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Posted by: Delta 15t
The search bar is not the greatest. It never has been. There must be some way to improve it. I wish I knew an answer to this issue. I'm sure the Web Team and Achronos have some improvements to implement in the near future.

~Delta
Search bar is great. Best one I've seen in a long time.

  • 05.14.2012 7:33 PM PDT

Posted by: Luke35120
Is this not the fault of us, the community, rather than the design team who built this site? You can't directly control what people will post in threads. You can deter, monitor and/or punish for what has been said but from a design standpoint it is impossible to control. My point is, this is not a user interface (which from what I've understood this thread is about) issue but rather a community issue.
To some degree I agree with some of what you've said, but I disagree that it is not a design issue, at least not entirely.

When you look at the topic listing on the forum page, you have a maximum of seven entry points to each topic: the icon, title, last post link, first two pages links, and the last two pages links. Each of these entry points takes you to either the beginning of a thread or the end. There is no option to, for example, keep reading where you left off.

Inside the topic itself, you have to read each post sequentially, starting with the first post on the page. That's another reason why the focus is on the beginning of a thread (at least when it's on the first page) and in later pages, the first post(s). You can see it happening pretty often in large threads where a number of people will often reply to the first post(s) of the last page, because that's where the focus is.

If there were a way to bring up say, a sorted list of the best posts in a topic, as well as utilising some other options, I think things could be very different here, because users could define the way they want to view a thread rather than always seeing it chronologically as it currently is.

  • 05.15.2012 12:04 AM PDT

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Posted by: dazarobbo
To some degree I agree with some of what you've said, but I disagree that it is not a design issue, at least not entirely.

When you look at the topic listing on the forum page, you have a maximum of seven entry points to each topic: the icon, title, last post link, first two pages links, and the last two pages links. Each of these entry points takes you to either the beginning of a thread or the end. There is no option to, for example, keep reading where you left off.

Inside the topic itself, you have to read each post sequentially, starting with the first post on the page. That's another reason why the focus is on the beginning of a thread (at least when it's on the first page) and in later pages, the first post(s). You can see it happening pretty often in large threads where a number of people will often reply to the first post(s) of the last page, because that's where the focus is.

If there were a way to bring up say, a sorted list of the best posts in a topic, as well as utilising some other options, I think things could be very different here, because users could define the way they want to view a thread rather than always seeing it chronologically as it currently is.
In order for the website to know the best posts of a topic, wouldn't posts need to be liked or disliked by the community? I like the idea of improving the search feature to find the content I'm looking for, but am indifferent when it comes to post ratings. I would like the moderators to be able to select a best answer for questions posted.

  • 05.15.2012 12:59 AM PDT
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With you on that Cryptic bungie.net is not Youtube.

Posted by: Cryptic
Posted by: dazarobbo
To some degree I agree with some of what you've said, but I disagree that it is not a design issue, at least not entirely.

When you look at the topic listing on the forum page, you have a maximum of seven entry points to each topic: the icon, title, last post link, first two pages links, and the last two pages links. Each of these entry points takes you to either the beginning of a thread or the end. There is no option to, for example, keep reading where you left off.

Inside the topic itself, you have to read each post sequentially, starting with the first post on the page. That's another reason why the focus is on the beginning of a thread (at least when it's on the first page) and in later pages, the first post(s). You can see it happening pretty often in large threads where a number of people will often reply to the first post(s) of the last page, because that's where the focus is.

If there were a way to bring up say, a sorted list of the best posts in a topic, as well as utilising some other options, I think things could be very different here, because users could define the way they want to view a thread rather than always seeing it chronologically as it currently is.
In order for the website to know the best posts of a topic, wouldn't posts need to be liked or disliked by the community? I like the idea of improving the search feature to find the content I'm looking for, but am indifferent when it comes to post ratings. I would like the moderators to be able to select a best answer for questions posted.

  • 05.15.2012 1:55 AM PDT

Posted by: Cryptic
In order for the website to know the best posts of a topic, wouldn't posts need to be liked or disliked by the community? I like the idea of improving the search feature to find the content I'm looking for, but am indifferent when it comes to post ratings.
Yes, but I don't see why it couldn't be done in such a way that is similar to the Top Forum Topics; people could "recommend" a post without there being a publically displayed counter, but be able to sort by it.

Posted by: Cryptic
I would like the moderators to be able to select a best answer for questions posted.
This is something that has worked extremely well on other forums, although I would be against having only moderators choosing an answer. Users should be able to create different kinds of topics: discussion (like this thread), Q&A (where the OP asks a question and gets answers to it, selecting the "best" one), and so on.

  • 05.15.2012 5:19 AM PDT

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  • 05.15.2012 11:12 AM PDT

Please stop complaining about the 'death of a loved one' it's my job. They probably deserved it anyways. Here's a warning, if you keep making pentagrams out of the neighbors livestock I will personally come to your house and kill everyone you love. Now leave me alone, I got to get back to work.
~M.D~

Newer? I may or may not qualify for that. Uhmm it's pretty simple to use. It took me a week to fully understand how everthing goes n what not.

  • 05.15.2012 1:56 PM PDT


Posted by: Bungie Sam
This website has never been nasty to me.

  • 05.15.2012 2:00 PM PDT

Key

This site is fine. It's amazing the way it is but it could use:


-A friends list only if it's coupled with a PM system.

-Up-votes and down-votes similar to the way Youtube handles it. Your votes can go into the negatives but what they do they aren't visible. You have to get voted back out of the negatives for your votes to be displayed again.

-Notifications for quotes, without getting rid of the simplistic quoting system that's entirely text based. Maybe the tagging of a quoted author only if it matches the name of a user (character for character). So if we make it "-redacted-" we don't see it tagged as a user called "-redacted-".

And at the same time once those people are tagged, you can clicked on to see a page of all the posts that user was quoted in (using, of course, the updated search feature).

-A better homepage. It's fine the way it is for the Drak Times, but once its back to normal I think we should see a whole new iteration of it.

  • 05.15.2012 2:35 PM PDT

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