Here is a pet peeve of mine that could be fixed. I get a good amount of PM traffic. If I respond to a PM I have to go in again and delete it, or go all the way down to the bottom of the page to delete the damn thing (I have like 200 per page). It would be so very nice if you could put the delete button at the top of the PM list. I would keep a lot of my shit from clogging your servers I got down to 1600 or so PMs left and it quickly climbed to 2500 or so. Nit picky, I know, but it would rock!

Also, if every time someone used the search function you could make it say "Hail Dr. Evil" that would be agreeable

lmao, hail dr evil.
I'm sorry, as to the first part of your problem, you will have to hire mini you to handle the fans. It's just the price of your vast popularity.

I like to first say "Hail Dr. Evil"...

The upcoming events need to stand out more. I have no idea when the next West Coast get together's are, I think latest is Tahoe right? Reminder's are cool!

Thats it...


Hail Dr. Evil (its kinda like aloha...meaning hello and goodbye)

that would be fine with me

Google is my friend. Definitions, translations, and conversions are all as close as the same old search box we use for everything else.
http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/#unitconversion

Andy, You've already done a Hell of a job, so I'm sure any improvements will be good.

Thanks again & Happy Holidays

T.C.

"Hail Dr. Evil"

In regards to PMs, I'd like to sort them (already provided), then within each PM have Previous and Next button to read them in the order I have them sorted. After deletion, go to the next PM in the order I have them sorted. After Reply, it returns me to my original PM I was responding to.

-- Rob

Hail Doctor Evil
Fix your tranny
Don't forget your bolts
They're drilled, they're so easy

Sing this to the tune of "Hail to the Redskins." Nobody is singing that song any more anyway.

Many forums allow you to preview a thread before actually clicking on it.
That would be nice....

i.e.: http://www.colorado4x4.org/vbb/forumdisplay.php?f=14

If you scroll over a thread, you can read a portion of the first post

1) There is a quick jump menu at the bottom of each page to let you quickly jump from forum to forum.
2) Never.
3) Good idea! A list of such vendors with links to their threads would be helpful. (hint, hint)


Evil, sounds like you need a secretary. I think 'she' would work out just fine for you...

Also, for bigger threads... the ability to have it automatically go to the last unread post.

LOL Mark, looks like she meets the Trannie requirement for Mike.

That's what the little orange box icon (next to the thread title) does.

Even says: "Goto last unread" when you mouse over it ...

Andy

Here's a pic to make it even easier. =o)

A little and s/he might just do

Why do you have this picture? I barely recognized you

"Hail Dr. Evil"

Hmmm... awesome! Learn something everyday Thanks guys!!

How about a forum on the prototype 914?

At least you would know your wife would approve of your secretary.

"Hail Dr. Evil"





Don't EVEN go there....

I use the one over on the right hand column that even says "Last post by:"

Click to view attachment

It's much easier to use than the little tiny box.

Except ... Those two are NOT the same ...

- The little red box takes you to the first post in a thread that you haven't read yet.
- The link on the right side takes you to the last post made in the thread.

Big difference ...
Andy

I don't care. That little box is too hard to hit with a mouse pointer. If it's a post I've already seen and I'm catching up on it, it's easier to start at the last post and work my way up.

Told ya I like the site just the way it is!

The "signature area" is automatically collapsed to anything past the first line. This allows people to add a simple signture, and still have their mile long link list etc and the rest of us don't have to scroll half a page everytime they post.



Searching has improved, but I still think adding a link to a Google Custom Search engine next to the standard built in one would be an added plus to the club. I've been using this code as you can try in my signature for two years now and love it.

I consider mine to be on the long side. I try to keep it as short as I can, but some of them out there are freaky long and have features that must torment those with dial up. Being able to collapse this area down to an inch or so and view it with a scroll bar on the side would rock.



Another thing that would rock for those of us with large PM loads, how about being able to search our PMs? I can do this with my email account and found that it is very useful.

I could throw the signature into a scrollable DIV of a fixed height ...
Andy

Ok, i played with that, should work with all skins ...

The Signature is now a block that allows for 5 lines (in the default font size) before it displays a scrollbar on the right side.
I also added a dashed frame so you can identify the block as the signature ...

Any feedback?
Andy

great !!

keep it

Good job Andy! I like it. I moved my quote up higher so it's always visible.

Cool. Too bad the css property "max-height" wasn't supported by all browsers. Then the div could auto shrink for those of us who have shorter signatures.

I actually like the fact that the box is always the same size. The short signatures don't really add all that much of extra space to a page, much less overhead than some of the rather lengthy signatures we have here ...

I like it!
Andy

PS: I already updated my signature so it doesn't scroll anymore ...

Freaking awesome

Only one thing, on some of my posts it is at the dead bottom and others it is a few inches from the bottom

Well done

I just shortened my signature, too. Fast, better, stronger

That's because your avatar and status info on the left and the post on the right are in the same table row.

If your post is short, the table cell is as high as the left column, leaving space under the post (signature).

If your post is long, the table cell is as high as the right column, leaving space under your avatar/info.

Andy

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I see what you mean

You didn't believe him?

I love it! But the dash line is weird. How about a grey line that isn't too obnoxious, but still visible to differentiate the sig?

But for those that like to scroll the entire page with the mouse wheel it makes for a pain in the keester since it'll scroll on the box if yer curser is anywhere in the very wide space alocated for the sig box. As ya go down the screen, if just my murpheys law, it seems to hit every darned scroll box. Then it scrolls that box to the bottom before scrolling the page.

Just put the cursor over the left column ...
Andy

Go ahead, make sense.....

I knew that was coming... ha ha ha
The amount of "real estate" available seems greatly reduced for what I think is a commonly used feature. Just sayin'

Ok, i added some code to disable the mousewheel over the signature.

However, it only seems to work in IE and not Firefox ...
Andy

Works great. Thanks!!!

Like the new signature action.

I hate FRAMES

Oh, now it just stops when it gets to the box then ya got to move the mouse anyway.. Hmmm... Tough thing to work through. How to get the best of both worlds...???

Yep, Chrome works that way too.

It's NOT a frame! It's a scrollable DIV ...

Hurmpf ... Ok, back to left column scrolling ...

You'll get used to it!
Andy