Message Board Legnth

[Webmaster 20]

Hello!

 

As we've noticed, there are several posts here on the boards that have recieved quite a bit of activity.  :o

 

I'm VERY pleased to see it, and that we're all participating in the discussions...  but I'm also concerned about the number of topics that are being displayed on the page at a time.   I'm concerned that it may be causing the pages to be taking a while longer to load than people like and that they're having to scroll too much to read.

 

I can set the boards to display fewer replies as a one time and break them down into more pages.  (So instead of showing 40 replies over 3 pages, it would show them over 4 or 5 pages).  But before I made the change...  I thought I would mention it here to ya'll.  What do ya think?

[HyperDrive 0]

I am all for that. I would love to have, at the most, 3 catogories on the first page of the forums. And then, have more pages after that spreading about the topics and discussions farther apart from one another. I have noticed that it is starting to get more and more cramped in here..

 

Also, is there any way to just make the "New Post" icons plain and simple? Such as, only have a "NEW" beside all of the topics with new replys, and a "NO NEW" beside topics that don't have any new replys in them? All of this "Hot Topic", and icons of that nature don't mean anything to me. I just read them anyway. :o

 

Thanks, Webmaster.

 

HD

[FredM 0]

Hey there,

 

Personally I like the setup as it is right now. It's very easy to use and very easy to see what new posts are where.

[Garnoopy 0]

:: nods ::

 

I think it's fine the way it is. The long length allows you to look over previous posts.

 

Oh, the one thing I miss... on the top page of the forum, as you moved the mouse around, you used to be able to just click the "box" of the section you wanted, now you can't. Though you can still do it once you get into a forum section.

 

And what happened to those nice drop down menu's where you could select "Bio" or "Briefings and Logs" for each ship? Those wear neat to.

[Webmaster 20]

That loss was a result of Webmaster getting no sleep for 3 days, getting no coffee, and working in front of a monitor for 9 hours straight.  :o

 

I messed up and deleted the main file for the board and replaced it with a simple redirect script that messed up and tried to loop ya forever when visiting the boards.  

 

I lost the entire file as it was not backed up (server files don't normally get backed up as much as regular files)...  so I had to rebuild it.  I was still trying to find what I missed.

 

Most of ya did not catch the problems that were there, so that means I did not do TOO bad a job.  But that is one I missed.  Have added it back to the list.

[VileRomulan 0]

Most of ya did not catch the problems that were there

umm, there were more? go on...

[Webmaster 20]

When the file was deleted, lol...  The message board at that moment in time ceased to exist.  :o  The main ikonboard.cgi file is the file that ties all other files on this board together.  If I would not have replaced it, ya would not be typing or reading on these boards whatsoever.  lol

 

But in addition to the drop down being lost...  the command that controls the Quick Reply feature was gone...  as was the control for the "extra" iB codes such as:

glowing text shadowed text strike-through text

 

Don't worry...  have not forgotten about ya'll though!  I just gotta rehash the commands.

[VileRomulan 0]

When the file was deleted, lol...  The message board at that moment in time ceased to exist.  :o  The main ikonboard.cgi file is the file that ties all other files on this board together.  If I would not have replaced it, ya would not be typing or reading on these boards whatsoever.  lol

... so you mean instead of disfunctional boards, we had NO boards, jeez, wtg webmaster. Golfclap? Golfclap. ::golfclap::

[VileRomulan 0]

Oh, and back onto the original subject, I've noticed a few threads where the last post is from September up... perhaps maybe an "Old Topics" section where if the last post is from over a month ago or sumpthin, it gets placed there to clean up the forum section

[Webmaster 20]

Most of those topics were polls.  Before it was set to allow a poll vote to automatically "bump" it back to the top of the list.  I've changed it to even when ya vote, it will not bump the poll unless ya actually respond to the post.  

 

Hope that helps.

[Atragon9 0]

I think the boards are great just the way they are!!  The navigation is clear and it's easy to see new posts, read threads, follw conversations, etc.  And the way the newest are at the top age the older threads down naturally!!

[Erein Vor'Tic 0]

well, I think this is abit late, but, yes.

You could also delete the posts from about 5 months ago, and past.

[Images 0]

i like it as it is, i have on many occasions said i am an idiot yet i STILL understand this site! also think of poor A9, he hasn't got long left it would be mean to confuse his senile mind.