Official forum improvement requests thread
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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.
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It's been a while.
Request: Re-enable landscape mode when the site is pinned as an "App Shortcut" from Chrome Mobile.
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Request: easier switching between alts. E.g. have a drop down "post as..." menu next to post submit button.
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@gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
easier switching between alts
Pfff that will only benefit Boomzilla
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@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?
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An @fbmac button to delete all of your posts
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Horizontal mode.
ul.posts { display: flex; flex-direction: row; }
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Automatic necro of topics that have had no posts for 10 years, to breathe new life into old discussions!
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@jaloopa
a fox button to downvote all replies of a selected user in the current topic
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@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?
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@gurth
:whynotboth.gifv:
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Jellyavocado: transports you to another post, possibly in another thread.
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Full gamification of All The Things for emulation purposes.
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@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'
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@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?
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@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?
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@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!
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@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
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AnonBoomzillaize 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.
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@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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@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.
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@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.
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Allow users to rate each up/down vote.
Filed under: Insert your own yo dawg/Inception meme as necessary
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@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.
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@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
mostsome of your alts are obvious.
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@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
mostsome 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.)
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@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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@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.
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Switch the forum software to XenForo.
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@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.
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@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...
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@luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@jaloopa
a fox button to downvote all replies of a selected user in the current topicA "Like" button to upvote all posts in the Likes topic.
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@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.
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@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
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@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.
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@pie_flavor the delay when you click the notifications menu isn't because it's rendering; it's because it's loading.
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@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.
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@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
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Avatars rendered in Unicode braille characters.
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@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.
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@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.
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@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
RPG backed datastore
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@hungrier Is it ACID compliant?
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@julianlam If the acid is strong enough
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@hungrier said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@julianlam If the acid is strong enough
???
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@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.
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@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!
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Actual infinite scrolling.
If the user wants to scroll past the start or the end of the thread, why not let them?
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@zecc The forum could even generate infinite replies on demand with Markov chains.