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| | | Author: | Grimbly  | | Posted: | Apr 24, 2017 09:23 | | Subject: | Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 224 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I think with all the nice improvements we've been seeing around the site
it might be nice if the forum received some of that same attention to detail
and got a nice overhaul too. Maybe something more closely resemblant to this
https://www.discourse.org/ 
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| | | | | Author: | viejos | | Posted: | Apr 24, 2017 11:03 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 114 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | I think with all the nice improvements we've been seeing around the site
it might be nice if the forum received some of that same attention to detail
and got a nice overhaul too. Maybe something more closely resemblant to this
https://www.discourse.org/
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And lose our macros? No thanks!
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| | | | | | | Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2017 07:22 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, viejos writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | I think with all the nice improvements we've been seeing around the site
it might be nice if the forum received some of that same attention to detail
and got a nice overhaul too. Maybe something more closely resemblant to this
https://www.discourse.org/
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And lose our macros? No thanks!
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A visual update in line with the rest of the website maybe. I'll hate it
for a few days but I'll get used to it. But I love the message tree and those
macros. Losing those would be bad.
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| | | | | | | Author: | DagsBricks | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2017 12:14 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, viejos writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | I think with all the nice improvements we've been seeing around the site
it might be nice if the forum received some of that same attention to detail
and got a nice overhaul too. Maybe something more closely resemblant to this
https://www.discourse.org/
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And lose our macros? No thanks!
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What are these macros you speak of? Are these the ones that were available years
ago but are no longer supported unless you already have them?
Dag
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2017 12:43 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, DagsBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, viejos writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | I think with all the nice improvements we've been seeing around the site
it might be nice if the forum received some of that same attention to detail
and got a nice overhaul too. Maybe something more closely resemblant to this
https://www.discourse.org/
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And lose our macros? No thanks!
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What are these macros you speak of? Are these the ones that were available years
ago but are no longer supported unless you already have them?
Dag
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The direct links to parts, sets etc.
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1147&viewType=shop&noSearch=Y
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2017 14:33 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| | In Suggestions, DagsBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, viejos writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | I think with all the nice improvements we've been seeing around the site
it might be nice if the forum received some of that same attention to detail
and got a nice overhaul too. Maybe something more closely resemblant to this
https://www.discourse.org/
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And lose our macros? No thanks!
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What are these macros you speak of? Are these the ones that were available years
ago but are no longer supported unless you already have them?
Dag
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The direct links to parts, sets etc.
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1147&viewType=shop&noSearch=Y
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Seems impossible without them!
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3001#T=P
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2017 14:39 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, randyipp writes:
A link is much less convenient than the visual support that the macro offers.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Macaronis | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2017 15:30 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| | In Suggestions, randyipp writes:
A link is much less convenient than the visual support that the macro offers.
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I hate to point out the obvious but, these types of Macros can be added in with
a little code work. The vast amount of Open source and PAID forum modules still
work off a baseline brick and mortar setting. I'm do not consider myself
a professional coder but have taken time to do some reading and getting help
over the years with people who have some experience and adding this type of Macro
Modification to something else is NO where near as hard as people make it out
to be.
I can even give you an example using the wrong method to do it with the Emoji
DB that piggybacks on 99% of the Forums out there. You assign a Macro tag to
something and make it call on an image. you change the emoji image to the Part
or Set Db and WHAM instant Macro that you all know and love. That's the
Rough and dirty way to do it. There are better ways but this is using what is
already out there. Its not Freaking Brain Surgery like some people around here
make the site out to be.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Grimbly | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2017 10:43 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Macaronis writes:
| | In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| | In Suggestions, randyipp writes:
A link is much less convenient than the visual support that the macro offers.
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I hate to point out the obvious but, these types of Macros can be added in with
a little code work. The vast amount of Open source and PAID forum modules still
work off a baseline brick and mortar setting. I'm do not consider myself
a professional coder but have taken time to do some reading and getting help
over the years with people who have some experience and adding this type of Macro
Modification to something else is NO where near as hard as people make it out
to be.
I can even give you an example using the wrong method to do it with the Emoji
DB that piggybacks on 99% of the Forums out there. You assign a Macro tag to
something and make it call on an image. you change the emoji image to the Part
or Set Db and WHAM instant Macro that you all know and love. That's the
Rough and dirty way to do it. There are better ways but this is using what is
already out there. Its not Freaking Brain Surgery like some people around here
make the site out to be.
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I agree completely. This Macro thingy should be easy enough to implement into
whatever new forum they may or may not put in effect. That shouldn't bee
too big a deal, and has the side benefit of being the appropriate time to fully
implement it if it's currently lacking any features, or catalog sections,
etc.
I just feel as though this forum is lacking too greatly visually. If it were
improved it would become a more valuable assett to have, and a more useful resource
for everyone. This becomes especially apparent if you have a large monitor like
I do (30in. widescreen w/2k resolution). A massive portion of my screen is just
gray background with everything else crushed into a little box in the middle.
It just all feels outdated where the rest of the site no longer really does except
maybe some of the catalog pages that still do too.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2017 12:35 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | I just feel as though this forum is lacking too greatly visually. If it were
improved it would become a more valuable assett to have, and a more useful resource
for everyone. This becomes especially apparent if you have a large monitor like
I do (30in. widescreen w/2k resolution). A massive portion of my screen is just
gray background with everything else crushed into a little box in the middle.
It just all feels outdated where the rest of the site no longer really does except
maybe some of the catalog pages that still do too.
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What might be considered an asset to you could be a detriment to others. Certainly
our Forum appears outdated, but I am not at all anxious for the designs to be
updated to fit a wide screen only. Many of the newly updated pages are doing
just that. The content needs to be dynamic to adjust to a smaller browser window
for those of us working on an older device or with 2 windows open at once. Large
fixed-width pages are a hassle for many of us and having to use a horizontal
scroll bar to try and read a line of text more then 120 characters wide would
not be an improvement over what we have.
I do hope improvements are made and that the improvements reflect the needs of
all our members.
Jen
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Grimbly | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 12:22 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | I just feel as though this forum is lacking too greatly visually. If it were
improved it would become a more valuable assett to have, and a more useful resource
for everyone. This becomes especially apparent if you have a large monitor like
I do (30in. widescreen w/2k resolution). A massive portion of my screen is just
gray background with everything else crushed into a little box in the middle.
It just all feels outdated where the rest of the site no longer really does except
maybe some of the catalog pages that still do too.
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What might be considered an asset to you could be a detriment to others. Certainly
our Forum appears outdated, but I am not at all anxious for the designs to be
updated to fit a wide screen only. Many of the newly updated pages are doing
just that. The content needs to be dynamic to adjust to a smaller browser window
for those of us working on an older device or with 2 windows open at once. Large
fixed-width pages are a hassle for many of us and having to use a horizontal
scroll bar to try and read a line of text more then 120 characters wide would
not be an improvement over what we have.
I do hope improvements are made and that the improvements reflect the needs of
all our members.
Jen
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I would certainly hope it were done in a dynamic way to accomodate both wide
and standard screen formats, and ideally a wealth of resolutions to boot
Just noticed the Stud.io Forum today. It's totally different from this one
and much nicer I think. I'd be fine with the rest of the forums being overhauled
to match that. Provided everyone gets their macros and whatnot I suppose
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 12:33 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | Just noticed the Stud.io Forum today. It's totally different from this one
and much nicer I think.
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The Stud.io forum is pretty much the same as every other forum on the internet.
You say it's nicer because it looks like what you're used to. I say
the BrickLink forum is nicer because I don't have to click into and out of
a bunch of sub-forums to see what people are talking about right now.
In the end, though, I have no doubt that conformity will rule the day and BrickLink
will look like every other website. So you will get your overhauled forum in
time. Just be patient.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Grimbly | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 13:47 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | Just noticed the Stud.io Forum today. It's totally different from this one
and much nicer I think.
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The Stud.io forum is pretty much the same as every other forum on the internet.
You say it's nicer because it looks like what you're used to. I say
the BrickLink forum is nicer because I don't have to click into and out of
a bunch of sub-forums to see what people are talking about right now.
In the end, though, I have no doubt that conformity will rule the day and BrickLink
will look like every other website. So you will get your overhauled forum in
time. Just be patient.
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Maybe we can get a combination of both styles and get the features we both like
Personally I still really like this one https://www.discourse.org/
I've used it before, it was easy to work with, and had loads of nice features
and options. You can see a functional example of it here https://try.discourse.org/
if you care to see it.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Grimbly | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 14:38 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | Just noticed the Stud.io Forum today. It's totally different from this one
and much nicer I think.
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The Stud.io forum is pretty much the same as every other forum on the internet.
You say it's nicer because it looks like what you're used to. I say
the BrickLink forum is nicer because I don't have to click into and out of
a bunch of sub-forums to see what people are talking about right now.
In the end, though, I have no doubt that conformity will rule the day and BrickLink
will look like every other website. So you will get your overhauled forum in
time. Just be patient.
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Maybe we can get a combination of both styles and get the features we both like
Personally I still really like this one https://www.discourse.org/
I've used it before, it was easy to work with, and had loads of nice features
and options. You can see a functional example of it here https://try.discourse.org/
if you care to see it.
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In lieu of a full overhaul, it would at least be nice if the current forum was
a bit more dynamic for larger screens/resolutions, and if it were made so that
the full replies could all be read from the primary thread.
Right now you can go to a primary thread and see all the replies in sequence
at the bottom, but you can't read the full reply if it exceeds a certain
character count, and it doesn't seem to show any of the nested sub-replies
except at the very bottom in the reply "tree".
Example: (https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1010950)
If it could be changed so that we could read the whole reply for all the replies
and sub-replies on the thread from the main thread page that would be enough
of an overhaul for me
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 18:32 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | If it could be changed so that we could read the whole reply for all the replies
and sub-replies on the thread from the main thread page that would be enough
of an overhaul for me
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What about the links at the bottom of each thread:
Entire thread on one page
This message and all its replies on one page
Don't these two links get you what you are asking for? Sorry if I have misunderstood.
Jen
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Grimbly | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2017 09:19 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | If it could be changed so that we could read the whole reply for all the replies
and sub-replies on the thread from the main thread page that would be enough
of an overhaul for me
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What about the links at the bottom of each thread:
Entire thread on one page
This message and all its replies on one page
Don't these two links get you what you are asking for? Sorry if I have misunderstood.
Jen
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The links can indeed get me what I'm after but the point was that I would
find it helpful if I didn't have to use the links and could just go to the
main thread and read the full chain of replies without having to leave the page.
This can be done even now but as I pointed out earlier the replies get clipped
off after they get too long and thus you cannot stay on the main thread to read
everything. Instead, you end up having to go chase down the replies one at a
time to read the whole thing.
In a typical forum, you would click a topic/post to see the original post and
all of its replies. You can then read the entire reply and all that follow it
till the end of the thread. Everything is available on that one page unless paginated
In this forum, you click a topic/post, get to read the original post, and then
get what amounts to a preview of each reply with links that can take you to the
reply so you can read it. Here only part of the thread is available on the main
page and the rest gets secreted away into "reply" pages that you have to go dig
through individually to get the whole picture.
I would just like to see all of the replies made viewable and readable by way
of the primary post/thread similar to how a normal forum would as outlined above
There could still be "reply" pages as they have them now. I just want to see
the character count restriction lifted for the replies on the main thread so
that the full reply is visible instead of the current partial reply with a link.
Hopefully, this makes sense
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | viejos | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2017 09:31 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | If it could be changed so that we could read the whole reply for all the replies
and sub-replies on the thread from the main thread page that would be enough
of an overhaul for me
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What about the links at the bottom of each thread:
Entire thread on one page
This message and all its replies on one page
Don't these two links get you what you are asking for? Sorry if I have misunderstood.
Jen
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The links can indeed get me what I'm after but the point was that I would
find it helpful if I didn't have to use the links and could just go to the
main thread and read the full chain of replies without having to leave the page.
This can be done even now but as I pointed out earlier the replies get clipped
off after they get too long and thus you cannot stay on the main thread to read
everything. Instead, you end up having to go chase down the replies one at a
time to read the whole thing.
In a typical forum, you would click a topic/post to see the original post and
all of its replies. You can then read the entire reply and all that follow it
till the end of the thread. Everything is available on that one page unless paginated
In this forum, you click a topic/post, get to read the original post, and then
get what amounts to a preview of each reply with links that can take you to the
reply so you can read it. Here only part of the thread is available on the main
page and the rest gets secreted away into "reply" pages that you have to go dig
through individually to get the whole picture.
I would just like to see all of the replies made viewable and readable by way
of the primary post/thread similar to how a normal forum would as outlined above
There could still be "reply" pages as they have them now. I just want to see
the character count restriction lifted for the replies on the main thread so
that the full reply is visible instead of the current partial reply with a link.
Hopefully, this makes sense
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Have you seen this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P
By the way, I think it's an inefficient and frustrating thing to read the
forum with a whole thread on a page. Take it from someone who has read the BL
Forum for years, I would never encourage someone to use that view.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | therobo | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2017 09:43 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | If it could be changed so that we could read the whole reply for all the replies
and sub-replies on the thread from the main thread page that would be enough
of an overhaul for me
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What about the links at the bottom of each thread:
Entire thread on one page
This message and all its replies on one page
Don't these two links get you what you are asking for? Sorry if I have misunderstood.
Jen
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The links can indeed get me what I'm after but the point was that I would
find it helpful if I didn't have to use the links and could just go to the
main thread and read the full chain of replies without having to leave the page.
This can be done even now but as I pointed out earlier the replies get clipped
off after they get too long and thus you cannot stay on the main thread to read
everything. Instead, you end up having to go chase down the replies one at a
time to read the whole thing.
In a typical forum, you would click a topic/post to see the original post and
all of its replies. You can then read the entire reply and all that follow it
till the end of the thread. Everything is available on that one page unless paginated
In this forum, you click a topic/post, get to read the original post, and then
get what amounts to a preview of each reply with links that can take you to the
reply so you can read it. Here only part of the thread is available on the main
page and the rest gets secreted away into "reply" pages that you have to go dig
through individually to get the whole picture.
I would just like to see all of the replies made viewable and readable by way
of the primary post/thread similar to how a normal forum would as outlined above
There could still be "reply" pages as they have them now. I just want to see
the character count restriction lifted for the replies on the main thread so
that the full reply is visible instead of the current partial reply with a link.
Hopefully, this makes sense
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Have you tried the speech bubbles in front of each message on the main forum
page?
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Grimbly | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2017 10:13 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, Grimbly writes:
| | If it could be changed so that we could read the whole reply for all the replies
and sub-replies on the thread from the main thread page that would be enough
of an overhaul for me
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What about the links at the bottom of each thread:
Entire thread on one page
This message and all its replies on one page
Don't these two links get you what you are asking for? Sorry if I have misunderstood.
Jen
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The links can indeed get me what I'm after but the point was that I would
find it helpful if I didn't have to use the links and could just go to the
main thread and read the full chain of replies without having to leave the page.
This can be done even now but as I pointed out earlier the replies get clipped
off after they get too long and thus you cannot stay on the main thread to read
everything. Instead, you end up having to go chase down the replies one at a
time to read the whole thing.
In a typical forum, you would click a topic/post to see the original post and
all of its replies. You can then read the entire reply and all that follow it
till the end of the thread. Everything is available on that one page unless paginated
In this forum, you click a topic/post, get to read the original post, and then
get what amounts to a preview of each reply with links that can take you to the
reply so you can read it. Here only part of the thread is available on the main
page and the rest gets secreted away into "reply" pages that you have to go dig
through individually to get the whole picture.
I would just like to see all of the replies made viewable and readable by way
of the primary post/thread similar to how a normal forum would as outlined above
There could still be "reply" pages as they have them now. I just want to see
the character count restriction lifted for the replies on the main thread so
that the full reply is visible instead of the current partial reply with a link.
Hopefully, this makes sense
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Have you tried the speech bubbles in front of each message on the main forum
page?
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Thanks for pointing this out. I hadn't noticed that before or the button
at the bottom of the threads aptly titled "entire thread on one page"
I think those 2 give me pretty much what I was looking for. That works I guess.
I still say the forum could be spruced up a bit and polished some but at least
I can read through it the way I wanted to now. Thanks
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 15:37 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Macaronis writes:
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| | In Suggestions, randyipp writes:
A link is much less convenient than the visual support that the macro offers.
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I hate to point out the obvious but, these types of Macros can be added in with
a little code work. The vast amount of Open source and PAID forum modules still
work off a baseline brick and mortar setting. I'm do not consider myself
a professional coder but have taken time to do some reading and getting help
over the years with people who have some experience and adding this type of Macro
Modification to something else is NO where near as hard as people make it out
to be.
I can even give you an example using the wrong method to do it with the Emoji
DB that piggybacks on 99% of the Forums out there. You assign a Macro tag to
something and make it call on an image. you change the emoji image to the Part
or Set Db and WHAM instant Macro that you all know and love. That's the
Rough and dirty way to do it. There are better ways but this is using what is
already out there. Its not Freaking Brain Surgery like some people around here
make the site out to be.
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I never said that these features are difficult. I just named two features that
I do not want to lose in an update.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Macaronis | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2017 13:31 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| | In Suggestions, Macaronis writes:
| | In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| | In Suggestions, randyipp writes:
A link is much less convenient than the visual support that the macro offers.
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I hate to point out the obvious but, these types of Macros can be added in with
a little code work. The vast amount of Open source and PAID forum modules still
work off a baseline brick and mortar setting. I'm do not consider myself
a professional coder but have taken time to do some reading and getting help
over the years with people who have some experience and adding this type of Macro
Modification to something else is NO where near as hard as people make it out
to be.
I can even give you an example using the wrong method to do it with the Emoji
DB that piggybacks on 99% of the Forums out there. You assign a Macro tag to
something and make it call on an image. you change the emoji image to the Part
or Set Db and WHAM instant Macro that you all know and love. That's the
Rough and dirty way to do it. There are better ways but this is using what is
already out there. Its not Freaking Brain Surgery like some people around here
make the site out to be.
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I never said that these features are difficult. I just named two features that
I do not want to lose in an update.
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I'm with you,I was just pointing out that your request and consideration
is 100% possible to ANY forum. I love the macro myself..
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| | | | | Author: | spzero | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2017 11:35 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Overhaul | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I agree that one you link too is a bit ott but a new one would be great this
one is hard to use, maybe something akin to the forums on Eurobricks as most
of us are used to those I imagine
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