IRON HEART FORUM MIGRATION - Help Us Make the New Forum Even Better

[goosehd]

@cityofdelusion As a mod, a great deal of my time is spent cleaning up and monitoring the marketplace.

Individuals would make my job much easier if they followed the listed rules for ads, marked their items as sold, or deleted the ads when no longer relevant.

I can’t imagine the nightmare of making the marketplace any more fragmented than it already is.

Tags may be useful, but only if the users followed the guidelines for using them. Given how many people can’t follow the guidelines now, I can’t imagine adding any more complexity to it.

Also, many sellers have multiple items listed, size ranges varying across the board, and many have had ads in place for a few years who regularly add and delete items at will.

I’m not saying your ideas are bad, and I do like the thought of some of them. Reality makes the ideas a little difficult from my end to fathom and I fear the work that will go into monitoring it.

[cityofdelusion]

No worries, it's only a suggestion after all that I believe will make everyone's (but the mods) experience here a little better.

As for the rest of the problems you mentioned: I think that most of them would be solved if when creating a sales thread, there were multiple input/text/upload areas (e.g., to enter a price, condition, description, location, size, photos etc.) that would require a mandatory input before being able to publish. In other words: The forum would require you to either fill those areas or not allow you to post at all.

[endo]

Sometimes I remember a post (by another forum member or myself) on a certain topic, but I'm unabel to find it again. Would it be doable to have a search function looking within someones posts for a term?

sorry, stupid me. saw that it's already possible via the advanced search function

[DrPat]

One error message would suffice no matter how many times I try to game the system

Also, is it possible to see exactly who upvotes a post instead of just “and X others”?

I’m using the mobile app under iOS.

[goosehd]

@DrPat The answer to the upvote question is no. It's not a feature that's available.

[neph93]

@AdamJ I don’t miss Tapatalk, but I do miss getting forum notifications on my lock screen om my phone. Is there any way to enable this now, or to add it as a feature in the future?

[goosehd]

@neph93 Reuben…try going to your settings and then going to notifications to change the menu to your desired way to be notified.

[goosehd]

@neph93 …and if that doesn’t work…@AdamJ to the rescue.

[neph93]

All that is under control. It’s more how I get notified. I want banner notifications on my phone like I used to get with Tapatalk. It may not be doable. Yet.

[AdamJ]

@neph93 Yes mate, improved notifications is 100% on the agenda. As you say, so you can see notifications at a glance on your home screen, the same way you'd see an email or WhatsApp.

We're starting testing the new platform this week so I'll keep you posted

[neph93]

Excellent @AdamJ . Given the improved interface and general usability on a mobile that is the next logical step.

[SKT]

Veering to another subject here but I’ve noticed the forum has started to load photos much slower. Anyone else noticed this?

[tody]

@SKT I can confirm this.

[Kasi]

depends on speed of the internet always the case

[goosehd]

@SKT @tody I've been having issues too.

[Alex]

interesting, I have not noticed that, but we will look into it

[tody]

I noticed it in the hiking thread. It's picture-heavy, and it seem that endo has uploaded full resolution pictures with 6MB each. That's surely the culprit.
Is there an add-on for the forum software to size down pictures automatically?

[goosehd]

@tody That's where I noticed it too.

Edit: Thank you for pointing out where you saw it

[goosehd]

...also notice it with the motorcycle thread.

[Tago Mago]

@tody so basically @endo should stop making everyone green with envy with his holiday destinations. Or at least have the common decency to upload the photos in such a shitty quality that it looks awful