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.

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

With some e-mail clients. With others, it slings a lot of stuff in the to line, and you have to edit it out.

However, if they've forgotten their password and can't log in, the board doesn't know who they are.

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

And how would it know what the username is if the person isn't logged in (because they forgot their password)?

t edit what ita said.

OK I was being dumb. It's early here yet.

Here's a note on the "S" tag, in case anybody's interested:

The S element, deprecated in HTML 4.0, suggests that text be rendered with a strike-through style. In many cases, use of a phrase element such as DEL is more appropriate since such elements express the meaning of the text more clearly. However, since support for DEL among browsers is weak, S could be useful in combination with DEL, as in the following example:

The latest version of HTML recommended by the W3C is HTML <DEL DATETIME="1997-12-19T00:00:00-05:00"><S>3.2</S></DEL> <INS DATETIME="1997-12-19T00:00:00-05:00">4.0</INS>.

Note that STRIKE is better supported than S (based on Netscape 2.x and 1.22 supporting STRIKE but not S), and so STRIKE should be used in place of S. There does not appear to be any advantage to using both STRIKE and S; all browsers that support S also seem to support STRIKE.

From [link] -- very useful site.