messageboard updates

In case you haven't noticed, we made several updates to the message board pages this weekend. We rolled out the changes in two phases: flagging/hiding updates on Saturday and layout changes on Sunday.

If the pages look really strange to you, you might need to clear out your browser cache. Or try hitting ctrl+f5 to get the latest page.

Here's a list of things we updated:
1. lowered the amount of flagging by users it takes to remove a topic.
2. if a user flags a topic they created, it is automatically removed.
3. added communication around the process, so users know why a topic disappeared
4. added ability for users to hide/show their own message posts
5. added ability to preview topics before they are created
6. added help link to bottom of all message board pages
7. increased the number of pages that show up for a topic
8. updated the layout and look of the pages

We will be actively monitoring the flagging process for the next several months to see how it is working out.

We found a few minor bugs already with our changes and will be fixing them in the next several days.

Let us know what you think.

I like it.

I would have preferred Edit to Hide but hey...whatever works for ya.

Can we get waaaay cooler emoticons—
video/music addition?? (make sure it does make the site run slow or crash my pc)

Ohh you did what..?

Change the racist attitude on his forums? then I tell you what?!

LOL, Q...Its the people...

well I actually like just reading people...with out the pic.
Maybe you can add BBC coding to the forums as well...i think thats how you get better emoticons.

The look is great (thank you).. but the goddamn racist attitude is the same as 5 years ago

what happened back then Q?
(you've been here for a while...)

My lady M?

I am just kidding.. and the admin guy knows that very well, he/she banned me couple of years ago to busting goddamn insignificant fishes like haffool..? lol

I hope he/she'll do it again permanently..

DXP become a racist board..

haha...okay.
sooo your saying YOU were worse back then 😛

Never said worst? but real... I am not the (LOL or LMAO guy) pretty serious and I mean what I say..

Ive noticed...

Thank you lady M

I hope the admin/moderator noticing too..

4. added ability for users to hide/show their own message postsz

what the hell it means..?? if a user don't mean what he/she says then,, why hide their crap..?

I thought people mean what they wanted to say? why hide..??

unless they are drunk or fucked.. somehow...

Oppssss? shall I click on HIDE bottom or something...??

The fact is... I love you (our moderator) and I know what the hell are you going through with this stupid ASP rather that PHP..

No worries here?..

But hell.. the board is becoming racist.. do you know that..??

Idiots should be banned.. as fast as possible..!

Thumbs up, dxp..*you made some wonderful updates..'i'm really liking the preview new topic change too.. 🙂

How about a 'quote' button

A quote button that sends it directly to the bottom of the page in the 'add comment' box....w/ out having to go to another page.

Make it happen.

Please 🙂

Avatars look awful resized down to 50x50, is there a better resize script or whatever you guys use that will blend it better?

God? hypo condors? stop complaining guys... this is as far as you can get.. take it or leave it..

Damn it?

See..?? ?.you only have two choices.. take it or LEAVE it.. I hope you guys take the second option.

Deal..—.

Nothing personal to Mr nice though..

Actually, the "How would you make this site better" forum is solely here for complaints, suggestions, letting us know about site problems, and the occasional praise.

We want to hear from our users about what they like and don't like about this website. We may not be able to accommodate every request, but we still like hearing from the website user.

We feel constructive criticism and dialog is better than a take it or leave it approach any day.

I like the updates to our forum, too.

Thank you for addressing the issues we needed to have more control over our own posts.

::knocks on mic::

Ummm...hi...

Ive noticed the changes youve made to the PM's....well now the little indicator that tells you whether or not you've replied to a PM is GONE!

Bring it back...Please 🙂
(I'd also like to be able to use emoticons in private messages)

You are lovely as the way you are? you are not an idiot, not in my book anyway but FYI.. I know exactly who the idiots are and you are not??.

I agree with Lady M about the quote option idea...It should have a max of no more than the previous 2-3 quoted posts or it could be a mess.

I am posting from my phone right now and it would be much easier.

Also, now that dxpnet.com has "avatars", allow bitmap images to be uploaded as well, please?

Thanks for your consideration.

Oh my gosh...

Nice of her, but please do not take scopiogoat (scopio?) up on her offer!

She would add ads!

Nice of you, but, no, sg. No offense.

Yes I agree with notso, that the avatars or mini-pics representing each user which are at the margin beside each user's message is superfluous and actually detracts from what is being said as opposed to enhancing it.

This is a message board and always will be however many advances are made to its layout and features. Therefore I don't see the point in distracting from the overriding feature - ie sharing viewpoints in the form of posts or messages - by placing little pictures and images alongside the text. I thought this stuff was fine being reserved for users' profiles.

....But I do want to say that I like the new facility of being able to hide one's post. This is provides much relief to any of us who have said/typed things without thinking them through enough.

Nice one dxp and thanks 🙂

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StringsAttached 5/9/2007 10:37:05 PM | ip: xxx.xxx.xxx.208

PLEEEEEAAAASSSE!!!! MAKE THE PRINT BIGGER!!! I'm utterly straining to see and don't want to change the font size on my browser b/c then everything else is way too big.

Guys, the forum print is WAY TOO SMALL!! So hard on the eyes and a terrible inconvenience!!

And, obviously, all the wonderful new options don't work with the e-mail either.

One word in browser's technologies and world nothing else matters??.

OPERA?

🙂

No added ads?...Yay!

Then, sweetie, you got my vote!

(((hug)))

yeah, it would be great to have some color/maybe some other simple coding we can use in our posts, but not too much; keeping it more on the clean legible side. i do feel text-sizing should stay consistent, though..

Stingsattached: you click on the Hide option which is just above the post that you wish to hide. I don't think it could be simpler or more self-explanatory!

I find that people who claim to have very high standards in terms of their ideas on visual layout, clever features, endless demands and requests about how things should be altered to their liking, are the very ones who are the least able to comprehend how certain ideas cannot work in practice. Like the edit function for example. This would create a mess if it were implemented as if we could all go in in hindsight and amend our posts to say something perhaps in complete contradiction of what we said intially so the thread of the conversation could become just one long unintelligible ramble.

Again I would like to ask the DXP moderator not alter the layout users' posts too radically from how they have been up to now. As I said before, the point of a message board is primarily the message so all other visual gadgets should be kept to a minimum.

Oh my eyes, they have just fixed the settings for the layout. Now everything is where it should be instead of all running into each other. FANTASTIC !!!

same here, font style and size is just right..

It's good for me.

I cant send my pic in a PM anymore.