Topic: Things to add to the forum

[BLOOD MONKEY]

This is a thread about things they should add to the forum, such as post options, THREAD OPTIONS(ahem), personalizing, etc.
And I'll kick it off with...


- You should be able to ban people from a public thread
- Making private threads
- And being able to add a custom theme to a certain thread.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I'll wait for people to respond to this, and later on will voice my opinion.

[crisis]

- You should be able to ban people from a public thread
- Making private threads

this will cause a lot of tension amongst the community

- And being able to add a custom theme to a certain thread.

might be cool

[Abnormal Freak]

uh, no.

[KaZudra]

Private threads wouldn't have too much use here, our community is quite small and most of us get along just fine
Banning from Public threads wouldn't have that much of a use, same reason as above.

Custom theme for Threads could be a good option, but more forum themes altogether would be golden.

Since we are gathering more than a few fangame projects, I think we could add a Developer section to the forums.

[beingthehero]

*bans Freak*

- And being able to add a custom theme to a certain thread.

Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by this?
 

[X]

Since we are gathering more than a few fangame projects, I think we could add a Developer section to the forums.

I can definitely see this. Fan games, hacks and future ideas & concepts could all go in this section.

[GuyStarwind]

The first two are kinda iffy.

[Gunlord]

A custom theme might be a cool idea, though very hard to implement (depending on what you mean by "theme.") I don't think private threads are a good idea--we already have PMs for a reason. As for banning people from certain threads, that strikes me as unnecessary, if someone needs to be banned from one thread they'll usually need to be warned, in general, or banned from the board period eventually.

[Aridale]

forum software needs to work more like reddit. Where each section can have its own custom style and so on and so forth. Basically reddit is the best forum form of a forum hands down

[uzo]

- You should be able to ban people from a public thread

Censor anyone you want? Absolutely bullshit. We have mods for a reason. It's up to their discretion who is over the line.

- Making private threads

So we can have wars over whos in what exclusive club? Bah, I say.

- And being able to add a custom theme to a certain thread.

Probably not possible without a TON of coding.

[Abnormal Freak]

forum software needs to work more like reddit. Where each section can have its own custom style and so on and so forth. Basically reddit is the best forum form of a forum hands down

I hate Reddit. This style of message board is superior.

[Shiroi Koumori]

first 2 things, nope.
custom theme... might be hard to implement, but lets wait for Jorge's decision.

[Intersection]

- Prevent automatic logouts when posting. Or at least have the authentication prompt return you to your post, instead of redirecting you to a blank "start new thread" page. I lost dozens of would-be replies before I found a way around this.

- In the same vein, allow users to save their unfinished replies. I saw this feature under "news", but seeing how that section hasn't been updated in ages, I'm not sure if it was actually implemented.


Edit:
- Also, reputation. I know why it's been removed, and why it probably won't be reimplemented, but I'd still be interested in seeing it return. It was fun while it lasted.

[Abnormal Freak]

There's a "Save as Draft" button, dood—next to Reply, Preview, and Spell Check.

There's also clipboard for copy-and-pasting.