Little things that bug you/me about the forum

[LoyceV]

not something vague and big like: ~ "Can you improve the forum's mobile-friendliness?"

Would a btalk app be a realistic possibility.

Whoops But who knows, I've seen posts about a possible API, which puts an app one step closer. I'd never use my real account on a mobile advice though, so it's not for me.

Built in photo upload option.

I think this is limited by "legal", not "technical". See:

If you are complaining about an image located at ip.bitcointalk.org: That image is hosted elsewhere, and we are only proxying it from the original location in order to protect user privacy. You should not complain to us.

I don't think theymos wants to deal with copyright issues.

[joker_josue]

I was thinking about things I could mention here, until I realized...

Does anyone use this?


Maybe this space could be used for something else... I don't know...

[LoyceV]

Does anyone use this?

I'm so used to mentally blocking anything I don't need, that I haven't even seen that thing

[PX-Z]

Does anyone use this?

Never did until you mentioned it here lol, the "go" button is actually useless too since after choosing the board on the select option it redirects eventually on the chosen board ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Vod]

Also, at least in this thread, I don't mind redundant posts (as long as they're organic, as in, a forum member that's just sharing a genuine niggle). I

Like mine?

Oh, you typed niggle...

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Thank you for this and all you've been doing to improve the forum so far.

Can you further help in the area of autosave of typed posts? It is disappointing at times if our browser or gadget misbehaves and all long-typed constructive posts just vanish like that. The current style is far from what I see on a few forums.

Oh wow, I hadn't seen that particular issue mentioned before--I missed it, obviously--and I thought I was the only one who'd pulled most of his hair out for having lost numerous posts that took some time to write because of whatever glitch or 'misbehavior' caused it.  It hasn't happened to me in a while, because over time I started copying my post drafts to my clipboard just in case, but an autosave function sure would be nice.

But I'm not sure how prevalent that problem is, and there are obviously a lot more important issues the forum's brainiac techies need to deal with.

And triple props to PowerGlove for all his hard work.  Great member of the community and a straight-shooter as well, which is much appreciated when 90% of members here are brainless saps who wouldn't give an honest opinion if they had a gun to their head.

[Majestic-milf]

 You've been working tirelessly to keep this place as smooth running as possible but I'd like to add if you can remove this: when trying to view the posts in a thread, especially if it has like two or three pages and above and there's the "all" option, can you be kind enough to make it that we can view without being asked to verify if we are human?

[joker_josue]

You've been working tirelessly to keep this place as smooth running as possible but I'd like to add if you can remove this: when trying to view the posts in a thread, especially if it has like two or three pages and above and there's the "all" option, can you be kind enough to make it that we can view without being asked to verify if we are human?

This is a feature to protect the server, so as not to overload it for bots to visit.
And normally we only have to go through this check every now and then, and if the topic is very large.

[LoyceV]

~ there's the "all" option, can you be kind enough to make it that we can view without being asked to verify if we are human?

That's Cloudflare, just doing Cloudflare things:

The Internet is seriously flawed if everyone needs to huddle behind these huge centralized anti-DDoS companies in order to survive...

Suggestion: increase the maximum post size. Currently, it's 64 kB, and I think that's the limit to the HTML you're posting. If you post big tables, the limit (measured in BBCode) is lower, and in certain languages it's much lower. I don't know if this an option in SMF, but considering the increase in bandwidth and server power, I'd love to see it 8 times higher.

[Mate2237]

Nice suggestion thread. Op you have done well for bringing this to the public to know things that we need in the forum. Today as I was navigating the forum and I clicked someone profile to know when last the person came online and I say "Last Active: (Recently)" and i was not well pleased. Recently can mean different time and we need the particular time the person login to the forum and not recently.

Therefore I suggest that the time of the last login of the user should be showing and not

Last Active:   (Recently)

. And also instead of using telegram for notification, why can you add the notification like the way the message is because not everyone like to use telegram because it scamming nature. And I have seen some users here in the forum that, they are not using telegram because telegram is a scammers social media.

Thank for your hard working.

[joker_josue]

Nice suggestion thread. Op you have done well for bringing this to the public to know things that we need in the forum. Today as I was navigating the forum and I clicked someone profile to know when last the person came online and I say "Last Active: (Recently)" and i was not well pleased. Recently can mean different time and we need the particular time the person login to the forum and not recently.

Therefore I suggest that the time of the last login of the user should be showing and not

Last Active:   (Recently)

. And also instead of using telegram for notification, why can you add the notification like the way the message is because not everyone like to use telegram because it scamming nature. And I have seen some users here in the forum that, they are not using telegram because telegram is a scammers social media.

Thank for your hard working.

Interestingly, this happens because of a patch recently made to increase user privacy.
Or am I wrong!?

[LoyceV]

we need the particular time the person login to the forum

Why? What makes you think you have the right to know this? I just changed mine to "Recently", it's none of your business.

[BlackHatCoiner]

When searching in personal messages, asides from the user, I am requested to search for a particular word or phrase. It would be great if I had the option to leave that field empty. For example, I may not be looking for any particular conversation I've had with user X, but I want to get all the messages we exchanged.

Another feedback: When searching for PM, I want to be able to search to my Outbox only, instead of my Inbox.

[uchegod-21]

we need the particular time the person login to the forum

Why? What makes you think you have the right to know this? I just changed mine to "Recently", it's none of your business.

He wants to know when you were online last, maybe he is planning to kidnap you.

You've been working tirelessly to keep this place as smooth running as possible but I'd like to add if you can remove this: when trying to view the posts in a thread, especially if it has like two or three pages and above and there's the "all" option, can you be kind enough to make it that we can view without being asked to verify if we are human?

This is a feature to protect the server, so as not to overload it for bots to visit.
And normally we only have to go through this check every now and then, and if the topic is very large.

I think the only problem that view all solves is to avoid clicking next and previous. If clicking all overloads the server when triggered by many people at a time, while not disable the function. I can't imagine what will happen when I click view all in Premier League mega thread of about 6k pages.

[Vod]

Why? What makes you think you have the right to know this? I just changed mine to "Recently", it's none of your business.

People are more likely to make mistakes when just waking up.   By analyzing your login times, AI could infer when you would be waking up, giving Mate2237 a chance to scam you?   

[vapourminer]

you know that button - the clickable new button shows at the end of the thread title that takes you the the latest posts in a thread... can it be moved to the front?

like its at the end now

bla bla tgif thread  *NEW*
bitcoin valued at a zillian sea shell *NEW*


and have it

*NEW* blah blah tgif thread
*NEW* bitcoin valued at a zillian sea shels.

so when person of my high caliber of laziness has to move the mouse around all over the joint to click the new button when putting them at the front makes a nice clean line to click through.

ocd strikes hehe

[joker_josue]

I think the only problem that view all solves is to avoid clicking next and previous. If clicking all overloads the server when triggered by many people at a time, while not disable the function. I can't imagine what will happen when I click view all in Premier League mega thread of about 6k pages.

If you click on "see all", you will request +20k posts from the server. This will require more from the server. Just a few people doing it at the same time is no big deal. But if there are, in addition to people, hundreds of bots, it could really overload the server and make the forum stop working properly.

you know that button - the clickable new button shows at the end of the thread title that takes you the the latest posts in a thread... can it be moved to the front?

Are you talking about this button?


And your suggestion, to move it to before the topic title.
Well, I don't use it much, so I don't see much difference in its usefulness. But, for those who use it, if this is really useful, it may be something to change.

[LoyceV]

By analyzing your login times, AI could infer when you would be waking up, giving Mate2237 a chance to scam you?

That would be much easier to deduce from my post times. Contrary to popular believe, I don't post when I'm sleeping.

you know that button - the clickable new button shows at the end of the thread title that takes you the the latest posts in a thread... can it be moved to the front?

It makes more sense to be at the end: new posts are located at the end of the topic.

Well, I don't use it much, so I don't see much difference in its usefulness.

You should! It's a great way to keep up with new posts, in combination with the Watchlist.

I'm quoting this suggestion from another topic here:

There's no option to ask Theymos to offer - in a way or another - the list of "last" edited posts (maybe after a date)?

This would be very nice for post scrapers and third-party search tools, but may also create an undesirable privacy problem.

[joker_josue]

Well, I don't use it much, so I don't see much difference in its usefulness.

You should! It's a great way to keep up with new posts, in combination with the Watchlist.

I use Watchlist a lot!
The topics that are not on this list are because I haven't read them from the beginning. So that's why I don't use that button.

All the topics, even those that I haven't posted yet, but that I want to read, are on my list. (The list is already quite long.)

[AVE5]

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Kudos to you Op for your eminence contributions to a more better offers to the bitcointalk community.
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So, reshuffling and reserving this community to be reputable to its maximum conveniences would indeed secure a recognized and communicable bitcoin discussion forum. So, for your good works in the forum, I specially appreciates you.