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I've been a member of bungie.net for a little while now, and there's a few things I'd like to see implemented into the forum and I'm sure there are things people would like to see on the forums.
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One Username Change
Any account made before the "Hawtness" could be allowed one name change and only one name change. Any account made after the "Hawtness" is stuck with the name it is signed up with.
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Multi Quote
Allows you to easily quote and reply to multiple people. Alongside "reply" would be "Multi quote". Clicking this would add them to your multi quote list, then clicking reply would have the quotes all in one text box so you can easily reply to the selected people (works like most other forums). Perhaps a limit to the number of quotes would prevent spamming
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Toggle-able Notifications
Ability to receive notifications for specific forum-related responses and be able to toggle certain notifications on and off, including:
* Being replied to on a forum thread.
* Replies on a forum thread you have created.
* Posts on a forum thread you have posted in.
* All of the above in private groups.
* Receiving a new message.
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Post History
A place on your profile that would allow you to look at your entire post history, in chronological order from newest to oldest, displaying both topic posts and thread replies.
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Regional Settings
Be able to change your settings so that the forum displays activity dates and times correct to your region. For example, it is 06/07/2012 01:00 AM GMT where I am, but the default for this forum is in PDT.
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Bungie Toolbar
A Hot Topics tab would display the top ten topics going (like we have now) and displays up to five of the currently active hot topics in the necessary forum you're in. Then there could be a Notifications Tab which displays the notifications we both mentioned, plus the link to your inbox. Lastly, a Newsfeed tab with the latest Bungie news, twitter feed e.t.c.
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Improved Message System
A better message interface that allows you to do more than the current message system. There would be an option to send a message to multiple recipients, and ability to switch to conversation mode when messaging a single person.
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Change Prefix
Members have the ability to change their title prefix to any of the prefixes they qualify for. Bar colour and title stays the same. Doesn't apply to forum ninja's.
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More Base Titles/Title Bar Colours
More titles for those that have been consistently active past the stage of Mythic. For example, new titles and bar colours for members who are consistently active for 3-4 years, 4-5 years and 5+ years.
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Private Group Customisable Title Bar Colours
An option in private groups found by the member "roles" that can be changed by group admins. The title bar colour overrides any existing title bar colour while the user is using the private group forums and is black by default (not dark black, see link for details).
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Spoilers
Some forums allow for people to consolidate a chunk of text into a small line which can then be opened/closed to drop the text down. This is good for posts that contain multiple sections with lots of text (example; this post!) and can save space and the need to scroll for ages. To prevent spam, spoilers wouldn't be allowed to contain more spoilers but would be allowed to contain quotes.
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Thread Views
This is visible by only the OP and allows them to see how many members have viewed the thread they have made and appears next to the replies, for example:
Example Thread | 7 Replies | 77views
Although this doesn't technically add anything to the forums, it's good for OPs that want to know if their thread is being viewed, and how frequent.
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Thanks everyone who's replied and given valuable feedback and suggestions.
Feel free to suggest more.
[Edited on 07.20.2012 8:08 PM PDT]