Forum Design Suggestions

`xinoN

It would be great to see who's the thread creator/OP BEFORE entering the thread. I got no time to waste

[33]delta[down]ch

Maybe daeaktivate "Dissmiss" (Announcement) and "Hide" (Categories).

If some one hided some categories use following link:
http://forum.americasarmy.com/categories/?ShowAllCategories=true

IO_i_OI

Those yellow page buttons with white text have got to go! I'm blind!

And the "quoted text" needs to be distinguishable from the poster's reply. I can't tell who is saying what.

`xinoN

IO_i_OI said:

Those yellow page buttons with white text have got to go! I'm blind!

And the "quoted text" needs to be distinguishable from the poster's reply. I can't tell who is saying what.

Agree. It's like looking directly at the sun.

frankof

`xinoN said:

IO_i_OI said:

Those yellow page buttons with white text have got to go! I'm blind!

And the "quoted text" needs to be distinguishable from the poster's reply. I can't tell who is saying what.

Agree. It's like looking directly at the sun.

 

At least its somewhat consisten, low contrast across the board

(an IE 9 is not a modern browser (  )

-vortex

Another go...

cough cough pick me

I thought this was how the forums were supposed to look and I loved it. So then I spent a little bit trying to figure out how to make mine not look like total crap.

TheBaDaBing! for Forum Designer.

edit:

Can I force all text the same size? Beyond annoying.

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Also:

1) Edit box too small

2) Image is shown instead of link to image when editing. Please fix if possible

vapor.i

Thank you very much Hilabuster! I don't want to come off as an $&#@ but I only want aao to look professional so sometimes my passion bleeds through.

Here are some good vanilla plugins that may enhance these forums a bit more:


CKeditor - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/ckeditor-plugin
Whos online - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/onlinenow-plugin
Stats footer - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/statisticsfooter-plugin
Thanks post - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/thankfulpeople2-plugin
Hot threads - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/hotthreads-plugin
Send pm to thread view - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/sendpm-plugin

IO_i_OI

Besides all the other comments above, and all the ones yet to be posted, Devs, Moderators, Military members, Map Editors,etc. need to have some type of color-coded name under their avatar to distinguish themselves from all the other clowns on here.

BTW, you are the US ARMY. There is nothing wrong with a camo background and shades of our favorite US Army color -- green!

-=312th=-BOXER

It looks OK so far, just the beginning stage. Oh i see the Vanilla cloud is that something you will be implementing into the forums as well? 

-SD-DELTON-ACI-

1.To many replies on one page.

2.All post to me look like one big post.

3.Colour can you split the post with a colour its all black don't look good..

 

-=312th=-BOXER

DOH..

Hilabuster

{FOD}V@POR said:

Thank you very much Hilabuster! I don't want to come off as an $&#@ but I only want aao to look professional so sometimes my passion bleeds through.

Here are some good vanilla plugins that may enhance these forums a bit more:


CKeditor - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/ckeditor-plugin
Whos online - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/onlinenow-plugin
Stats footer - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/statisticsfooter-plugin
Thanks post - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/thankfulpeople2-plugin
Hot threads - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/hotthreads-plugin
Send pm to thread view - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/sendpm-plugin

Thanks Vapor, I have actually looked at most of these and many of them are out dated and/or broken. I have fixed quite a few of the plugins that we find useful and I will continue to evaluate plugins and add to what we have as I can find time to go through the plugins and fix and update them. I will double check these against my list and see if any of them our new to me.

Bam4D

I miss clicking on Active Topics and seeing the HOT topic of the day or week.

.!.dgodfather

TheBaDaBing! said:

Line break issue is still here. Its a simple css fix.

grrrr

SOPMOD

Things that come to mind from the old forum that seem to be missing are:

- A button that takes you straight to the latest comment in a thread.

- Post preview, before actually posting.

- Who's online.

Hilabuster

TheBaDaBing!

We have not uploaded any css specific fixes yet.

Just to make sure we are on the same page here let me ask you a few explorative questions. 

What specifically is the line break issues to you? 

what browser are you using that you see it in? 

Are you seeing it in all post or just the post that were made before we got the right editor turned on?

This is a test post and I want to make sure I am seeing the same thing you are. 

vapor.i

Thanks Hilabuster, good to see that progress is being made. Keep up the good work!

Hilabuster

Thanks for your info BaDaBing. I will add this info to our list of bugs that we are working on.