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TTony

Sporky said:

I WANT A LASER CUTTER.

Is Mr Bond due to visit??

EdGrip

Suggestion: Some easy way to differentiate between the Classifieds and the straight chat. A couple of times I've gone to browse the classifieds and ended up on the discussion. Could just give one subgroup a different coloured background box or something?

But MAN, I am excited about this forum! I hope that we can find all of the people who might have found the MR forums. I've got such love for the work you chaps are doing here.

THANKS!

 - Ed

ddlooping

EdGrip said:

Suggestion: Some easy way to differentiate between the Classifieds and the straight chat. A couple of times I've gone to browse the classifieds and ended up on the discussion. Could just give one subgroup a different coloured background box or something?

That'll be done at the first review of the site.

snakemanStoo

Sporky said:

I WANT A LASER CUTTER.

Why do you want to cut lasers?

Do you dislike them?

Do you blame them for the misfortune?

Sporky

LASERS!

snakemanStoo

No need to shout!

Now lie back on the couch and tell Dr. Stoo all about it

ddlooping

snakemanStoo said:

No need to shout!

Now lie back on the couch and tell Dr. Stoo all about it

Not in the Feedback thread, pretty please.

equalsql

Can we have a 'Personnel' section under the Classifieds section like we did in the old MR forum?

ddlooping

equalsql said:

Can we have a 'Personnel' section under the Classifieds section like we did in the old MR forum?

Good call, equalsql.

guitari

guitari said:

equalsql said:

Hi.

Not sure if it's just me, but the forum's font appears very unclear on my PC. The letters: I f t T m M D H F look all or partially bold and the clarity of the others is poor. (I'm using a Samsung NC10 notepad).

Anyone else experiencing this?

Yes I'm getting the same using Chrome, but it displays perfectly in IE8, on PC.

It seems to be a Chrome setting for me. Works/displays fine with Chrome on my laptop but not with my desktop pc at work? Any ideas?

bluechargeboy

At my work PC (Windows 7, IE8) the rich text box is unusably slow, with one letter appearing every few seconds. However, I recognise that this is because my work PC uses ye olde crappy software; just thought I'd mention for the sake of completeness. Typing in the HTML version is fine. My over-arching feedback is this: The forum is amazing, excellent job to all involved!

mike_l

Sporky said:

I WANT A LASER CUTTER.

There's one on it's way to you, together with a plasma cutter and a welder. ;-)

Good to you ain't I Sporky???

DiscoStu

Things I'd like to see:

A 'Recent Discussions' button on the mobile version of the site. I always use this button but have to use the 'full site' to get it, which throws the list of discussions off the screen.

Can we have post counts? It was good for knowing who was new and also for sussing out potential scammers in the classifieds.

I'm having a couple of problems writing posts on my phone too. When I tap on the text box, the thread shoots back to the top of the discussion and I have to scroll down again to get the text box. Also, the text box sometimes freezes and nothing seems to unfreeze it. If it helps any, I'm getting this on my Samsung Galaxy S2 running Android 4.1.2 using Dolphin browser. I tried it on the stock browser too and the same thing happens.

PolarityMan

DiscoStu said:

Things I'd like to see:

Can we have post counts? It was good for knowing who was new and also for sussing out potential scammers in the classifieds.

+1, even better can we have our old post counts?

digitalkettle

This forum is already an improvement on MR! A few points...

Post counts...yep.

I'd like to see consistent formats for timestamps (or user configurable): for new stuff we just see a time...for old stuff we just see a date...I would prefer to always see date and time.

As mentioned previously, the comment editor on iOS appears to default to source.

When a discussion is bookmarked, I get an email for every response...the old MR behaviour was very neat: one email and nothing more until I visited the thread.

TTony

digitalkettle said:

I'd like to see consistent formats for timestamps (or user configurable): for new stuff we just see a time...for old stuff we just see a date...I would prefer to always see date and time.

As mentioned previously, the comment editor on iOS appears to default to source.

When a discussion is bookmarked, I get an email for every response...the old MR behaviour was very neat: one email and nothing more until I visited the thread.

Re post counts; we keep having that debate.  There are pros & cons.

The other points are all good though.  I'll take them through to the discussion about the Dev list and report back when we've assessed what could be done, and when.

Mick

TTony said:

digitalkettle said:

I'd like to see consistent formats for timestamps (or user configurable): for new stuff we just see a time...for old stuff we just see a date...I would prefer to always see date and time.

As mentioned previously, the comment editor on iOS appears to default to source.

When a discussion is bookmarked, I get an email for every response...the old MR behaviour was very neat: one email and nothing more until I visited the thread.

Re post counts; we keep having that debate.  There are pros & cons.

The other points are all good though.  I'll take them through to the discussion about the Dev list and report back when we've

Mick

TTony. post counts are there aren't they? For instance you have,

46 Discussion

487 CommentsOk they're I know they're not showing on each of your posts, but all you need to do is click on anyone's user name at the top of each post to see what they've been up to. .

ddlooping

Mick said:

TTony. post counts are there aren't they? For instance you have,

46 Discussion

487 CommentsOk they're I know they're not showing on each of your posts, but all you need to do is click on anyone's user name at the top of each post to see what they've been up to. .

I think we missed the forest for the tree.

digitalkettle

Mick said:

TTony. post counts are there aren't they? For instance you have,

46 Discussion

487 CommentsOk they're I know they're not showing on each of your posts, but all you need to do is click on anyone's user name at the top of each post to see what they've been up to. .

Absolutely...I'm just used to seeing a post count without having to drill for each individual user. Superficial as it may be, it adds something to the context.

I've not seen the previous consideration of this point, so I don't know what the pros & cons are...I suppose, if it's there, a high post count is a form of reputation which may or may not be deserved