I love this site. But let's be honest. I hate it too.
I love it because of the amount of knowledge around. Because of the members who put their time and efforts to solve others problems without expecting anything. I don't want to give names here, because it would be a long list and most of you already know how kindly they try to solve submitted problems.
But at the same time there are a lot of inconvenience and too-old-fashioned problems around that makes surfing unsatisfying.
I don't want to be rude or disrespectful and only with less than several months history, tell the members who have been here for years, what to do and what not to do. I just hope this post be a start of several changes around.
I'm a member of 31+ other forums. And I think I have seen a lot.
Maybe it's only me feeling the problem mentioned below. Maybe there are some sort of tricks or ways that I'm not aware of. I've searched a lot around to find answers to the following problems and have found nothing. If you know anything that can help I'd appreciate any hint or advice.
There are some others issues, but the post got longer than I expected.
All that said, I was lucky to find this forum that day.
Million thanks.
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I love it because of the amount of knowledge around. Because of the members who put their time and efforts to solve others problems without expecting anything. I don't want to give names here, because it would be a long list and most of you already know how kindly they try to solve submitted problems.
But at the same time there are a lot of inconvenience and too-old-fashioned problems around that makes surfing unsatisfying.
I don't want to be rude or disrespectful and only with less than several months history, tell the members who have been here for years, what to do and what not to do. I just hope this post be a start of several changes around.
I'm a member of 31+ other forums. And I think I have seen a lot.
Maybe it's only me feeling the problem mentioned below. Maybe there are some sort of tricks or ways that I'm not aware of. I've searched a lot around to find answers to the following problems and have found nothing. If you know anything that can help I'd appreciate any hint or advice.
- In restricted areas, Quote and Reply buttons are available and I can click them and type something and send it too. Later, I will receive a PM from an admin that don't post anything in those areas. because they are restricted. And your post may be shown after moderating. Then suggesting to read the rules.
Come on. We are all programmers here. Do you leave a button in a form and expect a user not to click it. And if someone clicks the button ask him to first read the help file? We simply don't add that un-necessary button or simply lock it or set the visibility to No.
Note: Though the warning I received was too soft and kind (maybe it wasn't a warning at all, just a remark), but you know the bitterness taste of it when someone tells you that you're out of the limits.
- The problem that's suffering me the most is the poor quality of search function.
I've talked about it before here. Who believes it. I have to go to google to search this site. I've never seen it anywhere else.
- When a post is marked as Solved, it's not clear which reply was accepted. So in feature if someone has the same issue and searches for it and is lucky enough the search function brings up what he's looking for, it's still hard to understand which reply solved the problem. He has to go through all the replies, tries them one by one to find the cure. In most recent forums I've seen, the post that solves the a problem is shown immediately bellow the question, marked as correct answer and the whole conversation bellow:
- I can not mark a post for future reference. Almost every forum gives a way to members to mark some posts as favorite for future reference. Here when I find a discussion that is within my interest, I have to use browser's favorite to memorize the address. What's wrong with this? Well if go home, I don't have my office bookmarks. Or when my wife makes me keep waiting for a long time in a mall to buy something, I can't access them from my phone. (because of a lot of situations, I don't sync browsers between devices. I even don't use the same browser. Mobile and office is chrome. Home PC and tablet are on Firefox)
Other sites give me something like this:
- I've rated several posts as Excellent or Good. How can I find them. Can I find them? If there's no way to reach them, what's the purpose of rating? To tell others that this post is excellent?
- Inserting in line images are nightmare. I have to upload the image first, copy the uploaded image's address, type the code to insert in line image and add the address. In other forums normally I can drag the image into the text box I'm typing and the image shows up there. Watch the mp4 attached please.
- It's very hard to understand who is answering to whom. In a thread with several replies, the posts are shown in a linear method with the posted date/time order. In recent forums, each post is shown under the post that is relevant to and takes an indent to clarify it's an answer to above post. And at the left there's a XML indent guide to show what's going on. So when you're reading a conversation, you'll have a branch. Because of lack of this feature, users use a # to send back a reader to a specified post. Read #3 or Did you followed the steps in #3.
And I have to continue scrolling up and down to follow.
Here's a screen shot of what I have in recent forums:
There are some others issues, but the post got longer than I expected.
All that said, I was lucky to find this forum that day.
Million thanks.
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