Your opinions please: do we change the board structure?

[TightEnd]

you see, I don't mind the number of stickies (althoguh I try not to add wherever possible)  especially now page 1 has grown in length.

Sub-question: am I in a minority on this?

Yet in your original post you mention posts dropping down the page after a few hours, do you not think that shortening the first page with 6, 7 or 8 sticky's contributes hugely towards this?
Anyway just a pet hate of mine, how about a sticky section?
Ariston mentions worldofpoker, which is a great forum but the amount of sections is really off putting.
How many times have we had this discussion about sections?
Maybe they should be relooked at

yes Ian, but 8 stickies are atypical!  moving on ......

[ifm]

yes Ian, but 8 stickies are atypical!  moving on ......

moving on?
why?
has a ruling been made?
am i not allowed to mention them?

[lvlarc_uk]

I think the auto forward off thread after making a reply needs to be changed, and could do with an off topic thread, as theres some threads in general discussion that could fit in there.

[Kaibobble]

If I may put my input in here. (just going from my HCI knowledge)

One thing that makes the multiple sections easier to read (for example with the PHPBB forum AWOP) is that it flags the topics that you haven't read so you don't have to go through all sections. If you are not interested in topics you can press a link that will mark them all as read.

This forum seems to only highlight hot topics and topics that you have posted in (just the way it has been developed), meaning that you would have to keep going through all sections to find new threads.

[tikay]

Hi kaibobble,

Thanks for your input. This is not easy - as you well know!

I don't quite understand your point about highlighting new posts. On blonde, ALL unread posts are marked with a blue "NEW" sticker, assuming that's how you have set it up in your Profle. I believe Members have the ability to have this "flag" on or off.

[TightEnd]

yes Ian, but 8 stickies are atypical!  moving on ......

moving on?
why?
has a ruling been made?
am i not allowed to mention them?

of course you are....no offence meant

[Kaibobble]

Where is that in the profile I can't find it?

It may be an idea to automatically enable it when people join as it's not an obvious thing to do and it is a really nifty little feature.

[tikay]

You got me there Kaibobble, I have no idea how to enable/disable it. I am sure someone will come on & tell us.

But I can assure you that EVERY new post is highlighted with a blue "NEW" icon, & I believe that almost everyone has that enabled.

[Kaibobble]

oh yeah just noticed the "New" button. Sorry me being a muppet  >:?

[tikay]

Phew, I thought I was going mad. (der....)

[ifm]

going?

[Kaibobble]

Ah you see whats confusing is (not dissing you here, dissing SMF) they don't keep consistancy from page to page.

On the main forum page they represent a new post similar to PHPBB forums where they change the icon from a light blue/grey to a darker blue.

Then you go into the forum and they change their method of feedback to the user to represent the same thing by putting the "new" button at the end of the subject line.

[tikay]

That took you about half a nanasecond to respond to ifm!

I did add "der", in an attempt to head off your response......

Youi joining us for a bite to eat on Saturday? You would be very welcome.

[ifm]

Not sure Mr Tikay sir, i dunno if i could handle watching the "troops" head off to battle without being involved
I was gonna have just 1 pop at qualifying last night but the nature of my exit makes me wanna make ammends, so may try again tonight

[ifm]

Did the big boss qualify, we started on the same table