We’ve decided to start over again and reinstall the forum software on Forumosa.com
Keeping with tradition, I’d like to hear what features you would like to see so we can prioritize them as we rebuild the website. Please list them below and we’ll consider them as we plan the new site in the weeks ahead.
Here are features that we are pretty sure we’ll have in place on the first day:
Calendar
24 hour searches
Ignore
LinkedIn
Chops
Squeal
Printer-friendly
Big-5 Chinese
The only one there that I consistently use is the 24 hour search.
New Posts
The only one of those that I use is the new posts and the 24 hour posts. However, I’ve given up using them both as neither one works any more. Makes moderating a bit difficult sometimes.
New Posts and Big-5, dump the rest.
Keep the 24 hour search - I use it all the time!
Well… if you’re looking at “blowing it up”… How about ditching phpBB and use a more robust platform like Invision or vBulletin 
Otherwise, I’m with Sandman and the others. Go minimalist.
maybe a new color-scheme? burgundy is getting a bit… oh… blah?
Some mechanism whereby the “No posts … meet your criteria” message no longer appears when clicking on the second page of “new posts”.
We always get lots of positive feedback when the site’s rebooted and things are nice and simple. 24 hour search is the main one on that list. New posts is part of the standard installation, isn’t it? But it would be nice if the reboot fixed the problems with that. Also, I guess it would be a good idea to get the feeds from Taiwanted set up at the bottom of the page again.
As for chops and other such bells and whistles, you know my feelings about those.
Definitely keep the 24-hour search.
Keep the “own” search, as well.
I think you can safely get rid of the “chops.” Has anyone ever actually used that?
Sorry LL, hopefully this is being addressed in phpBB 3.0. This problem you cite is a problem that busy phpBB 2.0 forums suffer. I’ve looked for solutions for it on phpbb.com and phpbbhacks.com but I haven’t found any yet. I do not consider it a critical issue since there are a number of ways you can track recent posts, and you can even set up your own New Posts pages using RSS. If you find a solution, please bring it to my attention
I don’t think this will change - we’ve kept the site’s colors since the conversion from ORIENTED.org. It’s part of the identity - and I wouldn’t want to get caught up in some discussion of whether the island in the logo should be some shade of green or blue, or some new age funky purple to be different. Besides, these are my school colors, and after I renamed the website from ORIENTED, it was all done whiel I was still in grad school 
Yes, me. And it’s only available to admins anyway (its used to recognize Forumosans who have been exceptionally helpful to us as a whole).
This will be back - but not on Day 1
Yes, me. And it’s only available to admins anyway (its used to recognize Forumosans who have been exceptionally helpful to us as a whole).
This will be back - but not on Day 1[/quote]
OK. If you say so.
Sorry LL, hopefully this is being addressed in phpBB 3.0. This problem you cite is a problem that busy phpBB 2.0 forums suffer. I’ve looked for solutions for it on phpbb.com and phpbbhacks.com but I haven’t found any yet. I do not consider it a critical issue since there are a number of ways you can track recent posts, and you can even set up your own New Posts pages using RSS. If you find a solution, please bring it to my attention[/quote]Is the problem to do with the number of users posting currently, or the total size of the database? If the former, I suppose there’s not much to be done. If the latter, one solution would be to prune the database (maybe zapping the Open forum archives would be a quick fix? 
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Sorry LL, hopefully this is being addressed in phpBB 3.0. This problem you cite is a problem that busy phpBB 2.0 forums suffer. I’ve looked for solutions for it on phpbb.com and phpbbhacks.com but I haven’t found any yet. I do not consider it a critical issue since there are a number of ways you can track recent posts, and you can even set up your own New Posts pages using RSS. If you find a solution, please bring it to my attention[/quote]Is the problem to do with the number of users posting currently, or the total size of the database? If the former, I suppose there’s not much to be done. If the latter, one solution would be to prune the database (maybe zapping the Open forum archives would be a quick fix? ).[/quote]
The former - this is why we haven’t been able to do anything about it all this time
There are far larger phpBB forums than ours (but not about Taiwan ) so if it was a probably as fundamental as the latter, I would have expected it to be resolved.
Let’s reserve this discussion for requests for features people want to see by Day 1. We can keep talking about long standing problems in other threads in this forum
Can we get rid of that hairy and stinky dog? 
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Can we get rid of that hairy and stinky dog? [/quote]
But Stray Dog is one of the reasons I stay here :s
Is it possible to embed swfs and things, like youtube videos, in posts? That would be pretty cool, but probably not necessary as a Day 1 feature…