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The thread title is in the URL bar, so functionally, you can know where you are without taking up screen real estate. There aren't any easy plugins for altering this. I don't believe we'll be making this change.

Where do we put old board members on new accounts?

I think I see the issue. On mobile if you use the phone's back button after reading a pm it shows no more messages and does not provide the filter drop down. Try clicking the "message list" button near the top instead.

We didn't do any fixes, but I am glad it is working for you. After you filter by unread just go to the same drop down and pick all.

I'm not sure I really understand the issue. This sounds like what you would do is go to inbox, and use the "Filter By" drop down to show only the unread items. Is that not working for some reason? Also, even without the filter, the default sort order should be the recent stuff on top, so that's not exactly unread, but anything brand new should be on the top of the list, so that is de facto, for example the last three days by just scrolling down through 3 days worth of PMs... Filtering by PMs you started is definitely not all the recent ones, it's just all of the PMs where you were first person to send the message. If it's sorted by most recent, then the most recent ones YOU STARTED would be on top, but then it would skip a bunch of PMs you didn't start to show you the next one you did start... I think I'm missing some key assumption about all of this and/or how you're doing it, because these things seem like they shouldn't be a problem?

This is apparently a bug / "feature request" which is a bit silly to me, but I filed it with Invision. IF you click on the PM from the notifications pop up then you go straight to new posts in a pm thread. If you do it from the full screen inbox, you don't. Invision hasn't said when/if they'll fix this, but since the function is already there it seems like a dead-simple fix to me. Maybe we'll fix it ourselves if they don't do anything about it, but for now it's stalled.

This is done.

Do you guys think this kind of post belongs in the marketplace area, since it's kind of a WTB post... but only kind of... or is it more appropriate here? I got a report on this post asking to move it, but this is a pretty ambiguous case.

Maybe.... but probably not.

Hasn't been changed yet in any direction.

If you can't differentiate between the grey and the white, you need to adjust some settings somewhere (or maybe get your eyes checked). The color correctness and brightness of monitors definitely varies. A lower quality monitor will never look like a high quality one no matter how much you adjust the settings. It's worth noting if a decent chunk of people have trouble distinguishing the color, that the variation might be too subtle for some reasonably high number of monitors/users. That's why a heavier keyline isn't a bad idea. But yes, it's possible that if you look at your monitor settings that you will find out that everything you view on the web could be much better (not just these boards) with a few adjustments.

Abuse prevention tool, and it encourages people to really curate what's worth liking and therefore promoting to other people.

This one isn't likely to come back as a default. I think as many people suffered from over-nesting as benefited. There IS a way to nest a quote by highlighting everything in the post you are replying to and clicking the "quote this" pop up. Also, if you read a post that quoted one item back, you can click the swoopy arrow on quotes in the upper right to trek backwards through posts and get context. But I haven't seen a plugin that controls this, and it would probably be a hacky customization that would have to get re-made each time the boards upgraded. So this is in the "probably not" bucket. What WOULD be cool is if we had a "quote all" versus "quote this post" kind of option rather than defaulting one way or the other.

This was pretty much exactly how it was on the old boards. One long row on the post dedicated to the post controls. It's left justified here, and a slightly taller row, but substantially the same. We may address this in a future theme tweak, but it's not a huge priority at the moment.

This will probably happen. I think it's minor because there is way less nested quoting now (which is somewhat controversial, but in the long run probably better), but we'll probably do this.'

I get why this would be handy sometimes, but it's also a problem if people click on super huge posts. This one is unlikely to come back. If I stumble across a plugin that might help get to the intent of this without actually loading every post in a huge thread, I'll see if it makes sense to install.

I turned off the hover stuff on each forum that showed the description. I THINK that's the only one that pretty much popped up a hover with no delay. It's also the only one I can easily control, and probably the least useful one. The trade off is that not the descriptions always show, so it's a bit more scrolling, but it's probably better that it's off anyway.

Here's an example, by the way. I think this is a really cool set of posts. It's a great testimony about what you all get from each other, and a cool bit of history of how people got involved. It's the kind of content that deserves to be surfaced and remembered, even if it isn't sticked at the top. Likes would be a great way for this kind of thread to not only gain, but keep exposure over time. Now you guys may have your own ideas of what kind of content should really be showcased, but that's great. That's the point of crowd sourcing valuable content via a like system.

Oh, that's easy. Just don't post anything. BAM! We don't see it.

Because you have notifications for that stuff off. Go to settings --> notifications --> and scroll down. You are looking for this: Someone I am following makes a post

That actually wasn't intentional. It doesn't have to be anonymous, and now it isn't. You guys should go to the leaderboard, scroll down to like posts, and click on the like counts to see who has liked things. It will give you a feeling for who around here might find it valuable. Additionally - here's the value of the like button. It surfaces good content - or it least it can if the membership treats it that way. It surfaces it in a better way than just replying to it. Over time this page: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/leaderboard/ (scroll down to the posts) can show the content that was consistently found to be the most valuable. Even if it's old. Even if it didn't get stickied. Even if it was buried in the middle of a thread. Yes, some lightweight posts will get likes just because they're funny, but over the long haul it's the substantive stuff that tends to get voted up. I COULD enable down voting as well, which might help trivial content to get de-prioritized, but it could also just become a vehicle for trolling, so it's off. People have to choose to use it correctly, but it definitely has the potential for value. Think back over the years to any content that you thought might have been super informative or clarifying. Right now, I bet some of it is pretty buried. Likes can surface that kind of content.

The new boards can do polls, and does them better than the old boards. What exactly is on your list of "another thing the new boards can't do"? I'm not aware of any notable items. However, here's the problem with polls on a new feature. You're going to get a few people who care deeply to even bother to read the poll or vote in it, while getting little or no feedback from the bulk of the users. People have to get enough of a chance to use it and see the benefits to have an informed opinion. The fact that lots of people HAVE used it is a promising first sign, even though you clearly don't like it. Did you go to the leaderboard, scroll down to the "liked" content and try clicking on the "likes" counts to see who has been using it? Perhaps that information would cause you to avoid the assumptions inherent in your "who else besides X like it" statements? Take a look. It might surprise you. Personally, I'm very disinclined to remove a potentially useful feature for finding good content because 5 to 10 users don't want to look at a button that they can easily ignore. At least until it becomes clear that it's really not being used by any notable amount of the user base.

Let's say you knew of a dealer who often posted awesome comic book wisdom, sometimes sold cool books on the forums, and/or announced events that were important. You might want to follow them to get alerted about their highly valuable posts, OR if you don't want notifications, to simply visit an activity feed every now and then to review all of the content or people you follow to see if anything looks awesome enough to read.

Added this at the top: FIRST - YOU MAY WANT TO TURN ON SIGNATURES (under the settings menu at the top left) SECOND - YOU MAY WANT TO CHANGE YOUR THEME (under the "theme" drop down at the very bottom of pages and on the left) THIRD - YOU MAY WANT TO CHANGE THE WIDTH OF THE SITE (by clicking the pencil icon at the top) Customize those preferences as you like