What's great / good / awesome about Microcosm

I started this during the interregnum but it got deleted. So, here we go again.

I like the way in which times update automatically on the 'Following' page.

It all feels somewhat neater than vBulletin, despite the inevitable rough edges a few days after the import.

It's great that it can now be dynamically improved and worked on in a much better way than vBulletin could.

The users on top of all.

File/image uploading is so much better than before.

I agree, but I didn't go there properly yet.

Bigger avatar profile photos.
*although was the scaling on yours always fuked?

File/image uploading is so much better than before.

This

Please be careful as to the images you post.

*although was the scaling on yours always fuked?

No, that's because non-square rectangular avatars aren't permitted yet. I can't remember whether David said that they would add that or stick with only square avatars. I'll just need to slightly edit mine if the latter.

Very quick, no glitches. It was always a nightmare on vB.

Its all good. Change is as good as a rest. Nothing has been lost, like tears in rain.

It's brilliant, I can now upload photos like @31t®um using his tool of choice.

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Brilliant at least, free choice of tools is certainly not great/good/awesome only but also something that non one could have imagined to be free to choose from an abundance of quantity, variety and especially quality.

Bigger avatar profile photos.

Someone else said this, is that a desktop feature? because on my phone they're miniscule!

Uploading photos in now great for the Bike Tag thread.

Also fantastic on the iPhone. Actually @Velocio I have iOS7 and it's all dandy.

And just noticed if you hit "@" it gives you a drop down menu with people's names you can select which is ace.

And just noticed if you hit "@" it gives you a drop down menu with people's names you can select which is ace.

Also... we sort that by top posters as if you start typing @p it means the people you're most likely to be mentioning are at the top of the list.

Sick.

Quotes.

Now you are prompted to think about what and why you are quoting something, because you have to actually select the quote, rather than hitting one button to quote everything.

Scrolling through half a dozen photos and several paragraphs of text, just to read "so rad", was tiresome.

Most of the time, quotes were used to indicate what was being replied to (ie provide context), rather than to highlight something specific, so quoting a post in its entirety was excessive.

The "in reply to..." and especially post-number links will be much better, once everyone gets used to using the reply button instead of "^". Being as "reply " is now as easy to use as "quote" was, that shouldn't take long.

Quotes.
Now you are prompted to think about what and why you are quoting something, because you have to actually select the quote, rather than hitting one button to quote everything.
Scrolling through half a dozen photos and several paragraphs of text, just to read "so rad", was tiresome.
Most of the time, quotes were used to indicate what was being replied to (ie provide context), rather than to highlight something specific, so quoting a post in its entirety was excessive.
The "in reply to..." and especially post-number links will be much better, once everyone gets used to using the reply button instead of "^". Being as "reply " is now as easy to use as "quote" was, that shouldn't take long.

This ;-)

I suppose it might do away with 'ftfy' jokes, the last recorded instance of a funny one of those being about three years ago.
I suppose, also, that the quoting half a dozen photos happens mostly in the threads with lots of pictures of bikes?
The 'in reply' thing works for the person replying and being replied to, because they both know what was written. For everyone else it just becomes a little private conversation in the middle of a thread, unless you click to see what the original comment was. That's no less inconvenient, and I would say a lot more of a pain, that quickly scrolling through a quoted post. And people can be nudged away from quoting those long posts in that way if it bothers enough people. I don't look in the bike-pictures threads so I don't know if that has been tried.
One thing's for sure - forums on page 2 of the homepage are going to be overlooked and that will become self-perpetuating.

One thing's for sure - forums on page 2 of the homepage are going to be overlooked and that will become self-perpetuating.

Not sure that will remain true.

It is possible, and I will enable it, that anyone could create a forum. And then lock those down to whatever permissions they choose.

As such, today there's little reason to explore beyond page 1, but I think exploring beyond page 1 will be something that people do once a great variety of forums exist.

I hope so. I was thinking about Google search results and how people can be looking for answers to 'how do I save my life because I have just swallowed weed killer?' and they still won't get beyond the first page.
I assume the ignore forums option, when it comes, will also help with that, since people can make each page contain only forums they are interested in and thereby make each page of interest.

I assume the ignore forums option, when it comes, will also help with that, since people can make each page contain only forums they are interested in and thereby make each page of interest.

Yup.

Every person ultimately is able to curate their own front page by ignoring everything else.

Every person ultimately is able to curate their own front page by ignoring everything else.

Hipster thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Also... we sort that by top posters as if you start typing @p it means the people you're most likely to be mentioning are at the top of the list.
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That is v clever :)

I love the new site, and the font/size.

I reckon people are simply adjusting to the new. I'm sure posts will pick up.

The 'in reply' thing works for the person replying and being replied to, because they both know what was written. For everyone else it just becomes a little private conversation in the middle of a thread, unless you click to see what the original comment was.

How about adding the correct number of ^^^ to the "in relpy to" line if the post being replied to is on the same page and not too far up, making it kind of like the old way we denoted "in reply to" but more automated.