Mind Control Comics Forum

What improvements, changes, etc. would you like to see in the Forum? Comment here. New things are coming…

Tell me more about these! What would you want to see there?

Pinned meaning, individual posts can be pinned to the top of a thread (so my flow posts would all be at the top). As an alternative, private meaning I could start a thread that only I could comment on (for the same need).

Sorry Daphne, I am just not an SJI person and boy does that topic get a lot of discussion. Being able to mute a thread (so I do not get any notifications that there is a new post) would be lovely.

In the current Forum, I can "Reply" to a thread, but not a specific post. Obviously I can quote, but it doesn't have a link back to the post that it's replying to (which could be from a ways down the thread). Most modern discussion platforms will do that. Plus, it would notify the OP that there is a direct reply to what they said.

The only reason you should be getting a notification that there's a new post is if you subscribed to it. Or are you referring to the "New" indicator?


But it does. If you leave the link= in the quote tag, it links back to the post that you are quoting. Or do you mean something else?

Agreed, though, that it's not full threading where each post points back to the post being replied to. On the other hand, often posts are replies to more than one post, and the quote tag does handle that situation.

Yes, the "New" indicator.


That's assuming you quote, though, which not everyone does / wants to do. I often just want to reply, not quote!

Also:

• A "My Recent Thread Activity" or something

Sometimes it's hard to find the thread you were just writing in. Such as... this one!

Something beyond the "show posts" in your profile?

I'd make use of this sort of Thread muting feature as well.  I'm the opposite of hereno in that I am far more into SJI than Starter Marriage.  As well, topics like MCT releases are not really of interest to me.  

And I see above, how from lack of familiarity with how to do a partial quote. I totally screwed up my last post.  sort of corrected now.

Some of this might just be a user interface thing, i.e. making features more visible. In this case, I never go to the Profile section and had no idea this feature was even there.

I mean tbf there is a limit to what can be done. It’s a 17 year old forum, and Simple Machines forums seem to be going by the wayside more and more.

There is an implication there that we'll be staying on SMF... :-)

The new system is Discourse, right?

We tried it, and we decided we weren't wild about it, so we'll be doing something different.

AHA!!! Knew there was something with that.

Another thing about the current forum that drives me nuts: the option right now is "Show unread posts since last visit." I'd rather that be just "Show unread posts." The "since last visit" bit hides stuff if I don't read something and then come back later.