This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.

Buffy ,'Potential'


Buffistas Building a Better Board  

Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.

To-do list


brenda m - Jan 17, 2005 9:26:55 am PST #9292 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Labeling marked posts would be my number one. I'd still love to see an option for user pics on profile pages, but understand if resources don't allow.


JenP - Jan 17, 2005 11:57:04 am PST #9293 of 10000

I would like:

  • labelling of bookmarks. Still my favorite.

  • quick edit for block quote whitefont text (I can do it now w/o the quickedit, but... that'd be cool).

This would be neat, but I don't really feel strongly:

  • the pictures in profiles option, but I don't like the idea of having them on the thread pages. So, I'd like to have the option to turn them off, if they're there.

  • user styles options, but only if it's not a gigantic PITA

Also:

  • I like the way taglines work, but I wouldn't care if it changed.

  • I am both highly amused by and highly opposed to Kat's suggestion of direct transcription of thoughts to posting box.

For the rest, I either don't understand (which is fine) or don't think they're needed/in need of change.

Other than user pictures in thread pages with no way to turn them off, there's nothing I'd object to, though. I just mostly don't have an opinion one way or the other on a lot of it.


Kat - Jan 17, 2005 1:05:20 pm PST #9294 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I too would like to be able to label bookmarks.

I don't care about pictures either in the user profile or on the page.

I have no use for user styles options given that I'd leave it here. But I don't object to it.

I'd love for tags to live with the post, but that's a me thing. I like knowing what I thought tagable. As it is, my tag graveyard in my user profile also works fine.

I still want direct transcription of my thoughts so I don't have to bother with typing. But I fear it would be a lot of "So, this is what happened today.... oh look, shiny!...how do you spell superciliious...what was I thinking....oh yeah... you know, I think I need plastic surgery... then I had what's it called... I should check my bank balance.... oh, I know I'm forgetting something.... what was I thinking again."


Polter-Cow - Jan 17, 2005 1:10:23 pm PST #9295 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I have not said so specifically, but I would like to loudly and vocally clamor for the labelling of bookmarks.

Also, the right to split infinitives when I feel like it but still criticize others for doing it.


§ ita § - Jan 17, 2005 1:50:25 pm PST #9296 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

::clears throat::

No need to clamour for the bookmark thing. It's in alpha.

I'm for "fixing the first post issue" and "enforcing no posts past 10,000."

Both already implemented.

About the search -- not only are e-mail addresses often hidden, so many people have more than one, that it's hard to know who's calling themselves what. So I'm not sure it's that valuable -- except from the admin POV, when we get support e-mails from people who forget to put their IDs. But can't we just beat those people up?

Also, no split infinitives.


Jon B. - Jan 17, 2005 1:56:36 pm PST #9297 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

except from the admin POV, when we get support e-mails from people who forget to put their IDs.

I've found that a search through the new-users mailbox for the email address usually solves the problem.


DXMachina - Jan 17, 2005 1:59:27 pm PST #9298 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

It works for users from around ID# 900 or so on.


brenda m - Jan 17, 2005 2:12:29 pm PST #9299 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I can see the value in stompies having an easily accessible email list, but otherwise I don't think it's necessary.


Liese S. - Jan 17, 2005 2:19:08 pm PST #9300 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, in general I'm not thrilled with a search by email function for the board as a whole, but that's prolly just me flailing about. Personal thing, I have my "real" address up here because I trust the Buffistas with it, but dunno if I would want it searchable. Contradictory I know, because it's logged-in-users anyway, but still, that's my opinion for what it's worth.

I do think it would be nice to offer stylesheets such that we were more accessible, but I think it would be fine to manage it within a few options, rather than making it wide open. We could cover text-only, work-friendly, large fonts, etc. and cover our bases nicely, I think.


DXMachina - Jan 17, 2005 2:28:24 pm PST #9301 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I think it would be fine to manage it within a few options, rather than making it wide open.

All I personally want to do is be able to change the damn font.