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% (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 (This info might be out of date, apologies if it is)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.
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.
03-09-2006, 05:30 PM
(don't get me wrong, overall it's pretty good)
Linear Mode
