Planned forum changes – Your feedback needed

[saor]

@rpm...

Does the forum software allow for GIFV format files to be displayed as inline images like GIF or JPEG or PNG images? Would make the GIF thread and others so much better looking and easier to navigate through. And GIFV files use a lot less data compared to regular GIF.

Also @rpm, please allow comments in the Jobs section, especially now that the job site posts are copied there. We would like to be able to discuss them. I really don't see why we can't.

If MyBB is going to change anything about their forum, I'd much rather they added reply notifications. It seems like this is the only forum on Earth that doesn't have it.

 

[biometrics]

@rpm...

Comments have been enabled in the jobs forum.

 

[Kosmik]

This can be difficult to police. We may trial it if the mods agree, but I am concerned that some unsavory images may appear.

Don't we already have this in place? Folks can request a image after a while? Like mine.

 

[rpm]

Don't we already have this in place? Folks can request a image after a while? Like mine.

We do indeed. This is where it may stay.

 

[Pitbull]

We are considering some forum changes, based on user activity and recent changes to the site. Here is the plan:

• Remove the “IT Jobs Wanted, and Skills Offered” forum (the new IT Jobs Portal offers this functionality – just better).
• Remove the “Member request forum” under Hardware and Software Dealers (it is not used)
• Make “CPA, Telecoms Regulation and Consumerism” a sub-forum under “Business, Finance, and Start-ups” (it is too quiet to justify a top-level forum)
• Remove the “User reviews” forum (it is not used, and people can use any other forum for reviews in that sector)
  [*]Combine “Forum suggestions” and “First posts” (the activity in these forums are very low)
• Remove the “Mafia forum” (unless it will be used again?)
• Remove the ISDN, Sentech MyWireless, and Wimax forums (those forums have no activity, and the tech is no longer widely used)
• Remove the Fixed Broadband forum (low activity, and other forums serve that purpose)

Please Note: All the posts from the "removed forums" will be migrated to another forum first. No posts will therefore be lost.

Your feedback on these planned changes will be great.

@rpm

Would the suggestion (forum related issues) still get addressed as they have been in the suggestion section? Or is it now going to be buried under the intros by new members?

Maybe 1 suggestion?
Could you have a separate section for FiestaST to post his articles in the motoring section? His updates and articles drowns out the other discussions in that section. Maybe a sub forum for news?

 

[RedViking]

@rpm

Would the suggestion (forum related issues) still get addressed as they have been in the suggestion section? Or is it now going to be buried under the intros by new members?

Maybe 1 suggestion?
Could you have a separate section for FiestaST to post his articles in the motoring section? His updates and articles drowns out the other discussions in that section. Maybe a sub forum for news?

Ouch but +1

News and Reviews

 

[faniebraai]

We do indeed. This is where it may stay.

maybe lower the limit a bit from 5000 to 1000?

 

[ponder]

 

[bwana]

Try again

 

[Splinter]

@rpm

Maybe 1 suggestion?
Could you have a separate section for FiestaST to post his articles in the motoring section? His updates and articles drowns out the other discussions in that section. Maybe a sub forum for news?

As opposed to you basically being chaff in any forum? Let him be - he is passionate and gets a lot of info.

 

[Lucas Buck]

This can be difficult to police. We may trial it if the mods agree, but I am concerned that some unsavory images may appear.

Why not have a thread similar to the spam thread, where members of the community can post the name of anyone with an unsavory avatar. That way the policing wont be done by the mods alone.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

What about a General Jobs section? Unless im missing that?

 

[Icemanbrfc]

Can Icemanbrfc get a MyBB Hoodie, and for all you pervs lol not that kind of Hoodie

 

[KleinBoontjie]

What about a General Jobs section? Unless im missing that?

That will defeat the purpose....they want companies to pay for the privileged of posting a job.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

That will defeat the purpose....they want companies to pay for the privileged of posting a job.

Oh i see. Was just wondering, as im not in the IT sector, so thought maybe a general job section would be cool. Even if it was just users posting ads from their companies etc

 

[mfumbesi]

Please make the Dark-Full-Screen mode darker. Like really dark, basically black.