Please help us expand our site. We want to help create the perfect site for you. We want to encompass as many of the topics that you are interested in as possible. We want to integrate the highest level of features as capable. To get there we need your input. Please use this thread to list any ideas that you think could help out the site.

Thanks,
Chosen

I don't know if it's possible but a Dice Roller would be nice, something that would generate the output directly into your post.

I really like the idea of a die roller, if that doesn't cause the site to get blocked for me at work. Almost every die roller on the web is blocked by the company I work for. <grumbles> So that would be particularly useful.

More space for our avatars. For some reason the Avatar maker I use has started to create avatars at a higher byte count than is acceptable here.

What is the file size of the avatars?

15.0KB to 27.0KB. I'm not sure why they started becoming so much larger.

Hey Chosen.
On the old site of AberrantPrime, the topics had the ability to quote multiple posts. A button at the bottom of each post, similar to the row we have (Reply/Quote/Quick Quote/Notify/Email Post)except it had a button with a Quote. We could click a half dozen or more of these multiple quote buttons and then hit Add Reply and all the multiple quotes would be listed separately.

I found this feature convenient for RPG posts in which I needed to reply to several players posts without going back and forth, cutting and pasting and making sure the quote code was input properly.

Consider this on my wish list.

You can do that now. Just go down the list and hit quick quote beside any message that you want to quote and it will add it to the quick reply box. Does that do what you are asking for?

Testing.

Yup. This works fine. Thanks for the quick fix. :-)

I have a suggestion that I thought I might throw out now that the move has been completed(?) and there are more games starting up on the forum-at-large.

Specifically, I was thinking perhaps there should be different categories for "Campaign" PBP boards and "Open World" PBP boards. I think the logistic and spiritual difference between 2018, 2010, 200X and the assorted campaigns that are being run right now is a marked one, and as more Open World games start up, it's going to broaden that gulf. I just think it might be a handy way to distinguish to new visitors to the site that "here be Moderated forums where you make a character and jump into an open world environment with no set agenda outside the one you create" and "here be Storyteller run adventures with a specific plot to run through".

Could there be a Mixed Breed category, too, then? Otherwise I don't where to put in MCH, as it has major elements of both. I'm for the idea in general, though.

Either that or categories by game system/genre/whatever, with perhaps a naming convention for the specific boards that shows it it is moderated, open world, or something between the two.

Yeah, depending on the size, the same could be said for Hounds

You are making the idea more complex instead of less. The only question that matters for purposes of this difference is 'Does the game feature Storyteller-driven plot or Moderator-observed free play as its primary thrust?' Anything beyond that is sophistry.

How goes the color themes for the layout? I really miss those.

I am unfortunately still working on the other color schemes. I have them all 95% completed, but I have one last bug to squash before I can add them back into the site. I'll keep you informed.

I am getting pretty close to finishing the other themes. Hopefully I'll have some time this weekend to wrap them up.

There are a bunch of other themes now available.

Thank you Chosen!

While I'm on this thread I'll ask for a larger/wider reply box in the "Switch to Full Reply Screen". In Firefox it's smaller than the normal one at the bottom of the screen.

How is that?

If I click on the button "Switch to Full Reply Screen" in Internet Explorer, I end up in a reply box roughly the width of the screen. In Firebox (v2.0.0.14) it's very narrow, about two thirds the width of the one I'm typing in now. Mostly I deal with it by typing in this box and not the Full Reply Screen.

No, I meant look at the full reply box and let me know if that is good. I have it set to be 80% of the post area.

Bless you Chosen!!! It's *MUCH* wider now.

Is it too wide?

Not for me... and I have a monster-big wide screen.

Provided it fits on the screen without scrolling, more is better.

Seriously, thanks a bunch, this makes the full screen button useful.

Great. It is set to a percentage of the area so it should never require scrolling.

I have a wish. Can you make it so we can insert images into our posts from our hard drive files, rather than only being able to hyperlink to pics hosted at other web sites?

What? You think we want to see your penguin porn?

Nope! *Nobody* gets to see my penguin porn but me! Seriously though sometime I find a great image I would like to use but the site has hyperlinking disabled. If I save it to my image folder though I could upload it from there...if that function was included...

The image has to be uploaded to the net somewhere, unless your hard drive is a server. That's a lot more stuff for Chosen to host.

Mmm, sorry. I deal with computer-dumb people a lot at work, and approach situations from that stand point. As I recall, Chosen once had a way to upload stuff. I'm not sure what happened to that.

If you need hosting, just ask me. I've hosted a lot of crap for people here.

If you need image hosting, Photobucket's pretty easy, and there's also ImageShack, which allows you to use clickable thumbnails.

At one point in time we actually had galleries and a file uploading area. They didn't see any action so I eventually removed them. I'll look into getting them back in action as soon as I can.

I dont mean so much as galleries. I mean being able to upload pics from my personal collection into my posts. So I can say, so and so looks like this. Usually I can find the image online but sometimes i cant or that image is protected from Hyperlinking. If not its cool and I can always upload pics to flickr or whatever.

Uploading them to the forums does have the drawback of eating up server space. I'm sure we probably have a good bit of server space available, but unlike with Galleries that could be purged every now and then, pics that are out there in individual threads would eat up space and never get cleaned up. From a logistics stand point I would think either galleries or flickr/photobucket would be a better solution. Of course that's just my opinion and I can't speak for Chosen.

I have enabled file uploading in most forums. I also started the gallery forum. I still have some more work to do before either one can be considered fully functional though.

Sweet! Thanks!

Is there anyway we could get more awesome smilies? More smilies would make me very

Bring back ::bananahump:: !!!!!

I'm kidding of course.

Unless you're gonna do it...

Ahhh, ::bananahump:: how we have missed thee...

Be careful what you wish for Bastion.

I'll see what I can do about adding more.

You floored me! I'm still laughing!

Too cool!

Forgive me if this has been covered, but...

The ability to choose HTML or UBB or both in PMs, like we can in regular posts.

I have most of my character sheets in my PMs and it would be cool to see dots

so, not a big deal, I guess... but it is on my 'wishlist'

Chosen, is there any way you can move that Control Panel button at the top of the page to the right in the list? I'm so used to just clicking on that first thing in the row to jump back to the forum list from inside any threads... I've brought up the control panel about half a dozen times this morning already. <chuckles>

What about those of us who are used to doing it this way?

That will unfortunately not happen any time in the near future. Allowing html opens up the potential for security problems. As long as it is at least public I have a chance to see what is going on and take action before anything too sever happens. Since the PMs are private I would not know until it was too late if something were exploited.

I wish I could help, but risks outweigh the rewards on this one for me.

I guess that is something that snuck onto the site. It is something that only mods & admins see. Since the mods don't really need to do anything in there (as is evident by the fact that there aren't any active buttons for you to click on) I'll try to remove the link ASAP.

This will take me a little longer to fix that I had first anticipated. I moved it to the right of the list so hopefully you won't even notice it is there though.

thanks Chosen. It's just a habit on my part to navigate that way, but I've gotten pretty ingrained in doing it.

In the character profiles section of the various forums if you click 'subject' it'll list them all alphabetically.

Is there anyway to make that a default setting? Characters listed in alphabetical order is a pretty handy thing.

It's on my to-do list. It's unfortunately harder than it appears though, so it will be a while.

Gotcha. Thanks in advance then.

This has now been implemented.

I am trying to reorganize the PBP forums to hopefully make things easier to find. It may take a little while to get adjusted to it, but hopefully it will make things easier for new games and gamers.

I wanna puppy.

As I told Bastion before, be careful what you wish for.