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These forums are horrible to use
Gabs
Member Posts: 92
I hate to complain, but it has to be said: there are major problems with these forums.
1) Standard message board tags don't work
Standard message board tags like , , [quote="user"][/quote] etc. don't work. I refuse to use the WYSIWYG editor since I can't save progress on long posts, and not being able to use tags prevents me from typing a proper message in a word processor.
2) The forums can't keep track of more than one page
It seems like I can't have multiple reply to thread windows open at once. For example when I reply to a thread, or even try to change the text mode, and I have opened another thread since, it dumps me on to whatever page I was on last, since all the URLs are just "discussion.cfm".
3) If I have multiple threads open in different windows, they all look the same from the taskbar and it's impossible to tell which one is which without opening all of them because they don't include the title of the thread in them.
4) When I reply to a thread, it only displays one previous post. Most forums show about the last 20 replies.
5) Search function is limited
No advanced features like in other boards whatsoever.
Comments
Hmmm, well that's just bizarre. The italics and bold tags work in this thread but not in another one I posted in in another section.
Hehe
I see no bold myself in your post, but I read quote info about /bold.
As for the info saving, you can use the copy option to memorise it...and do smaller messages.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
Would you rather use these type of forums? http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=2000110
Ice_
Something like vBulletin would be ideal, it's pretty much the standard everywhere. There are plenty of free equivalents around though. This one is just a pain.
Hm, well, your right. These arent the best forums in the world. Neither is my forum, but i guess if you want to visit my forum you can. Here it is:
www.freewebs.com/halo-ware
Yeah, I built my own forum site, it really doesnt have anything to do with mmorpg's, except we do have an RPG forum on our website. Not might be the best but hey, it's ok.
P.S. I only joined for the chat, lol.
Ya'll joust got owned!
What I miss on these forums is a jump to first unread post in thread option. Some of these threads can have a high amount of traffic and I find I don't come here much because I can't easily find new posts on specific threads. Most Recent Posts is not enough. There needs to be a First Unread Post option on every thread and a Last Posted By link wouldn't hurt either.
Or they could just install vBulletin...
Dont forget that these forums were hard coded, not copy and paste from a person who created a forum.
We do appreciate the constructive comments, as it helps us better determine where to head off the problem.
KillerTwinkie - That one guy who used to mod mmorpg.com's forums.
I can appreciate that they were hard-coded. That's great, it's simply not good enough.
I do hope you will consider putting in some "modern" upgrades to your forums. Most people are familiar with boards like vBulletin and phpBB and expect certain options, like those I mentioned, up front. Frankly, if I hadn't recently become interested in several topics on this site, I never would have posted about the forum's lack of functionality.
Here's to upgrades and improvements! I'd be glad to help the tweak process if you guys need an objective opinion.
Just please make them stop eating posts. Seems about every third or fourth post I make (usually whenever I make a long post and forget to copy it first) gets eaten never to return again. And every once in a while, you get one that looks like it was eaten, but it wasn't and you end up double posting.
I experienced that many times, too. It would be great to return our complete message when we press "go to back page"
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like i said before,
Just make a hyperlink to your websites all you have to do is
just say the website like
for instice,
www.funnyjunk.com
yes, that will make it is so easy dont need to install anything
thats my input again....
Ice_
man....i luv these forums....very easy to navigate thru....only thing i dont like is not being able to see everything i posted and having issues putting images in my post, but thats probably cuz i'm a nub.
now, blizzard's forums suck, its nice here.
Bump, this whole "discussion.cfm" thing has got to go.