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Started by hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator in Site Announcements

Hey all

As you may have noticed if you’re viewing the site through therapyquestionmark.co.uk, there have been some changes made to the message boards. These changes aren’t yet final, just a little experimenting for which we would like some feedback!

I’ve read some posts already about the changes, so thanks for those comments. I’d appreciate it if anyone who wants to say they hate (or love!) something could either post it here or email me.

Once we’ve had some feedback then the boards will be changed mainly to go with popular opinion on what is good and bad.

Thanks for your help :)

Sarah

Posted on Fri, 4 April 2003 at 22:07

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#1

White Psycho wrote:

I love the colour scheme, I just think that the page number thing and signatures need putting back in and I’d be a happy lad!

Posted on Fri, 4 April 2003 at 22:31

#2

Body Bag Girl Iris wrote:

Feedback:
When there is a URL in the message, let it open in a new window and not in it’s own window.

Posted on Sat, 5 April 2003 at 16:39

#3

Michael wrote:

Yeah, I agree, make it open in a new pop-up window, not in the same window.

Posted on Sat, 5 April 2003 at 17:12

#4

Alex wrote:

I agree.

Also, your anti-spam-time-between-postings gap is set at 30 seconds. I have been stung by this a few times when in full flow. I realise why it is there, but unless you have been having specific problems in this area, may I suggest a reduction to 20 seconds?

Posted on Sat, 5 April 2003 at 21:15

#5

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

Alex - I’ve changed the anti-spam-time-between-postings gap to 20 seconds, since there haven’t been any problems related to this in a long time.

The signatures will most likely return (although I haven’t heard that many requests for it yet), and it seems that opening links in new windows is a popular request amongst the people who’ve replied. Any other people who have an opinion on opening links in the same or in a new window?

The ‘direct page’ links will return asap.

Posted on Tue, 8 April 2003 at 21:03

#6

Alan wrote:

New window definately, if the URL’s crap then a quick ‘x’ is more fun than hitting ‘back’, and waiting for the page to load.

Not too bothered about signatures - I don’t mind the one-line sigs, but you see some people (on other boards, I must stress!) with huge paragraphs and even pictures for signatures. And that’s just a pain in the arse to be looking at.

Posted on Tue, 8 April 2003 at 21:26

#7

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

I have installed a new version of the message board software this afternoon to fix some bugs and minor security issues. During this process I have re-introduced the signatures and the direct page links on the thread lisitings.

Re-introducing the signatures does mean that Sarah and I will start enforcing the rule in the guidelines about the maximum length of signatures, as I agree with Alan that the signatures should not clutter up the threads, regardless of the fact that it’s possible to turn the signatures off in your preferences.

My issue with opening links in a new window was that it meant that links to other threads, the guidelines, etc. also opened in a new window, although they are on the same site, which is a big usability no-no in my book.

I’ve solved this by letting links to external pages open in a new window and links to therapyquestionmark.co.uk open in the same window. This may sound easy to do on normal webpages for site-builders amongst you, but since I’m using ‘external’ software for the boards I had to hack the code of that software. Which was fun, though :-)

Let me know if you like the changes. Please contact me if any of you runs into any bugs or weird behaviour of the boards.

One last thing, due to some technical issues with maintaining two interfaces for the messages boards I have removed the Teethgrinder.com interface for the time being. If the current changes are to everyone’s liking and nobody is missing anything from the new interface, the Teethgrinder.com look will probably not return.

Posted on Wed, 9 April 2003 at 15:00

#8

Dr. Bigjoint wrote:

I think PMs would be really great.

Posted on Wed, 9 April 2003 at 15:05

#9

Alan wrote:

Sounds good, I believe signatures should be of a certain length and no more. :-)

I must say I already prefer the new look meassage board. I went on to teethgrinder.com, and was like “Uggh” … I guess I’ve gotten more used to the graphics on this site.

Keep the green, I say!!

Posted on Wed, 9 April 2003 at 15:07

#10

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

I will take Private Messages into consideration, but as they weren’t a part of the Teethgrinder.com interface in the first place it’s not really on-topic, now is it? ;-)

Posted on Wed, 9 April 2003 at 15:09

#11

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

Alan - I know what you mean about the Teethgrinder.om look, I feel the same! Considering the fact that it is my own site, that’s not a good sign ;-)

Posted on Wed, 9 April 2003 at 15:11

#12

Citizen Erased wrote:

Dr. Bigjoint wrote:

I think PMs would be really great.

I take it you’re not married..?

Changes get my thumbs up, but I can’t jump to the latest message on each thread.

Oh we’re never happy for long…

Posted on Wed, 9 April 2003 at 15:41

#13

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

Hey Citizen, I was having the same trouble yesterday. Rene knows about the problem (it’s not intentional!) and is trying to fix it :)

Posted on Wed, 9 April 2003 at 19:44

#14

Body Bag Girl Iris wrote:

What I did like on the old one, on the front WOM page you could see how many members there are in total (so not the once that are online for that time)… and who’s the last one that subscribed… always nice to know and check them out…
Iris

Posted on Wed, 9 April 2003 at 23:05

#15

rocking roxy wrote:

well, i think it would be nice to see the gemil in the background a bit more…just one tone darker, i think that would be already enough…

Posted on Thu, 10 April 2003 at 06:39

#16

Citizen Erased wrote:

hoochalobster wrote:

Hey Citizen, I was having the same trouble yesterday. Rene knows about the problem (it’s not intentional!) and is trying to fix it :)

Seems to be fixed now - am busily trying to think of something else to grumble about…

Posted on Thu, 10 April 2003 at 08:25

#17

penn wrote:

the ‘go to first unread post’ arrow near the thread is better than the numbers of the pages.

Posted on Thu, 10 April 2003 at 10:33

#18

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

I think I’ve solved the problem with the disappearing arrow-signs to jump to the latest message on a thread. Please let me know if it occurs again in the future, or if you think of something else to grumble about :-)

penn - I agree, but by having them both people will be able to choose which one they prefer.

On a side-note, to prevent a lot of titles on a thead-overview page from ‘breaking’ when there are direct-page-links following it, the titles are being cut off at a certain length if they are too long. If you hold your mouse pointer over the title, it will show the full title.

I’ve also made some changes to the preferences page, to make it a bit easier to use (at least, that’s what I tried to do). I will be tweaking some more of the interface here and there to make it more user-friendly. Just give me a shout if any of you think otherwise!

Posted on Thu, 10 April 2003 at 12:17

#19

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

Citizen Erased wrote:

I take it you’re not married..?

heh heh :D I didn’t get it yesterday… :o

Posted on Thu, 10 April 2003 at 14:26

#20

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

Body Bag Girl Iris wrote:

[…] on the front WOM page you could see how many members there are in total […]

The short statistics on the boards’ homepage are back!

Posted on Thu, 10 April 2003 at 15:51

#21

Body Bag Girl Iris wrote:

Thanks RENE!!! Look at the number going up… makes me happy!!!

Posted on Thu, 10 April 2003 at 19:11

#22

Citizen Erased wrote:

Thanks also for the deciphering of the smilies.

:D

Posted on Fri, 11 April 2003 at 08:23

#23

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

I’m not sure what you mean.

:) ;) :p :rolleyes: :o :cool: :eek: :( :mad:

:D

Posted on Sun, 13 April 2003 at 14:03

#24

Citizen Erased wrote:

:cool:

Posted on Sun, 13 April 2003 at 15:21

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