Users: Make suggestions and ask if features you don't like (be specific!) can be changed. Think out loud--even a bad idea might be the inspiration for someone else's good idea.
Admins: Please tell us whether or not stuff can be changed and/or whether or not you will actually consider changing it. Describe to us any major limitations we should be aware of before we start getting really unreasonable.
Mods: Gloat over your plausible deniability in the implementation of the new software and make statements like "Yeah me too, that CK is a big jerk who probably abuses his pets! Why'd they change this, I had no advance notice at all!"
I'll start.
No one likes thread necroing, which for the newbies is when someone posts in a thread that no one has posted in for a very long time. The "Similar Threads" feature beneath the reply box usually gives old threads that someone may very likely click onto, not notice the dates, and necro it.
This thread, for example, refers users to two threads that died in 2012 and three more from 2013. Another thread takes us back as far as 2006. Instead of Similar Threads, I suggest having some sort of random assortment of active threads. The "Active Topics" widget/sidebar/thing covers it well enough--just something to say "Hey loser, stop whining about librulls/conservatards/etc. and check out this other thread". Or, maybe just remove the Similar Threads feature and don't replace it with anything.
Also the Active Topics thingy could be polluted by people replying to a single popular thread or one rather annoying poster spamming the board; to prevent this, would it be feasible to filter it so that a thread can only taken up one slot on Active Topics, with each individual user being limited to one slot at a time as well? Perhaps that one for users can wait until it becomes a problem, if at all.
Finally, as seen in this post, there are multiple usernames getting forced onto a second text line. Would it be possible to expand that particular column by just a few character widths? Alternatively, could you make so that characters can be displayed under the Online/Offline banners? None of the usernames on two lines I've seen would even need the second line if the few bumped characters could've used the space under the banner.
Admins: Please tell us whether or not stuff can be changed and/or whether or not you will actually consider changing it. Describe to us any major limitations we should be aware of before we start getting really unreasonable.
Mods: Gloat over your plausible deniability in the implementation of the new software and make statements like "Yeah me too, that CK is a big jerk who probably abuses his pets! Why'd they change this, I had no advance notice at all!"
I'll start.
No one likes thread necroing, which for the newbies is when someone posts in a thread that no one has posted in for a very long time. The "Similar Threads" feature beneath the reply box usually gives old threads that someone may very likely click onto, not notice the dates, and necro it.
This thread, for example, refers users to two threads that died in 2012 and three more from 2013. Another thread takes us back as far as 2006. Instead of Similar Threads, I suggest having some sort of random assortment of active threads. The "Active Topics" widget/sidebar/thing covers it well enough--just something to say "Hey loser, stop whining about librulls/conservatards/etc. and check out this other thread". Or, maybe just remove the Similar Threads feature and don't replace it with anything.
Also the Active Topics thingy could be polluted by people replying to a single popular thread or one rather annoying poster spamming the board; to prevent this, would it be feasible to filter it so that a thread can only taken up one slot on Active Topics, with each individual user being limited to one slot at a time as well? Perhaps that one for users can wait until it becomes a problem, if at all.
Finally, as seen in this post, there are multiple usernames getting forced onto a second text line. Would it be possible to expand that particular column by just a few character widths? Alternatively, could you make so that characters can be displayed under the Online/Offline banners? None of the usernames on two lines I've seen would even need the second line if the few bumped characters could've used the space under the banner.
