Dan,
The monthly request list - please note the items corrected in the Sept 20 update have been m
oved to a separate section at the end of the list for now so that we can all appreciate the
efforts that you and the team put forth:
1) Recover the content lost during the 9/20/03 conversion/update - there are numerous threa
ds which suffered partial content loss, Merijn's statistics postings being a prime example.
2) Fix the occasional (but all too frequent) "unavailable" and "404" errors which can make
the forums unusable for hours at a time.
3) Pre-assign 0 points to all answers. This eliminates the whining about not assigning poi
nts and the obsessive pursuit of 100% point assignment ratios. Alternatively, eliminate the
tracking of points assignment ratios.
4) Create a new category under HP-UX for congratulations, humor and other miscellaneous off
-topic threads so that those who don't wish to view these items can bypass them.
5) Provide the ability for a user to customize the forum subjects they view by setting up t
heir own groupings (like: all of HP-UX, plus Servers (9000), plus Workstations (hp-ux based)
, plus all of Storage - well, you get the idea).
6) Show the poster's name in the reply window.
7) Limit the amount of space taken up by "masthead" stuff (headings, descriptions, rankings
, etc. at the top of the page) so we can actually see some questions. This is now worse tha
n ever - I have to page down just to see the first question.
8) Repeat the bread crumb navigation links at the bottom of the page so we don't have to pa
ge all the way up to the top of long threads. Also, add the same links to the notification
pages.
9) Could we possibly have a real, functional search engine? Please??
10) Could we have some sort of convergence between the US and European sites? They can't g
et to our URLs, we can't get to theirs, Merijn gets the wrong search engine - why do they ha
ve to be separate and different?
11) Other forms of URLs need to be recognized (https, ftp) as the http ones are.
12) Allow for formatted text that does not lose spaces, so script snippets can be understood.
The following are former issues, fixed in the last major update:
The slow submit issue that causes so many duplicate postings and duplicate replies seems to
have been completely eradicated, thanks!
The same is true for inablility to assign points issue, thanks!
And also for: (Borrowing from JRF: could you please *not* preload "databases" (just because it is the lexicographically first item). Instead, make the user choose the correct category.) Thanks!
Now, when a question is moved, the link points directly to the question, rather than just to the category, thanks!
Pete
Pete
