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big mummy smeear i dont think anyone has said but
links that open in a new window!
simple and stops having to right click
is that just fussy and lazy of me though?
This is in the "Vanilla makes this difficult" bucket. If I changed it, it would be for all links everywhere and you'd have hundreds of windows to deal with.
Ideally it would be for external links only, and a user preference. But Vanilla doesn't readily offer a way to do that, each extension has to be built from scratch with nothing that gives you a head start.
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cornelius blackfoot I know there are lots of threads, and we are always helpful, if not exactly welcoming 24/7, but maybe when newbies sign up, there should be a FAQ page which comes up, which points them to threads, explains how to do searches, explains chainlines etc and so forth so we don't get the constant new here, looking for bike, must be cheap, what do you recommend discussions.
But what we do all day if we couldn't bait the new kids? I for one loved it when I first turned up here. I'm still smarting.
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sharks with fricken laser beams.
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i like vanilla a lot compared to phpbb and the likes its very friendly
and im very much in favour of the wiki, i always thought Sheldon (r.i.p) should have used a wiki for all his info
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velocity boy [quote]big mummy smeear i dont think anyone has said but
links that open in a new window!
simple and stops having to right click
is that just fussy and lazy of me though?
This is in the "Vanilla makes this difficult" bucket. If I changed it, it would be for all links everywhere and you'd have hundreds of windows to deal with.
Ideally it would be for external links only, and a user preference. But Vanilla doesn't readily offer a way to do that, each extension has to be built from scratch with nothing that gives you a head start.[/quote]
ahhh i see your point, that is annoying
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big mummy smeear i dont think anyone has said but
links that open in a new window!
simple and stops having to right click
is that just fussy and lazy of me though?
No just right click or middle click or what ever it you have to do. This has been asked before and vb has given several long answers about this issue.
I like vanilla over phpbb but maybe that is just the way it (vanilla) is set up with the option of having all discussions in front of you or the option of looking at different sections through filters.
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I am a fan of Vanilla, much prefer it to other Bulletin board places that I have been on. not sure why, it just feels clean and fast (ish).
One thing I'd love to see is a way of making lists that don't just use up loads and loads of comments. It just annoys me when I see that there have been laods of posts on a thread that I am following, just to scroll through 20 posts of list additions... Maybe a Wiki would be a good way to do that. Then we could link off the first post of a 'list thread' to that Wiki.
I would also like an easier way of searching through names to faces. If I could search for comments by a specified user, in a specified thread, it would solve that problem (and maybe some other use cases as well).
And, more boobies.
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streamline the names and faces. how about just adding a column or two in the member's page, thumbnails of mugshots and their bikes.
on the FAQs, maybe categorise advise/tips/reviews/wheretobuy under the relevant component and cut all the irrelevant chat out. prob a lot of work tho. sounds a bit like roadbikereview/roadcyclinguk/bikemagic
but keep the forum as it is. like what jonny said, simple and informal
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Not an addition, but a problem that possibly needs looking at, unless a) it's been discussed already, and b) it's just me, or c) both.
When you enter your comments, THEN add a link your text gets repeated for the script for the link, then repeated again underneath!
Boo-hoo maybe, but it's annoying if you want to quote someone then add a link. Unless you know how the codes work, but sometimes I just want to be a lazy feck.
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For example, I will enter all this text, then add a link to our second favourite site (after LFGSS!).
[For example, I will enter all this text, then add a link to our second favourite site (after LFGSS!).
](http://www.whatacunt.co.uk)For example, I will enter all this text, then add a link to our second favourite site (after LFGSS!).
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dogsballs [quote]JOL I think almost like a FAQ would be good for newcomers.
Also a sticky DIY thread for fixing/mechanics might be good.
I have a few how-to's that could go up.
that is what SEARCH is for ;)[/quote]I think the modern FAQ is a wiki? no?
I also think a better person / bike page would be a good idea. Perhaps something similar for the tools too?
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Sam Not an addition, but a problem that possibly needs looking at, unless a) it's been discussed already, and b) it's just me, or c) both.
When you enter your comments, THEN add a link your text gets repeated for the script for the link, then repeated again underneath!
Boo-hoo maybe, but it's annoying if you want to quote someone then add a link. Unless you know how the codes work, but sometimes I just want to be a lazy feck.
type what you want then highlight the text you want to use for the hyper link, then press the
button and you will only have to enter the ulr. -
If it ain't broke..
...buy a spesh tarmac sl
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velocity boy [quote]big mummy smeear i dont think anyone has said but
links that open in a new window!
simple and stops having to right click
is that just fussy and lazy of me though?
This is in the "Vanilla makes this difficult" bucket. If I changed it, it would be for all links everywhere and you'd have hundreds of windows to deal with.
Ideally it would be for external links only, and a user preference. But Vanilla doesn't readily offer a way to do that, each extension has to be built from scratch with nothing that gives you a head start.[/quote]
this is my fav thing about firefox... if you have tabs enabled you and if you click on a link with apple button pressed it opens in new tab... same if you use bookmarks toolbar... you can go click nuts...
-As for suggestions user profile page could do with a bit of love?
Shin
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velocity boy
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It's rather difficult to get Vanilla to do much at all.
...phpBB and vBulletin are the user interfaces people are most used to.Vanilla may look a little lightweight compared to others, but IMHO that helps to make it more conversational and uncluttered. phpBB and the like often seem to keep posts and subjects quite segregated
I second the use of a Wiki. I think we could do a lot for categories like "Travel & Trips" and especially "Mechanics & Fixing". A Wiki can serve the same purpose as an FAQ, but where FAQ's tend to be viewed as defacto (when they may be only one or two contributers views) a Wiki helps maintain the same info in a democratic way and it's less likely to go stale.
A Warning: Wiki's do need maintenance to help link topics together. Without various benevolent Wiki trawlers and fixers the links never get created and it never becomes as good a resource as it could. Late nighters, such as chris crash and hippy could put their time to use here ;).
I'd love to see a Wiki where you can have the main content in the page and still be editable by all, yet have comments or footnotes too so users can comment on the info without disrupting its flow. How about embedding Wiki links in the normal vanilla comment pages - should be easy enough if its all hosted on the same server?
Some info:
[ulist]
[li]I love the cleanness of DocuWiki[/li]
[li]Tiki has a kind of comment option (although I think the rest looks cluttered) Tiki comments[/li]
[li]Twiki's comments allow all sorts of uses: voting[/li]
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There's already a fixed FAQ..
http://fixiefaqs.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
http://www.63xc.com/faq/faq.htmNewbs will still ignore them, forget to google and ask anyway..
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Also, I chose the same software as other fixed gear websites, but the software is rather limited on the way it can be extended and worked on.
It's rather difficult to get Vanilla to do much at all. What do you guys think of things like vBulletin that Bike Forums uses? Obviously we'd have our own colour scheme and graphics and such... but it would be easy to make some stuff work for us. People have already written hundreds of extensions that are really high quality for vBulletin for things like marketplaces, galleries and flickr integration, etc.
The usability thing is interesting, because if you're into the fixed gear scene you've probably used Vanilla on quite a few sites. But if you're not then it is quite alien as things like phpBB and vBulletin are the user interfaces people are most used to.
And would you all want a more unique style? All I've done to date is change the header logo and background.