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These four are key in my opinion :)

Read versions of the locked, moved and announcement icon.

Making yet a small bump for at least these suggestions as you still are implanting new IPB futures for 3.1 (but hoping for more of the suggestions as well ;))

Bumping this for IP.B 3.1.x suggestions :)
Guess not all suggestions are still needed but...

More suggestions:
Read versions of the locked, moved and announcement icon.

Love the idea :P
Subscribers often subscribe due to all those small changes that make them stand out more, as well as allowing them to go up a step compared to regular members.
Same should also go for personal photo :)

If that's all that's needed, I'd be fine with adding that back in.

Please do :)
There is many users out there that don't know this, and is requesting this as a "new" future.

Were you trying RC2? The outdated strings issue should have been fixed in RC2.

Yeah, i imported the translation on to a fresh RC2 instal

These are actually not necessary/incorrect.

As of RC2, if you import an XML (such as the blog language files) it will simply add those strings to all of the existing language packs. There's no need/reason to add them to only one language pack, and it resolves the issues mentioned in your second bullet.

Great! However, after reporting, all strings were marked as outdated. Thought that only was supposed to happen when the original (untranslated) text string didn't match each other.
Hoping you can look into my other bullets above also, though i don't expect much of it to be changed/added/"fixed" in v3.0.0


EDIT: Hope you at lease can take a look at this one before releasing final, as i find this to be very annoying...

You need to change the way the hover images is displayed. In order to get rid of the problem with no background while it is loading upon hovering, you can use

this

technique. This can also be used with the images stacked on top of each other instead of next to each other.

Requested ACP change:

• All settings related to how time, date and currency is showed, should be set in the language files instead of ACP settings. This allows users to see it in the format they use, instead of the one the admin decide (based on the used language they select). This also gives meaning to the date and currency examples in the language manager.
• Allow import of language xml inside an already existing language (this allows you to import just the blog strings, if you already have everything else translated)
• Make a fuction for restoring all missing language strings inside a language. If core text-strings is added in a version later then the imported language, they are not added to the language at all. The same goes for addons that wasnt already added when the language was exported.

Another requested change

• If your personal photo (displayed next to the top right menu) is a short, but long image, there is no minimum height applied, and the whole area shrinks, and makes it look like a part of the skin is missing

Also hoping a developer can take a look at my first posts, as a lot of these is almost consider bugs or missing skinning areas.

I got some suggestions for changes and futures for IPB v3.0.0 and future versions.

• Requested changes: When viewing a profile
  • Below the users photo, there should be buttons similar to find topic/posts for displaying all gallery/blog/issues.
  • The following texts: "<username> hasn't added any friends yet." and "<username> has no profile comments yet. Why not say hello?" seems misplaced as they ain't skinned properly into they're respecting areas. Also when there is comments and friends, it seems a little off because it ain't skinned in with the title of the area (other boxes are skinned in with background, etc. Should also might conider placing the comment box below the comments to match the forums setup?
  • The image displayed next to the post comment box should be larger. As it is, it's waisting a huge amount of whitespace to the right of the editor, that could be used by increasing the image size. This would also make you able to see the image, instead of a colordot that seem misplaced due to the size of the image vs. editor/other images.
  • Tabs
    • The tabs only show the most recent topics, posts, images, blogs, issues. This should be made more clear. Maybe by adding a link for showing all, or changing the text to most recent images/blog/topics/posts/issues.
    • In the about me tab, the signature should be removed. This is a place where the user is meant to talk about himself, and the signature don't have anything to do there, as it just seems messy and strange.
    • When a tab don't have anything to show, it just states "Message". This is confusing, and should be changed to something more describing/helpful.
    • When viewing the gallery tab, there is a lot of wasted whitespace! When viewing the gallery, i can fit two more images in the columns. There is also a huge amount of whitespace between the image and the information below. Most of this information could really be removed, as it's still showed when viewing the image itself.

You should be able to see where you got +/- reputation from (the posts). This should only be shown to the member that received the reputation.When you see your own profile, and you don't have a blog/gallery etc., there should be stated under those tabs, or under the "Show members topic/posts" button something like "You don't have a gallery/blog. Press here to make one now!" or something to make the member more aware that they can do so. Considering the fact that most members almost never use they're control panel, a lot of users will never know they even can make it!
Requested changes: Other technique. This can also be used with the images stacked on top of each other instead of next to each other.When uploading files/images, there should be displayed allowed file types somewhere. This can be displayed in a box just like the one used when viewing who voted in polls.Performance mode: it don't show anywhere that you are using performance mode, this should be added in a notification or something to the latest news box. Can be something like "The site is currently running in performance mode to handle all the traffic. This means that some futures is temporarily disabled and/or changed to allow the site to run more smoothly."Let us be able to minimize forum rules in topics and the related forum. No use to have them taking up space after you've read them a 1000 times already...The post icons for forums: there really need to be added a read icon for closed and moved topics. Also, the icon showed when you have posted need to be changed. Currently, it looks like there is an attachment. Should be a pencil or something, and then you can use the current for topics with attachments. You can also consider just using the normal images, and add a pencil and/or paperclip (as used now)(two different places, so both can be used) with a transparent background over the normal image. This would remove the need for extra icons, and would allow it to be used on _EVERY_ topic, including hot, moved and closed.When translating, you sometimes skip some of the phrases, and it can some times be a hassle to find out where they are, so you should consider adding a "Show untranslated strings", just like the "show outdated strings" (never seen it tbh), or add the untranslated to the start or end of the language pack.

• Requested futures (for later versions?)
  • When working in ACP with areas that are using permissions, please add a dropdown-box that allows you to copy all the permissions from the selected area (forum, category, addon categories, etc.). This will allow you to add e.g. forums at a largly increased speed, and with no errors when dealing with a lot of permission masks (as used by a lot of forums, myself are using at least 10 different masks), and advanced mask permissions. This is a future that's been needed for quite a while by a lot of customers.
  • When clearing out cookies/temp files or using a new computer, the state of the sidepanel and forums ain't saved (open/closed). Hoping you can change it so the state is saved using ajax when status changes, and then load the current state into a cookie or something when logging on, to save extra queries each time you browse the forum index.
  • You really need some way to temperately cache text from the editors. When typing a large thread, this can be a issue (see below):
    • You accidentally press a button that loads another page (can also be mouse and keyboard shortcuts), and when using back/forward in the browser, all is gone!
    • (this is not tested in v3, but was an issue in v2) When submitting a topic that generated an error, due to too much text/images/emotions etc, the you had to go a page back to change it. The issue there was that the text almost never was there when you got back. I saw mods that displayed the text in a editor when this acured, so you could copy it before going back, hence solving the issue.
    • Both above have happened to me several times (once when writing this, that deleted a _LARGE_ page with text...

Oh, and i tried to make this easer to read, but the editor kept eating up my empty lines and spaces after each submit.

Will be back with more later...

• You need to change the way the hover images is displayed. In order to get rid of the problem with no background while it is loading upon hovering, you can use

this

If it's not displayed out-of-box, you should really consider adding this as default. Users not knowing you are running in performance mode can get a little pissed if a lot of the futures they use suddenly is disabled.
Should add a message to the latest news tab or something: "The site is currently running in performance mode to handle all the traffic. This means that some futures is temporarily disabled and/or changed to allow the site to run more smoothly."

I really appreciate the suggestions that have been offered here and have created a new user group as per beeman's suggestion 1) above (thanks again beeman). Members has become 'New Members' with limitations on profile but auto-promotion after 10 posts to the 'Members' group.

I have also limited my 'Guests' group as per Patrick's suggestion.

What I cannot do is find the option to turn off signatures for a specific group as per Matt's suggestion. I think this would be an advantage for my restricted 'New members' group but even a settings search does not find this. I have v2.3.6 installed, is this feature available (and hidden to me) in this version? If it is there somewhere, can somebody give me a clue as to where I should find it?

thanks,

David

Sorry, my bad. I didn't see that you were using 2.3. The path I typed is for RC1.
I'm not sure if this is supported out-of-box in 2.3. You need to get a confirmation from someone else on that.

If this is really critical for for you, you can always upgrade your site to v3 now, although you should might consider waiting for RC2 if doing so.

I really appreciate the suggestions that have been offered here and have created a new user group as per beeman's suggestion 1) above (thanks again beeman). Members has become 'New Members' with limitations on profile but auto-promotion after 10 posts to the 'Members' group.

I have also limited my 'Guests' group as per Patrick's suggestion.

What I cannot do is find the option to turn off signatures for a specific group as per Matt's suggestion. I think this would be an advantage for my restricted 'New members' group but even a settings search does not find this. I have v2.3.6 installed, is this feature available (and hidden to me) in this version? If it is there somewhere, can somebody give me a clue as to where I should find it?

thanks,

David

Edit your required usergroup, click on the "Global" tab, under the "Signatures" section, there is a setting called "Disable members of this group from editing their signatures?"

Maybe add the filetypes to a hoover box (like the one used to show who have voted on polls) to avoid taking up the whole screen on forums with a lot of allowed filetypes.

Like the idea.

Perhaps where you are from the majority of users have those phones, but I can't think of a single person I know that does. :) This is why the user-agent mapping is configurable. ;)

And the lofi is meant to be boring. :blink: It's meant to be ... well ... lofi - less (or no) images, no javascript, basic colors, so that on a mobile device it loads faster and can display data on a smaller screen. It is a skin, however, so feel free to tweak it on your site once it's released.

Nokia is the largest producer in the world, and Sony Ericson is number 5. However, in most of Europe, you almost only see people using Nokia and Sony Ericson cellphones, so it's important that this is supported out of the box :)

I know it's still a long way until the final, but are you planing on smoothing out the XHTML and CSS code so both validates?

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can we please get a read icon (the transparent one;)) for the moved and closed posts?
would make more sence for most users if the icons matched eachother when the've been read...


would also be great if the pinned icons have a little pin or paperclip added to them or something :)

would love to see something like this in a later version :)