Forum feature requests and Ideas

[Icey!]

I weirdly cant find one in my collection - I have lots of gifs of microwaves, or waves in the sea, or hellokittys - but no hand waves!!

Let me help.

[Melooon]

I received a PM from someone requesting Cohost accounts be an option to link on profiles!

https://cohost.org/rc/welcome

Is this something people use, are there any issues I should know about? 

[SilkSkull]

I received a PM from someone requesting Cohost accounts be an option to link on profiles!

https://cohost.org/rc/welcome

Is this something people use, are there any issues I should know about? 

As someone who recently started using cohost I'd love this!

[Memory]

I received a PM from someone requesting Cohost accounts be an option to link on profiles!

https://cohost.org/rc/welcome

Is this something people use, are there any issues I should know about? 

As far as I know it's not exactly bad, but it's not free or open source software, not federated, and made by an obscure closed developers' team as a Twitter alternative; nobody can know or verify if its good or evil. Then again, so is SpaceHey, so I guess go ahead.

[Memory]

In any way, it's not a conversation we need to bring here.

[TheNothingMonster]

I suggest adding an option to bookmark posts (and topics). I have found myself bookmarking a couple of topics on my browser because I either 1) would like to reply to them later or 2) have found them useful and want to keep them as resources. It would be great if there was a way to view such bookmarks through the forum itself rather than my browser or miscellaneous files.

I received a PM from someone requesting Cohost accounts be an option to link on profiles!

By the same token, wouldn't it be nice if there was an option to link Fediverse accounts? I am not sure how that would be possible for people with multiple instances. Perhaps they could link their most active account, for example. Just a thought. I am unsure whether this will actually play out nicely.

[Ninaiso]

I suggest adding an option to bookmark posts (and topics). I have found myself bookmarking a couple of topics on my browser because I either 1) would like to reply to them later or 2) have found them useful and want to keep them as resources. It would be great if there was a way to view such bookmarks through the forum itself rather than my browser or miscellaneous files.

Yes seconding this!! I get busy so I also bookmark to get back to it later lol
It would be awesome for that to be forum feature, and maybe even be able to set pings/reminders to respond if we want?

[Memory]

Just something minor about the second navigation bar:

Unread Topics | Unread Replies | Own Posts | Own Topics | Recent Posts

First of all, it's really well designed. These text rows are very responsive on a high zoom. They wrap well as two rows, if the font becomes too large.
Do you think a   between the two words (ex. Unread Topics) would improve it? The clickable textbutton would stay as one thing together.

[Memory]

And the next proposal: With 150 posts on the last day, would you expand the "Last Posts" section to be able to see the last 200 posts maybe?

[Melooon]

Conceptual idea - what if we had a list on the forum that was "Recently Read" and listed threads that have been actively viewed recently by a logged in person.

And the next proposal: With 150 posts on the last day, would you expand the "Last Posts" section to be able to see the last 200 posts maybe?

I think theres a tradeoff here between readability and runability - 200 (potentially image or animation heavy) post could crush many peoples computers!

Do you think a   between the two words (ex. Unread Topics) would improve it? The clickable textbutton would stay as one thing together.

Does it not do this already, or am I not understanding! 

[Memory]

Conceptual idea - what if we had a list on the forum that was "Recently Read" and listed threads that have been actively viewed recently by a logged in person.

Correct me if you have data to the contrary, but wouldn't that just be a copy of recent posts for the most part? I for one almost exclusively click on the most recently updated threads, except if I look for something specific, which happens like once a week.

[Melooon]

Correct me if you have data to the contrary

I do not have any data on the subject; but I suspect there are threads that are frequently read even if people feel there is no more they can add. If you sort a board by views, often the number of views do not seem to mirror the number of replies. I suppose the idea came to me when I was thinking about organisation and priorities - everything on forums is designed to prioritise new posts, but this community has always shown great support for necroposting; so it might be interesting to put more prioritisation on old posts rather than just new ones - its potentially a different take on the values of a forum (or any social media type space; they are are new-content focused)

[Memory]

Perhaps such a page could be sorted by a quotient of recent views to time since last post; prioritizing threads that have a disproportionate ratio of clicks to activity. That would prevent it from being a recent posts clone.

[lycoseadae]

a setting to disable custom post font styles/colors like how you can hide peoples signatures on posts would be great! i love all the options of fonts for post styles but unfortunately theres a lot i just cant read very easily because of my dyslexia :(

[Memory]

Seconding this what emeowly wrote. The font readability really gets lost on some browsers, because the users here are becoming too creative with their font choice. Maybe you can make an option so that all text fonts become the chosen layout font, because maybe someone doesn't like serif-fonts or whatever.

About the minor issue in the navigation bar, have a look in the attachments. The "Own Topics" text is split. Maybe a   would make it look better.