ARGH!!!!!!!!! I'm Frustrated!

[joeychgo]

I first want to say - I applaud the time and effort the vb.org team has put into reorganizing the site. I really appreciate that your trying so hard.

I have a new forum that has a different topic then I usually deal with, so I went looking for hacks to suit this new site.

The mods forums really need to be organized. Having just 2 sub forums, one for add ons and one for template mods - just isnt working for me.

I really miss the break down between things like profile enhancements, forumhome enhancements, admin tools, etc. It makes it very hard to look for specific areas to improve.

Further, searching doesnt help much because most words are common to the threads, like profile, forumhome, etc. These search terms bring up many posts that arent relevant to what im looking for. Ive spent hours just looking for hacks, most of that time spent searching and looking at hacks that have nothing to do with the area im looking to mod. i.e. profile

Please look at some better organization for the mods forums.

One more suggestion...

Often times I find a hack that is new and im not prepared to install yet. Maybe all the bugs arent working yet or a feature I need isnt included yet. Or maybe its a hack I might want to use later on, but its not the focus of the project im working on at the time.

How about a WATCH THIS HACK option - where, kinda like ebay, I can keep a list of hacks that I havent installed, but want to remember to check on at a later date.

Thanks for listening to my rant... :)


:)

[Oblivion Knight]

Often times I find a hack that is new and im not prepared to install yet. Maybe all the bugs arent working yet or a feature I need isnt included yet. Or maybe its a hack I might want to use later on, but its not the focus of the project im working on at the time.

How about a WATCH THIS HACK option - where, kinda like ebay, I can keep a list of hacks that I havent installed, but want to remember to check on at a later date.I second that suggestion.

[joeychgo]

One more suggestion, while im on a rant....

How about the ability to sort hacks by when they were created, instead of by the last post time.


Sick of me yet? :D


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[Bratz-Designs]

I second that suggestion.

Cant you use the bookmarks in your browser for that? :)

[Ziki]

One more suggestion, while im on a rant....

How about the ability to sort hacks by when they were created, instead of by the last post time.


Sick of me yet? :D


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I second this one

[joeychgo]

Cant you use the bookmarks in your browser for that? :)


I dont know about you - but I already have more then enough bookmarks. Plus, then I have to look at each hack individually.

[Paul M]

Mods are already broken down (sub divided) by their prefix, and you can display just a particular prefix if you want, and while the prefix list may need looking at, and tweaking slightly (the list is quite old and missing some areas relevant to 3.5/3.6) I don't see what else is needed.

As for a watch list, such a feature may come at some point, but it's not a high priority as you can already do this by creating a subscription folder called "Watch" (or whatever you prefer) and simply subscribing to the threads (with no notification).

[joeychgo]

Im not sure what you mean by prefix - im not seeing anything..

[Paul M]

Down a bit :)

[Brad]

Joey: It's in a drop-down under the forum display options at the bottom of the page.

edit- Paul is fast. :D

[joeychgo]

ok - I dont have that on my screen -- why? Is there a setting somewhere I missed?

[Paul M]

I don't know of any way to turn that off, I'll have a look in the template.

[joeychgo]

Im an idiot --

Its at the bottom of the mods forum....

[Paul M]

Yeah, it's only in modification forums. I was worried for a bit then as I couldn't see any way to disable it. :)

[joeychgo]

It would be nice to code that dropdown for the prefixes so that its at the top of the page instead of the bottom..

[Distance]

Further, searching doesnt help much because most words are common to the threads, like profile, forumhome, etc. These search terms bring up many posts that arent relevant to what im looking for. Ive spent hours just looking for hacks, most of that time spent searching and looking at hacks that have nothing to do with the area im looking to mod. i.e. profile



Well i did make a suggestion to have below the search bar a Posts / Topics button selection where you can choose if you want to search for thread titles or anything in posts?

[stinger2]

is not there any thing to be do ne for the search.......?

just make it MORE specific for two words search...like

common module..........more specific than common and module apart.............so the post with these two words combined come first...then comes the post with only module...or only common

ps....i used two common words for the example....

[Bratz-Designs]

I dont know about you - but I already have more then enough bookmarks. Plus, then I have to look at each hack individually.

Yes, but my 'folders' function keeps then nice and organised ;)

[joeychgo]

Yes, but my 'folders' function keeps then nice and organised ;)


Mine does too - but I have like 30 folders already Plus I have folders in those folders. LOL

I gotta get a life..

Mods are already broken down (sub divided) by their prefix, and you can display just a particular prefix if you want, and while the prefix list may need looking at, and tweaking slightly (the list is quite old and missing some areas relevant to 3.5/3.6) I don't see what else is needed.



I see its only for the add os -- and not the template modifications.... :(

[da420]

Cant you use the bookmarks in your browser for that? :)

Or subscriptions. ;)

I have mine seperated into several different folders so i can find what im looking for easily...

[Caerydd]

It would be nice to code that dropdown for the prefixes so that its at the top of the page instead of the bottom..


Yus, that would seem more obvious to me as well, I wasn't aware of it. The whole prefixes feels very...after-thoughty rather than really useful. The navigation is in the last place I would look, and doesn't really show obviously in a thread except for the breadcrumb. Mebbe add it in italics after the thread title or something?