Forum feature requests and Ideas

[Melooon]

I have close to 0 experience in JS though, but I'm close to bilingual (french-english) and I think I could be up for the task.

I have enabled French as a selectable language on account settings; much of the forum comes pre-translated but a lot of things will be broken (especially all the image buttons) or untranslated. If you'd like to test it out, identify missing translations, and translate them, then provide me with a list of where each translation should go, I can look into adding them into the code.

I created a thread for this task here: https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?topic=2491.0

[grubbyfox]

Maybe someone already said, but could we have more smileys maybe? 

also, i would love a "point shop" where you can use points to buy lil gifts to put with the icons we already have
<--- below our profile on posts. like cute lil items we can obtain to put there.

[Melooon]

could we have more smileys maybe?

Yesss this is on the list! A few people have been asking and I should get around to it!

below our profile on posts. like cute lil items we can obtain to put there.

Sooo anyone whos a full member can actually give those gifts for free; but no one ever does, so it's a system that's not really working right now - many changing it to something like this would be a good idea

[grubbyfox]

Yesss this is on the list! A few people have been asking and I should get around to it!
Sooo anyone whos a full member can actually give those gifts for free; but no one ever does, so it's a system that's not really working right now - many changing it to something like this would be a good idea

oooh yes   

i know the jcink forums have some sort of system at least that works pretty well. it wasn't as intuitive as some of the older forums i used to be on. but i remember it was sooo cool when forums had "shops" with all these super cute pixel items to buy.

[formadscience]

Can there be an option in the site appearance settings to turn off fonts as an accessibility feature? Some of the fonts that people use can be a bit hard to read sometimes.

[DiffydaDude]

Can we have more font and color options? I think one of these fonts would be awesome!

[Melooon]

Can we have more font and color options? I think one of these fonts would be awesome!

We can do more colours! Is there a reason why you are requesting this font? Since it does not seem to be intended for english. We also might be at the limit of fonts for the forum, since they slow things down a tad - we can swap them out, but it might mean removing a less popular font first.

Can there be an option in the site appearance settings to turn off fonts as an accessibility feature? Some of the fonts that people use can be a bit hard to read sometimes.

If you click the "news" icon on the left it will swap you into the readability theme. - I'm aware this is not super clear and there have been requests to improve this in the past that are not forgotten ^^ - I might work on a better solution soon! 

[DiffydaDude]

We can do more colours! Is there a reason why you are requesting this font? Since it does not seem to be intended for english. We also might be at the limit of fonts for the forum, since they slow things down a tad - we can swap them out, but it might mean removing a less popular font first.
If you click the "news" icon on the left it will swap you into the readability theme. - I'm aware this is not super clear and there have been requests to improve this in the past that are not forgotten ^^ - I might work on a better solution soon! 

I just thought that, since ur irish, having an irish style font would be something up your alley :p Now i need to figure out what colors should be added, because theres like, a bajillion different colors!

[DiffydaDude]

I think i'd like a feature where i can bookmark specific forum topics

[Melooon]

I think i'd like a feature where i can bookmark specific forum topics

I believe there is usually a bookmark function built into most modern browsers! (Is there something you think is lacking from a regular bookmark)

[Memory]

It'd be nice to have a blogging tool [similar to spacehey]. I know it's probably not gonna happen but i just thought i'd mention it anyways . :]

[Melooon]

It'd be nice to have a blogging tool [similar to spacehey]. I know it's probably not gonna happen but i just thought i'd mention it anyways . :]

After some research and testing, I found that this is very possible  ; but it would still require a lot of work to make it polished and fit into the forum well. I'm not totally sure how popular this feature would be to justify that work, but I'll definitely keep it on the back burner!

[garystu]

1. Can this forum software support more granular RSS feeds? I don't expect this site to do what the Discourse forum software can do, but anything more granular than just one big feed for the whole site would be an improvement. I don't want to read literally every post on here. Individual RSS feeds per board and/or per topic would be great.

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2. Would adding a "reaction" button to posts be an unpopular feature? I know it doesn't fit the retro web vibe, but I've come to quite like this feature on other forums. I don't think negative reactions (dislike, downvote, etc) should be added. I don't think it impedes discussion, it would be the equivalent of a one-emote reply (which otherwise aren't allowed here). Individual users should be allowed to disable this and such, options options options.

[Memory]

@garystu:
Throw in some thoughts in this thread about reaction counters:
https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?topic=1178.0

[garystu]

@garystu:
Throw in some thoughts in this thread about reaction counters:
https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?topic=1178.0

ok i will. cheers