January 5, 2007 by Scott
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We know there are some features missing from the forums and the following is being worked on to add the basics asap :
1. Post Textbox Toolbar for easily adding links, quotes etc.
2. Turning off the preview default when posting
3. Changing the recent posts view and how the links work
4. Adding avatars
Those and a few other things will make this part of site much better. The system running the site is pretty robust and their are lots of modules and add ons. We are going to try to keep custom changes to a minimum so upgrading is easy and bugs/problems are limited down the road.
I've added avatars and will
I've added avatars and will tweak it some as time permits.
Previewing posts is now optional and not required before posting.
Websites are automatically turned into a link.
The photo section is up and you can upload photos to one of three current galleries; bikes, people and scenery. Pretty simple but that covers most of what will be put up there.
I'm working on the recent posts view and a method for doing quotes.
Finally, one of my biggest
Finally, one of my biggest pet peeves has always been images in posts. If its to big it throws everything off and makes reading a thread difficult. I just added a feature that will allow you to attach a file to a post (right now just jpg, png and pdf) and it shows up at the bottom as a link. The user gets the ability to add something to their post while the result is a neat and clean way to show it in the thread.
Oh, and just for Chuck if he ever gets on this site...Unread Posts is ready and waiting.
Thank you for the unread posts
It's the feature I so dearly miss!
Problem
Hey Scott, I notice when I view 'unread forums' on the left, it doesn't pull up all the comments on the right. What's up with that?
Limits
The Unread Comments on the right is limited to 10 because its a block and would just get way to long to show everything. The View Unread under Forum on the left gives you a full page in the middle. Note that this is just forum. Theres a lot of action possible here. A little further down on the left is 'Recent Activity'. This shows EVERYTHING. You will see anything new including; polls, photos, blogs, topics, pages as well as any comments to those. This entire system is geared toward posting and commenting. Everything can be discussed. But, on that 'Recent Activity' page you can choose to see it all or just what you haven't read yet :)
Ok
I'm rethinking this just slightly. I'll have an update in a few minutes because I don't think I set it up right and have a better idea. It will be simple...
Hmmm...
Running into a few glitches. For now the right side will only show recent comments (read or not). The left site has a view all link under Content and that will give you a table view of all new content on the site. You can filter by unread/all, by type and sort by date posted. I hope that will suffice for now until I can make the best use out of each block.
Scott, Any way to make the
Scott,
Any way to make the Subject: box automatically show the topic title when posting a new comment to a topic???? Make it a little easier to track new comments in the Recent Comments section on the right side. In some of my new comments I made the Subject: box be the same as the topic title just so it'd show up more recognizeable in the Recent Comments section. To show an example of what I'm talking about I didn't change the Subject: box of this new comment to the topic title. Just let the software fill in whatever it wanted in the Subject: box....
Later,
Czar
Photo section
the details about vertically oriented photos or photos with a long discriptions get cut off by the picture right below it...on my computer anyway
Thanks
Thanks for pointing these issues out. I'm working on fixes this weekend.