Hate! Hate! Hate! (take 2)

[Wayne]

A wise man once said "you may not know yourself until you see with different eyes".

I'm opening this topic to allow you guys to point out anything that you DO NOT like about the current site so that we might learn, understand, and have the opportunity to fix it.

If there's something you have to say about this site and what you think we're doing wrong, PLEASE feel free to do it in a constructive manner.

-- i.e. --
"You suck", not so helpful because it doesn't explain why we suck, what we suck, or how we could reverently not suck so much. .  

"You suck, but I really think that you could suck less if you would xyz", potentially helpful because it's not only bitchy, but in a good, constructive way.

Thanks,

Wayne

[Wayne]

The only thing which would be nice would be the option to customise the home page as a logged off user.

Not really possible under the way things are-- and no, I don't need PHP 101 from all you wannabe coders --  Anonymous users essentially share one "login"

Apart from that, the only other thing is that the mobile interface doesn't scale to the iPhone screen and you can't zoom out, meaning there's lots of scrolling involved. Though I understand that's part of the theme and can't readily be changed.

I really can't split my focus between the 99% of users on the regular interface and the few using the mobile interface right now, though it's on the list when the regular interface gets as closed to finished as it can.

Wayne

[Wayne]

I should study more the situation, but as said above, there's a general "mess" with a lot of things around that create a bit of confusion.

In my opinion remove the login frame from the top page and just leave the space on the upper right corner.
When logged, in the home page, always remove the frame with avatar and personal info from the top page, and place the same in the upper right corner (with avatar and other relevant info as well - more than now).

I'll see what I can do, but without hand-editing code -- which means it'll have to be RE edited every single time we upgrade, I'm not sure if what you're asking is possible.  I could just turn off that whole box, but only if everyone agreed.

Remove the popular tags frame as default.

Fair enough.  I thought they would be more useful than they have been in helping users find specific topics to read/discuss.  Maybe not.

Place the poll section before the user list.

Feel free to "Customize this page" and put it whereever you want.

...and maybe I'm not used to the new site, but I'm not able to find the list of my previous post.

You should be able to find your posts from inside your User CP, or when you're in a forum, by clicking on a post of yours to "find other posts by username"

Edit : Quick Links >> Your Profile >> Statistics >> Find posts made by (your username)

You can bookmark that I believe, but if I click on "Wayne" above my picture to the left, I get "find more posts by Wayne" as a dropdown option.

[Wayne]

While I think of it though, one little idea (and it's one that's quite popular in a couple of forums I admin)... Is it possible to add a minimal smiley bar/box to the quick reply screen? I miss it when it's not there after using it elsewhere.

The "Quick Reply" is meant to be exactly that.  Minimal, type a message, hit submit and you're done.  

To see the Smileys, make sure you have the "Advanced WYSIWYG editor" selected in your options, and use "Reply" instead.

Wayne

[Wayne]

I hate that there is no direct link from a users profile to the gallery of same user. At least I havent found any other way than remembering the user id number, enter the gallery, pick a random user's gallery and replace the user number in the URL.

I would expect to find something under statistics - am I blind, dumb... both?

Not dumb, but essentially what I think happens is that Jelsoft, the people who wrote vB, the VBAdvanced people, and every other author works on their separate product but doesn't really integrate them all as well as they should.

Should be a simple template edition, but please...  Add it to the Bug tracker so I don't forget it, and I'll see what I can do.

[Wayne]

I hate that there is no direct link from a users profile to the gallery of same user. At least I havent found any other way than remembering the user id number, enter the gallery, pick a random user's gallery and replace the user number in the URL.

Now, in every forum post, on the dropdown from clicking on their name, registered users (not anonymous) should see "See $username's Gallery"

[Wayne]

@Gadget,

I'm sorry, I must be missing something, I don't see any duplicate icons.  Got a URL?

[Wayne]

The the coffee house discussions no longer show up in the new posts...

What gadget said.  They were there, people complained, now they're not.  They should however show up under "today's posts" under the quick link menu.  (Maybe?  I forget).

[Wayne]

It seems the user id in the generated link all point to the logged in person's user id. It doesn't matter who's gallery I try to look at, I get sent to my own.

Oh.. Crap.  I'll have to look at that further.  I thought $bbuserinfo[userid] was the person who posted, but lemme see.

Wayne

[Wayne]

Oh.. Crap.  I'll have to look at that further.  I thought $bbuserinfo[userid] was the person who posted, but lemme see.

Wayne

Fixed.  I was needing $post[userid], not $bbuserinfo[userid].

Now works.

[Wayne]

Here's a pic of what I mean.

Thanks, will see what I can do, but there are more "hidden" icons on that line depending on what one has access to.

[Wayne]

Thanks, will see what I can do, but there are more "hidden" icons on that line depending on what one has access to.

Should now be fixed.

[Wayne]

Great. That was quick.

THAT is why I thought this thread was a good idea.  Get ideas out that we could quickly fix, and everyone's happier.

[Wayne]

@Cammy,

Edited post.  Upon Review, ?do=newposts was replaced with ?do=getdaily for everyone, so "New Posts" is now the same screen for everyone.

Wayne

[Wayne]

In my opinion remove the login frame from the top page and just leave the space on the upper right corner.
When logged, in the home page, always remove the frame with avatar and personal info from the top page, and place the same in the upper right corner (with avatar and other relevant info as well - more than now).

The "Welcome block" as it's called, has been deactivated.  If you still see it (and you shouldn't), customize the page to remove it.

Remove the popular tags frame as default.

Actually, I remembered WHY that's there.  That's there both for the users to work with and quickly find a topic (click A1200 to see all A1200 threads), but *also* and in a way, more importantly, for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).  Makes us popular.  We like popular.  Popular is fun.

Wayne