Wish list for board software upgrades

I’m sure we all have them. Here’s one that occurred to me just now:

I wish that when I have someone on Ignore, that even their quoted post would be hidden, not just the original post. Reason: if someone is so noxious to me that I don’t want to read their posts, I also don’t want to find myself reading a quoted post before I see who it’s from, and end up grinding my teeth from frustration and disgust.

What’s your wish? It doesn’t have to be realistic, so I hope no-one will waste their time telling us how these things don’t work that way.

Shorter / no search delay. Two full minutes is way, way too long. Nothing bugs me more than to search for something, not find it, or find it and read it, and then want to look at new posts, and have to wait like 100 seconds.

• An additional column in any list of thread titles — whether it be the result of clicking on a Forum or the result of doing a Search — that lists the timestamp of the original post

• Option to quote quotes when quoting a post (i.e., nested quotes)

• Industrial-grade full-on boolean search engine that references forums, usernames, dates, thread titles, and thread contents including the appearance of a username as a quoted person and accepts “and”, “or”, parenthetical subterms, and automatically handles changes of screen name for the same underlying member ID

• Ability to save a search as a permanent URL for future use

User Control Panel: New Subscribed Threads: a single link to open all threads with new replies in their own tabs.

I’d like a visual indicator for if I’ve participated in a thread, so I don’t have to try and remember the morning after.

Also - avatars. (Yeah, I went there.) They’re like having a face to attach to a name.

There is a visual indicator for threads you’ve subscribed to. And you can set it up so that you automatically subscribe to every thread you post in.

And you’re just going to sit there and tease me about it? Really - fight my ignorance!

:dubious:

User CP>Edit Options>Default Thread Subscription Mode>No email notification*

What I want is for the board to subscribe me to everything I’ve posted in even if it predates the moment I changed my Mode from Don’t Subscribe.

*This means your subscribed threads will just show up in your User CP. You can also choose Instant, Daily or Weekly email notifications if you like that sort of thing.

Let’s see, I’m sure there’s been a good explanation posted before… Ah, here we go:

Ohhhh - you’re talking about a notification if I subscribe to a thread. I don’t want to subscribe to every thread automatically. I subscribe to some threads deliberately and I get email about those. If I subscribe to everything, it gets cluttered, even if I turn off the notification.

I mean, if I wanted, I could just click my name and see all my posts to find my activity, but that takes me out of browsing the boards.

I just want a little visual doodad, like a pair of glasses or a star icon or something, on threads where I’ve already participated. I want to be able to look at the normal board view of all the threads, new and old, and see if I participated. Basically - just like the icon which shows you’ve subscribed, but without the step of subscribing to lots of threads.

I know vBulletin supports adding that little icon. I want it here, too.

Ah, there’s an icon to mark threads you’re subscribed to and if you auto subscribe, it’s functionally a marker of threads you’ve participated in but if you’re a selective subscriber then yeah, that’s harder.

An option to put the smileys in the “quick reply” section so that I don’t have to “go advanced”.\

Also strikethrough as an option next to bold/italics/underline

I see a checkmark between the thread title and the poster name (OP or last poster) in any thread I have replied to. I have email notifications set to off vs Do not subscribe.

Still, it’s useful information. Thanks to all who thought of it.

I wish the board search engine was just a link to Google that prefilled in the “site:boards.straightdope.com” part, so that we’d not have a monthly thread about how annoying the search timer is.

Also, smashie.

Bring the old smilies back. That is all.

Blog software, moderated image forums (and child forums?) available to paid members only, avatars limited to 32x32 pixels and subject to approval by the Avatar Control Board after a reasonable 4 month delay for paid members, better search.

javascript:void(location.href='Google)

create a dummy bookmark–bookmark any old thing; edit it by deleting that URL and copy this whole sucker into it; rename bookmark “The Hell With SD Search Page” (suggestion)
ETA: Anyone want to Booleanize this with pre-made suggestions and menu using Google standard grammar…?

This, this, this!

They actually did bring that back for a short while (I think thanks were due to Giraffe). But a combination of super-whiney posters who couldn’t figure out how to use board functionality that was there just a short while ago and a bunch of yahoos who made playful super-nested posts ruined it for the rest of the board. Remaking quotes is doable but a giant PITA. Please, let’s try it again.

At the very least bring back a rolleyes that didn’t look like some nine-year-old just farted on the bus.