Those changes noted. My understanding was that 'search by thread' meant some way in which you could use the search engine to search only one thread, without having to muck around changing your subscriptions first. However, moving the search engine we've got out of beta seems to be higher priority.

My understanding was that 'search by thread' meant some way in which you could use the search engine to search only one thread, without having to muck around changing your subscriptions first.

You can:

[link]

With the thread id# where I have the ##.

In that case, I can take it off the list of things people want added. Thanks, Jess.

Lowest priority: Formatting of posts or board (more allowed tags

Can I just say that one request is for "s" to be added to allowed tags, which ought to be a relatively quick fix, and it's already an allowed tag, just not in its abbreviated form? It's short for STRIKE if you didn't know.

And about the missing email addresses when people write to admins to change passwords or whatever, wouldn't having a form, with required fields, be a better organisational solution to that? If I wrote to you it wouldn't be from the address I used for this board anyway.

wouldn't having a form, with required fields, be a better organisational solution to that?

Some people, for whatever reason, don't use forms. The just email directly to the admin address.

Then we should spank them.

Or we could reply straight away and say "if it's about changing your password, you have to use this form".

If I wrote to you it wouldn't be from the address I used for this board anyway.

Well, you're speaking as someone with more than one. So far I haven't fielded a request with the wrong e-mail address.

Besides we shouldn't force people to mail from the form. It's bad usability. That's why there's also a mailto: link on the e-mail admins page.

As for t s -- I don't know if it's still true, but as of a year or so ago, it showed up in fewer browsers than t strike -- meaning I was getting some fuckedstrange posts displayed.

Maybe I'm missing something, but "change password" is already in Set Profile.

This is for people who don't remember their passwords.

we shouldn't force people to mail from the form

The only benefit is you can force people to tell you all the stuff you need to know. I use forms for this at work because there's always something they forget. But there's a lot more data required in those work situations.

You can construct the mailto: link so that it it adds the username into the subject of the email, how about that?

<s> -- I don't know if it's still true, but as of a year or so ago, it showed up in fewer browsers than <strike>

Really? Hadn't heard that. OK ignore me then.