Three suggestions

Kiyomi · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:26 pm Post subject: Three suggestions

Not sure if these have been mentioned yet, so here goes:

1) When logging in and such, the light colour words against the light colour background are really hard to read. If I mak a typo, I cannot tell.

2) We could really use a search tool for the members list. As it is, if you go alphabetically, and you want to find someone in the middle, you have to hit the link to the 3rd page, then hit next over and over until you get to the right page. That is because it goes "Goto page 1, 2, 3 ... 11, 12, 13 Next". The ... is supposed to cover pages 4 through 10. 7 pages that you cannot directly access. It makes it very difficult to look up a user. In another forum that I am in, if you click on the name of the person in a post (you know the name on the left side that automatically goes in when a person posts) it takes you to their lookup page automatically, and you can PM them from there, go to their website, IM them, etc.

3) Also, it would really be helpful if we had a feature in the user lookup where we could see all (or at least recent) posts of a user. http://www.tsukiyo.org/lookupinfo.jpg shows an example of what I am talking about for the user lookup linking to the posts with the part I am talking about in a red rectangle. Then if you are looking for a particular post from someone and cannot remember where it is, you just have to go to their profile and look it up. http://www.tsukiyo.org/lookupinfo2.jpg shows an example of what the links in the red rectangle from the image before would take you to. A list of all the threads that user started.

Therin · Gloompf. Iggle! Gender: Joined: 24 Sep 2002

There's a button among the row of buttons that goes at the bottom of every member's post that says "profile" on it. That button takes you to that member's profile. That should fix your second problem <_<

I agree with the third thing, though. It would be nice to have a button like we had at one point that enabled us to "find all posts by this user."

What ever happened to that button anyway? >_>

Sperrit · Chosen of Earth Gender: Joined: 16 Oct 2002

I think there's a bigger problem associated with that second problem, though, and that is that if you're on ANY page and you want to get to the middle of the topic you have to click over all the way. For most situations that's no big deal since most topics don't excede over 5 pages anymore, but for something like the Pub, where you might want to go back and look at something that happened a long time ago, you have to click back 75 pages, and that's crazy!
I'm not saying it's a big problem... just something to consider.

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Kiyomi · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:03 pm Post subject:

Also, what if you are looking for a member and do not know when or where they last posted, so are just using the member list to try to locate them. You still cannot use the profile button then. However, thanks for pointing that out to me. I must be blind. LOL.