Suggestions for improvement to the forum
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Just to start with I think this is the best and most informative Porsche forum Ive seen. Excellent. Nonetheless there seem to my subjective eye to be a few things which could be done to improve it further (imho).
So if the moderators don't mind a novice telling them how to improve things here's my few pence worth.
1. Brighten the colour scheme. Grey on dark grey is a bit oppressive.
2. Increase the number of threads per page by, say, 5?
3. Add a search facility. Great for info and cuts out some repetition.
4. Improve the "quote feature" so that it distinguishes more clearly between messages by eg. putting quoted portion in a box. From what I can tell the existing one creates threads which contain huge indistinguishable posts of identical text which are very hard to follow and unnecessarily bulky.
Just a few ideas but interested to see what others think or suggest.
Andrew
So if the moderators don't mind a novice telling them how to improve things here's my few pence worth.
1. Brighten the colour scheme. Grey on dark grey is a bit oppressive.
2. Increase the number of threads per page by, say, 5?
3. Add a search facility. Great for info and cuts out some repetition.
4. Improve the "quote feature" so that it distinguishes more clearly between messages by eg. putting quoted portion in a box. From what I can tell the existing one creates threads which contain huge indistinguishable posts of identical text which are very hard to follow and unnecessarily bulky.
Just a few ideas but interested to see what others think or suggest.
Andrew
Sorry fella - there's already a dedicated forum for this (after all, none of your comments are Porsche specific)....
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AndrewMontgomery said:
Just to start with I think this is the best and most informative Porsche forum Ive seen. Excellent. Nonetheless there seem to my subjective eye to be a few things which could be done to improve it further (imho).
So if the moderators don't mind a novice telling them how to improve things here's my few pence worth.
1. Brighten the colour scheme. Grey on dark grey is a bit oppressive.
2. Increase the number of threads per page by, say, 5?
3. Add a search facility. Great for info and cuts out some repetition.
4. Improve the "quote feature" so that it distinguishes more clearly between messages by eg. putting quoted portion in a box. From what I can tell the existing one creates threads which contain huge indistinguishable posts of identical text which are very hard to follow and unnecessarily bulky.
Just a few ideas but interested to see what others think or suggest.
Andrew
I'm all for improvement, but:So if the moderators don't mind a novice telling them how to improve things here's my few pence worth.
1. Brighten the colour scheme. Grey on dark grey is a bit oppressive.
2. Increase the number of threads per page by, say, 5?
3. Add a search facility. Great for info and cuts out some repetition.
4. Improve the "quote feature" so that it distinguishes more clearly between messages by eg. putting quoted portion in a box. From what I can tell the existing one creates threads which contain huge indistinguishable posts of identical text which are very hard to follow and unnecessarily bulky.
Just a few ideas but interested to see what others think or suggest.
Andrew
1. The grey is very easy on the eye...and no doubt 993 owners love it, as it matches their trousers.
2. Any more threads on the main page, and they will drop off the bottom, resulting in having to scroll.
3. There is a search facility, that can be secified to 'porsche' forum only, or the whole site.
4. See above, seems fine to me?
Other than that, I think your ideas are great!
spenny_b said:
Sorry fella - there's already a dedicated forum for this (after all, none of your comments are Porsche specific)....
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He may well be looking at the forum through www.porkers.co.uk which takes this sub forum and masquerades it as a unique forum. Website Feedback
hunt_the_fox said:
spenny_b said:
Sorry fella - there's already a dedicated forum for this (after all, none of your comments are Porsche specific)....
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He may well be looking at the forum through www.porkers.co.uk which takes this sub forum and masquerades it as a unique forum. Website Feedback
Yes, Andrew, if this si the case you need to come here: http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/forum.asp?h=0...
AndrewMontgomery said:
Just to start with I think this is the best and most informative Porsche forum Ive seen. Excellent. Nonetheless there seem to my subjective eye to be a few things which could be done to improve it further (imho).
So if the moderators don't mind a novice telling them how to improve things here's my few pence worth.
1. Brighten the colour scheme. Grey on dark grey is a bit oppressive.
2. Increase the number of threads per page by, say, 5?
3. Add a search facility. Great for info and cuts out some repetition.
4. Improve the "quote feature" so that it distinguishes more clearly between messages by eg. putting quoted portion in a box. From what I can tell the existing one creates threads which contain huge indistinguishable posts of identical text which are very hard to follow and unnecessarily bulky.
Just a few ideas but interested to see what others think or suggest.
Andrew
On Pistonheads.co.uk ...So if the moderators don't mind a novice telling them how to improve things here's my few pence worth.
1. Brighten the colour scheme. Grey on dark grey is a bit oppressive.
2. Increase the number of threads per page by, say, 5?
3. Add a search facility. Great for info and cuts out some repetition.
4. Improve the "quote feature" so that it distinguishes more clearly between messages by eg. putting quoted portion in a box. From what I can tell the existing one creates threads which contain huge indistinguishable posts of identical text which are very hard to follow and unnecessarily bulky.
Just a few ideas but interested to see what others think or suggest.
Andrew
1. Under preferences you can set your own 'skin'
2. Also under preferences, mine is set to 20, but you can set it higher
3. There is a search facility, but using google with pistonheads.co.uk works nicely.
4. More of a user issue than a forum issue ?
ETA: So eh, well um as for the quoting being a user issue ..
Edited by 2something on Wednesday 21st January 17:32
Gordon Bennett said:
Burnham said:
I'm all for improvement, but:
1. The grey is very easy on the eye...and no doubt 993 owners love it, as it matches their trousers.
I just spat my tea over my screen. That is funny.1. The grey is very easy on the eye...and no doubt 993 owners love it, as it matches their trousers.
Absolute load of bo llox, but funny.
AndrewMontgomery said:
2something said:
Ah, but the quoting works nicely on the pistonheads site!
Yes, but Im not on the Pistonheads site :-)You will find exactly the same information of here, but it will solve all the problems you are having!
Gordon Bennett said:
Burnham said:
I'm all for improvement, but:
1. The grey is very easy on the eye...and no doubt 993 owners love it, as it matches their trousers.
I just spat my tea over my screen. That is funny.1. The grey is very easy on the eye...and no doubt 993 owners love it, as it matches their trousers.
Absolute load of bo llox, but funny.
robinhood21 said:
Big Al. said:
A question to the OP what colour scheme do you suggest?
I’m personally very happy with the present set up.
Er, I thought the present colour was so it did not look 'out of place' on work monitors. I’m personally very happy with the present set up.
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