ooh! a wish list!

* a preview post button so you can check stuff before posting it.

* the ability to jump to the last post of a thread by clicking on it in 'active topics'.

* a 'view posts since last visit' link; helpful if you've been gone for awhile.

* a PM counter above the magic mirror link like guthy has.

matt,
is there an eta on the new board?

Hmmm, how about an Insta-Succinct button that turns endlessly long posts full of quotes (including self quotes), and dissections thereof, into brief 3 line summaries? :)

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[ October 29, 2006: Message edited by: Harley ]

I've recently gone about setting up a board and ended up liking YabbSE and XMB over the rest, invision, phpBB, etc.  I ended up going with XMB, but a new release in Alpha with some very nice features (1.9) so if you do go with 1.8 you'll probably spend time adding hacks to the code etc.  Which is kinda fun to me. :)

I know some of the larger boards offer database conversion services (invision is $85) if you want to try and integrate the old smoldering remains into the new one.  I'd be up for starting from scratch and having the old one archived if it'd make things easier / faster.

Gigi wrote:

And I agree with all of DD's suggestions as well (smartie pants dragon).

Me, too :)

i like DD suggestions, too. but i am wholeheartedly against the deleting of one's own posts. :p

I would like it if in the fora there would not only be the date of the last post, but also the name of the last poster. That would make it a lot easier to track your own posts.

Yalahii.

dragondawn wrote:

i agree with fangler on the no deleting of one's own posts; the edit button is enough, methinks.

*me toos again*

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[ October 29, 2006: Message edited by: Harley ]

Harlequina wrote:

Well don't delete your own, then. :P

Any particular reason you want the function, Ian? 

I think the problem with it is that sometimes people post argumentative or volatile things that cause a reaction, and then if they were to completely delete the post there is no accountability for their words... (of course, they can and usually do edit, but at least that shows that *something* was said)

Sahi wrote:

I would like it if in the fora there would not only be the date of the last post, but also the name of the last poster.

I'd like that too. Guthy does it, so it is an option with ultimatebbs.

One thing I don't want to see, though. Several BBS systems out there are set up to put up a separate page for each and every post (sometimes appending a tree of the forum to it). I find this a pain. Please no. The ulitimatebbs approach is much better. If I were being picky, I might suggest that I'd like to see it count backwards from the latest post when building a page, rather than forward, but I suspect that would not be easy to do.

John Homes.