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Forum Enhancement ideas!
06-26-2011 8:03 AM
I'm using a crappy Palm Pre, and scrolling to the bottom of a page with a ton of posts is tedious at best. When viewing the forum from a mobile browser (or any regular one Chrome/FireFox, IE, Safari), are there any enhancements that could be done to allow end-user interaction for :
jumping to first/last post on the page (same effect as scrollingto top/bottom) - something that might appear at the top/bottom control bar of each post?
provide a trimmed-down page view that isn't so wide and so busy - having to zoom in to be able to click links/control buttons over and over again is tiresome
setting to go directly to a User CP or Portal at login
setting to allow default display in User CP/Portal to be most recent posts/last day's posts
option for after changing an option in the Your Profile..Edit Options, return to the options page rather than returning to the Profile page
in the User CP, setting to adjust how many Last Threads, Last Posts, Most Popular Threads are shown
In the Portal view.. Latest News & Announcements, do not show messages that have already been read - this area is not terribly useful without filtering out the ones that have been viewed
In the search, having a minimum character limit means some of the mones such as TAL, etc. that I would like to search for are not indexed and finding posts containing them is difficult - extending the search indexing with a taxonomy that relates something like "IS" = "Instant Shine", "neno" = "pregnenolone", etc. and has a blacklist of non-indexed common throwaway words (the, and, etc.) would be a more useful search/index system if one exists for this forum software. The taxonomy for search/index would also tremendously expand the usefulness of this forum which is already so rich with information - mining for references and cross-references (search would "know" that "AD" is "Androtics" is "Androtics Direct" and could show exact matches as well as close matches and "context" related matches in a way similar to the "wonder wheel" in google searches. I'd be happy to help with finding something like this if desired, unstructured information (text, documents, messages, etc.) search/indexing is something I've been working with the past few years for work.
That's all i can think of for now, absolutely love it here and want to help it be easier to use for myself and everyone!
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RE: Forum Enhancement ideas!
06-26-2011 10:46 AM
Great ideaas, but unfortunatly most of them are not possible. Removing the character limit in searches for instance would heavily tax the server, and turn up a ton of irrelevant results, as to have a usable search system it quesries the database for text strings, I.E. seaching for AD would turn up every post that contained mad, sad, glad, advertise, spade, etc, etc, etc.
As to a more user friendly version for your palm, you can use the Lite (Archieve) Mode to navigate the forum, which is linked at the bottom of every page.
You do have several user adjustable features in the Edxit Options panel of your user CP though.
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