New Forums & Restructuring

Anonymous Poster · Dec 4, 2001

Muhammad,

Perhaps you can incorporate in the new version, a "colored tractor symbol" next to each users name denoting their brand of tracter or with a different "color" user name displayed as in blue/green/orange...etc.

If the user is just starting to examine/look to buy a new tractor... use the "rolling eyes gif" next to his user name...

So basically at a quick glance, one can "see" what kind of tractor is used without looking up the user's profile...

{you've getting a zillion people on now... and hard to keep track...} /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
{...and by the way... how close are we to it's debut...?} /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif

Muhammad · Dec 4, 2001

How about we display the tractor make/model field from the profiles on the post pages? Example being...

MChalkley
(Star Member)
EarthForce EF-5 TLB (2001)
08/21/01 11:28 PM

We're looking at the change sometime before the 1st of the year.

Anonymous Poster · Dec 4, 2001

That's more than I bargained for... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Sounds good... maybe just add a tinge of color.../w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif for effect...

RichZ · Dec 4, 2001

John, you're so hard to please!!!!! Muhammad gives all this info, and you want color, too!!! Don't forget, it isn't all just green, orange and blue!! Mine is grey, Farmalls are red, Minnie Molines are yellow, etc., etc.!! You forget the vintage tractors, not to mention the brands other than the big three. Muhammad will go color crazy!!!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Rich

Boondox · Dec 4, 2001

I'm with John. Color would be great! Muhammad needs something to do, anyway. This would keep him occupied for a while. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

RichZ · Dec 4, 2001

Boy, I'm getting outnumbered, here! And from my friends, too! I guess it'll be up to Muhammad, but if he does colors, its gotta be more than the big three!!!/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Rich

DVerbarg · Dec 4, 2001

How about letting registered users select their color in the user profiles? This way we could allow those highway department JDs that are painted orange.

DaveV

SimS · Dec 4, 2001

Muhammad;

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but I would like to see a different icon or something for a post that includes an attachment. Right now a post uses a "folder" icon prefixing the title. How about a "paper clip" or "camera" icon for posts with attachments? My 2 cents. BTW many many thanks for running one of the best forums on the WWW.

Sim

Muhammad · Dec 4, 2001

We'll see but I can't promise the color part.

Muhammad · Dec 4, 2001

I'll put that on the list ...

s1120 · Dec 4, 2001

Muhammad,
I like the idea of the tractor make on the post page. A lot of us have our tractor in our sig file, but would me nice to see what a poster is running. eaven us guys with the small tractors./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

ddl · Dec 5, 2001

what I would like to see is if you are in a form and look at the list names with new aliong with them , that you could right click the title and remove the new without visiting the form. As an examole, if you see an string on BX's and you have no interest in this string, you could right click and clear the new without loading the string and then using the back button. This way the major form would not list the new and the only thiong new was strings you did not want to read the day before, Otherwise this is a great read.

Dan L

Muhammad · Dec 5, 2001

As in, a "mark this thread read" feature?

MChalkley · Dec 5, 2001

Muhammad - That's what I hope he meant - I'd love to see a "Mark this read" feature...

MarkC

Muhammad · Dec 5, 2001

I suppose we could work on something like that. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

MikePA · Dec 5, 2001

Ditto!

MossRoad · Dec 5, 2001

RamaLamaDingDong

I would like to see the subject "not changeable", such as I did to this reply, when replying to a post. When I browse the list of recent posts, I see what I think is a new topic and end up back at a forum that I have already been to.

I have enjoyed this site very much. Thanks for all of the hard work. Sincerely, MossRoad

 MossRoad

jfakerj · Dec 6, 2001

How about "mark all threads read in this forum forum". Or better yet automatically mark all threads read when exiting a forum.

Jerry Edited by jfakerj on 12/05/01 11:33 PM (server time).

Muhammad · Dec 6, 2001

Technically it will already do that, but only after you end your session on the forum. So you can't go re-enter a forum while still browsing and see all threads marked as read.

ddl · Dec 6, 2001

What I was talking about is being able to clear the new listing on threads without loading the thread, if it is something you read yeasterday and found it not important to you, the next day when you view the form and you see that thread, you could , I guess mark as read with out loading the thread. You stated that when you exit the form, all are marked as read, but it does not really do that, yes if it is a thread you have visited, but threads you have not visited will stay with the new, the next time you log on. Automatically clearing the new may not be a good idea, for some do not have time to read it all in one setting, and comes back later to continue to read. That is why I feel it should be controlled by the user. Still a great job on maintaining the site.

Dan L