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Suggestions/Feature Requests; Updated 8th October 2016
Topic Started: Sep 9 2016, 11:48 AM (1,576 Views)
Chelonian
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I've noticed a few things that could be useful. I know some can be done by codes but it would make more sense to have them in built.

- being notified when you're quoted

- being able to tag people without using bbcode or adding scripts (i.e @user) with it notifying the person

- YouTube etc vids automatically come up just using the url rather than bbcode

- username change without admin approval (mentioned this in its own topic though)

- be able to upload and edit smilies en masse instead of one at a time

- be able to remove duplicate smilies that have been uploaded but not implemented

- implementation of 'quick quote' (this is where you highlight part of a person's post and it comes up with a small button near the cursor saying 'quote' which you can press to create a quote of only the highlighted text in quick reply)

- being able to move posts from one topic to another by selecting the posts then clicking something like 'move posts' then option of to new topic or merge with another. Or just have a move to topic option in moderation drop down list. Currently you have to make an entirely new topic just to move posts from one topic to another.

- being able to make a topic an announcement without having to remake it entirely via new announcement

- allow access to a board based on post count (no meddling about with groups should be required)

Edited by Chelonian, Oct 8 2016, 09:15 AM.
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Stephen
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Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall.

Some of the items you listed are in active development. The YouTube request however might be more difficult as the current tag allows you to also size the video. Switching away from BBCode in general would be rather difficult. For insance the @ sign is used for a lot of things. I have seen other software use a userid Bbcode for the same purpose as the @ sign so something like:
[userid=400218] might result in @Chelonian. I know that Brandon is definitely looking at some form of tagging users and notifying them however.
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Chelonian
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Stephen
Sep 9 2016, 11:56 AM
Some of the items you listed are in active development. The YouTube request however might be more difficult as the current tag allows you to also size the video. Switching away from BBCode in general would be rather difficult. For insance the @ sign is used for a lot of things. I have seen other software use a userid Bbcode for the same purpose as the @ sign so something like:
[userid=400218] might result in @Chelonian. I know that Brandon is definitely looking at some form of tagging users and notifying them however.
Well, it seems there is no bbcode button for videos according to my members. They input tags manually. I added the code by cory that makes it automatically appear without any tags and I'm surprised that can't be implemented.

I know of another board that uses @ for tagging but it uses the sign up user name only.
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Chelonian
Sep 10 2016, 08:26 AM
Well, it seems there is no bbcode button for videos according to my members.
The BBCode tag for videos is the Flash tag. If the button is not visible on the Add Reply screen, you need to enable it to display in your Admin CP in the BBCode settings area.
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Stephen
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Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall.

Chelonian
Sep 10 2016, 08:26 AM
Stephen
Sep 9 2016, 11:56 AM
Some of the items you listed are in active development. The YouTube request however might be more difficult as the current tag allows you to also size the video. Switching away from BBCode in general would be rather difficult. For insance the @ sign is used for a lot of things. I have seen other software use a userid Bbcode for the same purpose as the @ sign so something like:
[userid=400218] might result in @Chelonian. I know that Brandon is definitely looking at some form of tagging users and notifying them however.
Well, it seems there is no bbcode button for videos according to my members. They input tags manually. I added the code by cory that makes it automatically appear without any tags and I'm surprised that can't be implemented.

I know of another board that uses @ for tagging but it uses the sign up user name only.
Moonface explained Flash. You should see it when using reply on this board in fact:

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[FLASH=250,250]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze2kpOZx_kU[/FLASH]


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Could you explain a bit more about the @ sign? Do you mean it was using the @ sign as bbcode? Something like [@=Chelonian] for instance?
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Chelonian
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No tags, no. Just @chelonian it would be.

That would then bring up a notification in the tagged members notification panel that they've been 'tagged' or 'mentioned'. I can't remember the exact wording.

I can send you a link to an example board that uses it.
Moonface
Sep 10 2016, 09:01 AM
Chelonian
Sep 10 2016, 08:26 AM
Well, it seems there is no bbcode button for videos according to my members.
The BBCode tag for videos is the Flash tag. If the button is not visible on the Add Reply screen, you need to enable it to display in your Admin CP in the BBCode settings area.
Ah, that explains why they were asking. Although I thought they were on about a video bbcode button as that was what the previous board we were on used. I see now that flash tags is what is used here.
Edited by Chelonian, Sep 11 2016, 01:01 PM.
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Stephen
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Ok. I understand now. I think the very likely scenario is that tagging will be done via bbcode. I see several issues where just using @ would be complicated and would require A LOT of bug testing whereas using a userid type of bbcode would be less so and would allow us to release said code much faster. So the good news is that a form of tagging will be released but it's unlikely to be a simple @user format.
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Chelonian
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I have edited the opening post.

Btw, it seems the dynamo mod is able to create tagging with @ so maybe you could look at how he's done it?
Edited by Chelonian, Sep 12 2016, 11:08 PM.
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Chelonian
Sep 12 2016, 07:56 PM
Btw, it seems the dynamo mod is able to create tagging with @ so maybe you could look at how he's done it?
It's also got a few problems as a result. If I don't wish to tag someone but still use @ in my post, the code just constantly complains it can't find a user. I personally also disliked that if you referred to anyone with a nickname, you could no longer do that if you wanted to start a post with "@ Moony: " because again, Dynamo doesn't like that. It just resulted in being required to tag people even if you didn't want to if you were someone who used @ in ways that didn't use a full username afterwards, which occurred a lot on my board. A tag BBCode wouldn't have those problems.

Again, this is my own preference here, but I'd like it if it could be done with [tag=USERNAME] and if we didn't want that full username in our post, we can do [tag=USERNAME]NICKNAME[/tag] similar to how we can name URL's with BBCode. So you either end up with @Moonface or @Moony but both instances work in targeting the same user.
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@Moonface (oh the irony): I feel like that just lends to a ridiculously clunky interface for the user though. Much of the time where I'm writing a quick post, I don't bother with using the link tag because it takes too long, and there's no point when I can put in brackets the full URL, which is often quite short anyway. Sure, I'll use the tag when I need something neater or clearer, but otherwise, I don't see the point (particularly when in the full reply screen).

An alternative solution (perhaps not the best either, but it's worth of discussion) is to include a series of symbols (exempli gratia, @%Moonface) which is unlikely to be used together, similar to how HTML can interpret &#XXXX. That or, and to me this feels like an even worse suggestion, a button similar to a 'Like' button where you can tag people after the post has been written.
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Have the limit on open announcements increase to infinity instead of 20. When you hit the limit 20 and try to delete one you get an error message. :/
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I would support the BBCode tagging idea. I'd be fine with `[tag=username][/tag]` or `[@=username][/@]`. I really don't see that as any more work than any of the other tags.

One interesting thing you could do is have a word filter to change `@username` to `[tag=username][/tag]`. :zombie:

And I totally agree with Harvyy on getting announcements sorted out.
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Chelonian
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Sep 13 2016, 06:33 PM
I would support the BBCode tagging idea. I'd be fine with `[tag=username][/tag]` or `[@=username][/@]`. I really don't see that as any more work than any of the other tags.

One interesting thing you could do is have a word filter to change `@username` to `[tag=username][/tag]`. :zombie:

And I totally agree with Harvyy on getting announcements sorted out.
I guess the word filter could work too. Might try that out.

I agree with 'the' though, tags take longer to write and there will be no button in quick reply for it.

@ is a lot quicker and more memorable.

I also don't think it is totally impossible. If other board software can do it why not this software.
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Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall.

Honestly, at most boards, I use, I'm used to just typing the bbcode as it is faster for me. I will say however that the one thing that does give me pause is [USER=id#] normally because I have to track down said id number.

I'm not sure if we could actually do @username however. That's a definite Brandon question. Remember that while every userid is unique, usernames are another matter. Technically it's people with the same username on different boards but also technically all on the same server. So for instance, when we merged Resources and Support, we had to have a check run that compared join dates and activity between people with the same username and then the tool automatically renamed the less used account. But technically, there were two Stephens, two Brandons etc.

Hence why I believe User ID Number will be the least time consuming solution that would allow us to get the feature out to everyone faster. And the same goes for the @ symbol. You are right that it is possible, the difference here is: Do we want to spend more hours trying to do this? Or do we want to take a simpler route and get this out quicker so that more time can be devoted to other features? In a cost analysis, I would argue that benefits of getting [USER=UserID] as a tag quickly would be more beneficial than spending hours bugtesting to make sure the @ had no adverse affects or that the proper board's userid was called if a username is typed in. Again, it's a valuable feature to have, but it's also not something that should consume a lot of developer time since that is the most valuable thing this service has and we can't afford to spend it on small things when there are so many larger and more beneficial projects that require time and attention in order to complete. I hope that reasoning makes sense.
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Chelonian
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I did mention that it only works on sign up name on the other board provider so current username isn't required. On the other provider you typed in sign up name after @. If not known the sign up name was easily found by hovering over the username in mini profile on posts. There were 'plugins' that made it even easier.

Any boards I went on other than the aforementioned provider didn't have tagging abilities so I am used to @ only.

Also if that bbcode code you mentioned only uses id it will be more time consuming for the user than sign up name.
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