[an0n]

The censor is bull****.

The search function is ballsed.

I apparently have access to Grognards - which may or may not be intentional/universal.

The 'Key Stats' and 'User Info' panels are totally worthless and simply take up space, bumping the thread/forum lists down. Move them or integrate them into existing structures to minimize their intrusion into my goddamn field of view.

This Button is horizontally-based and shouldn't be. It should be square and bigger.

The AdSense 'chunk' would be better placed where the Key Stats and User Info panels are, leaving the threads less cluttered and also giving space alongside the title-banner for some actual ads.

The grey section beneath the nav-bar needs something doing to it.

The nav-buttons need to be bigger.

Add a goddamn Quick Reply.

De-clutter the user information section of the postbit.

The Alexa-toolbar thing at the bottom is pointless and annoying.

The font size of the thread-tree thing (HLP >> HLP >> HL >> New Topic) needs to be bigger and more visible.

Is there any point at all to the 'web-ring' thing?


That's all for now. I'll ***** more as I find more glaring deficiencies.

[Taristin]

The censor is bull****.
Your own choice. Read through your control panel and you can remove it.
The search function is ballsed.
Already known, read the announcements.
I apparently have access to Grognards - which may or may not be intentional/universal.

The 'Key Stats' and 'User Info' panels are totally worthless and simply take up space, bumping the thread/forum lists down. Move them or integrate them into existing structures to minimize their intrusion into my goddamn field of view.
Can be minimized by the icon next to it. click it.
This Button is horizontally-based and shouldn't be. It should be square and bigger.

The AdSense 'chunk' would be better placed where the Key Stats and User Info panels are, leaving the threads less cluttered and also giving space alongside the title-banner for some actual ads.

The grey section beneath the nav-bar needs something doing to it.

The nav-buttons need to be bigger.

Add a goddamn Quick Reply.
See first comment about reading your control panel.
De-clutter the user information section of the postbit.

The Alexa-toolbar thing at the bottom is pointless and annoying.
How do you even notice that?
The font size of the thread-tree thing (HLP >> HLP >> HL >> New Topic) needs to be bigger and more visible.

Is there any point at all to the 'web-ring' thing?
To direct people away from nodewars?

That's all for now. I'll ***** more as I find more glaring deficiencies.

[Fury]

an0n is welcome to these forums as long as he behaves.

[an0n]

Yeah, and not talking down to me would probably be the best way to ensure I do.

[an0n]

And what the **** is with SMF ballsing up the punctuation in sigs with unicode conversions?

[General Freak]

Why can't you tolerate the small, tucked away Alexa banner and accept the much bigger and obvious Google ads?

[Fineus]

Cheers for the opinions. We (that is, the staff) will of course look at what you've said. We're trying to make this as accessable for everyone and therefore there's no such thing as bad feedback. We do of course reserve the right to not do anything that we don't want to of course

Oh - and welcome back

[Flipside]

Well, I guess Websites like HLP don't pay for themselves

Doesn't really bother me to be honest, it's not as if almost every other forum/webpage I go to doesn't have something similar.

I guess there are a few tweaks to be made, some of the things you mentioned are really a matter of personal preference, but with my squiffy eyes, I must admit, I had a problems with the font at first, till Sandwich showed me how to fix it The Nav buttons, I am inclined to agree with, from a personal point of view, I'd rather see them the same size as the reply one, but it's not a major thing, I can read them as they are.

The grey section above the Nav Bar looks ok to me, did you mean some kind of desaturated image or something instead of just plain grey? That might look good, but I don't have the first clue about php, so I've no idea how hard/easy/feasible that is, and it may make that section too 'busy' anyway?

[Grey Wolf]

The Alexa I believe is there for some sort of counter, IIRC.

For a bit of a suggestion, the forum index, private messages, and profile should be accessible from the Jump To menu.

[Sandwich]

Before I begin... is there anything you DO like?

The search function is ballsed.
Yeah, we're having some issues with the DB being completely overloaded by the traffic we bring with us. Slashdot nano. We're working on solutions, but if you have any helpful suggestions in that regard...?

I apparently have access to Grognards - which may or may not be intentional/universal.
It's perfectly well known, yes.

This Button is horizontally-based and shouldn't be. It should be square and bigger.
I think Eddie was replicating the dimensions of the original buttons when he made those (there's another one at the bottom that says, surprisingly enough, "Go up" ). The bar they reside in is much taller than it was "supposed" to be, due to our double-height Post Topic and Post Reply buttons. Anyway, yeah, it's a good idea to change that graphic - or get rid of it entirely; not sure how useful it is TBH.

The AdSense 'chunk' would be better placed where the Key Stats and User Info panels are, leaving the threads less cluttered and also giving space alongside the title-banner for some actual ads.
If by actual ads you mean image ads, it's not gonna happen.

The grey section beneath the nav-bar needs something doing to it.
Agreed, but it's hard to figure out what, since that whole section can be collapsed. I'm thinking some faded, shaded wireframe of a shivan or something as a BG...

The nav-buttons need to be bigger.
Which ones? The main 2 are double-height already...

Add a goddamn Quick Reply.
How many times do I have to tell you that God's last name is not "damn" or "damnit"? Besides, there is a quick reply, but for some reason, SMF refuses to enable it for all users forum-wide (despite telling us it's doing that very thing). RTF/M (Read the FAQ / Manual).

De-clutter the user information section of the postbit.
Yeah, we've been considering it.

The Alexa-toolbar thing at the bottom is pointless and annoying.
Annoying, yes, but pointless? Hardly... how else could I show you all such nifty things as the attached graphic?

The font size of the thread-tree thing (HLP >> HLP >> HL >> New Topic) needs to be bigger and more visible.
To match the size down bottom? Yup, I need to get to it.

Is there any point at all to the 'web-ring' thing?
Personally, I'm a bit HLP-centric, so it helps to see what kind of satellite sites are out there. So yeah, there's a point.

That's all for now. I'll ***** more as I find more glaring deficiencies.
So, you only "nitpick" for glaring deficiencies? What happens when we really screw something up, do you "bring it to our attention with some sense of urgency"?

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[Kie99]

Any way of making the posts-per-page count bigger?

[CP5670]

That's the main thing I would like to see at this point. Make the max number 500 or more. Scrolling through pages can get annoying unless the thread is unusually large.

[an0n]

Any way of making the posts-per-page count bigger?

Put on a thong and strut around infront of it?

[Fury]

There you go, increased posts per page to 50.

[CP5670]

Thanks, much better. But what I actually meant was to have that number a user-specific option, like it used to be. I want to have it much higher than even 50 for myself.

Another minor suggestion: there is that button at the top that "shrinks or expands the header." It resets itself whenever you open up a new forum page though. Is it possible to store the state of that header in the user's cookie so it always stays the same way once you have set it?

[Kie99]

There you go, increased posts per page to 50.

Thanks.

CP5670:
I think higher numbers increase bandwidth use.

[Kosh]

I just thought of something. In the other boards we could view the smiley codes (for those of us who don't have them all memorized). Why can't we do that anymore?

[Grey Wolf]

Go into the archive, and get the smiley codes off of there.

[ZylonBane]

Why can't you tolerate the small, tucked away Alexa banner and accept the much bigger and obvious Google ads?

Because the Alexa Toolbar is evil obnoxious spyware. Anyway, it's not an issue for me anymore. Under Firefox just right-click it -> "Block Images from...". Voila!

[sandy]I'd rather people not do this, as this is not an advertisment for advertising's sake, but a hit counter for the HLP staff's sake, and thus ultimately the good of the whole forum. Obviously I can't force you one way or the other, but as you can see above, I have no problem sharing the information gleaned from the hit counter with the HLPublic.

However, ZB's quite correct that Alexa certainly has - in the past, at least - been spyware. I don't know what it is like currently, but there's a simple solution that works for everyone involved - don't click on it. Leave it be, let it show up, just ignore it.
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[an0n]

There's no need for the cookie.

Or the image, for that matter. Unless it's one of those JS script embeds, like AdSense.