Over the last two weeks or so there have been numerous discussions on how to improve the site. Whether it be filtering, adding off-topic threads, or elsewhere. Going off practicality alone what improvements would you want to the site?
Be honest, come on. However do note that this is not a breeding ground for your own personal thoughts towards the moderators. I am also not a moderator and I have my own thoughts on some of their decisions
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Audio hosting and to hell with Windows / Android posts
I have already requested them to provide the ability to host audio clips here, thus facilitating the explanation of certain actions as well as the demonstration of new applications, but it got rejected.
I'm also not a fan of the whole Windows and Android sections of the forum, but at least they are separate from the Apple sections on the front page.
Re: Audio hosting and to hell with Windows / Android posts
Technically do they not already have that with podcasts?
I'm personally a fan of the Android and Windows topics, more so Android because I use Android and not iOS. I used to use iOS but I no longer use iOS. I wouldn't mind doing away with the Windows topic and replacing it with a Linux topic though, but that's mostly due to my hate towards Windows
Re: Audio hosting and to hell with Windows / Android posts
Don't know, I thought that podcasts were hosted off-site, since I don't recall any options to host audio here when I create a new post, and my suggestion was explicitly rejected.
I like filtering topics I best
I think we should be able to filter our own personal feeds in the home page I’m not super tech savvy, so I’m not even sure if I use the correct word here, but I think it individuals should be able to filter what they want to look at I like how you started this topic without trying to attack any of the moderators. They have a really hard job. I wouldn’t wanna be in their shoes. I give them a lot of credit. Other ones to keep this website is great as it is. And the fact that be my eyes is partnered with them as also what’s kept it running. I love that. Do you guys remember that we almost lost the site? I think we need a new appreciate appreciation for what’s here and also that we can improve things. It’s awesome that they listen to our feedback. Clearly they are because they wouldn’t be asking us for our thoughts if they didn’t care.
Headings in the forums.
Maybe this has been fixed, I don't go into the individual forums all that much. But on the home page, you've got headings, so you can skip from post to post. In the forums, you don't, there are just a couple and the posts are just embedded in a block of links.
Mark As Read
Assuming this does not already exist and I just have not found it yet, I would love to see a control added to the forums, so that any thread we don't care about, we can activate to simply mark such threads as, "Red".
On a sidenote, I am super grateful for the Windows and Android forums. 😛👌
Time zone
One thing for me. Has anyone considered maybe using the phone's time zone instead of locally setting it?
There is a major issue with the way that this feature is currently set because even though I have it set to Brisbane, the time zones are all wacky over the place. For example Brian's post, according to this, was posted at 12:08 pm on October 31st. It's November 1st, 3:16 am in Brisbane and because I'm subscribed to get notifications about this post, I got an email about six minutes ago or so saying that there had been a new comment on this post.
Maybe it would be better if we just scrap that idea completely and you just allow us to use our own local time zone on our phone if possible