Topic: Little things that bug you/me about the forum - page 6. (Read 2779 times)

First of all, thank you for your contribution and support on this forum, you are an amazing member. I have posted this before but I don't know if you missed it or not, so I'll post it again.

I think that responsive forum with dark mode is what we all want. We want to be able to access Bitcointalk from our smartphones with a mobile friendly UI and there are also many people who want dark mode too. The current template of Bitcointalk is built in a very old-fashioned way, in html tables but can you change that structure and use flexbox or grid? I built Bitcointalk's website from scratch, used CSS Grid and Flexbox, used CSS gradients instead of images and also implemented dark mode because all colors and backgrounds are in a CSS code instead of in an image form.

Have a look at this post: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5414229

Can you do it or is it very difficult on SMF? I think that there is a demand and in 2024 website, especially as famous as Bitcointalk is, should meet the basic modern standards.

What about something like the notification if someone quotes your post, like it should be shown at the bottom of the post you made instead of clicking it yourself, what I'm saying is it should be in auto active so you just click it and it goes straight to where the next person who quoted your post...🤔🤔

When it comes to hosting images, there are several aspects involved. And they all must be taken into account.

But, you already know that for this area, you can count on me. 

In the meanwhile...

Nice. But, pretty much completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.

(You get a pass for being the member that sent me my first ever merits... 10 IIRC. Thanks!)

I'll likely look into this at some point. I know TryNinja put together a script for this, but, something built-in would be nice, I agree.



(I'm just kidding, I know you said you're only asking from the perspective of technical curiosity.)

That's a really tough question to answer. From my point of view, the short answer is yes...

The long answer involves all sorts of shit that you and everyone else would probably find incredibly boring. But, basically, I can see a path to eventually getting Bitcointalk to a place where the database remains as-is, but it's "wrapped" in a way that makes it possible for it to service multiple frontends. In that universe, there'd still be the tried-and-true "legacy" frontend for the diehards that want to keep using SMF, but there'd also be one or more "modern" frontends that would be more feature-rich and would be much easier to develop on (right now, adding features to the forum involves way more work/thinking than it really should: SMF is a security-incident minefield; a saner architecture/codebase would allow for development to happen at a much quicker pace). Another way to state my perspective is that I think SMF's database schema and invariants could be maintained (at least, to the extent that the "legacy" frontend wouldn't break), and that, with clever enough engineering, non-SMF frontends could be erected on top of the existing database, allowing a modernization effort to progress without ever actually having to "migrate" anything or anyone.

Yup, that would be nice! But, like Loyce mentioned, I can't imagine theymos wanting to deal with the hassle of hosting the images directly. I've been thinking for a while now about some kind of distributed image hosting, run on a volunteer-basis by interested forum members. I've also been thinking about a new BBCode tag to specifically reference content-addressable images that are being hosted in this way. If that project ever gets off the ground, then I can see a way to make uploading images feel like a completely built-in feature (but without getting theymos tangled in administrative/legal issues).

Ha! That made me smile. (The thing you're complaining about is due to this. I'll probably not get around to fixing it anytime soon.)

I'm currently working on something that'll help with that. If what I have in mind doesn't end up solving your problem, then I'll re-visit your specific suggestion.

Yup, it's on my list (it originally came to me from Cyrus).

Nice idea! I run into that exact same thing.

(I think this is one of those ideas that should be behind a profile-setting, though.)

The first few weeks (maybe even months) that I used the forum, I didn't realize that the little blue "new" thing was a button... I just used the "Last post" icon at the end. I probably missed a lot of posts before I figured out the difference between the latest post and the newest post.

Those buttons lead to the last post, while "new" leads to the first unread post in a topic.
I don't like how "new" disappears if I open the first page of a topic. That way I lose track of where I have to continue reading, while I haven't visited that page yet.

But in that case, why don't you use these buttons?


It always leads to the last post, and everyone is lined up.

yup thats the button. when come i here and land on my watchlist page i just click on a bunch of the new buttons to open up a pile of tabs at once. putting them all 1st seems cleaner.

This forum has provided much convenience services really like there's no necessities of review for enhancement but yet there're lot to advance in the system which fellow users has already made mentioned of sum.
Kudos to you Op for your eminence contributions to a more better offers to the bitcointalk community.
Bitcoin is gradually dominating the financial system and also enhancing of defeating economy barriers specifically to its adoptors.
So, reshuffling and reserving this community to be reputable to its maximum conveniences would indeed secure a recognized and communicable bitcoin discussion forum. So, for your good works in the forum, I specially appreciates you.

I use Watchlist a lot!
The topics that are not on this list are because I haven't read them from the beginning. So that's why I don't use that button.

All the topics, even those that I haven't posted yet, but that I want to read, are on my list. (The list is already quite long.)

That would be much easier to deduce from my post times. Contrary to popular believe, I don't post when I'm sleeping.

It makes more sense to be at the end: new posts are located at the end of the topic.

You should! It's a great way to keep up with new posts, in combination with the Watchlist.

I'm quoting this suggestion from another topic here:
This would be very nice for post scrapers and third-party search tools, but may also create an undesirable privacy problem.

If you click on "see all", you will request +20k posts from the server. This will require more from the server. Just a few people doing it at the same time is no big deal. But if there are, in addition to people, hundreds of bots, it could really overload the server and make the forum stop working properly.




Are you talking about this button?


And your suggestion, to move it to before the topic title.
Well, I don't use it much, so I don't see much difference in its usefulness. But, for those who use it, if this is really useful, it may be something to change.

you know that button - the clickable new button shows at the end of the thread title that takes you the the latest posts in a thread... can it be moved to the front?

like its at the end now

bla bla tgif thread  *NEW*
bitcoin valued at a zillian sea shell *NEW*


and have it

*NEW* blah blah tgif thread
*NEW* bitcoin valued at a zillian sea shels.

so when person of my high caliber of laziness has to move the mouse around all over the joint to click the new button when putting them at the front makes a nice clean line to click through.

ocd strikes hehe

People are more likely to make mistakes when just waking up.   By analyzing your login times, AI could infer when you would be waking up, giving Mate2237 a chance to scam you?   

He wants to know when you were online last, maybe he is planning to kidnap you.

I think the only problem that view all solves is to avoid clicking next and previous. If clicking all overloads the server when triggered by many people at a time, while not disable the function. I can't imagine what will happen when I click view all in Premier League mega thread of about 6k pages.

When searching in personal messages, asides from the user, I am requested to search for a particular word or phrase. It would be great if I had the option to leave that field empty. For example, I may not be looking for any particular conversation I've had with user X, but I want to get all the messages we exchanged.

Another feedback: When searching for PM, I want to be able to search to my Outbox only, instead of my Inbox.

Why? What makes you think you have the right to know this? I just changed mine to "Recently", it's none of your business.

Interestingly, this happens because of a patch recently made to increase user privacy.
Or am I wrong!?

Nice suggestion thread. Op you have done well for bringing this to the public to know things that we need in the forum. Today as I was navigating the forum and I clicked someone profile to know when last the person came online and I say "Last Active: (Recently)" and i was not well pleased. Recently can mean different time and we need the particular time the person login to the forum and not recently.

Therefore I suggest that the time of the last login of the user should be showing and not . And also instead of using telegram for notification, why can you add the notification like the way the message is because not everyone like to use telegram because it scamming nature. And I have seen some users here in the forum that, they are not using telegram because telegram is a scammers social media.

Thank for your hard working.

That's Cloudflare, just doing Cloudflare things:

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Suggestion: increase the maximum post size. Currently, it's 64 kB, and I think that's the limit to the HTML you're posting. If you post big tables, the limit (measured in BBCode) is lower, and in certain languages it's much lower. I don't know if this an option in SMF, but considering the increase in bandwidth and server power, I'd love to see it 8 times higher.