  
| Author: | DagsBricks  | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2014 13:37 | | Subject: | Re: Please give us a sub forum for the MOC Shop | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cyberclark writes:
| | In Suggestions, cs_ryan writes:
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May I ask what is it you guys don't like about the new forum? Is it the fact
that it uses the "Entire thread on one page" format? or that new comments
appear at the top? Is there other any specific features you'd like to see
over there?
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Dagsbricks already posted a good start of things that are sub-par with the MOC
forums.
http://moc.bricklink.com/pages/moc/comm/forum_view.page?id=1
I'll summarize what he wrote:
1 .Comments are limited to 560 characters? Many many posts need to be much longer
than that.
2. A one line text entry field is just wierd? Should be a text box like in this
forum. If you write past the one line it just scrolls and you can't look
back at what you wrote?
3. A new tab opens everytime you click on a forum thread. Why? Most people know
how to use back in their browsers. No need for a new tab
Now I'll add some new ones:
4. This community is used to a threaded style board. Using a flat style makes
it hard to see who replied to who and makes it hard to have a conversation.
One thread per page is fine, but there needs to be some indentations between
posts or at least add the post that was replied to in quotes so that you can
somewhat follow the conversation.
5. What posts have I read? Which posts have new replies? I just clicked on
a few posts, closed the 5 new tabs it created. Reloaded the base forum page,
and the posts I already clicked on didn't change color or anything? How
do I know what I have already read?
6. Loss of Profile info in post. This is supposed to foster community spirit.
Was nice in every post to be able to quickly see a users feedback rating as
well as a link to their store. In the new forum all you see at a glance is their
pic and their username? You have to click on their name to see any of their
info, but even then it only seems to show MOC info. I hope when this forum is
integrated into Bricklink 2.0 we will have more info available about them as
a seller/buyer since that is the focus of this site.
7. No way to preview your post
8. Doesn't interact with the database. No way to link Set/Part numbers like
you can here. ie
9. No image linking / uploading?
10. Doesn't auto-resolve html links. In this forum you just copy and paste
a link and it automagically makes it work. There you post a link and you would
have to copy and paste it again.
Well that is my start of what is wrong with the MOC forums. Hope that helps
get you started.  I'm sure some others will think of more things
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Just swap it out for Vanilla and it would be a vast improvement.
Brian
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Message is in Reply To: Message Has 1 Reply: 13 Messages in this Thread:  Msg 1 - Hardstone (118) 120 months ago Jul 26, 2014 to Suggestions
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Msg 3 - Hardstone (118) 120 months ago Jul 26, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 4 - Rolf (339) 120 months ago Jul 26, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 5 - QA_Ryan (3) 120 months ago Jul 30, 2014 to Suggestions
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Msg 7 - Cyberclark (838) 120 months ago Jul 30, 2014 to Suggestions
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Msg 9 - Cyberclark (838) 120 months ago Jul 30, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 10 - qwertyboy (7876) 120 months ago Jul 30, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 11 - Rolf (339) 120 months ago Jul 30, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 12 - CoachMcGuirk (50) 120 months ago Jul 30, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 13 - Rolf (339) 120 months ago Jul 30, 2014 to Suggestions
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