Down_Shift on February 7th, 2010 @ 8:25pm CST
Posted by Down_Shift on February 7th, 2010 @ 8:25pm CST
Not so much an improvement to the forums so much as it is a suggestion for the galleries. Over the years when I've looked at the galleries I always like to take a closer look at the pictures but always have to go back to see the thumbnails again.
Why not have the thumbnails available under the larger images. This way you have the option of going forward through the gallery of larger images while still being able to see and cycle through the thumbnail images?
Also I'd like to see an import emoticon feature. People always seem to have there own hilarious emoticons, and while ours are pretty good there are some good ones out there not gracing the pages here on Seibertron.com.
Why not have the thumbnails available under the larger images. This way you have the option of going forward through the gallery of larger images while still being able to see and cycle through the thumbnail images?
Also I'd like to see an import emoticon feature. People always seem to have there own hilarious emoticons, and while ours are pretty good there are some good ones out there not gracing the pages here on Seibertron.com.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045211)
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 11:31pm CST
This is an interesting suggestion and definitely something for me to ponder. I guess I always assumed that people would hold down the "ctrl" button on their keyboard and then click on the thumbnails to open the images up in new tabs in their browser or would click on the "thumbs" button in the top right hand corner of the galleries to move forward while viewing new images (when you do this, it makes the last image you viewed the first thumbnail on the page followed by the next batch of images following the image you just viewed).
If you've got some awesome emoticons that you think we should have available here, please send them my way and I'll see about adding them if they're appropriate.
Posted by Seibertron on February 7th, 2010 @ 11:31pm CST
Down_Shift wrote:Not so much an improvement to the forums so much as it is a suggestion for the galleries. Over the years when I've looked at the galleries I always like to take a closer look at the pictures but always have to go back to see the thumbnails again. Why not have the thumbnails available under the larger images. This way you have the option of going forward through the gallery of larger images while still being able to see and cycle through the thumbnail images?
This is an interesting suggestion and definitely something for me to ponder. I guess I always assumed that people would hold down the "ctrl" button on their keyboard and then click on the thumbnails to open the images up in new tabs in their browser or would click on the "thumbs" button in the top right hand corner of the galleries to move forward while viewing new images (when you do this, it makes the last image you viewed the first thumbnail on the page followed by the next batch of images following the image you just viewed).
Down_Shift wrote:Also I'd like to see an import emoticon feature. People always seem to have there own hilarious emoticons, and while ours are pretty good there are some good ones out there not gracing the pages here on Seibertron.com.
If you've got some awesome emoticons that you think we should have available here, please send them my way and I'll see about adding them if they're appropriate.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045275)
Posted by Tekka on February 8th, 2010 @ 5:34am CST
Posted by Tekka on February 8th, 2010 @ 5:34am CST
The only thing I'd like at the moment is for the Mark Forums Read button to work again.
Edit: Oops, just noticed this has already been reported. Sorry.
Edit: Oops, just noticed this has already been reported. Sorry.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045343)
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 11:44am CST
How long has it not been working for you guys? Did it just stop working last week? I'm trying to assess if the changes I made last week broke this or if it's been broken for a while.
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 11:44am CST
Tekka wrote:The only thing I'd like at the moment is for the Mark Forums Read button to work again.
Edit: Oops, just noticed this has already been reported. Sorry.
How long has it not been working for you guys? Did it just stop working last week? I'm trying to assess if the changes I made last week broke this or if it's been broken for a while.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045348)
Posted by Tekka on February 8th, 2010 @ 11:51am CST
Posted by Tekka on February 8th, 2010 @ 11:51am CST
Yeah, it stopped working when you made the changes.
Before it would include the session id in the url when you clicked the link, now the sid isn't there, but it still doesn't work even if you put the &sid=123456etc on the url manually.
Before it would include the session id in the url when you clicked the link, now the sid isn't there, but it still doesn't work even if you put the &sid=123456etc on the url manually.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045353)
Posted by Name_Violation on February 8th, 2010 @ 12:06pm CST
Posted by Name_Violation on February 8th, 2010 @ 12:06pm CST
can we condense some of the announcement. it looks like an aweful lot could be combined. do we need 7 stickied topics? cant we get it down to 3 or 4
edit: i guess its just GD that has the big problem. but cant "Posting in spambot threads", "General warning about trolling, flaming and not respecting others opinions", "Info about our warning and ban system", and "Sig size guidelines" all be put into "**BOARD RULES PLEASE READ** ". all of thoses just seem like they could be in the 1 board rules thread which would de-clutter the top of the forum
edit: i guess its just GD that has the big problem. but cant "Posting in spambot threads", "General warning about trolling, flaming and not respecting others opinions", "Info about our warning and ban system", and "Sig size guidelines" all be put into "**BOARD RULES PLEASE READ** ". all of thoses just seem like they could be in the 1 board rules thread which would de-clutter the top of the forum
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045385)
Posted by Cyberstrike on February 8th, 2010 @ 2:09pm CST
Posted by Cyberstrike on February 8th, 2010 @ 2:09pm CST
How about seprating the cartoons and comics into 2 fourms or have a sub-forum featuring comics or cartoons?
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045388)
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 2:19pm CST
I had the forums separated like that a few years ago, but neither separate forum was getting a lot of traffic. I merged them to help generate more interest but that still hasn't really seemed to work. There have only been 100 topics posted in since December 21st so I'm not sure what to do with that forum at this time.
I'm open to suggestions and ideas though on how to improve activity in the cartoon and comics forum(s).
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 2:19pm CST
Cyberstrike wrote:How about seprating the cartoons and comics into 2 fourms or have a sub-forum featuring comics or cartoons?
I had the forums separated like that a few years ago, but neither separate forum was getting a lot of traffic. I merged them to help generate more interest but that still hasn't really seemed to work. There have only been 100 topics posted in since December 21st so I'm not sure what to do with that forum at this time.
I'm open to suggestions and ideas though on how to improve activity in the cartoon and comics forum(s).
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045397)
Posted by The Legend on February 8th, 2010 @ 3:05pm CST
Seperate the forums and have have the staff create a topic when a new issue/episode is released to kick start a conversation. Oftentimes people have thoughts on issues/episodes that they don't feel the need to create their own topic for so their opinions go unvoiced. A catch-all topic to discuss in would be welcome.
Posted by The Legend on February 8th, 2010 @ 3:05pm CST
Seibertron wrote:I'm open to suggestions and ideas though on how to improve activity in the cartoon and comics forum(s).
Seperate the forums and have have the staff create a topic when a new issue/episode is released to kick start a conversation. Oftentimes people have thoughts on issues/episodes that they don't feel the need to create their own topic for so their opinions go unvoiced. A catch-all topic to discuss in would be welcome.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045430)
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 5:16pm CST
This has been a concern of mine for a while. I created a new Subforum, which now appears under General Discussion called "Rules Forum". I moved all of the rules topics into that forum, modified the topic titles, and unlocked the topics in order to allow users to ask questions if necessary.
general-discussion-f14.html
rules-forum-f214.html
Now to create a "Rules" link somewhere in the forum's header.
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 5:16pm CST
Name_Violation wrote:can we condense some of the announcement. it looks like an aweful lot could be combined. do we need 7 stickied topics? cant we get it down to 3 or 4
edit: i guess its just GD that has the big problem. but cant "Posting in spambot threads", "General warning about trolling, flaming and not respecting others opinions", "Info about our warning and ban system", and "Sig size guidelines" all be put into "**BOARD RULES PLEASE READ** ". all of thoses just seem like they could be in the 1 board rules thread which would de-clutter the top of the forum
This has been a concern of mine for a while. I created a new Subforum, which now appears under General Discussion called "Rules Forum". I moved all of the rules topics into that forum, modified the topic titles, and unlocked the topics in order to allow users to ask questions if necessary.
general-discussion-f14.html
rules-forum-f214.html
Now to create a "Rules" link somewhere in the forum's header.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045448)
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 6:23pm CST
This should be working properly now. Can you guys confirm?
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 6:23pm CST
Skyfire77 wrote:Night Raid and I mentioned this on the Trouble thread, but just in case: the Mark Topics Read button doesn't seem to be working.
Tekka wrote:The only thing I'd like at the moment is for the Mark Forums Read button to work again.
Edit: Oops, just noticed this has already been reported. Sorry.
Tekka wrote:Yeah, it stopped working when you made the changes.
Before it would include the session id in the url when you clicked the link, now the sid isn't there, but it still doesn't work even if you put the &sid=123456etc on the url manually.
This should be working properly now. Can you guys confirm?
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045465)
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 7:22pm CST
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 7:22pm CST
I meant to mention yesterday that I fixed the "quotes" so that they will display properly in the news section and display slightly differently than they used to in the forums.
share-your-ideas-about-ways-to-improve-seibertron-com-s-forums-t63300s20.html
Also modified the smilies and added back in some old favorites. Moved the smilies back to the right of the textarea that we type in, again to help free up some space following the textarea and the submit button.
share-your-ideas-about-ways-to-improve-seibertron-com-s-forums-t63300s20.html
Also modified the smilies and added back in some old favorites. Moved the smilies back to the right of the textarea that we type in, again to help free up some space following the textarea and the submit button.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045471)
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 7:39pm CST
Posted by Seibertron on February 8th, 2010 @ 7:39pm CST
I enabled it so that guests can view inline image attachments. I think this will allow images to be viewed in the news section that were originally an inline attachment from the forums.
If you logout, then go to rare-green-beast-wars-ramulus-t57269.html, you'll see the image attachments without being logged in now.
If you logout, then go to rare-green-beast-wars-ramulus-t57269.html, you'll see the image attachments without being logged in now.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045493)
Posted by Skyfire77 on February 8th, 2010 @ 8:53pm CST
That's got it, thanks!
Posted by Skyfire77 on February 8th, 2010 @ 8:53pm CST
Seibertron wrote:Skyfire77 wrote:Night Raid and I mentioned this on the Trouble thread, but just in case: the Mark Topics Read button doesn't seem to be working.Tekka wrote:The only thing I'd like at the moment is for the Mark Forums Read button to work again.
Edit: Oops, just noticed this has already been reported. Sorry.Tekka wrote:Yeah, it stopped working when you made the changes.
Before it would include the session id in the url when you clicked the link, now the sid isn't there, but it still doesn't work even if you put the &sid=123456etc on the url manually.
This should be working properly now. Can you guys confirm?
That's got it, thanks!
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045552)
Posted by Tekka on February 8th, 2010 @ 11:59pm CST
Posted by Tekka on February 8th, 2010 @ 11:59pm CST
It's still not working for me. =/
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045556)
Posted by Seibertron on February 9th, 2010 @ 12:27am CST
Can you do a control + F5 on your keyboard and also try a different forum that you haven't visited before?
Posted by Seibertron on February 9th, 2010 @ 12:27am CST
Tekka wrote:It's still not working for me. =/
Can you do a control + F5 on your keyboard and also try a different forum that you haven't visited before?
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045559)
Posted by Tekka on February 9th, 2010 @ 12:38am CST
Posted by Tekka on February 9th, 2010 @ 12:38am CST
The forums that have a "Mark Topics Read" button work, but the "Mark Forums Read" on the Board Index to mark the whole board read, is still broken.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045570)
Posted by Seibertron on February 9th, 2010 @ 2:55am CST
Alright, I think I was able to fix it now. I tested it and it seemed to work properly for me. Can you confirm that it now works for you Tekka?
Posted by Seibertron on February 9th, 2010 @ 2:55am CST
Tekka wrote:The forums that have a "Mark Topics Read" button work, but the "Mark Forums Read" on the Board Index to mark the whole board read, is still broken.
Alright, I think I was able to fix it now. I tested it and it seemed to work properly for me. Can you confirm that it now works for you Tekka?
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045585)
Posted by Tekka on February 9th, 2010 @ 4:18am CST
Posted by Tekka on February 9th, 2010 @ 4:18am CST
That's got it. Nicely done, boss! 
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045736)
Posted by Down_Shift on February 9th, 2010 @ 5:41pm CST
Posted by Down_Shift on February 9th, 2010 @ 5:41pm CST
You know what else would be nice? If when we all receive an e-mail for a Topic Reply that in that e-mail we get a text copy of the last post" for example:
Hope you don't mind me using your forum lovin' post in my example Tekka.
E-mail Notification wrote:Hi Down_Shift,
You received this email because you're watching the topic, "Share your
ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums" at Seibertron.com,
which received a reply since your last visit. No more notifications will be
sent until you visit the topic.
"That's got it. Nicely done, boss!
View the newest post since your last visit:
viewtopic.php?f=214&t=63300&p=1045552&e=1045552
View the topic:
viewtopic.php?f=214&t=63300
View the forum:
viewforum.php?f=214
If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the
"Unsubscribe topic" link found at the bottom of the topic above, or by
clicking the following link:
viewtopic.php?uid=1827&f=214&t=63300&unwatch=topic
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Hope you don't mind me using your forum lovin' post in my example Tekka.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045750)
Posted by Valandar on February 9th, 2010 @ 7:05pm CST
Posted by Valandar on February 9th, 2010 @ 7:05pm CST
The tiny little "View First Unread" icon before a topic with new replies works with threads that have only one page, but if it's more than one page it takes you to the first post on the first page of the thread, even in a thread you have posted in.
Other than that, I'd like to say that as one of the Great (un)Washed Masses, I really appreciate all the work you're putting in here. Thanks, Seibs!
Other than that, I'd like to say that as one of the Great (un)Washed Masses, I really appreciate all the work you're putting in here. Thanks, Seibs!
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1045905)
Posted by kirbenvost on February 10th, 2010 @ 11:49am CST
Posted by kirbenvost on February 10th, 2010 @ 11:49am CST
*whoops wrong topic, deleted*
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1046262)
Posted by Me, Grimlock! on February 11th, 2010 @ 4:14pm CST
Posted by Me, Grimlock! on February 11th, 2010 @ 4:14pm CST
Some forums aren't listed anywhere. For instance, I can't find the Philosopher's Forum anywhere. Or has it been removed again?
Also, for the different types of forums (TF-related, HMW-related, miscellaneous) is it possible to make each one a different colour in the list to the left? This sounds like a bad idea, but I figured I'd throw it out there to see if someone can turn it into a good one. Maybe icons? Just for quick scanning, you can see where the list of TF forums ends, miscellaneous ones, etc.
Also, do areas like the staff forum or other invitation-only sections really need to be in the list for those users that can't access them? It's just cluttering.
Which brings to mind something else: maybe we can set "favourite forums." In the left-hand list, there can be our most visited forums or ones we mark as favourites in our profile. If we want to visit other forums, we can go to index.php. The downside to this is that users are unlikely to visit other forums as often. Then again, you could divide the list into headers: Favourites and Others beneath that.
Also, for the different types of forums (TF-related, HMW-related, miscellaneous) is it possible to make each one a different colour in the list to the left? This sounds like a bad idea, but I figured I'd throw it out there to see if someone can turn it into a good one. Maybe icons? Just for quick scanning, you can see where the list of TF forums ends, miscellaneous ones, etc.
Also, do areas like the staff forum or other invitation-only sections really need to be in the list for those users that can't access them? It's just cluttering.
Which brings to mind something else: maybe we can set "favourite forums." In the left-hand list, there can be our most visited forums or ones we mark as favourites in our profile. If we want to visit other forums, we can go to index.php. The downside to this is that users are unlikely to visit other forums as often. Then again, you could divide the list into headers: Favourites and Others beneath that.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1046897)
Posted by Venomous Prime on February 13th, 2010 @ 8:51pm CST
Posted by Venomous Prime on February 13th, 2010 @ 8:51pm CST
I mentioned it in the revamp thread, but changing the color of links would be amazing. The dark red or whatever that is, is just way out of place and looks awful.
Other than that, I'm liking it a lot
Other than that, I'm liking it a lot
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1047000)
Posted by Seibertron on February 14th, 2010 @ 1:05am CST
Definitely open to suggestions!
Posted by Seibertron on February 14th, 2010 @ 1:05am CST
original sin wrote:I mentioned it in the revamp thread, but changing the color of links would be amazing. The dark red or whatever that is, is just way out of place and looks awful.
Other than that, I'm liking it a lot
Definitely open to suggestions!
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1047121)
Posted by Venomous Prime on February 14th, 2010 @ 2:14pm CST
If I could pick any color to change it to, it would be #333366. Which is the color of the navigation bar according to ColorPicker. The hover color could still be the redish color because it looks nice that way. Or the hover color could be a lighter shade of purple.
I think I phrased that all the right way
Posted by Venomous Prime on February 14th, 2010 @ 2:14pm CST
Seibertron wrote:original sin wrote:I mentioned it in the revamp thread, but changing the color of links would be amazing. The dark red or whatever that is, is just way out of place and looks awful.
Other than that, I'm liking it a lot
Definitely open to suggestions!
If I could pick any color to change it to, it would be #333366. Which is the color of the navigation bar according to ColorPicker. The hover color could still be the redish color because it looks nice that way. Or the hover color could be a lighter shade of purple.
I think I phrased that all the right way
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1047355)
Posted by Valandar on February 15th, 2010 @ 11:20am CST
Am I the only one with this problem, by the way?
Posted by Valandar on February 15th, 2010 @ 11:20am CST
Valandar wrote:The tiny little "View First Unread" icon before a topic with new replies works with threads that have only one page, but if it's more than one page it takes you to the first post on the first page of the thread, even in a thread you have posted in.
Other than that, I'd like to say that as one of the Great (un)Washed Masses, I really appreciate all the work you're putting in here. Thanks, Seibs!
Am I the only one with this problem, by the way?
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1047361)
Posted by The Legend on February 15th, 2010 @ 11:32am CST
I don't have that problem but if I click the last read icon for this particular thread I get taken to a page which says it does not exist.
Posted by The Legend on February 15th, 2010 @ 11:32am CST
Valandar wrote:Valandar wrote:The tiny little "View First Unread" icon before a topic with new replies works with threads that have only one page, but if it's more than one page it takes you to the first post on the first page of the thread, even in a thread you have posted in.
Other than that, I'd like to say that as one of the Great (un)Washed Masses, I really appreciate all the work you're putting in here. Thanks, Seibs!
Am I the only one with this problem, by the way?
I don't have that problem but if I click the last read icon for this particular thread I get taken to a page which says it does not exist.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1047464)
Posted by Zordon on February 15th, 2010 @ 4:39pm CST
i got seiber-mail
found the links really useful to view stuff that i might of missed, also it could hopefully bring back more peeps to seibertron. and HMW etc etc
Posted by Zordon on February 15th, 2010 @ 4:39pm CST
Down_Shift wrote:You know what else would be nice? If when we all receive an e-mail for a Topic Reply that in that e-mail we get a text copy of the last post" for example:E-mail Notification wrote:Hi Down_Shift,
You received this email because you're watching the topic, "Share your
ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums" at Seibertron.com,
which received a reply since your last visit. No more notifications will be
sent until you visit the topic.
"That's got it. Nicely done, boss!
View the newest post since your last visit:
viewtopic.php?f=214&t=63300&p=1045552&e=1045552
View the topic:
viewtopic.php?f=214&t=63300
View the forum:
viewforum.php?f=214
If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the
"Unsubscribe topic" link found at the bottom of the topic above, or by
clicking the following link:
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Hope you don't mind me using your forum lovin' post in my example Tekka.
i got seiber-mail
found the links really useful to view stuff that i might of missed, also it could hopefully bring back more peeps to seibertron. and HMW etc etc
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1048508)
Posted by Forgotten on February 18th, 2010 @ 1:56pm CST
Posted by Forgotten on February 18th, 2010 @ 1:56pm CST
I think it would be pretty cool if there was a "live chat" style section. It would be really great to be able to talk back and forth about random things without email/page refreshes/etc.
Kremzeek ROCKS!! Thanks for putting that up Seibertron and for having THE BEST SITE EVER.
Kremzeek ROCKS!! Thanks for putting that up Seibertron and for having THE BEST SITE EVER.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1050629)
Posted by DecepticonRedAlert on February 28th, 2010 @ 3:50pm CST
Posted by DecepticonRedAlert on February 28th, 2010 @ 3:50pm CST
When can we expect to see the galleries up and working again?
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1050757)
Posted by Blurrz on March 1st, 2010 @ 1:31am CST
By Tuesday, I believe.
Posted by Blurrz on March 1st, 2010 @ 1:31am CST
Cyclonus_3009 wrote:When can we expect to see the galleries up and working again?
By Tuesday, I believe.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1050803)
Posted by Valandar on March 1st, 2010 @ 8:33am CST
Posted by Valandar on March 1st, 2010 @ 8:33am CST
Still no progress on the "First Unread" button for multi-page posts? It's a minor thing, I know, but does get a mite annoying.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1052938)
Posted by Seibertron on March 8th, 2010 @ 5:31pm CST
The galleries should, for the most part, be back online by later tonight. I think there are about a half dozen or so that need my attention but I'd say that's not bad out of almost 2,000 galleries.
Posted by Seibertron on March 8th, 2010 @ 5:31pm CST
Blurrz wrote:Cyclonus_3009 wrote:When can we expect to see the galleries up and working again?
By Tuesday, I believe.
The galleries should, for the most part, be back online by later tonight. I think there are about a half dozen or so that need my attention but I'd say that's not bad out of almost 2,000 galleries.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1054087)
Posted by The Legend on March 13th, 2010 @ 4:37am CST
Posted by The Legend on March 13th, 2010 @ 4:37am CST
The ads thrown in the middle of the threads are major suck. Can they be removed/moved?
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1054138)
Posted by Editor on March 13th, 2010 @ 12:10pm CST
Posted by Editor on March 13th, 2010 @ 12:10pm CST
Are the mid thread ads really necessary? I know that their isn't really more ad space for banner ads, but that is the kind of distraction that really lowers the overall opinion people may have for the forums.
Do we really the extra ad revenue? I hope that isn't to help the other sites go live at the expense of things here. And please don't tell me you are looking at a pay for removal option.....
Do we really the extra ad revenue? I hope that isn't to help the other sites go live at the expense of things here. And please don't tell me you are looking at a pay for removal option.....
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1055989)
Posted by ang3l3s on March 19th, 2010 @ 12:37pm CDT
Posted by ang3l3s on March 19th, 2010 @ 12:37pm CDT
Should be able to add polls, like which version you like better and people can choose a or b or how ever many choices are available.
Also it would be nice to have anew posts on the top so you can check all the new threads right away, I'm on a lot of reptile forums being a small breeder and most of them have these options, come to think of it i'm a bike rider as well and the 2-4 forums i'm on have these options as well.
Also it would be nice to have anew posts on the top so you can check all the new threads right away, I'm on a lot of reptile forums being a small breeder and most of them have these options, come to think of it i'm a bike rider as well and the 2-4 forums i'm on have these options as well.
Re: Share your ideas about ways to improve Seibertron.com's forums (1056003)
Posted by Name_Violation on March 19th, 2010 @ 1:36pm CDT
don't we have these?
i know i've seen polls in the fantasy battles forum. and do you mean new posts being at the top of forums? cuz they are. well the last commented one get bumped to the top.
Posted by Name_Violation on March 19th, 2010 @ 1:36pm CDT
ang3l3s wrote:Should be able to add polls, like which version you like better and people can choose a or b or how ever many choices are available.
Also it would be nice to have anew posts on the top so you can check all the new threads right away, I'm on a lot of reptile forums being a small breeder and most of them have these options, come to think of it i'm a bike rider as well and the 2-4 forums i'm on have these options as well.
don't we have these?
i know i've seen polls in the fantasy battles forum. and do you mean new posts being at the top of forums? cuz they are. well the last commented one get bumped to the top.
