A few small suggestions

[bairy]

Hiya,

I've been coming to .org for a couple of months now. As with most sites I find it's 95% great and 5% not-so-great, and I'm here to whine about the 5% :D (don't get me wrong, overall it's pretty good)


I have a few visual suggestions more than anything.
- Could there be an option to skip the portal. I've never been that keen on them and the fact I have to have two pageloads to get to the forums is annoying (I could use a bookmark but I often don't use the mouse and it's so much quicker to alt-d (addy bar) and type vbu for autocomplete)
- The edit profile fields.. 25 is the default width and it's tiny. 60 would be much nicer. Trivial perhaps but still something
- A lot of forums that should be set to "view from beginning" are set to one month. For example hack of the month. Another are the vb 3.0* hacks.. new peeps might not realise that there are actually a lot of useful hacks there that just haven't been replied to recently.
- Why are attachments for !guests only.. it's quite annoying because if I want to show my staff possible things we could add I have to save the picture then rehost it so they can view it. (This info might be out of date, apologies if it is)

[Marco van Herwaarden]

- Could there be an option to skip the portal. I've never been that keen on them and the fact I have to have two pageloads to get to the forums is annoying (I could use a bookmark but I often don't use the mouse and it's so much quicker to alt-d (addy bar) and type vbu for autocomplete)
Just go to https://vborg.vbsupport.ru
- The edit profile fields.. 25 is the default width and it's tiny. 60 would be much nicer. Trivial perhaps but still something
Which fields you mean? Please name them
- Why are attachments for !guests only.. it's quite annoying because if I want to show my staff possible things we could add I have to save the picture then rehost it so they can view it. (This info might be out of date, apologies if it is)Attachments are only viewable by licensed members (so this automatic also exclude guests).

[bairy]

Okay @ all that.

I mean the Additional info fields on profile.php?do=editprofile , version, fav hack, location etc.

[Lea Verou]

The images should be viewable to guests. I also hate to give my login when I want to show something I've made to a friend :/

[Xenon]

images might be visible to guest in the future, but the problem is that the current permission system doesn't differate if an attachment is an image or a file, that's vb's design and has nothing to do with vb.org in special

[Lea Verou]

You can always hack the system ;) :p
Hey, it's vbulletin.org! :D :p

[Xenon]

i know, but i didn't want to right now

with 3.5 and the plugin system we have the plan of doing so maybe, but not before :p

[Lea Verou]

Correct, I keep forgetting that we're still on 3.0.x :(

[bairy]

images might be visible to guest in the future, but the problem is that the current permission system doesn't differate if an attachment is an image or a file, that's vb's design and has nothing to do with vb.org in special

Now I understand why :)
I really hope that guests can view images at some point.

Oh there is another thing now I think of it.. Hack of the month. No one's replied to my suggestion about that.
Also because of the time it's been running there are two sets of various months, for example two May's.. could the titles be edited and the year appended and perhaps which vb version it was aimed at. It would make it a lot easier for new board owners (I just u/g to 3.5) to find the best of the best.

[Xenon]

the Hotm doesn't base on version even a vb2 hack can still win that contest (if anyone installs it ;))

[halcyon026]

Agree

[DirectPixel]

Hiya,

I've been coming to .org for a couple of months now. As with most sites I find it's 95% great and 5% not-so-great, and I'm here to whine about the 5% :D (don't get me wrong, overall it's pretty good)


I have a few visual suggestions more than anything.
- Could there be an option to skip the portal. I've never been that keen on them and the fact I have to have two pageloads to get to the forums is annoying (I could use a bookmark but I often don't use the mouse and it's so much quicker to alt-d (addy bar) and type vbu for autocomplete)
- The edit profile fields.. 25 is the default width and it's tiny. 60 would be much nicer. Trivial perhaps but still something
- A lot of forums that should be set to "view from beginning" are set to one month. For example hack of the month. Another are the vb 3.0* hacks.. new peeps might not realise that there are actually a lot of useful hacks there that just haven't been replied to recently.
- Why are attachments for !guests only.. it's quite annoying because if I want to show my staff possible things we could add I have to save the picture then rehost it so they can view it. (This info might be out of date, apologies if it is)

I second the "skip the portal" option as well. Unless you guys start having articles and interviews and stuff (which would be awesomely great/greatly awesome), I don't really see a use for it other than to put emphasis on anouncement posts.

In fact, while we're at it... why not skip everything too? Just take users directly to the footer. :p

[Xenon]

hmm, that's a very good idea, would mean also not much work for us anymore ^^

[who is chris c]

i'd rather see everyone get forwarded to the credits.php

[Princeton]

I prefer having portal ... just not in it's current state.
Currently, there's really nothing there that is "important" which is why most people ignore it.

[Xenon]

hmm, you should know our to do list Joe ;)