| melloh |
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Monday, May 26th 2:19am [Edit] [Quote] [IMS] [View car] |
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Post nr. 1
California, USA (San Jose)
1980 320is, 1991 318is |
1) some of the load time seems to take a little while. Its fine for high-speed, but I'm not sure how a dial-up person would be able to handle it.
2) Under your "Forums" list, you may want to show General..., Tech, and News as sub-categories of Overview. Or, eventually just remove the overview.
3) I had some "cannot load header" messages earlier, but I cant get them again.
3) Home-page has no link into main site!
4) Sorry, those were all 'negative' comments. However, I commend you on your efforts. It seems to be a clean and easily navigated site. Its going to to be a fill-time job maintaining the site; I hope it all works out!!!!
Henry
PS: Have you considered a classifieds (buy or sell)? Also perhaps a links page to other e21 sites? |
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| Tricord |
Posted
Monday, May 26th 2:51pm [Edit] [Quote] [IMS] [View car] |
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Post nr. 4
Belgium, Europe
323i Baur |
Thanks for your input, melloh.
1/ Regarding the load times, we move to another server in less than one month so I suppose everything will clear up by then.
2/ Do you mean eventually going back to one single forum?
3/ I'm aware of those error messages, I've been getting them as well as other testers. Usually, if you refresh the page it'll come through fine. It's a problem with the configuration of the database, sometimes it craps out.
You see, it's for those things I wanted to have the site tested first. If people expecting something cool get errors like that, they are scared away. All you guys were told this was for testing, so.
4/ That's because the site isn't public yet. Of course, I will put the main page as default once the site is public.
5/ It's not going to be a full-time job, in fact it's all easy to keep together 
You're right, I will post a links page, and I will provide some kind of classifieds system. |
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| melloh |
Posted
Thursday, May 29th 7:43am [Edit] [Quote] [IMS] [View car] |
Member
Post nr. 2
California, USA (San Jose)
1980 320is, 1991 318is |
Regarding the forums: no, i didnt mean only one forum. I meant the ovevrview link was not necessary in my opinion. But, it looksl ike it is gone now. Also, just occuring to me now are 2 other notes:
1) while on a saab forum (SAABs are nightmares, btw) it was a very convenient forum option to be emailed a simple notification when somone replied to your post.
2) when replying, somehow have the message being replied to be visible.
I'll send you more if I ver think of any other input. Until then, keep on truckin it!
Henry |
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| Tricord |
Posted
Thursday, May 29th 1:22pm [Edit] [Quote] [IMS] [View car] |
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Post nr. 9
Belgium, Europe
323i Baur |
I will provide an option for both these features later today.
[Edit]: better make that tomorrow, I didn't get time to do it yet |
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| Matt |
Posted
Monday, Jun 2nd 1:12am [Edit] [Quote] [IMS] [View car] |
Member
Post nr. 3
SF Bay Area
81 320i |
Can you make it so we can see the whole post thaat we are replying to?
Can you enable automatic hyperlinks? (type in a www and a .com/.org/etc. and it will make it a hyperlink)
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| Tricord |
Posted
Monday, Jun 2nd 11:38am [Edit] [Quote] [IMS] [View car] |
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Post nr. 14
Belgium, Europe
323i Baur |
Thanks for your input Matt.
The reason that there are no sigs is because I don't believe in them. I am a diehard fan of "simpler is better" and that's why I am leaving them out. However, I have added a car and location field on the account page so every post will reflect your car(s) and location as a mini-signature (like under my own icon here).
I have added a box that shows the original thread when replying, so that should be ok.
Automatic hyperlinking is sometimes irritating because it might activate links that aren't even links. I guess that if you want to make a link, it is easy enough to do so by using the forum code indicated when your reply. Personally, I use only HTML code myself, because that's what I know best
About clickable smilies: again, simpler is better. I'm not sure if I wanted smilies on a forum like this altogether, but I decided to try and see how people use them for now. Making people have to type the smilie code makes them think about using them - e.g. it's a little less easy to abuse them.
If you have other comments, please let me know!
If I agree with them I will apply changes. Thanks! |
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