Yes, I know, the $15 is probably barely enough to keep the SDMB maintained the way it is now. But we can dream that it’s all being stockpiled somewhere and will soon result in amazing new features. What’s your SDMB wishlist? Mine:
Avatars! I know some dopers know each other well by their screennames and can associate them with past posts and aspects of personality and so forth, but I just can’t do that from a screenname. But if there’s a little picture to go with it then the random noise of screennames will start to part and I can begin to associate posts with actual people.
Searching that isn’t a pussy. I never want to see “that’s too common a word” again. At the very least if it can’t handle two three-letter words, let us put them in quotes together and count it as one long seven letter word. And why not let google do the searches? Wikipedia gives that option when it’s search engine is overwhelmed.
Real sigs. I don’t want spam here any more than the average doper, but if someone wants to have a link to their homepage where they hock homemade turtle cozys I say why not? If a poster seems interesting, I’d love to see what they are up to.
The occasional guest appearance by the man (Cecil) himself. Maybe an annual state of the SDMB report. Maybe an amusing anecdote. Maybe an “ask the Cecil” thread…
I could put up with Avatars as we have the abilitity to turn them off. (Thread Display Options)
I would like to see the vBulletin updated so …
The Search function could be fixed and lock ups would decrease further.
The Database could be rebuilt and threads would not have to be deleted periodically.
It would quiet a lot of the complaints about the board.
I would really like to see the PM expanded a bit. So we could store more messages and write longer ones.
My #1 wish: Please give us a seperate Sports forum or sub-forum if that works better.
*Note: It has been explained multiple times by the admins and mods, that they do not want to let the SDMB be searchable and viewable by Google for privacy concerns. I don’t especially agree with this idea, I am just repeating it. *
One recent change I really appreicate is the ability to set our options to seeing 200 posts per page in a thread. This is great. Thank you **TubaDiva ** again. I thought I would mention this in case posters were not aware of it yet.
Go to Edit Option under Quick Links - look for the Thread Display Options section - then Number of Posts to Show Per Page - select Show 200 posts per page.
I agree with all of that - and if there’s an option members can select so that they never see avatars, what would be the problem? (I think it’s even possible to insist on externally-hosted avatars only, in which case it’s not even a bandwidth issue).
I’d like to be able to embed images in posts - it’s just not the same doing it with links or ASCII art - again, if the images are hosted externally, there’s no bandwidth issue.
I’m the only one who would get this ability, you see, and I never seem to disagree with you. So you’d be safe.
Seriously (not that I wasn’t serious about my previous post; it’s been a misanthropic month) updating the board software would be nice, and a “forum jump” option at the top. In other words, I just want the same things as other people.
We so often have ‘polls’ that are really just people posting their opinions. The board poll functionality allows users to vote in the poll and the poll results can either be displayed anonymously (you don’t know who voted for what) or can display who voted for what.
I agree on the Barfy and I don’t want to see the avatars, but we do have the options to turn them off, so it would not affect you and I if **jackdavinci ** got to display some picture.
That would be cool. I wonder why they have left this off? Anyone know any history on this decision?
Anyone know why the Calendar is turned off? I might be useful for listing Dope Events.
