How can we improve the site?

Now that we've upgraded the site to some new forum software, we've got the opportunity to add some extra things to the forums .

Is there anything that you'd like to see added to living reefs? What is it that would make new members want to join up and keep existing members happy? I'd be really interested to know your thoughts!

 

Hey, at least mine was a nature gif, and kinda funny I might add.

 

Wait, did we lose the home page?

 

Yeah, as others have mentioned clicking a thread will take you to the last read post, so you can continue from where you left off .

We'll probably not have the homepage the same as before, as I looked at the statistics of how often it was viewed and most people just skipped it altogether. Instead, we'll do something else with POTM - it will still be there, we're just working on how is best to add it. I suspect it will be on the sidebar, along with some other options. If anything, I want to try and make more of the POTM feature .

 

Signatures should be back working now . I have to admit, now that I've seen the forum without them I think it looks quite a bit cleaner - so perhaps we'll change it to not allow images in sigs. Would that be an unpopular move?

 

We may be able to find away to still allow something like tank parameters, as that looks pretty neat.

To get quotes, just click the little reply button on the post you want to quote, and it will show the quote and tags in the editor at the bottom .

 

Thanks for the feedback FishyFeef. The database is planned for a big overhaul in the next month or two - and I think you'll like the changes that are to come. It's going to move to a specially design section where it's possible to comment, suggest new data and post pictures. I'm just awaiting an update to the software that we're going to be using for this and then we'll be able to go ahead. I think this update will be very well received and was going to keep it as a surprise, but now that you've mentioned it I may as well announce it .

I'm working on the POTM part of the site at this very moment and trying to figure out how is best to do it. Ideally, I'll try and get it semi automated so it reduces the workload of the moderators - as they put in a good deal of time to get it running smoothly. Give me a week or two and then we'll see how it works - I think it's a good compromise having it on the sidebar (and on a unique page), but I can change things around if needed.

 

I think that if the vendor tab when opened, alphabetically listed all current vendors that would be cool. That way we could go to a specific vendor and see just their posts. Also it allows them to post in THEIR own thread rather than a community one.