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~Bunbunmaru News~ => Letters to the Editor => Topic started by: Edible on February 04, 2010, 10:23:09 PM

Title: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on February 04, 2010, 10:23:09 PM
TOO BAD NO ONE CARES











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Well, okay.  If you feel the site could be improved by a new feature or addon (see this list here (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php); please note that only mods for SMF 2.0 RC1 work on here at this time until we get RC2 up and running), be sure to let us know.  It would help your case immensely to explain the benefits of your desired mod.  If you are persuasive enough, the administrators and moderation team of MotK will discuss the potential ups and downs of the feature.

Don't be discouraged if we don't respond in this thread or don't approve your addon, though (even if you ARE really persuasive).  We would usually have a good reason for not doing so.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on February 04, 2010, 11:01:19 PM
Just to give forewarning.  Even if we approve your modification, it is unlikely to get implemented until RC2 is live UNLESS the mod provides a major benefit.

This is merely so we can get an idea of what you guys would like while I work furiously on making RC2 not suck function the way we want it to.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Momiji on February 05, 2010, 01:55:37 AM
TinyPortal (http://www.tinyportal.net), so we can finally have at least a site mainpage.  :V
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on February 05, 2010, 02:01:28 AM
Denied.  I'm working on the frontpage code right now.  Just took me a while to get my VMWare Server key @_______@;;

Plus it looks like we're going to get 6-9 inches of snow so I have a loooooooooooooong weekend to hack on it.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Momiji on February 05, 2010, 02:04:43 AM
Woohoo! o/
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Letty Whiterock on February 05, 2010, 02:09:45 AM
Denied.  I'm working on the frontpage code right now.  Just took me a while to get my VMWare Server key @_______@;;

Plus it looks like we're going to get 6-9 inches of snow so I have a loooooooooooooong weekend to hack on it.
You're welcome~
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on February 05, 2010, 02:10:56 AM
You're welcome~

You better deliver on this 4am planned start time or I'm going to be stuck at work and I will be pissed >=|
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Matsuri on February 05, 2010, 02:20:49 AM
Waitasec. I live one state west of you, TSO.

That means...

shit, I don't want to drive to class through that

dammit letty
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Barrakketh on March 02, 2010, 07:08:43 PM
Feature request/possible bug: a "Mark as all messages as read" link/button on the main index.  The other SMF forums I'm registered with have one, but it doesn't seem to be accessible with this theme.  I was able to achieve the same thing by copying the the MARK READ link in a subforum and replacing "sa=board;board=3.0" with "sa=all", so it seems that the functionality is already there but isn't exposed.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Dead Princess Sakana on March 02, 2010, 07:11:56 PM
Feature request/possible bug: a "Mark as all messages as read" link/button on the main index.  The other SMF forums I'm registered with have one, but it doesn't seem to be accessible with this theme.  I was able to achieve the same thing by copying the the MARK READ link in a subforum and replacing "sa=board;board=3.0" with "sa=all", so it seems that the functionality is already there but isn't exposed.
You can click 'Show unread posts' and then 'Mark all read' to reach the same effect. That's how I do it.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Barrakketh on March 02, 2010, 07:40:07 PM
You can click 'Show unread posts' and then 'Mark all read' to reach the same effect. That's how I do it.
But that requires an extra click!

No, seriously...if I knew how to retrieve the session ID/whatever that's part of the argument from the main page I would write a Greasemonkey script to add the link to the main index myself...

Oh hey...it's in the logout link.  So I guess I could use a regex to extract it.  And the "Mark all read" link is the exact same thing that I did with the copy/paste/substitute.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on March 03, 2010, 04:24:54 PM
Whenever we get around to upgrading to RC2, there will be a Mark All As Read feature.

<3
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 03, 2010, 09:19:34 PM
I got it working... mostly.  Now I just have to code the theme/layout all over again since RC2 has a wildly different format :<
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: MysTeariousYukari on March 05, 2010, 12:53:55 AM
I feel sorry for you TSO/Yagami Hayate. You do so much hard work, while I can't code worth squat. I'm gonna say this, cause I might take your work for granted. I don't know exactly what you have done for this site, I don't even know who is in charge, but thanks for everything TSO. I mean it, thanks! Whenever I notice mention of you, their is also usually mention of you working hard, so I thought I may as well thank you.

Back On Topic: I can't really think of a new feature for the site, except maybe a vote thingie, like the Vote of the Day thingie from Gamefaqs.com, just for Touhou stuff.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on March 05, 2010, 01:31:55 AM
Polls are very much disabled for a reason.  They were abused in a prior incarnation of the forums, and they're likely gone for good.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: MysTeariousYukari on March 05, 2010, 01:36:19 AM
Polls are very much disabled for a reason.  They were abused in a prior incarnation of the forums, and they're likely gone for good.

Oh, ok. I wasn't here when polls were, so I never even knew the MotK even had them to begin with.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 05, 2010, 03:58:03 PM
I feel sorry for you TSO/Yagami Hayate. You do so much hard work, while I can't code worth squat. I'm gonna say this, cause I might take your work for granted. I don't know exactly what you have done for this site, I don't even know who is in charge, but thanks for everything TSO. I mean it, thanks! Whenever I notice mention of you, their is also usually mention of you working hard, so I thought I may as well thank you.

Hierarchy wise I guess the mantle has been passed to me as supreme dictator.  Katchura is the original owner of both #shrinemaiden and MoTK, but it looks like I'm about what's left now for the admin staff /o/.  I've basically been the dork screwing with the forums and delaying the front page for about the past 4-5 years.

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Back On Topic: I can't really think of a new feature for the site, except maybe a vote thingie, like the Vote of the Day thingie from Gamefaqs.com, just for Touhou stuff.

Polls are universally disabled because like Edible said they've just been used for retarded things in the past.  I tried to make them mod-only but SMF's permission system is completely out of whack and didn't work at all so I just said screw it and disabled it.  I might do a daily poll thing for the front page but it's really a gimmick more than anything.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Barrakketh on March 06, 2010, 07:42:37 AM
Hierarchy wise I guess the mantle has been passed to me as supreme dictator.  Katchura is the original owner of both #shrinemaiden and MoTK, but it looks like I'm about what's left now for the admin staff /o/.  I've basically been the dork screwing with the forums and delaying the front page for about the past 4-5 years.
Have you been the only admin left for the past 4-5 years, or just been primarily doing technical work during that timeframe?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 07, 2010, 08:14:43 PM
Have you been the only admin left for the past 4-5 years, or just been primarily doing technical work during that timeframe?

7hs is still around, and so is Lev, but I guess I'm the only one actively working on the site. 
Up until about a year ago I was just doing technical work/behind the scenes stuff but now I'm trying to at least be active in the community :V
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Byakuren Hijiri on March 09, 2010, 02:17:33 PM
A (hopefully) simple thing:
a bookmark Icon for the site. Does not even have to be fancy, maybe just the common 'this subforum includes stuff you have not read yet' coloured yin/yang symbol.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 09, 2010, 02:38:59 PM
A (hopefully) simple thing:
a bookmark Icon for the site. Does not even have to be fancy, maybe just the common 'this subforum includes stuff you have not read yet' coloured yin/yang symbol.

There was one, a point item, but the code to link to it broke and I think I might have lost the favicon.  I'll see if I can dig it up later.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: HakureiSM on May 01, 2010, 06:50:17 AM
This is as usual probably impossible but

I was thinking, many people belong to more than one special group, but only one tag is visible above the avatar(for obvious reasons, a stack of tags would be stupid and messy), and so the most we can identify of a person's groups is two, considering the username color, like Matsuri is right now. Pink name for Acolyte and blue Global Mod tag.

What if all the custom titles showed in the profile page, and not just one? Then again, this isn't a very important thing, and I doubt it's possible, but
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: E-Nazrin on May 01, 2010, 06:56:47 AM
This is as usual probably impossible but

I was thinking, many people belong to more than one special group, but only one tag is visible above the avatar(for obvious reasons, a stack of tags would be stupid and messy), and so the most we can identify of a person's groups is two, considering the username color, like Matsuri is right now. Pink name for Acolyte and blue Global Mod tag.

What if all the custom titles showed in the profile page, and not just one? Then again, this isn't a very important thing, and I doubt it's possible, but

Actually, I'd like to see that, too. Bonus points for letting people choose which status title to display.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Zengar Zombolt on May 01, 2010, 06:59:15 AM
I don't think it's good to see that. Even more now that novelty tags are gone.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Kilgamayan on May 01, 2010, 07:01:34 AM
I am for this because I am currently a member of no less than 8 usergroups and I want to waste people's time by making them look at them all. >_>
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Chainsaw Guitar on May 04, 2010, 02:40:13 PM
Since CPMC is now available to all users, why is it still hidden? kinda hard to lurk before posting when you can't see it while lurking.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on May 04, 2010, 02:57:16 PM
This is as usual probably impossible but

I was thinking, many people belong to more than one special group, but only one tag is visible above the avatar(for obvious reasons, a stack of tags would be stupid and messy), and so the most we can identify of a person's groups is two, considering the username color, like Matsuri is right now. Pink name for Acolyte and blue Global Mod tag.

What if all the custom titles showed in the profile page, and not just one? Then again, this isn't a very important thing, and I doubt it's possible, but

Not worth my time and effort tbh.  I would have to completely redo the profile and group display system to allow multiple "primary" groups.

Since CPMC is now available to all users, why is it still hidden? kinda hard to lurk before posting when you can't see it while lurking.

Staff decision.  While CPMC is "open" to anyone, we would prefer it if Google and Co. didn't crawl it.  Plus we're not interested in participation in a "social" forum from people who aren't willing to register.

You can lurk just as well with a registered account, and registering is hilariously easy here.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: HakureiSM on May 05, 2010, 06:41:35 AM
Not worth my time and effort tbh.  I would have to completely redo the profile and group display system to allow multiple "primary" groups.

Thought so. Well it  was just a small stupid convenience, it wouldn't make sense  if to implement it is too hard.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Naut on May 07, 2010, 01:06:42 AM
Is there any way to bring back collapsable [*code*] blocks? Posting large code blocks is making things hard to navigate and adding absurd amounts of vertical space, plus you hardly ever need to see so much code on the screen at one time.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on May 07, 2010, 02:02:41 AM
Is there any way to bring back collapsable [*code*] blocks? Posting large code blocks is making things hard to navigate and adding absurd amounts of vertical space, plus you hardly ever need to see so much code on the screen at one time.

I'll look into it, it's just some code/css.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: CirnoFan on August 07, 2010, 07:13:08 PM
Maybe there should be a chatbox.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Momiji on August 07, 2010, 07:20:18 PM
Maybe there should be a chatbox.
We already have an IRC channel with a web client, see here (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,16.0.html).
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: CirnoFan on August 09, 2010, 10:09:42 PM
How about making a poll feature. (Maybe it exists...)
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Matsuri on August 09, 2010, 10:14:55 PM
It does exist, just not for non-mods/admins.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: LHCling on August 09, 2010, 10:24:00 PM
If you need a poll made, just bug ask an appropriate member (see above).
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on August 19, 2010, 10:24:01 PM
This might turn out to be a hugely unpopular idea, but how about favoriting posts? I wouldn't like to see them raise the "status" of a poster or anything - just a little click to indicate to the poster that you liked their post, for both the poster and others to see. The way I imagine it is there'd be a "Favorite this post" button in a corner of the post, next to which would be the number of favorites it's gotten. Clicking that number shows who favorited that post and when.

Also, and I know I've brought this up before, but a "remove from activity" button for the Unread and Replies page would be good - a checkbox you could tick next to a thread title on either of those pages, and then press a "Remove selected from activity" button at the top of the page, so that you don't keep seeing this thread pop up in your Unread posts or Replies page.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on August 20, 2010, 04:34:13 AM
No thanks, I'm not implementing a karma system so people can rub eachother inappropriately.  As nice as it sounds this isn't the best place to do it.
Title: Suggest a feature
Post by: Tengukami on August 20, 2010, 05:38:58 AM
Alright. And the second idea?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Mushyrulez on August 20, 2010, 09:04:21 PM
I second that, if that has any effect on tentativeness :V
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on August 22, 2010, 07:15:33 AM
Could we make individual threads for discussions of each of the games.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Momiji on August 22, 2010, 09:09:19 AM
Probably not, since game threads come and go as they will, and they'd get real long real fast.
Title: Re: Suggest a feature
Post by: helvetica on August 23, 2010, 04:59:06 AM
Alright. And the second idea?

No idea how I could implement it without completely redoing the unread replies functionality to support ignoring threads.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on August 23, 2010, 10:28:56 AM
Guess I'll take that as a "no" then.

LATE EDIT: Would it be possible to add a Gmail/Gtalk field to Forum Profile?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: theshirn on August 29, 2010, 02:44:23 AM
Guess I'll take that as a "no" then.

LATE EDIT: Would it be possible to add a Gmail/Gtalk field to Forum Profile?
Isn't that basically the same as publicly posting your e-mail address?  I can't say that sounds like a good idea...
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on August 29, 2010, 02:45:53 AM
Well, yeah, but we already have an MSN, Yahoo and AIM field. Why not also Gmail?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on September 20, 2010, 01:06:56 AM
Could we make threads about the general discussions about the types of games? e.g. one about stg's another bout the fighting(though thats already been done) another 'bout the picture games and 'nother bout the phantasmagoria games and then a fairy wars thread if wanted
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Drake on September 20, 2010, 01:13:09 AM
But there are already places and threads to discuss any of the games in; I don't see why we need specific threads for each type of game.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on November 06, 2010, 11:41:23 PM
Can we make threads specifically for the PC-98 games so that people can talk about PC-98 related things and rage at how hard lunatic Raymoo is in LLS, things like that?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Matsuri on November 06, 2010, 11:49:51 PM
HME has a thread exclusively for rageposting. Use that.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on November 06, 2010, 11:50:54 PM
If it's a discussion directly related to something specific about one of the games then that's ok but just PC98 rage/congrats/etc threads no, use the existing catchall threasd.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Romantique Tp on November 07, 2010, 12:51:33 AM
What about a general thread for the PC-98 games ?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on November 07, 2010, 12:56:09 AM
Why does there need to be a distinction between a general Touhou game thread, and a general Touhou PC98 game thread?  Unless it's something that only applies to a specific game, just use the general threads.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 12, 2010, 10:49:48 PM
I don't know if this is possible, but what about giving members the choice to see what skin they see in CPMC? Then if there are ever skin-switching shenanigans in the future, those who don't like it can change back while those who enjoy it can keep viewing the temporary skin and everyone's happy. Plus, I've never been particularily fond of the sudden switch to white upon entering CPMC, so being able to view it in the normal skin would be pretty neat.

Feel free to punch me if this was brought up like 20 times when people were complaining about the communist skin or something, because I pretty much missed that whole ordeal.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on November 13, 2010, 12:55:53 AM
My post in mod forum about themes

I don't allow the members to choose their own themes because it's enough of a pain in the ass to get one good theme together.  Having to debug issues across multiple themes and having to make sure changes I make don't break them is just a nightmare.

I don't think people realize how much time it actually took me to get that CPMC theme together and working properly.  All I did was take http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=2072 and tweaked a few colors, it couldn't have possibly been that hard right?  Wrong, it took me about 3 hours to get it to where it is now.  And I wasn't even doing anything fancy, just changed the colors, and I wasn't even trying to make it look good.

Now imagine me having to do that to every single subforum, while hearing complaints about how x sucks and y needs adjusted, and then having to do that again if I change something in the underlying code.  It's going to be enough of a pain as it is to port the layout changes to the RC4 update I was hoping to do (but now I lack the motivation) this weekend.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Moerin on November 17, 2010, 08:13:54 PM
Been talk of this in CPMC, but it may as well go through the official channels...
------> How about "Option to see original usernames instead of display names?" It could be a cute little check box~
But then again, it might be a hassle to get this to work?
So... Yeah.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Nat Tea on November 17, 2010, 09:33:31 PM
Here, have a new favicon courtesy of Baitums which I requested oh man.

(http://i60.servimg.com/u/f60/12/80/32/92/llsman11.png)

The Dream icon from Lotus Land Story. Yeaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on November 17, 2010, 11:38:29 PM
Been talk of this in CPMC, but it may as well go through the official channels...So... Yeah.
Hassle, and IMHO putting it in the profile is good enough.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: N-Forza on November 18, 2010, 01:16:45 AM
Any way to make it so I can upload photos through Safari?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on November 18, 2010, 01:24:19 AM
Err that's more of a bug.  Are we talking desktop Safari or iPhone Safari?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: N-Forza on November 18, 2010, 01:26:17 AM
iPhone. I mean, if you can't do anything about it, that's fine. I just thought I'd ask.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on November 18, 2010, 01:58:18 AM
I don't have one so I dunno what to fix :(  Works perfectly fine from my Android phone.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: N-Forza on November 18, 2010, 04:51:08 AM
Basically, the "choose file to upload" button is grayed out. Might have something to do with the file structure.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: CirnoFan on December 05, 2010, 10:21:09 PM
I wish you can comment on profiles.

Basically, I like praising others' avatars and signatures, and I don't want to send a PM. I'd like to post a comment on their profile instead.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Iryan on December 05, 2010, 10:24:49 PM
I wish you can comment on profiles.

Basically, I like praising others' avatars and signatures, and I don't want to send a PM. I'd like to post a comment on their profile instead.
Why not? Do you want your appreciation for their profile to be openly visible to everyone? In that case you could just post about it in the cpmc talk thread or something. Now, your comment will get flushed away quickly, but people only rarely stick to their precise profile for that long.

I don't really see much of a point to this.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 05, 2010, 11:38:20 PM
I wish you can comment on profiles.

Basically, I like praising others' avatars and signatures, and I don't want to send a PM. I'd like to post a comment on their profile instead.
This isn't Facebook.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Bitmap on December 06, 2010, 12:22:49 AM
A GameCP/Arcade?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Romantique Tp on December 06, 2010, 01:07:09 AM
lol just go play touhou.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 06, 2010, 01:44:26 AM
A GameCP/Arcade?
Uhh how about no?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Infy♫ on December 19, 2010, 05:08:47 PM
Fake newbie tag?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 19, 2010, 07:32:08 PM
No.  Newbies don't have a tag anyways except for the white name.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Hanged Hourai on December 23, 2010, 05:52:45 PM
How about when posting a reply, a button to put the spoiler things?
Would it be possible to add one, similar to the strikethrough and bold and all that stuff?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 23, 2010, 06:44:31 PM
Is it really that hard to remember [spoiler]?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Hanged Hourai on December 23, 2010, 06:45:56 PM
It's even easier to remember , , and , yet we still have those.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 23, 2010, 06:48:28 PM
Methinks you don't understand at all how much work it is.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Hanged Hourai on December 23, 2010, 06:50:12 PM
Eh, it was just a suggestion. Forget about it.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on December 23, 2010, 07:27:30 PM
New topic title suggestion:

"Recommend a new feature, get rejected because :effort:"

I know the job's not easy, just poking fun here.

Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 24, 2010, 01:52:23 AM
I'm fine with implementing stuff, even if it requires work.  It just needs to be somewhat significant >_>
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Hanged Hourai on December 24, 2010, 07:42:26 AM
How about a Trash Bin board to move the threads locked for whatever reason?

This way the  boards won't be as crowded with non-worthwhile stuff.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Ryuu on December 24, 2010, 08:13:48 AM
How about a Trash Bin board to move the threads locked for whatever reason?

This way the  boards won't be as crowded with non-worthwhile stuff.

isn't it less hassle and just as effective to leave locked threads where they are
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on December 24, 2010, 08:18:56 AM
How about a Trash Bin board to move the threads locked for whatever reason?

This way the  boards won't be as crowded with non-worthwhile stuff.

We have a trash bin, but it's not for locked topics unless we think it warrants deletion.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 24, 2010, 03:00:22 PM
Locked threads get left behind as reminders not to do stupid shit.  Unless it's something really really offensive there's no reason to delete it.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Zengar Zombolt on December 26, 2010, 11:46:56 PM
Now that can realize the need, a way to increase the posts per page on the wap interface would be rather useful.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 27, 2010, 06:09:05 AM
I've been looking into improvements on the WAP interface but it's really temperamental and I have to keep it compatible with the weakest of phone browsers.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Zengar Zombolt on December 27, 2010, 01:17:15 PM
And I was thinking there wasn't a need to keep up with really old software. Thanks, anyways.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Infy♫ on December 30, 2010, 12:49:45 PM
probably not the right place but...
how about a MotK Minecraft server? :V
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 30, 2010, 01:39:17 PM
No, the server requirements are ridiculous (at least 2gb of ram, etc).
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Romantique Tp on December 30, 2010, 11:17:32 PM
Lotus Land Story scoreboard please.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on December 31, 2010, 06:07:37 AM
How about a bullet reading thread.
Someone posts a pic of a bullet pattern in touhou.
And the people who know the pattern can say how they would read it/ move through it.
It'll give the newbies and the pros a different view on how other people play.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: theshirn on December 31, 2010, 06:09:06 AM
How about a bullet reading thread.
Someone posts a pic of a bullet pattern in touhou.
And the people who know the pattern can say how they would read it/ move through it.
It'll give the newbies and the pros a different view on how other people play.
Pictures are largely useless for this.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on December 31, 2010, 06:24:45 AM
Should we use videos then?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 31, 2010, 07:31:01 AM
Why not just make it and see how it works out?  Why do we have to do it?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on December 31, 2010, 07:53:06 AM
I can't really pick any patterns to start off with.
Can someone pick a pattern?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Azure Lazuline on December 31, 2010, 08:03:34 AM
The problem with that is clearly explained in this article (http://www.sirlin.net/articles/balancing-multiplayer-games-part-4-intuition.html) ("The Mental Iceberg" section in particular). Summary: People who are good at something won't exactly know why, nor will they be able to explain it. It's still an interesting thread idea, but don't expect to get better at the game from reading it. If you can't even think of a single pattern to use though, perhaps you should make the thread more general.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 31, 2010, 02:08:51 PM
I can't really pick any patterns to start off with.
Can someone pick a pattern?
Sorry buddy, noone is going to make the thread for you.  Make it yourself if you think it's such a grand idea.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on January 01, 2011, 06:39:25 PM
Lotus Land Story scoreboard please.
Sapz is taking care of making PC-98 scoreboards, please wait warmly~
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Sapz on January 01, 2011, 07:06:43 PM
Lotus Land Story scoreboard is up! The rest will follow shortly. Enjoy. :]

EDIT: PoDD, SoEW and HRtP are all up too.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: DarkslimeZ on January 07, 2011, 07:32:37 PM
Hey, can you put the point item favicon back? I liked having a link to here on my bookmarks toolbar(since I only use icons for it).

pretty please~
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on January 07, 2011, 07:45:04 PM
I lost it, or it'd be there :|
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Iryan on January 07, 2011, 07:49:56 PM
I lost it, or it'd be there :|
I suggest an artist challenge to create the new bookmark icon.  :moogy:
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Hanged Hourai on January 08, 2011, 04:41:36 AM
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1689/flanshadow16.png)
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3993/shrinemaidenlogo16.png)
(http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4050/psquare.png)
(http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9207/pointsquare.png)

I made the first from Flandre's pose in Bad Apple!!
The second was an edit of the site's logo's yin-yang orb.
Third and fourth I made by myself.

I know these aren't in .ico format, but I just thought I would see if any are potential candidates first.
I can edit them more if you want.

Edit: I also have 64x64 versions of all of them if you need them for other sort of icons.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Suikama on January 10, 2011, 03:21:56 AM
I lost it, or it'd be there :|
here (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7998.msg523956.html#msg523956)
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: CirnoFan on February 07, 2011, 11:18:57 PM
How about you submit some built in avatars to the forum. I could really use a picture for Utsuho R.

Or maybe that's just for those who don't know how to get an avatar from other websites.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Azure Lazuline on February 26, 2011, 10:51:12 PM
The "search for members" function is case-sensitive, with no option to turn it off (that I know of). Very minor complaint, but would it be possible to change it?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on February 27, 2011, 01:15:15 AM
How about you submit some built in avatars to the forum. I could really use a picture for Utsuho R.

Or maybe that's just for those who don't know how to get an avatar from other websites.
How about I don't and you get your own avatar?

The "search for members" function is case-sensitive, with no option to turn it off (that I know of). Very minor complaint, but would it be possible to change it?
It's how the database works.  I can look into making it case insensitive but for now I'm working on general search engine updates.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: HakureiSM on March 03, 2011, 12:18:55 AM
Silly suggestion: Rename Mystia's Stored Games to Mystia's Game Storage.

MGS :3
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: E-Nazrin on March 03, 2011, 12:27:51 AM
nope.avi (http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/MSG)
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: HakureiSM on March 03, 2011, 12:28:32 AM
Oh I hate you KoL people :(
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 03, 2011, 02:55:56 AM
Silly suggestion: Rename Mystia's Stored Games to Mystia's Game Storage.

MGS :3
MSG is better since Mystia is fingerlickin' good :3c
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on March 03, 2011, 03:19:06 AM
Oh I hate you KoL people :(

I can make you some rat appendix chow mein if you need it. :3
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on March 03, 2011, 07:56:52 AM
MSG is better since Mystia is fingerlickin' good :3c
I like this train of logic :3c
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Yakitori on March 24, 2011, 10:25:34 PM
I suggest changing the forum background. Maybe pink with a floral pattern? :V
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 30, 2011, 03:40:49 PM
Be my guest, you code a giant theme and I'll get right on that.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Gramity on March 30, 2011, 03:49:04 PM
Be my guest, you code a giant theme and I'll get right on that.

css? I'll make it xD.... no I can't do that now ^^

how about fixing broken stuff and then think about adding new things? (just a suggestion)

if only everything could be fix by switching the boolean "Fixed" to true :P
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 30, 2011, 03:54:28 PM
Other than sorting on the member list and some wonkiness with the Unread Topics/Replies page I don't know what else is outright broken.  My big hurdle right now is dealing with performance issues.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Gramity on March 30, 2011, 04:01:13 PM
hmmm how about taking the calendar out ? it's only displaying the birthday right now (suggestion).
I don't know if it does more thing Or is required for some feature but ...
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 30, 2011, 04:03:03 PM
Calendar works fine, just noone uses it at the moment.  We eventually will use it more often but it's not like it's wasting any space.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Gramity on March 30, 2011, 04:10:09 PM
-reduce number of post per page to 20 or 25
-Converting your Tables to innodb and memory

?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 30, 2011, 04:12:45 PM
1) We're on PostgreSQL, not MySQL, so typical performance "tweaks" don't apply.
2) I've already applied the common sense ones, we're basically down to either upgrade the hardware or start seriously customizing the software to our particular load and needs.
3) Reducing post per page and stuff like that won't fix it.  The issue isn't a CPU issue but an I/O issue.  We're thrashing the disk too much.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Gramity on March 30, 2011, 04:23:26 PM
 "Start customizing the software" is what I'll do first.
 I can't suggest anything more :(
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 30, 2011, 04:24:28 PM
Yeah I'm looking into things.  Obviously customizing is cheaper than upgrading since cost for my time is essentially zero, but there's only so far we can go with it.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Gramity on March 30, 2011, 04:26:46 PM
if upgrading seems the only solution then maybe you should
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: E-Nazrin on March 30, 2011, 05:07:00 PM
You feel like funding it, then?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Gramity on March 30, 2011, 05:10:38 PM
If I could get a job someday maybe I could ?>.< but right now I don't have any
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: CirnoFan on April 02, 2011, 04:08:02 AM
April fools is over. I got a suggestion for next year's suggestion. How about everyone gets banned on April Fools day claiming that they got banned forever, then they recover from their ban 1 day after that. Just make sure to keep the perma-banned perma-banned, and the probated probated until the date.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Suikama on April 02, 2011, 04:11:27 AM
April fools is over. I got a suggestion for next year's suggestion. How about everyone gets banned on April Fools day claiming that they got banned forever, then they recover from their ban 1 day after that. Just make sure to keep the perma-banned perma-banned, and the probated probated until the date.
Uh yeah something similar was done last year and that did not go well at all, to say the least
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Gramity on April 02, 2011, 01:51:27 PM
I wasn't saying that as an arpil fools >.< I truly hate that day
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on April 02, 2011, 02:22:30 PM
April fools is over. I got a suggestion for next year's suggestion. How about everyone gets banned on April Fools day claiming that they got banned forever, then they recover from their ban 1 day after that. Just make sure to keep the perma-banned perma-banned, and the probated probated until the date.
No.  I'm not doing April Fools ever again.  This place has a propensity of overreacting very poorly to any sort of joke, AFDay or not, and I am not going to waste time and effort to get bitched at.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on April 20, 2011, 03:47:12 AM
Can we have a ranking system or something?
Each player has the highest difficulty they 1cc'd a game on and each time they 1cc a game, they get a point.
Once a player 1cc's a game on a higher difficulty, they move up to that difficulty and their points reset.
Extra mode can be a seperate one in which each extra you have beaten equals one point and then you add that onto your score.
If possible we can also have a chart or something which is updated and ordered by points and difficulty.
And for the early windows games there are half points if 1cc'd without the default lives.
Sorry if it's too confusing.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on April 20, 2011, 03:58:05 AM
I'm not staff, but I don't approve of that idea. There are plenty of people in the community here who don't play the games or don't play them on high difficulties, we don't need to create an unnecessary divide between the various factions here.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on April 20, 2011, 04:15:16 AM
But not everybody has to participate if they don't want to.
EDIT: We could also have a reccomended "what to do next" when you reach certain point totals and dificulties.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: E-Nazrin on April 20, 2011, 05:05:54 AM
I don't think that's a good idea for titles. It'd bleed into many other aspects of the forum and invite e-penis competition drama, which we're disabling even obvious postcount visibility for.

On the other hand, that "what to do next" idea does sound like a decent idea for a thread in Eirin's, if there isn't one of the sort already...
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on April 20, 2011, 05:28:28 AM
If we're going to do a what to do next then can we have a poll or something?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: AlchemyFan101 on April 20, 2011, 06:20:57 AM
this is probebly gonna get turned down :V but what about an introduction page, forum, thing?
you know, where the n00bs (like me) run in and say crap like "derp, I R new to teh forumz" and members can go "GTFO" "eeer, welcome"

yeah, I seen in on alot of forums and it could also be usefull to help new people learn about the community here.

I cant come up with anything else to annoy the mods with help with *innocent face*
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Conqueror on April 20, 2011, 06:25:28 AM
Intro thread is here: http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,8320.0.html
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on April 20, 2011, 01:07:09 PM
You may want to acquaint yourself with the site rules, specifically the one on sig images.  Yours are WAYYYYY too big, nor can you have 2 of them to get around the size limit.  http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,17.0.html

And no to the ranking system.  We are not doing e-penis rankings of any sort.  TAC was right, we even disable post count for a reason.  The only reason it exists is there's some powers we restrict to people with more post count due to security/spam issues.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on April 20, 2011, 01:11:42 PM
Then what do you think about the "What to do next?" idea?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on April 20, 2011, 01:23:15 PM
I think it's a fantastic idea myself, but I don't see any reason why it has to be the staff to make it.  You're more than capable of doing so and frankly, it'd be better if you guys did.  Why can't you do it?  You're free to make a thread going "ok I passed this plateau what should I go for next?" and list each significant stage as well as the next step in your opinion.  If it's good enough we may sticky it.

This is a thread for suggesting features to the forum and stuff that you the users can't implement yourself.  That's more of a thread topic and there's no reason we have to make it, neither is anything stopping you from doing it.   
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: J.O.B on April 20, 2011, 01:33:55 PM
I wasn't asking you to make it, just to arrange a way to find what we all agree on what to do next.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on April 20, 2011, 01:35:42 PM
Make the thread and work it out amongst yourselves?  There's no reason we as a staff have to do any of this.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on April 20, 2011, 01:38:59 PM
To clarify, there's no special qualification being a staffer gives us to have better opinions on such a thread.  Some of the best players in the community are NOT staffers.  Really the only people on staff who are extensive STB players are Sapz and Matsuri. 

For something like this it'd be far better for you guys to work it out amongst yourselves.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on April 20, 2011, 07:49:02 PM
Really the only people on staff who are extensive STB players are Sapz and Matsuri. 

And I barely play anything at all these days ^^;
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Ghaleon on May 02, 2011, 09:42:00 PM
I'm sure this is a no since it existed before and was taken away. But I'm really missing the delete post feature. I would say that you got rid of it so people saying something against the rules can't delete their post to cover it up, but I rekon that mods can see it easily enough anyway (and if anything would only make finding them easier since they 'll stand out in that way?). But yeah, maybe there are other good reasons.

But is it possible that people can delete posts SOMEHOW? Maybe if they haven't been probated/banned/whatever for over a year straight, or have otherwise proven their non-shadiness? I mean I try to be careful about what I post so I never have to delete it, but mistakes happen and it's just nice being able to clean it up yourself you know?

Anyway, as I said I'm sure it's a no but I figured I might as well try. Also sorry if it was asked countless times already, forum search says I'm not allowed to search.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on May 02, 2011, 09:44:43 PM
We'll have an earnest discussion on post deletion.  We did in fact have a very good reason for removing it in the first place, though.

You can't search because it's disabled indefinitely.  Sorry 'bout that!  Try using google, it should pick up things on all but a couple boards.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on May 03, 2011, 03:53:25 AM
Just report it if you need to delete it.  Delete post is limited to staff only for the reasons you stated, so we don't have shadiness and people deleting posts years later and stuff like that.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Momiji on May 03, 2011, 07:23:40 AM
I have a suggestion for Tech Support.  Is there something you can add that'll give some sort've status to TS threads, so if someone's issue is resolved they can mark it as such and it'll show up as solved?  Either that or the original posters or myself can edit the titles with [SOLVED], but I figured there might be something a little more elegant that could be used.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on May 03, 2011, 01:28:34 PM
Most forums do it with either a threadlock or updating the thread title with SOLVED, yeah.  I'd say either (or both) is fine.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on May 03, 2011, 01:32:50 PM
SMF doesn't have anything builtin (although their community board has a special checkbox symbol for solved).  I'd say just lock/thread title would be fine.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Momiji on May 04, 2011, 04:22:10 AM
I don't necessarily want to lock the threads, but the title thing will work.  Thanks.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Kips McKipzerson on May 30, 2011, 09:23:08 PM
I dont know if this is a "feature", But could there be a stickied topic in Renkos and Moronic to explain what they both are exactly? Most people know already, but for the people who dont it'd be helpful.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Silent Harmony on May 30, 2011, 10:04:16 PM
There already are!
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Moshalas on July 11, 2011, 08:33:46 PM
I'd like to see some sort of anti-bumping system to prevent old threads from suddenly appearing as "new" ones. This could be done by simply causing a thread to become bump-proof after a certain amount of time has elapsed since creation. I've seen this idea used on some boards, but it's pretty rare these days. I don't know if it's going to be easy to implement.

Many of you have problems with "necromancy", the act of reviving old threads on a forum. It works by using a loophole of allowing old threads to be bumped, which is easily abused for baiting other users into rage. The method I describe above will help to prevent aged threads from climbing back up, while keeping the board fresh and up to date with new content.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Pesco on July 11, 2011, 08:36:29 PM
Old threads get auto-locked.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on July 12, 2011, 08:58:05 PM
I'd like to see some sort of anti-bumping system to prevent old threads from suddenly appearing as "new" ones. This could be done by simply causing a thread to become bump-proof after a certain amount of time has elapsed since creation. I've seen this idea used on some boards, but it's pretty rare these days. I don't know if it's going to be easy to implement.

Many of you have problems with "necromancy", the act of reviving old threads on a forum. It works by using a loophole of allowing old threads to be bumped, which is easily abused for baiting other users into rage. The method I describe above will help to prevent aged threads from climbing back up, while keeping the board fresh and up to date with new content.

We solved this a while ago.
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,9787.html
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on December 26, 2011, 01:33:12 AM
Something I've seen on other messageboards: a "block spoiler," which, instead of just coloring the text to be the same color as the background, actually makes it disappear completely into a "show/hide" javascript-button. (Like so (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?581594-Let-s-Play-Touhou-%28Thread-3%29-Highly-Responsive-to-Players&p=14821247#post14821247).) Could do things like hide walls of text, or spoiler images in a way that doesn't expose the URL. I can understand if it's too much work for not much gain, though.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on December 26, 2011, 04:46:33 PM
I wholly support this. The spoiler tag is useless when I'm mobile phone browsing.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on December 27, 2011, 01:42:29 AM
That part hadn't actually occurred to me. Partly because I generally don't think of mobile phones as being able to run Javascript to begin with ... And I meant as an alternate, not a replacement, kinda thing.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 29, 2011, 03:03:04 AM
I nixed this when it came up a while ago because it'd be infinitely more effort for me to implement such a thing than to just find a mobile compatible spoilering method.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on December 29, 2011, 06:56:30 AM
Kay.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: capt. h on April 08, 2012, 11:14:58 PM
I think Koakuma's Grand Bookstore (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/board,34.0.html) should be made viewable to non-members.

I'm not sure if this is something to take up in the library or here, but it seems kind of silly to lock guests out of the completed fanfic section of the site.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on April 09, 2012, 03:24:16 PM
I think Koakuma's Grand Bookstore (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/board,34.0.html) should be made viewable to non-members.

I'm not sure if this is something to take up in the library or here, but it seems kind of silly to lock guests out of the completed fanfic section of the site.

I believe the intent was to prevent Google from indexing them, but I could be mistaken.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: capt. h on April 10, 2012, 05:25:48 AM
Admittedly I don't know much about how Google indexing causes issues, but even if opening up Koakuma's directly is out I think it would be really useful to have a way for non-users to view the stories in Koakuma's.

Patchouli's is how I got into the site in the first place. I wouldn't want to cut off non-members from my stories as a writer, and as a reader I wouldn't be as impressed if the only stories available were the incomplete works.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on April 10, 2012, 03:17:19 PM
As one of the people who have stories in Koakuma's, I much prefer having the stories not visible to non-members. If people really want to explore completed works of fiction on this site, they can make the minimal effort it takes to join.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: XephyrEnigma on April 10, 2012, 07:24:12 PM
As one of the people who have stories in Koakuma's, I much prefer having the stories not visible to non-members. If people really want to explore completed works of fiction on this site, they can make the minimal effort it takes to join.

I agree with this. If you're browsing PSL anyhow, you're most likely going to have a committed interest in people's stories, especially moreso if you're a writer as well. So most likely, you're going to register, and then -- oh look! A thread containing finished stories!
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: capt. h on April 10, 2012, 07:58:25 PM
Well, for one thing they wouldn't know anything about Koakuma's unless they already joined. We don't exactly advertise that there even is a completed works of fiction section on the site. Heck, if I were a guest browsing the library catalog, the first thing I would notice is the fact that half the stories are missing, which looks sloppy on the outside. Part of the problem is that the site doesn't distinguish between broken links to missing pages and links to parts of the site that are member only (they appear to share the same screen), so to an onlooker their first thought would be about how dozens of stories are missing, not that they should join to read dozens more stories. That part of the site needs to be advertised in some way, even if guests don't have access to it, simply so that guests will know it exists.

I don't consider Tengu's point completely fair because guests wouldn't know the completed stories section exists, and I think they would be more likely to join because of the completed stories are good than the incomplete ones. And I don't see why the completed stories should be restricted to people who already have a committed interest. Truthfully, the reason I got into the site in the first place as well as started taking an interest in writing at all was because of the fanfics on this site. I probably wouldn't have registered or even have had an interest in the site in the first place if not for stories like Frame of the Undying Fortitude and Journal of Patchouli's Loyal Assistant (my membership predates Koakuma's). I consider Koakumas to be  a very good demonstration of what the library is about, and a selling point for the library as a whole. Hiding it from the public does us a disservice, if you ask me.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 11, 2012, 01:57:44 AM
I believe the intent was to prevent Google from indexing them, but I could be mistaken.
They're not supposed to be invisible to guests, actually. That is something that should be fixed.
(I didn't even know it was invisible. Whoops.)
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on April 11, 2012, 04:17:38 AM
Please to not be fixing it.  It shares that permission with a board that should NOT be visible to Google and crew.  If KGB should be guestable I'll setup a new permission set to handle it.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 11, 2012, 04:20:30 AM
KGB should be guestable, aye. Sorry for the trouble.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Phoenix_lostarr on April 13, 2012, 11:17:08 PM
Umm... forgive me for the concentrated stupid I'm about to pour out, but, why should some boards not have Google poking at them? What issues does it cause, exactly?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on April 14, 2012, 06:33:04 AM
Privacy concerns of the userbase, mostly.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: fondue on April 28, 2012, 03:08:00 PM
What about an option to "subscribe" to a board? Every time a new post/new thread is posted there you will get a notification such as...
A new post has came in one of your subscribed boards! Click to view.
When a board is subscribed to, you should have an option to subscribe to the child boards or an option to unsubscribe.
Perfect for the Moronic Coliseum and LettyJournal.  :3
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Dr Rawr on April 28, 2012, 05:05:32 PM
Theres already one of those :V its next to the new topic button.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on April 29, 2012, 01:11:13 PM
By the same token, how about "Ignore thread" or even "Ignore board"?

It's not a major issue or anything, at all, but my Unread is cluttered with threads I don't follow and never will. Would be neat to have a way to tidy that up without having to hit "Mark all as read" over and over.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: fondue on April 29, 2012, 01:12:07 PM
Yes.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Zil on April 29, 2012, 02:48:34 PM
By the same token, how about "Ignore thread" or even "Ignore board"?
I've never tried this, but would hitting the "notify" button and then "un-notify" stop you from being notified for that thread? (Doesn't work. It's possible that the button does nothing at all.) Also, it's kind of weird that once you've posted in a thread the "notify" thing doesn't automatically shift to "un-notify."

In any event, a way to ignore threads you've already posted in would be very nice.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: fondue on April 30, 2012, 04:15:51 PM
What about if you made a thread or about to make one, and you can set it's visibility to anyone, all members, all members above 3 posts, all members above 10 posts, specific members, Idiot Princesses etc. But any post must be visible to admins or shrine janitors or Staff Members, people like that.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on April 30, 2012, 05:56:42 PM
What about if you made a thread or about to make one, and you can set it's visibility to anyone, all members, all members above 3 posts, all members above 10 posts, specific members, Idiot Princesses etc. But any post must be visible to admins or shrine janitors or Staff Members, people like that.

Ahaha... no thanks.  That'd be way more of a headache than it's worth.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on May 03, 2012, 10:03:26 AM
By the same token, how about "Ignore thread" or even "Ignore board"?

It's not a major issue or anything, at all, but my Unread is cluttered with threads I don't follow and never will. Would be neat to have a way to tidy that up without having to hit "Mark all as read" over and over.
I don't really use the Unread Posts function, but wouldn't the Ignore Boards option under the Modify Profile tab of your profile work for that?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on May 03, 2012, 11:33:46 AM
I don't really use the Unread Posts function, but wouldn't the Ignore Boards option under the Modify Profile tab of your profile work for that?

That's if I want to ignore all the threads on an entire board. I'm talking about being in Unread or Replies, and there being a little "Ignore" button next to individual threads.

This is practical for when you've commented in a thread and don't need to follow it, or if there are some threads on a board you want to follow while ignoring others. It's essentially doing what Ignore Boards already does, only on a thread-by-thread basis in your Unread or Replies page.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Stuffman on May 05, 2012, 01:26:54 PM
How much of a pain in the ass would it be to make the font face/size/color drop-down boxes reset to their original positions after you make a choice? Currently, if I want to color a bunch of lines I have to manually reset it to "Change Color" after each time. It would save me a whole bunch of clicks if it went back on its own D:
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on May 05, 2012, 07:33:34 PM
Uhh, it works fine here...?  I just tried it, each time I select a color in "Change Color" it resets back to "Change Color".  Do you have javascript enabled?

e: same with font and font size
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Stuffman on May 05, 2012, 08:10:50 PM
Oh huh. Yeah I opened IE and it worked fine there. Guess it's just an Opera problem.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: fondue on June 09, 2012, 03:28:37 PM
What about to be able to login with your nickname?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Zil on June 09, 2012, 04:59:49 PM
I think there's a specific reason that your display name should be different from what you log in with (^^;), so my guess is that would generate the same problem.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on June 10, 2012, 02:07:05 AM
The whole reason why nicknames exist is because everyone had to change their usernames a while back due to security issues. Now, your username is what you log in with-- but you can't change that, and your display name can be changed by yourself at any time. Nicknames are useful for people who change their names often, so there's not as much of a hassle figuring out who they are.

For example, my nickname was my original name here-- Matsuri. I change my name every so often to go with whatever avatar/sig theme I have, while incorporating at least part of my name in there. However, that can still be kind of confusing, so the nickname shows it's me every time since it never changes.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Cybeast710 on July 18, 2012, 08:18:54 PM
Anyone else noticed that they've set it up so everyone gets a random avatar whenever you viewed the page? Maybe you could keep the php that does that so that users who like watching the avatars cycle (i.e. me) could use that for their avatar. I mean... Would it be too much hassle to keep  this page  (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/images/avatars/rotate.php?) around for those people who like watching the cycle? Because then anyone who wants to can just link to it for their avatar to generate the random avatar thing which is going on right now!
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: NekoNekoRex on September 01, 2012, 09:56:20 AM
Correct me if there is one already, but is there a feature in effect or that can be implemented that allows you to jump back up to the top of pages? Normally when I scroll around forums there'll be one at the bottom or in individual posts, and it helps with long pages or pages where scrolling is laggy (ie topics with excessive numbers of images or video)

EDIT: And now I found it. Welp.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on September 01, 2012, 03:45:50 PM
For what it's worth, the 'Home' key is pretty much a 'go back to the top of the page' link that works pretty much anywhere. :p
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Puffy on December 12, 2012, 03:28:46 PM
Not sure if there is one on MotK, but for convienience when someone links to a youtube video via posting in a thread, instead of the person clicking the link, in the post, one can just view the video in the post.

In terms of forum code:

[media=youtube]iOw0x5sQGIY[/media]

Inbetween the parentheses is the youtube code (the characters after 'watch?v=')
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 12, 2012, 04:13:04 PM
I've considered it in the past, but for the time being I like YT embedding not being a thing here.  I've not really heard any good arguments for allowing it outside of mod shenanigans.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Puffy on December 30, 2012, 04:49:56 PM
Any ideas to view spoilers easier on mobile devices that don't have cursors to view spoilers?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on December 30, 2012, 05:08:27 PM
Man, I don't even go into spoiler-heavy threads with my mobile - it strips out all tags, like [spoiler], [nsfw] and such. My phone is ancient!
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Puffy on December 30, 2012, 05:38:27 PM
Haha I guess only a few people use MotK on mobiles, I'm using an iPod touch 4.  Always handy to have connection to the Internet in bed hehe
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Kilgamayan on December 30, 2012, 07:18:44 PM
Any ideas to view spoilers easier on mobile devices that don't have cursors to view spoilers?

Tapping spoiled text on my Android 2 Global reveals it.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Puffy on December 30, 2012, 08:00:23 PM
Tapping spoiled text on my Android 2 Global reveals it.

Anything on iPhones? If not its okay I can always quote others and view the text inside its tags ^^
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on January 01, 2013, 12:11:46 AM
I'm still toying with a mobile friendly spoiler tag, unfortunately the trick I use for desktops (link hover) doesn't really work for touch devices.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Sparen on January 06, 2013, 02:52:12 PM
Would it be possible for people with their own RaNGE Release Threads to be given control over their own threads and be able to delete spam and double posts?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on January 07, 2013, 05:02:46 AM
Not a bad idea.  How I'd do it is setup a subforum in RaNGE and anyone posting a thread in there will get rights to police their threads like LJ.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Sparen on January 07, 2013, 08:54:25 PM
The issue with that is that it'd require moving a lot of threads out, and the sticky with the links to all of the release threads... would have to have all of the links updated...
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Pesco on January 07, 2013, 09:02:39 PM
Moving threads won't change the links. There's really nothing to it other than having another subforum.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Sparen on January 07, 2013, 10:28:28 PM
Okay. Then I hope it gets implemented!
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Zil on January 07, 2013, 10:40:42 PM
That makes me wonder then if the art/library threads should get the same thing. (Or do they already have it?)

Actually I kind of wonder if it's truly necessary. Is there really so much spam that you'd need the power to delete it on a regular basis? This forum has always seemed pretty spam free to me. But then I almost never visit those places so I can't really say.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Sparen on January 07, 2013, 10:47:20 PM
I'm more worried about double posting than spam. Sometimes, Safari decides to do stupid things, and sometimes my computer does stupid things that I never told it to to. And sometimes MotK has server issues.

Spam can be reported. Double posting is just annoying. But being able to delete useless posts helps remove clutter as well.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on January 09, 2013, 02:40:20 AM
I'm not sure about AAA/PSL but they already have a staff of mini janitors that have powers just within those realms.  I wouldn't mind visiting the idea of giving such powers there as well since they're really your threads and it's your content to do as you see fit.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Zil on January 10, 2013, 04:59:47 AM
Actually, that reminds me of something I was thinking about on the subject of mini-janitors. I was wondering if something like that would be a good idea for the High Score Entry board. As it is there's like one guy updating them and my impression is that it's kind of an overwhelming (or at least very time consuming) task for just one person to do. I was thinking it might easier for more people to help out with that if it weren't necessary to become a janitor to do so. I certainly would, and I think at least one other person from HME mentioned that she would, but it's not clear if it's okay to become a janitor just for that reason.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Sparen on January 26, 2013, 02:01:52 AM
Would it be possible for any of this self-regulation to occur?

(I feel as if I'm bumping an ancient thread...)
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Zil on January 26, 2013, 04:18:19 AM
Oddly enough, I was wondering the same thing myself earlier today. It'd be nice to at least hear a response to my question.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Sparen on March 03, 2013, 12:46:27 AM
OK~

This is probably somewhere else in this thread, but...

Bookmarks? Not like notifications, just bookmarks. That way we don't have to reply to threads we want to log and we can separate e-main notification threads from normal bookmarked threads.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 03, 2013, 09:12:20 AM
Tried before a few times, the various plugins I've tried to implement it with never worked right.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: KrackoCloud on March 06, 2013, 05:26:24 AM
This isn't a big issue or anything, but will we ever have extra forum skins? Right now I use a Stylish theme, but it stops colored usernames from working...
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 07, 2013, 07:27:10 AM
I only maintain one skin. Any modifications you wish to do are on your own onus using Stylish. I'm willing to meet half way and make the CSS I write well commented and stuff so it's easier to manipulate on your end but I'm not going to support more than one skin ever. It's not worth my time or effort.

The only time I ever supported more than one skin was when CPMC had a custom joke skin, and RPG had a modified base skin to hide active user counts, or whenever I did a seasonal/joke skin.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: t0k on April 14, 2013, 06:35:13 AM
In the profiles section, why not add the option to add a user's My Anime List profile? I mean, there's a field for MySpace... MotK isn't really an anime community, but I'd think that a sizable percentage of us enjoy anime time from time.

The syntax for a MAL account is like this:

http://myanimelist.net/profile/ + $username

My username is g83, so my MAL profile link would be http://myanimelist.net/profile/g83 .
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on April 15, 2013, 07:16:54 PM
Nah.

Feel free to put it in your signature though!
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Puffy on May 16, 2013, 06:53:02 PM
Is it me or that i can't find no forum "button" on the mobile version of Shrinemaiden.org? [using ipod touch 4g]. Can't get to forum from mainpage  :wat:.  But hey its no issue since forums is bookmarked for me  :V
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on May 16, 2013, 07:16:01 PM
?

iConfused
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on May 19, 2013, 03:48:10 PM
Please add Clippy to MotK (https://www.smore.com/clippy-js).

Thank you.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on May 19, 2013, 03:57:02 PM
I see you're trying to ban Tengukami.  Would you like assistance with that?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on May 19, 2013, 04:00:19 PM
 :ohdear:
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: メイフィールド on July 14, 2013, 05:27:25 PM
How about a short welcome message for newcomers?
Its not that important but , its kinda.. friendly ,i guess :3
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: WBL Studios on August 26, 2013, 08:01:11 PM
The least you guys could do is refill the coffee in the hallway coffee machine.  Seriously, that stuff's like sludge right now.  I'm not saying you need to go all out and buy a cappuchino machine, but man, seriously.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: fondue on August 27, 2013, 01:52:42 PM
What about a button beneath a post which says something like "Agree" and under the post it says the people who have agreed with the post and you can undo that anytime. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to FAF and see the posts that have the agree/thanks option.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Edible on August 27, 2013, 02:02:32 PM
Though it's possible to implement in SMF, we've purposely avoided a facebook/reddit-style like/dislike system.  We find it discourages people actually posting their opinions and thoughts on various subjects, opting instead to click a button.

The least you guys could do is refill the coffee in the hallway coffee machine.  Seriously, that stuff's like sludge right now.  I'm not saying you need to go all out and buy a cappuchino machine, but man, seriously.

Please refrain from spamming in the future.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: WBL Studios on August 28, 2013, 12:19:09 PM
Though it's possible to implement in SMF, we've purposely avoided a facebook/reddit-style like/dislike system.  We find it discourages people actually posting their opinions and thoughts on various subjects, opting instead to click a button.

Please refrain from spamming in the future.

Wow.  If this is what happens when a guy tries to have a little fun around here...
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: fondue on August 28, 2013, 01:55:15 PM
Though it's possible to implement in SMF, we've purposely avoided a facebook/reddit-style like/dislike system.  We find it discourages people actually posting their opinions and thoughts on various subjects, opting instead to click a button.
Ah, never thought of it that way. Sorry.
Wow.  If this is what happens when a guy tries to have a little fun around here...
:colbert: :colbert: :colbert:
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on November 02, 2013, 11:00:09 PM
Didn't think this needed it's own thread, so, I just thought I'd ask:

Is the Nethack server back? And if not, can it be please? I like alt.org but I think it'd be fun to use an MotK server as well. Just to mix things up a bit!
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on November 03, 2013, 03:10:23 AM
I have it all backed up. I could restore it and host it at home. I just didn't think anyone actually cared about it.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on November 08, 2013, 11:23:39 AM
Oh I care very much. And with Sapz' new Stone Soup thread, there's probably other interested parties.

I'm getting better at Tourist, btw. They really can do pretty much anything. 
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on November 08, 2013, 02:54:07 PM
Well when I get some time and a chance to breathe and fix my server I'll definitely look into it.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Steelix100 on November 09, 2013, 02:52:59 PM
H-hi, I'm new here. I'm trying to get acquainted with this place. But, uh... is it OK if I ask here?

These captchas are really hard to read sometimes... so it's a bit obnoxious to try to make new posts...
The captchas are just for new members like me, right?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on November 09, 2013, 03:20:09 PM
Well when I get some time and a chance to breathe and fix my server I'll definitely look into it.

o/
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Kilgamayan on November 09, 2013, 07:45:19 PM
H-hi, I'm new here. I'm trying to get acquainted with this place. But, uh... is it OK if I ask here?

These captchas are really hard to read sometimes... so it's a bit obnoxious to try to make new posts...
The captchas are just for new members like me, right?

Yes, they'll go away after a few posts. They're in place because we got flooded with spambots for a while.

The inconvenience for legitimate users is unfortunate, but it's the lesser of two evils.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Failure McFailFace on December 09, 2013, 10:58:24 PM
Perhaps a full list of smilies?

Since I first stumbled upon this site, I've found at least half-a-dozen smilies that are not found when posting. (I.e. The one where Yukka is strumming a guitar with the mouse-over text saying Yukkuri Shitte Ne!)
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Rei Scarlette on December 10, 2013, 12:07:36 AM
Perhaps a full list of smilies?

Since I first stumbled upon this site, I've found at least half-a-dozen smilies that are not found when posting. (I.e. The one where Yukka is strumming a guitar with the mouse-over text saying Yukkuri Shitte Ne!)

This already exists, actually. Click the [more] button directly under the smilies that are already there, and you'll find all of the larger ones. Click those and it'll insert them into your post wherever the cursor currently is.

The one you're speaking of is :flowerpower: anyways or something I believe. Though, the mouseover text reads "Thanks, Ruro!" when I check it.
This one, right?
:flowerpower:
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Suikama on December 10, 2013, 12:35:21 AM
there are actually a few that aren't there either like :akihawhat: and :comedycentral:
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Failure McFailFace on December 10, 2013, 03:20:32 AM
This already exists, actually. Click the [more] button directly under the smilies that are already there, and you'll find all of the larger ones. Click those and it'll insert them into your post wherever the cursor currently is.

The one you're speaking of is :flowerpower: anyways or something I believe. Though, the mouseover text reads "Thanks, Ruro!" when I check it.
This one, right?
:flowerpower:

Wow, I didn't notice that.

And yes, that's the one.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on December 10, 2013, 06:23:33 AM
there are actually a few that aren't there either like :akihawhat: and :comedycentral:
That's because while "retired" I haven't turned those emotes off :b
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Zerviscos on December 10, 2013, 07:22:16 AM
I saved this one.
(http://i.imgur.com/Sah3RMY.gif)
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Dude on March 06, 2014, 09:24:47 PM
So this has been bugging me for a while but... anyone who posts on windows 8 is labeled as Windows NT. =/

Is there an update for the current feature?

It's not that big of a deal it just irritates me lol
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 07, 2014, 08:37:10 AM
I'm lazy and haven't bothered to update the user agent detection
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Bio on March 07, 2014, 02:51:08 PM
Windows 8 is so fast you surpass the speed of light and go back in time.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Failure McFailFace on March 13, 2014, 08:05:31 PM
Perhaps a post count? As a guideline for length of time on the forum or something like that.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on March 13, 2014, 08:23:47 PM
Perhaps a post count? As a guideline for length of time on the forum or something like that.
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=stats
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 14, 2014, 01:30:17 AM
Perhaps a post count? As a guideline for length of time on the forum or something like that.
No.

Post count was hidden a long time ago because all it does is encourage e-peen wagging and people thinking certain people are more important because they post more.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Kilgamayan on March 14, 2014, 01:49:24 AM
people thinking certain people are more important because they post more

http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=stats

1. Purvis
2. Me
3. Draco
4. Sir Amat

I dunno, seems pretty accurate to me.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on March 14, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
I still cannot get over how I have the most topics by far.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Helepolis on March 14, 2014, 09:19:26 AM
I still cannot get over how I have the most topics by far.
Spammer.

In addition to Ammy's global stats, post counts can be viewed from your own profile and clicking stats. And having high post count means nothing about the time span a user spent on MotK.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on March 14, 2014, 01:24:17 PM
And having high post count means nothing about the time span a user spent on MotK.
Exactly. That's what the Most Time Online stat is for:

Purvis: 513d 12h 49m
Dormio: 470d 18h 44m
Kilgamayan: 407d 5h 10m
Matsuri: 387d 18h 44m
Donut: 312d 17h 33m

You can achieve a high amount of time online by simply never closing your MotK tab. In fact, as a general guideline this is great advice. You'll have a long way to go to catch up with people like Purv, Dormio and Kilga, all over whom have wasted enjoyed more than a year online. Even Moerin is in 6th place, and he's been more or less invisible for two years now. Good luck, diligent poster, in trying to break the top ten here!

If I were you, Biggie Bigz (can I call you that?), I would try to break the top ten of Topic Starters. The bottom tier is only 100 threads started. You're already at 19 threads - about a fifth of the way there!

Now, there is unfortunately no stats for Quality Topic Starters, because if there were I would be Numero Uno. Maybe you can suggest that as a feature instead.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on April 10, 2014, 02:51:49 AM
You can achieve a high amount of time online by simply never closing your MotK tab.
I'm pretty sure you need to be actively browsing the site in order for your time online to count. (IE. opened a new page or clicked a link or something within the past 15 minutes)

Also, Purvis is a scrub.
Quote
[12:47:39] <Dormio> @math calc 482/1313
[12:47:40] <Keine-tan> Dormio: 0.367098248286
[12:48:22] <Dormio> @math calc 521/1772
[12:48:24] <Keine-tan> Dormio: 0.294018058691
[12:48:54] <Dormio> 36.7% of my time is spent actively browsing motk as opposed to purvis' 29.4%
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Karisa on May 04, 2014, 09:36:50 AM
How feasible would it be to add a profile setting for Twitch username, so there'd be an icon for that at the bottom of posts? Streaming on Twitch seems to be getting pretty popular lately, at least to my impression.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on July 15, 2014, 04:21:00 PM
No more difficult than adding the others, I'll add it to my todo list.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Imosa on October 02, 2014, 07:06:47 PM
Why not add a search button/bar/link right here: http://imgur.com/jrdZrc9
(http://imgur.com/jrdZrc9)
So I wanted to talk about a certain game so I hopped on over to Akyu's arcade and realized "Boy I sure should search if there's been any threads about this game" I then went looking for a search function and couldn't find one. Turns out it was up at the top of the page. I'm glad because for a second I thought the only link was on the front page of the forum.
In order to streamline this process I was thinking it might help to add a link to the search function (preset to search the current forum & its sub-forums), or even a search bar (again, preset to search the current forum & sub-forums), somewhere between the header and the content of the page, and perhaps most appropriately, next to the "New Topic" button.


AHHH! How do I format? My picture is showing up as a broken link. What does that mean? Can it at least salvage the situation by including a link to the picture? Reddit has an expandable "formatting help" bar, which might be worth implementing. Additionally, what about buttons down at "Quick Reply" area and here in the "Modify Post" view, that send the user to the advanced editor.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on October 02, 2014, 07:45:34 PM
Why not add a search button/bar/link right here: http://imgur.com/jrdZrc9
(http://imgur.com/jrdZrc9)
So I wanted to talk about a certain game so I hopped on over to Akyu's arcade and realized "Boy I sure should search if there's been any threads about this game" I then went looking for a search function and couldn't find one. Turns out it was up at the top of the page. I'm glad because for a second I thought the only link was on the front page of the forum.
In order to streamline this process I was thinking it might help to add a link to the search function (preset to search the current forum & its sub-forums), or even a search bar (again, preset to search the current forum & sub-forums), somewhere between the header and the content of the page, and perhaps most appropriately, next to the "New Topic" button.


AHHH! How do I format? My picture is showing up as a broken link. What does that mean? Can it at least salvage the situation by including a link to the picture? Reddit has an expandable "formatting help" bar, which might be worth implementing. Additionally, what about buttons down at "Quick Reply" area and here in the "Modify Post" view, that send the user to the advanced editor.

You can't throw the imgur site in a img tag, you have to get the actual image file URL out. As for the search bar, sure that sounds like a logical addition to add an additional search bar above the topic list and topic view, although I'll have to figure out what prefixes I need to setup to have it search current board/thread.

As for the rest I guess I'm misunderstanding and not sure what you're asking, can you draw a mockup or something (even if it's awful MS Paint I'll probably get it better).
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Imosa on October 02, 2014, 10:29:28 PM
Well, when you hit reply you go to this editor with tons of buttons for formatting text. This is not something you're offered with the quick reply feature but that kinda makes sense because its the quick reply feature and isn't meant for more detailed posts. However, some of the buttons offered in the editor are still kinda helpful, mainly Bold, Italics, Underline, Hyperlink, Image, and "Toggle View". So maybe place those along the top of the Quick Post text box:
(http://i.imgur.com/tb3vl02.png)
Additionally/Alternatively, if someone is writing a "Quick PostTM" and then realizes that they need the full editor, have a button somewhere that goes to the editor with the content of the quick post box already in it. In the above picture I've placed such a button next to the Post button.

Additionally all of the above features could be applied to the interface when modifying a post. This is particularly important though because right now there is no way to assist posters trying to modify formatting issues.

The other idea is a little more low tech. It simply involves adding text to any editing area that looks something like this:
Bold
Code: [Select]
[b]bold[/b]Italic
Code: [Select]
[i]Italic[/i]ect.ect.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on October 02, 2014, 10:42:10 PM
That shouldn't be too hard (well the button row, not sure about the drag the post to the full featured editor)
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on October 02, 2014, 10:56:02 PM
Honestly you can get to the full featured editor by clicking preview :v

The buttons make sense though.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on October 02, 2014, 10:58:04 PM
I can relabel the preview button on the quick reply to "Open in Full Editor" or something like that then. That's easy enough.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Massaca on October 02, 2014, 11:27:24 PM
Could you add a "Search This Topic" box/function to the Reply/Notify/etc. bar?
So far when I've needed to I've just used the Print function then searched the page but I think a topic search would just be a bit more convenient with the proper formatting and ability to jump to certain posts and such.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on October 03, 2014, 06:00:59 PM
Feature request: Being able to press ctrl+i/b/u for italics/bold/underline tags in the editors. I dunno if it works in other browsers, but it does not for Chrome.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on October 04, 2014, 01:50:52 AM
Could you add a "Search This Topic" box/function to the Reply/Notify/etc. bar?
So far when I've needed to I've just used the Print function then searched the page but I think a topic search would just be a bit more convenient with the proper formatting and ability to jump to certain posts and such.
As long as it's a topic you've posted in, you can search for the keyword in Show Posts on your profile. That's what I've been doing anyway.

Feature request: Being able to press ctrl+i/b/u for italics/bold/underline tags in the editors. I dunno if it works in other browsers, but it does not for Chrome.
Works on FF for me.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: cuc on November 21, 2014, 01:19:56 AM
Now I dread to use bold text, because they are indistinguishable from a visited URL link in appearance.

Can we have some differentiation between the default URL and bold text? This has bugged me since coming to this forum.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Zerviscos on November 21, 2014, 07:43:47 AM
Now I dread to use bold text, because they are indistinguishable from a visited URL link in appearance.

Can we have some differentiation between the default URL and bold text? This has bugged me since coming to this forum.
Wow, I never thought I'd see the day someone would suggest that.

I would've myself, but I thought some people will just see it pointless.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on November 21, 2014, 06:25:58 PM
True... I never bothered to fix that D: I'll think of something...
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on November 21, 2014, 07:57:59 PM
Make links pink. I hear it makes the boys wink.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Kaizaki on February 17, 2015, 01:39:00 AM
Could we have topic and post scores similar to Reddit, but without downvotes (like Google +1's, more or less)?

I don't know how practical this is, and whether this has been suggested or considered before. I admit that features which display group approval/consensus may cause rifts, disagreements and other things to go wrong, but I leave that up to your judgement. :)

Thanks!
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on February 17, 2015, 02:21:42 AM
Last time this came up the response was:

No thanks, I'm not implementing a karma system so people can rub eachother inappropriately.  As nice as it sounds this isn't the best place to do it.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Kaizaki on February 17, 2015, 02:54:39 AM
Ah, oki. I thought that would be the reason why not. Thanks for the prompt response.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Helepolis on February 17, 2015, 10:38:45 AM
Even image boards or boards like 4chan don't have that system :V

+1/-1 has no purpose for actual content or experience aside from datamining purposes imo. And datamining is for corporates or some scientist.

I am also glad we don't put emphasis on post counts or other titles and things regarding forum activity. You know how some forums have those meters/gauges displaying: "SUPER MEMBER" or "Mega addicted mega hyper lifeless member" things. They usually mean nothing anyway. If you're really curious how long a member has been around, you can just click his profile and look at register date.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Drake on February 17, 2015, 11:12:34 AM
/me whistles innocently
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Helepolis on February 17, 2015, 12:42:40 PM
I meant more like the specific post-count related titles. Like someone with < 100 posts has some silly title + gauge with stars or w/e or medals. Someone > 1000 has another silly title and all kind of bling bling badges/stars/medals.

The title thing on MotK might be silly or 'lulz' but they aren't really correlated to post counts, thank god.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Delfigamer on February 17, 2015, 01:46:07 PM
Besides, we all know who is the no-life king (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,17410.0.html) here even without those stupid titles :derp:

Now I want to sort people by their average daily uptime and post count.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Bio on February 17, 2015, 02:28:24 PM
Exactly. That's what the Most Time Online stat is for:

Purvis: 513d 12h 49m
Dormio: 470d 18h 44m
Kilgamayan: 407d 5h 10m
Matsuri: 387d 18h 44m
Donut: 312d 17h 33m
If Ammy took this data on the same day he posted (March 14 2014), today is the 342nd day from then.

As of today:
Dormio Ergo Sum: 658d 6h 47m

Dormio has spent 188 of the last 342 days online.

That is 55% percent of (roughly) the last year online.

55 PERCENT


what the fuck
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Kilgamayan on February 17, 2015, 02:33:51 PM
Hey, we got humanized bird youkai lesbians to ship (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,17494.0.html). Someone's gotta be in charge of that.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on February 17, 2015, 08:50:21 PM
what the fuck
:dealwithit:
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on February 18, 2015, 12:25:57 AM
Still in the Top 5 of Topics Started and Posting, awww yeah (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=stats). Helepolis and I were neck-and-neck for a while there, but it looks like he surged ahead.

Yeah but seriously, displaying that stuff under your avatar or something as a badge of honor would be weird. And Dormio, as we know, actually lives in a space station orbiting Neptune with nothing else to do but post on MotK.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on February 18, 2015, 01:53:24 AM
You wish you could compete with me  :justasplanned:
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Delfigamer on February 18, 2015, 02:35:47 PM
And Dormio, as we know, actually lives in a space station orbiting Neptune with nothing else to do but post on MotK.
So, when SMF registers a new message by Dormio, it happens ~4 hours after he presses "Post"? And then it takes another 4 hours for replies to fly back?
8-hour lag seems like a great deal.
He must be using predition magic to post ahead.

Yeah but seriously, displaying that stuff under your avatar or something as a badge of honor would be weird.
I discovered MotK's badge rule: quality over quantity :derp:
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on February 18, 2015, 03:38:43 PM
So, when SMF registers a new message by Dormio, it happens ~4 hours after he presses "Post"? And then it takes another 4 hours for replies to fly back?
8-hour lag seems like a great deal.
He must be using predition magic to post ahead.

Dormio has access to FTL tech that we mere mortals will never understand.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Bio on February 18, 2015, 04:18:07 PM
Turning horrendous ping into just terrible ping.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on February 18, 2015, 08:39:24 PM
He must be using predition magic to post ahead.
Dormio has access to FTL tech that we mere mortals will never understand.
It's a combination of both, really.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on May 08, 2015, 05:24:13 AM
Per user request, I have made the "Show others my online status" toggle showing your last active time in your profile. If you have that option unchecked, people cannot see your last active time, they will see "Hidden" instead. Staff will still be able to see your activity time regardless (as they can see your true online/offline status anyways). Prior to this, people could still infer your activity by looking at your profile and your last active time, even when you marked yourself as being invisible.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Delfigamer on July 19, 2015, 05:53:59 PM
Ability to upload a whole bunch of avatars that would then randomly rotate.
Idea credit: TSO.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on July 19, 2015, 06:19:25 PM
You do realize it only replaces yours right, so you're only uploading a new avatar and replacing your old one.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Delfigamer on July 19, 2015, 06:48:35 PM
Hm? I think I need to elaborate.
Instead of a single avatar, each user is given a space for several images, with the ability to add new ones and remove existing.
Then, on the forum itself, instead of a direct link an <img> would lead to a script like the current one, that would choose a random picture from the corresponding user's set of avatars.
...So, if we were on the same page all along, yes, I do realize.

Not like it's of much use however.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on July 19, 2015, 06:49:33 PM
No, because that would massively increase the storage requirements per user for avatars, since all avatars are stored server side for reliability/security reasons. I've been considering even moving signatures to server side but I'd definitely do that over allowing multiple avatars to be rotated through.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: GuardianTempest on October 04, 2015, 07:19:59 AM
Not exactly a feature, but a rule: Is there a rule against multi-accounting?

During my inactivity here, I was in another forum where mods are vigilant about this, since a lot of abuse can be done with multiple accounts. (e.g. Dodging bans and messing up polls)

Also, how about a thread where (usually new) members can test out bbcode? Or at least a sticky that demonstrates bbcode usage.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Delfigamer on October 04, 2015, 10:48:49 AM
Also, how about a thread where (usually new) members can test out bbcode?
Is "preview post" too advanced of a move for this?

Dodging bans is expressly prohibited wait that was another community. For other purposes... well, what use a second accout there would be of? I have yet to see a serious poll, and approximately everything about an account - including login, nickname and forgotten passwords - may be changed with admins' help.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Bio on October 04, 2015, 12:37:15 PM
I have yet to see a serious poll
The favourite font one had real consequences.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: GuardianTempest on October 04, 2015, 01:21:27 PM
Dodging bans is expressly prohibited wait that was another community. For other purposes... well, what use a second accout there would be of? I have yet to see a serious poll, and approximately everything about an account - including login, nickname and forgotten passwords - may be changed with admins' help.
Aside from dodging permabans (which some troublemakers might do), I recall users making new accounts to forge new identities which is pretty cowardly. Then again, the forum I hailed from has its influx of immature "teenagers" every now and then. :V
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on October 07, 2015, 07:24:30 AM
We don't particularly care if you multibox as long as you're not obviously sockpuppetting or otherwise causing trouble, but it's not very clever and very easy to track people down. Dodging bans and probations is a very quick ticket to permaban.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Romantique Tp on April 11, 2016, 04:08:31 AM
Would it be possible to increase the character limit of the report post to moderator thingie a little? I realize my english isn't very good and having to shorten what I'm saying must make it even harder to figure out what I'm really trying to say... I would like to make my reports as clear as possible to avoid any possible misunderstandings, specially when there's illegal (or questionable) stuff involved.

I also think it would be better if it worked more like a regular post, with line breaks and all like vBulletin's report function, but I assume that would be hard to implement if it's possible at all.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Tengukami on April 11, 2016, 09:20:43 PM
Support this idea, with the caveat that pastebin is also fine. Recent reports have been pretty wordy, fwiw.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on April 13, 2016, 02:20:19 PM
Would it be possible to increase the character limit of the report post to moderator thingie a little? I realize my english isn't very good and having to shorten what I'm saying must make it even harder to figure out what I'm really trying to say... I would like to make my reports as clear as possible to avoid any possible misunderstandings, specially when there's illegal (or questionable) stuff involved.

I also think it would be better if it worked more like a regular post, with line breaks and all like vBulletin's report function, but I assume that would be hard to implement if it's possible at all.
This would be nice. What say you, TSO? Is it doable?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Drake on April 13, 2016, 03:18:44 PM
I'm pretty sure the most significant part of that question is whether or not it's configurable at all. I assume if the source is available it should be easy to increase the character limit and also just change the input to a textarea.

EDIT: I can confirm that there's a back-end check for the character limit somewhere, since you can modify the form control's max length and input more characters but you'll get a database error on send.
EDIT: Changing it to a textarea and putting in newlines seems to work, unless the report strips or cuts at the newlines.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Karisa on April 13, 2016, 05:57:40 PM
The line breaks don't show up at all (no gap between words).

I've gotten the impression it's not customizable. I've suggested before to reword the report message to better encourage reporting even something you're not sure about, but apparently even that can't be changed. (In particular, the note about email addresses is pointlessly misleading-- why would it matter if member emails will be revealed to people who can already see them?)
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: helvetica on April 26, 2016, 07:59:26 AM
The built-in moderation report system for SMF is really terrible. Like in the actual mod report page it throws comments out of order all the time and I've tried for eons to track down the bug to no avail.

Any modifications or improvements will probably involve a complete rewrite of the system as it is currently limited severely.

I would say for the time being throwing a (unlisted) pastebin link for wordier reports is ok until I can scrape together a new system.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Drake on June 13, 2016, 11:24:15 PM
So after adding all those off-site profile links a while back, I just realized there's no link for Twitch. Not that I'm an active streamer, but I think people would make use of those links more than anything besides maybe Twitter and Steam. I get the impression that it wouldn't be difficult to implement either. Thoughts?
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: Karisa on October 04, 2016, 03:44:19 PM
I was just reopening this thread to re-suggest a Twitch link, only to find that the last post was already suggesting it nearly 4 months ago with no response. Seems simple enough, and it seems quite a number of people stream (whether Touhou or other games).

Also, some of the profile fields are almost certainly no longer relevant. Wasn't MSN messenger discontinued, for instance?


While it might be more complicated, I'd also like to suggest filtering down full links, since I've seen some people copy-paste those in by mistake. Say, if one of these is entered:
Quote
https://www.youtube.com/user/KarisaMirisame
https://m.youtube.com/user/KarisaMirisame
Then remove everything up to and including the last "/" so the link is functional. That might be a good convention for most of the profile links, actually.
Title: Re: Have a suggestion for a new feature?
Post by: KennyMan666 on January 27, 2018, 03:10:21 PM
I guess this doesn't really count as bumping since it's a sticky? But anyway, like the above posts from two years ago said, the list of services in the forum profile part of the account settings is kind of hilariously out of date, as I just noticed. Raptr closed last year, ICQ is somehow actually still alive (but does anyone actually use it?), AIM was discontinued last year, MSN Messenger was discontinued in 2013, YIM is apparently not technically discontinued but only works on phones and browsers now, Google Talk has been completely replaced by Google Hangouts which is part of Google+ so doesn't need a separate entry, and... okay, I guess MySpace is somehow still alive. I second the suggestion to add at least Twitch, and given Discord's popularity these days it should probably be among the IM clients in the profile. I'm sure there's other popular stuff that people use that would make sense to add too.