RE: Welcome to MyBB!
12-25-2011, 03:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-25-2011, 03:56 PM by Woffles.)
Welp here we go again now I have more complaints than ever
MAKING POSTS
First off, the only way to go from quickedit to regular edit is by preview pôst Maybe rename it to "Advanced..." or whatever?
I really miss a convenient grid of colors like Phpbb had, the current one is like the mspa style clunky and odd.
No background tags, no youtube tags, and on the other hand tags for "insert email addresss" and "insert formatted phpbb code"
Quotes are hella ugly. The Wrote should not be in tutlar caps, the arrow next to it is out of place. Could we have the user's name link to the post in question instead?
superscript and subscript are gone and I guess I miss those.
Oh, I just made a header for my MAKING POSTS thing and noticed that pressing the underline button only makes the first tag appear and gleefully expects me to [CLOSE TAGS] even if I manually write the end after it. Can we have the old days of just placing open and closed tag next to each other back? I just tried reenacting the [close tags] thing and it was already obnoxious to nest just three what if I have a mafia readpost to make? Also, sizes don't work.
Thread subscription at the bottom is a bit redundant, can you like add "subscribe" to the "Post Options thing" as a checkbox and then have us choose emails or not in our profile?
MyBB is being finnicky about quotation marks, more specifically when you copy those "open quote" and "close quote" marks instead of just the standard double ''s.
UserCP
First off, private messages. There is no direct way to mark everything as read, which could be pretty useful. You can move messages around from inbox to sent items, which is weird, and also a trash can, which is also weird since you can just delete the message.
Sent items apparently is a subfolder to inbox? Doesn't make sense.
Why would you have a download messages button? Same goes for the progress bar that shows how much space we need.
The search PMs thing is taking up quite a bit of space and would probably fit better as a standalone function to search in ALL your PMs. Can that be arranged?
Profile settings, I likey. Seems a lot less cluttered than usual, but then there's that dumb "Away status" thing in edit profile which, unless you're a serious mybb addict I at least won't be regularly updating.
I like my latest threads, but I wish it was actually labeled as such instead of "UserCP home"
THE HEADER
FORUM INDEX is alright, but then again the banner ALSO links to the forum index so it's a bit redundant.
Apparently "Settings" takes me to the User CP Home. Can we just have it labeled as that?
Not sure how I feel about the search function. It has a LOT of whitespace, the borders are all wonky in the by username field, Sorting options and Display options are ALMOST the same thing and wasting two big headers on just those little things seems dummb. Search in Forum(s) has a bunch of whitespace we can't get rid of unless we fix the other few first apparently, and all the text and conditions are in total lowercase.
The memberlist shows avatars. Just, just please don't. A lot of them will probably be animated and they REALLY stretch the field.
Could you do away with those uh, that alphabet lesson up top, and replace the pages 1 trough 5 with [Aardvark -> ChipCheeze] [ChipCheezz -> GrahamBell] or something? Would be a lot more practical.
Or maybe just a sort function where you can list users on something other than the time they joined. That would also help. Maybe also drop the USERS ONLINE thing from the top menu and add an online/offline toggle to this field instead.
The help field seems pretty standardised and obtuse. I'd say goodbye to it.
Oh, but there will be more. This is just part one of my post and I'm throwing it on there regardless because I don't trust save as draft no matter how much free candy it promises.
(this post was made with advanced reply and quick edit)
I marked all forums as read at the bottom of the main page, since apparently all posts between first forum update and current move to mybb became unread again. However, reading all threads, so to say, did not debold the thread titles in the latest post in latest thread previews at the end of each forum, and now I'm starting to doubt they'll ever be.
I made a TEST THREAD where I finnicked around with some new things, and the poll results thing is a bit wonky: the option with the most votes gets the end bit of its bar cut off. The poll creation page is a bit zany too, but I listed those complaints in the thread and I am just a lazy son of bitch.
I'm sure my warning level is like an amount of minor infractions or something, but when I click on it for further details it drops me in the usercp main page. Real helpful, huh?
HEY LOOK DOUBLEPOST MEASURE!
I also meant to complain about the new posts thing in a thread looking dumb, but I think that's about it really.
MAKING POSTS
First off, the only way to go from quickedit to regular edit is by preview pôst Maybe rename it to "Advanced..." or whatever?
I really miss a convenient grid of colors like Phpbb had, the current one is like the mspa style clunky and odd.
No background tags, no youtube tags, and on the other hand tags for "insert email addresss" and "insert formatted phpbb code"
Quotes are hella ugly. The Wrote should not be in tutlar caps, the arrow next to it is out of place. Could we have the user's name link to the post in question instead?
superscript and subscript are gone and I guess I miss those.
Oh, I just made a header for my MAKING POSTS thing and noticed that pressing the underline button only makes the first tag appear and gleefully expects me to [CLOSE TAGS] even if I manually write the end after it. Can we have the old days of just placing open and closed tag next to each other back? I just tried reenacting the [close tags] thing and it was already obnoxious to nest just three what if I have a mafia readpost to make? Also, sizes don't work.
Thread subscription at the bottom is a bit redundant, can you like add "subscribe" to the "Post Options thing" as a checkbox and then have us choose emails or not in our profile?
MyBB is being finnicky about quotation marks, more specifically when you copy those "open quote" and "close quote" marks instead of just the standard double ''s.
UserCP
First off, private messages. There is no direct way to mark everything as read, which could be pretty useful. You can move messages around from inbox to sent items, which is weird, and also a trash can, which is also weird since you can just delete the message.
Sent items apparently is a subfolder to inbox? Doesn't make sense.
Why would you have a download messages button? Same goes for the progress bar that shows how much space we need.
The search PMs thing is taking up quite a bit of space and would probably fit better as a standalone function to search in ALL your PMs. Can that be arranged?
Profile settings, I likey. Seems a lot less cluttered than usual, but then there's that dumb "Away status" thing in edit profile which, unless you're a serious mybb addict I at least won't be regularly updating.
I like my latest threads, but I wish it was actually labeled as such instead of "UserCP home"
THE HEADER
FORUM INDEX is alright, but then again the banner ALSO links to the forum index so it's a bit redundant.
Apparently "Settings" takes me to the User CP Home. Can we just have it labeled as that?
Not sure how I feel about the search function. It has a LOT of whitespace, the borders are all wonky in the by username field, Sorting options and Display options are ALMOST the same thing and wasting two big headers on just those little things seems dummb. Search in Forum(s) has a bunch of whitespace we can't get rid of unless we fix the other few first apparently, and all the text and conditions are in total lowercase.
The memberlist shows avatars. Just, just please don't. A lot of them will probably be animated and they REALLY stretch the field.
Could you do away with those uh, that alphabet lesson up top, and replace the pages 1 trough 5 with [Aardvark -> ChipCheeze] [ChipCheezz -> GrahamBell] or something? Would be a lot more practical.
Or maybe just a sort function where you can list users on something other than the time they joined. That would also help. Maybe also drop the USERS ONLINE thing from the top menu and add an online/offline toggle to this field instead.
The help field seems pretty standardised and obtuse. I'd say goodbye to it.
Oh, but there will be more. This is just part one of my post and I'm throwing it on there regardless because I don't trust save as draft no matter how much free candy it promises.
(this post was made with advanced reply and quick edit)
I marked all forums as read at the bottom of the main page, since apparently all posts between first forum update and current move to mybb became unread again. However, reading all threads, so to say, did not debold the thread titles in the latest post in latest thread previews at the end of each forum, and now I'm starting to doubt they'll ever be.
I made a TEST THREAD where I finnicked around with some new things, and the poll results thing is a bit wonky: the option with the most votes gets the end bit of its bar cut off. The poll creation page is a bit zany too, but I listed those complaints in the thread and I am just a lazy son of bitch.
I'm sure my warning level is like an amount of minor infractions or something, but when I click on it for further details it drops me in the usercp main page. Real helpful, huh?
HEY LOOK DOUBLEPOST MEASURE!
I also meant to complain about the new posts thing in a thread looking dumb, but I think that's about it really.
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.