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Let me start with mine:
- Regional Forums: Asian, European, etc. In these forums, people can start threads about local topics and those covered by local meembers, for eg. Starting an office in Europe.
- Forum Flagging: Flag a forum of interest and receive a daily summary email of all new threads (headlines only) of that forum. This could be a feature for paying members
- Searchable Directory of Members: Those members who want, can list in a searchable directory. Other members could search on basis of region, interest, etc. Again, for paying members only
- Database Forum: Much requested and much required
- WebmasterWorld Pub Conferences in Asia: It's about time!
- Regional Forums: Asian, European, etc. In these forums, people can start threads about local topics and those covered by local meembers, for eg. Starting an office in Europe.
What I'd really like is the ability to exclude a few forums from my view of the active posts listing. Several subjects have a lot of activity that aren't relevant for me.
That's a really good suggestion. I'd like this too.
To expand on it, I want an option to mark a thread not to be included in "recent posts". There are certain threads that span to 10s of pages and are always in "recent posts" section.
> Regional Forums:
We agree in spirit. We would like to see that too. However, forums grow out of NEED and not because we can decree them into being. A forum has to have a certain level of support, or it will die before it ever sprouts.
> Forum Flagging:
Nice idea - very possible - will investigate.
> Searchable Directory of Members
We have always respected members and their privacy. We will not have a member search function here.
> Database Forum
Agreed - just a matter of time.
> PubCon Asia
Yes, I think so too. ;-)
> make BestBBS v3.33 available
I wish i had the time to make that a reality. I don't know when that can happen though. It is not for a lack of trying.
> configurable active list
On the "to do" list.
You can gain direct access by putting some HTML in your control panel / system preferences / Custom Code Insert Top?.
Here is what I have, it shows me some stuff that I care about.
<center style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 60%;"><a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/stickymail.cgi?action=mymsgs">My Threads</a> <a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/stickymail.cgi?action=flags">My Flags</a> <a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum78/">Supporters</a> <a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum13/">Perl</a> <a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/">G News</a></center>
You already have regional search engine forums, and you can see that lots of non-search-engine stuff is posted in these like:
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It won't take much to rename these forums to regional forums, from regional SE forums. The renaming alone will focus many people to post regional topics in there, which they currently aren't confident of.
Something like this? [webmasterworld.com...]
while(NoFormating)
{
if(NotFixed)
{
Hard to read;
}
else
{
Easy to read;
}
}
Makes it very hard to help people with their code when trying to read through it without any spacing.
and end the ¦ problem and the need for double spacing certain characters like ! to get a single space.
2. Autojump to first unread post in a thread.
And a strong second to the formatting of code post - posting readable code samples is very difficult.
Or set-up a new featues notice area on homepage:
New(2)
When they go in and read the feature, it goes away from the bracket. Like mail.
The forum watch list can be very powerful in ennergising some of the lesser active forums. I think you need to put a link in each forum that says "Add this forum to my watchlist". That way you'll get many people subscriving.
Ok, just got my 1st digest:
From
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martinibuster just started the discussion below:
Subject : Real Estate Websites Encouraging Burglaries?
Description: Heads Up About those Cool Panorama Viewers
Forum : WebmasterWorld Supporters Forum, Private Forums
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>Last 5 active threads from the recent post list:
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Conversion tracking seems unreliable
Compare notes
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Making WebmasterWorld even more useful
please give your suggestions on how WebmasterWorld can become even more use
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Google Sitemaps
Anyone using them yet?
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What is a scraper site?
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array + array
not exactly what I thought
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Needs polish and fixing.
1. Forums need to be grouped by name. With the forum name on top. Again, digest is the name of the game.
2. >Last 5 active threads from the recent post list. Not sure how this is useful. I think you should only include this if the user has asked for Email Notification of Replies
Good Good. Keep it up. Push is the name of the game. But consolidated
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* a bulletin board where we can post notices or notes to other attendees, or even just post our business cards.
Note: I'm talking a manual bulletin board, not a bbs, like I got laughed at a couple of conferences ago :).
Couple of reasons:
- I'd like to be able to post "bob, I'm in room 25 at the hilton, call me"
- I'd like to be able to post "anyone in industry #*$!x that wants to meet and have a beer or two, call me". I know there are others in my industry that I'd like to talk to - but have little way of meeting them.
- I'm sure there are attendees whose services I'd be interested in. Allowing them to pin their business cards up for all to read would be nice for both them and those of us who are potential customers.
1) Have a submission section where you can only submit if you are logged in your WW account, you have >200 posts, and are a WebmasterWorld Supporter.
2) Like Alexa, submit with site name email address to make sure it's really your site.
3) Have a list of rules to get in. For example, homepage must be 4 of the following 6, valid html/xhtml, valid css, valid feed, section 508, WIA, or be small enough in size to load in under 5 seconds.
4) Keep it anonymous, no user name attached to website.
5) Allow other WW Supporter members to rate the sites on content and originality.
6) Allow people to view websites by category and ranking. For example, one of the top websites would something look like this,
# of WW Posts: >2000
html: XHTML 1.0 Strict
css: Passed
feed: rss 1.0
Section 508: Passed
WIA: Passed
Speed: 3.2 Seconds
Content: 9/10
Originality: 10/10
7) Charge a one time $100 (or whatever price you feel is good) submission fee for each website.
If I could get into such a directory I would gladly put a backlink to it to show off to my visitors and customers. It would also be kind of cool to finally see what kind of websites the people here have.
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where is this?
What worked then, may not work now.
1. Ability to reset last read on a thread, not the entire forum.
2. Autojump to first unread post in a thread.
Yes, yes, yes!
