The site wish list

#1 1. I would LOVE to be able to star articles, resources, and blogs (Google-style).

2. When search is working again, I'd also like to be able to search just my starred articles.

3. I miss the dots that showed if a thread had new replies since you last read it.

4. (Not my idea, but) I'd like an option to click on the latest post date and jump right to the end of the comments.

5. A WYSIWYG editor.

#2 6. An option for just a single page of replies. It's really hard to follow a conversation of replies without being able to easily see the previous comment.

#3 7. A way to organize forums so that I can immediately see the forums I care about without having to scroll around.

#4 Hey everyone, just wanted to chime in real quick and reaffirm that I am paying attention to this thread and will use the points you guys make to drive milestones for the web team.

Thanks,
Derek

#5

• Improved/working Search
• Being able to "subscribe" to the differing forum sections that I wish to view instead of seeing them all in total.
• Or at least the capability to prioritize the Forum sections for viewing order. I have no use for TGB, iTorque, etc, etc so they don't need to be mixed within the Forum Sections that I frequent.
• Tag-clouds for the Resource section. To me this seems like it would be a simpler means of making the Resources more navigable than categories would... but someone still needs to tag the individual Resource postings.
• Return of the Snapshot section!!!
• Option for changing the number of posts per page.
• Color theme choice for viewing the site. The current one is not conducive to browsing for colorblind people and causes headaches! Too much blue on blue on blue on grey on white on white!!!
• Let Associates use a custom icon on their "badge" since it's so faded and worn (read ugly) looking ;)
• Expanded markuplite options.

#6 A few more:

• Hosting for files related to or necessary for Resources.
• Allow the Resources list to show Resources with recent posts/replies.
• Ability to post comments/reviews for products.
• A 3rd Party Vendor portal to allow content pack developers with products in the store access to (their product's) sales figures and ability to verify licensed users.

#7 +1 on the categories for Resources. I think the old site used to have it seperated. Not sure why they went away with that.

#8 I further feel that all of my purchased products' forums should be grouped in the "My Product" forum section irrespective of them being public or private like they are currently categorized.

#9

Quote:A 3rd Party Vendor portal to allow content pack developers with products in the store access to (their product's) sales figures and ability to verify licensed users.

All of the suggestions here are great, but this is one I would particularly like to see. I have a very detailed list of actionable items that I can sent you (Derek or a member of the web team) that describes exactly what I would like to see from a 3rd party vendor page.

#10 I am another voice in the my products issue. Up until last week almost all of my products appeared at the top of my list, TX2D, TX3D, TGB, T3D etc. iTGB never appeared on this list and I asked before why that was.

Anyway this week something changed and now TX3D is buried down in the engines. No longer in My Products. What is strange is that TX3D is not private and neither is TX2D, however TX2D is at the top of my list followed by private forums.

What would be the best is if we could configure the page ourselves choosing what forums we would like to see in what order. Maybe even a top 5. Then grouping the rest or even all the forums below that.

#11 Hey everyone, thanks for these. If you think of any more, please let us know and we continue to add them to our backlog.

#12 @Michael - Do you have any specific thoughts regarding additional MarkupLite functionality?

#13 @Eric: mostly what I was thinking of were additional formatting options.

Uunderline or strikethrough/line-through text
[ u ] underline this [ /u ]
[ s ] strikethrough [ /s ]

Being able to adjust font used, font size, font color -- though using differing fonts could be problematic depending on user and font selected.
[ font=xxxx ] [ /font ]
[ size=xx ] [ /size ]
[ color= ] [ /color]

Left/right justify text. Well, left justify is automatic I suppose... using [ center ] works for centering text, but i've seen a few occasions when wrapping text around an image that right justified text might've looked better.

And maybe even tables like as shown in this BBCode reference example, being able to show headers, rows, colums, and cells in order to list out chart like information.

#14 [right]I think some of those Markuplite tags might already be supported. I know there's some, like center, that aren't documented in [u]the[/u] [s]reference[/s].[/right]

Then again, maybe they're not. :)

#15 A couple more suggestions: one a request for a fix, another as a minor code tag feature.

An annoying problem when posting code and then later editing that code removes any escape characters that might've gotten used though it's necessary for the code in question.

For example if this script code was posted

echo("\c0Color Test \c1ColorTest \c2ColorTest \c3ColorTest");

and then later edited it would show up as

echo("c0Color Test c1ColorTest c2ColorTest c3ColorTest");

Which would prevent the color codes from being echo'd correctly. Same problem if the newline token was used in the code example. In some cases this could actually cause syntax errors if someone tried using the example code in the (edited) codeblock.


A Torque Script highlighter for the code tags

Quote:
Syntax highlighting is available for cpp(C++), c#, js (JavaScript), java, php, python, sql, and xml code

It's probably the most common code example that gets posted here, similar enough to C++ to technically be covered by default, yet does have differences. However, I don't think many people even use the syntax highlighter when posting code, so probably not important.

#16 I like the suggestions made already by Ronny, William and Michael and I hope they all get implemented, with 'site searching' as a priority at the top of the list.

In terms of more markup tags it would be nice to give users a way to add javascript 'show/hide content' boxes so they can add things like screenshots into such containers, so that if one finds themselves coming back again and again to a particular post they will not have to scroll down through all those pictures, or what have you, every time in order to get down to the newly added comments.

Whether posters will make use of such functionality is something else I suppose. Many people already don't make their submitted url's into clickable links even though it is such a simple thing to do.

#17 One more vote for Michael's escape character comment. Two votes if I can have it!

#18 I had already posted this a while back, but oh well.

Better search functionality is one.

Second, it irks me that I always have to open the 'select areas to search' if I navigate from another section, say blog. Could you just save my default preferences for search?

#19 A fixes sub-forum.

When a bug is resolved, an employee would try to give us a snippet of code and post as "fix for <engine> <version> <bug>".

#20 A profile setting/option to automatically check the "Notify me..." check box when posting Blogs, Resources, Threads, and Comments.