A thread for all your suggestions for the forums, to save me crawling the chat threads.

can the Gardening forum have the same font style as the Holiday forum please :)

ch88 i have a suggestion are we going to haf the chat topic like on TT how he gets rid of it at the end of the month

ch88 i have a suggestion are we going to haf the chat topic like on TT how he gets rid of it at the end of the month

I’m quite happy to keep them indefinitely, but if people would prefer I can clear them out monthly.

Some things that I’ve thought of/noticed:

1. Preview button for posting
2. Fix the post times so they’ve not GMT
3. Quote button on posts

Some things that I’ve thought of/noticed:

1. Preview button for posting
2. Fix the post times so they’ve not GMT
3. Quote button on posts
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   yes to all of those :D

Like BG says I would like the font/colour of the previos holiday forum. Easier on the older eyes I think

yay it lives …what monster have we created now :)

Like BG says I would like the font/colour of the previos holiday forum
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that’s not what I said :(

hi drylander :)

can the Gardening forum have the same font style as the Holiday forum please :)

Fixed. It was just a typo in the style sheet for this forum.

A fixed width text box for entering posts.  It’s pretty narrow in the 5-forum HyperForum.

I knew there was something else.  Can the post number be displayed in the post window?  This would be useful for people wanting to refer people back to information in previous posts.

ch88 u know how we got the New Quote button may be in the future u could make it when u press that button the person username who posted it comes up in at and say ill use my username as an e.g.
(quote would start here)
Veg gardener said:
(then we the user said here)
(quote ends here)

Hope u all like my idea

said:

yep a good one

veg gardener said:

ch88 u know how we got the New Quote button may be in the future u could make it when u press that button the person username who posted it comes up in at and say ill use my username as an e.g.
(quote would start here)
Veg gardener said:
(then we the user said here)
(quote ends here)

Hope u all like my idea

How’s this?

thanks muschee for agreeing with me… now we just have to hope cb88 likes it

yea like that but is there any way of that happening when we press the quote button at all

veg gardener said:

thanks muschee for agreeing with me… now we just have to hope cb88 likes it

DONE how good is that

veg gardener said:

yea like that but is there any way of that happening when we press the quote button at all

I suggest you press the Quote button ;)

cb88 said:

veg gardener said:

yea like that but is there any way of that happening when we press the quote button at all

I suggest you press the Quote button ;)

kool

cb88 said:

veg gardener said:

yea like that but is there any way of that happening when we press the quote button at all

I suggest you press the Quote button ;)

this will be interesting(already tried it on holiday)

how fast are u at things cb88??? i said it and then it changed thank you

is it a bad idea boppa

boppa said:

cb88 said:

veg gardener said:

yea like that but is there any way of that happening when we press the quote button at all

I suggest you press the Quote button ;)

this will be interesting(already tried it on holiday)

nested quotes to boot ;-)

boppa said:

boppa said:

cb88 said:

veg gardener said:

yea like that but is there any way of that happening when we press the quote button at all

I suggest you press the Quote button ;)

this will be interesting(already tried it on holiday)

nested quotes to boot ;-)

looks very nice

actually i like the quote button-but it does need to be used with some care.

ive seen some forums where the nesting became a `little’ extreme, with almost all the thread in the quotes

veg gardener said:

boppa said:

boppa said:

cb88 said:

veg gardener said:

yea like that but is there any way of that happening when we press the quote button at all

I suggest you press the Quote button ;)

this will be interesting(already tried it on holiday)

nested quotes to boot ;-)

looks very nice

Someone’s going to have to draw the line and stop pressing Quote though (or trim out some old quotes), otherwise it’s going to get ridiculous.

yeah i normally use it when i am trying to help some1 and adding to what that person said =)

cb88 said:

veg gardener said:

boppa said:

boppa said:

cb88 said:

veg gardener said:

yea like that but is there any way of that happening when we press the quote button at all

I suggest you press the Quote button ;)

this will be interesting(already tried it on holiday)

nested quotes to boot ;-)

looks very nice

Someone’s going to have to draw the line and stop pressing Quote though (or trim out some old quotes), otherwise it’s going to get ridiculous.

nah- you reckon???

;-)

yeah may be with we just do 2 quotes or something or even if we answering some1’s question we just do is in different posts

you can also edit out some of the replies so only the last persons quote appears(just delete all the other quotes inside)

yes

boppa said:

actually i like the quote button-but it does need to be used with some care.

ive seen some forums where the nesting became a `little’ extreme, with almost all the thread in the quotes

yep, need to be able to cull out all the unnecessary stuff…

wooah! the type box shrunk!

this is alot different from our old home (starts to think i wounder how that did happen….why it closed down).

veg gardener said:

this is alot different from our old home (starts to think i wounder how that did happen….why it closed down).

it was old and I gather the code wasn’t as good then. or something may have crashed on the server it was on. this one is on a different server now.

the old holiday inn is still there, but its crashed atm, and the people who hosted it dont seem to be around atm
cb88 wrote the original holiday inn as well(that was a while ago lol) and mattv’s son hosted it on his server(or was it michealv??)

bluegreen said:

it was old and I gather the code wasn’t as good then. or something may have crashed on the server it was on. this one is on a different server now.

yeah

what about emoticons and such like?

actually one thing i like about the baut forum i hang out at, is there is a `report post’ button
handy for reporting spam and stuff like that to a mods email

good for getting rid of that nastyier spam that was appearing on the old forum

(thats assuming cb88 wanted to get into modding himself or set it up so a small number of regulars could delete posts- or just ignore it as was happening at the old holiday inn)

boppa said:

actually one thing i like about the baut forum i hang out at, is there is a `report post’ button
handy for reporting spam and stuff like that to a mods email

good for getting rid of that nastyier spam that was appearing on the old forum

(thats assuming cb88 wanted to get into modding himself or set it up so a small number of regulars could delete posts- or just ignore it as was happening at the old holiday inn)

would be good for controlling trolls too…

bluegreen said:

would be good for controlling trolls too…

thats a slippery slope- not everyone agrees on trollish behaviour; that would require full time mods.
I was thinking more of the obvious spam threads that often had rather offensive bits in the thread titles

maybe the very first post of a new thread could have a report spam button for `those’ threads

bluegreen said:

what about emoticons and such like?

I don’t like them much. I think text emoticons are fine as they are.

boppa said:

actually one thing i like about the baut forum i hang out at, is there is a `report post’ button
handy for reporting spam and stuff like that to a mods email

Maybe, but I’ll wait until it becomes an issue first.

boppa said:

(thats assuming cb88 wanted to get into modding himself or set it up so a small number of regulars could delete posts- or just ignore it as was happening at the old holiday inn)

There’s an admin interface that I can use for deleting posts and can also give other users access to quite easily.

Appointing community members as moderators never seems to work well in my experience…

boppa said:

thats a slippery slope- not everyone agrees on trollish behaviour;

For exactly that reason.

boppa said:

thats a slippery slope- not everyone agrees on trollish behaviour; that would require full time mods.
I was thinking more of the obvious spam threads that often had rather offensive bits in the thread titles

fair enough :)

no need at present but just something to keep in mind once the spambots find this place(unfortunately they seem to be a fact of life these days)

another forum i frequent got around it by not allowing newly registered members to post new threads until they had ten posts under their belts

just throwing ideas up in the air atm ;-)

speaking of registration, is it going to be implimented here like the old holiday inn?
i like the fact that unregistered users can post, but what happens if people get imped(is that even possible as the way the software is currently setup??)

my husband runs a phpbb forum and has found an excellent way of filtering out spam-bots – it is part of the registration process and involves identifying certain pictures in a collection and the pictures change each time and various ways so that there is no discernible pattern. Since he has implemented it he hasn’t had any get through. And any pictures can be used.

boppa said:

speaking of registration, is it going to be implimented here like the old holiday inn?
i like the fact that unregistered users can post, but what happens if people get imped(is that even possible as the way the software is currently setup??)

I didn’t think there was much point in having guest access. People can just register, it’s not very hard (yet). I’ll probably put email address verification on at some point.

And if everyone has to register, there can’t be any impersonating.

bluegreen said:

my husband runs a phpbb forum and has found an excellent way of filtering out spam-bots – it is part of the registration process and involves identifying certain pictures in a collection and the pictures change each time and various ways so that there is no discernible pattern. Since he has implemented it he hasn’t had any get through. And any pictures can be used.

I’ll keep that in mind for when we start having problems.

Perhaps when a user accesses http://tokyo3.org/forums/ then it should list the available forums?

D

DD32 said:

Perhaps when a user accesses http://tokyo3.org/forums/ then it should list the available forums?

D

Yeah, that’s what I had planned. Just haven’t done it yet :)

Ooh, there’s a thing, all this talk of registering and not having guest posters…we don’t have little ®’s next to our names any more.

Oh, that quoting is to die for CB88, Thank you so much! It got a little confusing sometimes on the old forum because it didn’t have the name so when you got to the fourth quote or so, you forgot who the quotes were from, or person B would quote person A and you’d think “Wow, I missed that the first time around, well said but no idea who said it!”

On that note, the post id numbers are really helpful if the pages skip when you refresh manually while playing catchup, I often found I’d skip a whole page or just have one or two posts ‘drop off’ without realising until I found things quoted that I’d not read the first time around. Had wondered vaguely why the train of thought had altered so much…:D
After a while I started checking the post id numbers every time I clicked on ‘later posts’
Of course this might not happen now, or it could just be my computer!

Emoticons…there is only one I really miss on the non-emoti forums, but they can be overused and annoying too, and people become so reliant on them that if you don’t have three grins and a wink, they think you’re in a bad mood or being mean!

cb88 said:

veg gardener said:

ch88 u know how we got the New Quote button may be in the future u could make it when u press that button the person username who posted it comes up in at and say ill use my username as an e.g.
(quote would start here)
Veg gardener said:
(then we the user said here)
(quote ends here)
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Hope u all like my idea

How’s this?

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Wow…. how sweet is this:)

lucky see the quote button next to the reply button press that one to quote a message ok

hortfurball said:

Ooh, there’s a thing, all this talk of registering and not having guest posters…we don’t have little ®’s next to our names any more.

Oh, that quoting is to die for CB88, Thank you so much! It got a little confusing sometimes on the old forum because it didn’t have the name so when you got to the fourth quote or so, you forgot who the quotes were from, or person B would quote person A and you’d think “Wow, I missed that the first time around, well said but no idea who said it!”

On that note, the post id numbers are really helpful if the pages skip when you refresh manually while playing catchup, I often found I’d skip a whole page or just have one or two posts ‘drop off’ without realising until I found things quoted that I’d not read the first time around. Had wondered vaguely why the train of thought had altered so much…:D
After a while I started checking the post id numbers every time I clicked on ‘later posts’
Of course this might not happen now, or it could just be my computer!

Emoticons…there is only one I really miss on the non-emoti forums, but they can be overused and annoying too, and people become so reliant on them that if you don’t have three grins and a wink, they think you’re in a bad mood or being mean!

I always had a lot of trouble about missing posts or whole pages like you HFB. At my age tho you don’t question where the error has come from. You just naturally assume it’s your old brain that’s at fault.

veg gardener said:

lucky see the quote button next to the reply button press that one to quote a message ok

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Yeah I saw it:) Just habit doing it the old way….

yeah i know what you been and i remember the code for the old forums to put pics up now its easyer for me its just !then website here!

Hi, cb88,

Could you send me an email at ogidnic at yahoo dot com dot au so I can put you in touch with Michael V so they can tidy up things at the old place?

veg gardener said:

lucky see the quote button next to the reply button press that one to quote a message ok

i’m only a few days behind – please bear with me

this forum has slowed down to a snails pace in the last 24 hours

Yeah I have noticed this too. I figured it was cos’ tokyo was a tad bit away from us;)

I have a suggestion but not sure if it is technically feasible the way the site is set up.

Would be handy to be able to bookmark a link which defaults to View By Time rather than View By Topic – so instead of bookmaking “http://tokyo3.org/forums/gardening/” we could bookmark something like “http://tokyo3.org/forums/gardening/index.asp?view=bytime”

(I’m an ASP coder so I only know how it would be done in ASP – don’t know if it’s possible in this particular case)

*back to work*

Hyperforum not for you, Bon?

http://chrw.customer.netspace.net.au/hf/ghd.html

:o)

Mad Man Moon said:

Hyperforum not for you, Bon?

http://chrw.customer.netspace.net.au/hf/ghd.html

:o)

Not at work.. lose track of time too easily with so many conversations to keep an eye on! I try to mostly stick to this forum, so that I don’t end up losing too much of my working day :)

bon008 said:

Mad Man Moon said:

Hyperforum not for you, Bon?

http://chrw.customer.netspace.net.au/hf/ghd.html

:o)
the hyperforum might be working quicker than either individual forum ??

Not at work.. lose track of time too easily with so many conversations to keep an eye on! I try to mostly stick to this forum, so that I don’t end up losing too much of my working day :)

bon008 said:

Mad Man Moon said:

Hyperforum not for you, Bon?

http://chrw.customer.netspace.net.au/hf/ghd.html

:o)

Not at work.. lose track of time too easily with so many conversations to keep an eye on! I try to mostly stick to this forum, so that I don’t end up losing too much of my working day :)

That one’s just this forum and holiday forum (which doesn’t seem to get much activity now). I was suggesting it for the View by Time view on startup with the topics down the bottom. :o)

Just wait until one of the Science Forums goes down … hehehehe … :)

cyaz later on … again … and this is in my garden this mrning .. bellowing for all he is worth because he has two koalas cornered … a mother and baby. :)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2379/2208120208_df979a32c0.jpg

jj said:

and this is in my garden this mrning .. bellowing for all he is worth because he has two koalas cornered … a mother and baby. :)

so cool! get nothing like him in my garden! just the neighbours’ b@#$%y feral cats :(

bon008 said:

I have a suggestion but not sure if it is technically feasible the way the site is set up.

Would be handy to be able to bookmark a link which defaults to View By Time rather than View By Topic – so instead of bookmaking “http://tokyo3.org/forums/gardening/” we could bookmark something like “http://tokyo3.org/forums/gardening/index.asp?view=bytime”

(I’m an ASP coder so I only know how it would be done in ASP – don’t know if it’s possible in this particular case)

*back to work*

Done. http://tokyo3.org/forums/gardening/?bytime

cb88 said:

bon008 said:

I have a suggestion but not sure if it is technically feasible the way the site is set up.

Would be handy to be able to bookmark a link which defaults to View By Time rather than View By Topic – so instead of bookmaking “http://tokyo3.org/forums/gardening/” we could bookmark something like “http://tokyo3.org/forums/gardening/index.asp?view=bytime”

(I’m an ASP coder so I only know how it would be done in ASP – don’t know if it’s possible in this particular case)

*back to work*

Done. http://tokyo3.org/forums/gardening/?bytime

OOOOOh thanks!! :D

pepper said:

this forum has slowed down to a snails pace in the last 24 hours

The webhost I’m using isn’t so good. I’m paid up until March and I was planning to jump ship then, but if things keep getting slow or go down completely I might move before that.

Lucky1 said:

Yeah I have noticed this too. I figured it was cos’ tokyo was a tad bit away from us;)

It’s actually hosted in Panama I think ;)

Hiya, Mr. 88. :o)

I thought it may be a good idea to have a link to the Holiday Forum in the link bar of the Gardening Forum and a link to the Gardening Forum in the link bar of the Holiday Forum.

Cheers, Chris.

you guys sure aim to please…

thanks. :) :)

its speeded up again
was it something that bon said?
thanks cb88 – have a lamington on me LOL

pepper said:

its speeded up again
was it something that bon said?
thanks cb88 – have a lamington on me LOL

yeah is way fast…. i wounder what happened

pepper said:

its speeded up again
was it something that bon said?
thanks cb88 – have a lamington on me LOL

yeah is way fast…. i wounder what happened

If your clear your cache from time to time it will help the speed of your computer…The forum is pretty fast really :)

cb88 said:

pepper said:

this forum has slowed down to a snails pace in the last 24 hours

The webhost I’m using isn’t so good. I’m paid up until March and I was planning to jump ship then, but if things keep getting slow or go down completely I might move before that.

Lucky1 said:

Yeah I have noticed this too. I figured it was cos’ tokyo was a tad bit away from us;)

It’s actually hosted in Panama I think ;)

more drugs and it’ll go real fast LOL