Official forum improvement requests thread

ben_lubar

Just kidding this thread is actually the

Bad forum "improvements" that will not be added

thread

This is a thread for suggesting "improvements" to the forum that will not be added but we'll pretend we're serious for comedic effect.

Hopefully people will forget this thread exists and be confused when they see this pop up in their unread list after a while.

Tsaukpaetra

It's been a while.

Request: Re-enable landscape mode when the site is pinned as an "App Shortcut" from Chrome Mobile.

Gąska

Request: easier switching between alts. E.g. have a drop down "post as..." menu next to post submit button.

Luhmann

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

easier switching between alts

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

ben_lubar

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

easier switching between alts

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Can you imagine how long it would take to render a dropdown menu with 150k items in it, though?

Jaloopa

An @fbmac button to delete all of your posts

Zecc

Horizontal mode.

ul.posts { display: flex; flex-direction: row; }

Atazhaia

Automatic necro of topics that have had no posts for 10 years, to breathe new life into old discussions!

Luhmann

@jaloopa
a fox button to downvote all replies of a selected user in the current topic

Gurth

@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Can you imagine how long it would take to render a dropdown menu with 150k items in it, though?

In plain HTML, or through JavaScript?

JBert

@gurth
:whynotboth.gifv:

Zecc

Jellyavocado: transports you to another post, possibly in another thread.

dkf

Full gamification of All The Things for emulation purposes.

Luhmann

@zecc said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

possibly in another thread.

but still showing the original title and url so you can play a game of 'guess the thread I'm in'

Zecc

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@zecc said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

possibly in another thread.

but still showing the original title and url so you can play a game of 'guess the thread I'm in'

Didn't we have that one already at some point?

Luhmann

@zecc said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Didn't we have that one already at some point

Why did we loose it?

Can we also bring back fa_spin?

remi

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

easier switching between alts

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Which is to say, 100% of users. Seems pretty significant to me!

boomzilla

@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

easier switching between alts

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Can you imagine how long it would take to render a dropdown menu with 150k items in it, though?

WE NEED A DROPDOWN CDN

izzion

~~Anon~~Boomzillaize upvotes and make downvotes public, for more civilized discourse. People should be willing to wear the badge of shame if they think a post is really worth downboating, and we shouldn't make upboats into an epeen competition.

accalia

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Request: easier switching between alts. E.g. have a drop down "post as..." menu next to post submit button.

I already have that functionality! :-D

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accalia

@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Official forum improvement requests thread

Request: Allow hosting avatars offsite so that users who change their avatars rapidly do not unduely inflate the backups because the forum doesn't do file level deduplication of the uploads resulting in extra and unnecessary upload files when the same file is uploaded multiple times.

antiquarian

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Request: easier switching between alts. E.g. have a drop down "post as..." menu next to post submit button.

Spotted the redditor.

hungrier

Allow users to rate each up/down vote.

Filed under: Insert your own yo dawg/Inception meme as necessary

PJH

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Request: easier switching between alts. E.g. have a drop down "post as..." menu next to post submit button.

Yeah, no...

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@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Hmm.

r10pez10

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boomzilla

@pjh said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Hmm.

At least ~~most~~some of your alts are obvious.

PJH

@boomzilla said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@pjh said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Hmm.

At least ~~most~~some of your alts are obvious.

Let me guess - you actually went and looked rather than assuming?

(10 of the [easily found 21 belonging to me in the admin panel] are [easily identifiable as me on the forum] for those playing along.)

boomzilla

@pjh said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Let me guess - you actually went and looked rather than assuming?

Ugh...that sounds like work.

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Gąska

@pjh said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Request: easier switching between alts. E.g. have a drop down "post as..." menu next to post submit button.

Yeah, no...

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Hmm.

I don't know how to feel about the fact you named a test account after me.

pie_flavor

Switch the forum software to XenForo.

anotherusername

@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

easier switching between alts

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Can you imagine how long it would take to render a dropdown menu with 150k items in it, though?

I can imagine how long it takes to render an emoji menu with fewer items than that.

PJH

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

I don't know how to feel about the fact you named a test account after me.

Since the only reason it exists is because you asked if ą could be in a username...

anotherusername

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@jaloopa
a fox button to downvote all replies of a selected user in the current topic

A "Like" button to upvote all posts in the Likes topic.

anotherusername

@anotherusername said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

easier switching between alts

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Can you imagine how long it would take to render a dropdown menu with 150k items in it, though?

I can imagine how long it takes to render an emoji menu with fewer items than that.

Come to think of it, I should find out how long it takes to render it in New Firefox.

pie_flavor

@anotherusername said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

easier switching between alts

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Can you imagine how long it would take to render a dropdown menu with 150k items in it, though?

I can imagine how long it takes to render an emoji menu with fewer items than that.

I know, right?
https://i.imgur.com/zzXykeJ.png

Tsaukpaetra

@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

easier switching between alts

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Can you imagine how long it would take to render a dropdown menu with 150k items in it, though?

It's been done before.

anotherusername

@pie_flavor the delay when you click the notifications menu isn't because it's rendering; it's because it's loading.

pie_flavor

@anotherusername said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@pie_flavor the delay when you click the notifications menu isn't because it's rendering; it's because it's loading.

Well, the delay is infinite. Nothing you do, besides actually clicking the notifications, will put them in the list.

ben_lubar

@NCommander said on irc://chat.freenode.net/#dfhack:

16:17 < BenLubar> some day I want to make a piece of software so complicated it 
                  can have bugs like Dwarf Fortress does
16:21 < NCommander> BenLubar, you could rewrite thedailywtf's forum software in 
                    COBOL and use an RPG backed datastore

Zecc

Avatars rendered in Unicode braille characters.

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Gurth

@zecc said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

Avatars rendered in Unicode braille characters.

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And implement it as a fully-functional Space Invaders game.

julianlam

@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

easier switching between alts

Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla

Can you imagine how long it would take to render a dropdown menu with 150k items in it, though?

Don't worry, we're have it support infinite scrolling.

hungrier

@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

RPG backed datastore

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julianlam

@hungrier Is it ACID compliant?

hungrier

@julianlam If the acid is strong enough

accalia

@hungrier said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@julianlam If the acid is strong enough

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???

Greybeard

@pie_flavor said in Firefox Quantum WTF Of The Day:

@timebandit Chrome's so sure about its ability to open tabs, if you open 100 tabs on mobile, the tab number turns into a smiley face.

Tsaukpaetra

@greybeard said in Official forum improvement requests thread:

@pie_flavor said in Firefox Quantum WTF Of The Day:

@timebandit Chrome's so sure about its ability to open tabs, if you open 100 tabs on mobile, the tab number turns into a smiley face.

Seconded!

Zecc

Actual infinite scrolling.

If the user wants to scroll past the start or the end of the thread, why not let them?

anonymous234

@zecc The forum could even generate infinite replies on demand with Markov chains.