Hello all, thanks for some great replies.
I'll get down and deal with everyone here. Please continue to post your thoughts though!!
msafi,
When John is ready for us to move over to the new server, plus the new forum core RTM's
(It's in Public RC at the moment
) things will improve greatly.
Oh Stormy One,
Reviews section; I've been meaning to mention this to you off-line. The good news is that it has been reformatted and has been for a few weeks. The bad news is that it'll only go up when I have the new forum core.
Rich,
Thanks, might be a good idea I agree. I will see what I can do to cobble one together!
tsdave,
Your view is noted. You are pushing up against a brick wall to some degree on this as I am a designer and have to consider the much larger demographic of users who are accessing the site via PC/Mac.
If you want the ratio, it's 56:1
There is also an issue in that I cannot write this site to be fully useful to PC users and make it CE1 compatible. It's just not possible.
I'm not disregarding your points, but I want to defer them for a couple of weeks and come back to them once the situation chances and things become more clear and apparent for all of us.
Jose,
While this hasn't changed in the new forum kernel, the process is faster than before and I will get it documented. Thanks.
cmonex,
HCL email system we've covered before privately. I have not been able to manually reproduce any missing submissions from the site.
The HCL flat view isn't the only way to get to see drivers, literally click on the 'Notes & Downloads' text in the HCL view and it'll give you the file links. This is already on the help overview.
Images should work on CE1 - chances are it's a cache issue. There are intentionally no PNG or TIFFs on this site, and that is to maintain compatibility.
This user idea of yours is the first I've heard of it. All mod's were given the opportunity to submit feature requests to PD9 using the HPC:Factor admin account from when the board was in late Alpha / early Beta. If you didn't get this submitted months ago... it's too late now.
Yoldering,
App downloads is a huge black hole, and one we've covered before. The one thing that I can categorically state on this is that download bandwidth will not be paid for by us - the site is already too expensive. There is an idea floating about to create a repository similar in structure to the old TuCows - just for H/PC. We'd provide the database and central access and you guys would have to provide the download mirrors over HTTP or FTP.
It's a virgin idea though.
tsdave #2,
Interesting idea, I'm not sure if it's something I would spend the time programming, but I will certainly throw it on the thought pile
FAQ, yes that is on cards.
No WiKi, that's beyond the editorial remit that Clint and I want for the site. Ultimately, why argue with wikipedia, it's the bee's knees already.
CE Geek,
This one was discussed some time back re a dedicated beta test for h/pc site. The idea was shouted down by those who thought it easier to use source forge to target source code and downloads to potential testing clients. Closed source applications tend not to need such testing - and dev's are welcome to create their own beta testing thread here on the board.
I don't quite follow you when you say an index page...
wallythacker,
I really do want to do this. Right now the board doesn't support sub-forums, and I don't want such a thing on the main forum catalogue. It would be confusing and rather cluttered IMO. The second that sub forums become a reality it'll happen. My word on that.
Again on the graphic's I'd like to defer this for a couple of weeks - things will become clear soon enough.
If you believe that you've submitted something to the HCL and it hasn't been processed, please drop me a PM with the items that you've submitted and vanished. I'll deal with that separately. Again, I cannot manually reproduce the error that you and cmonex are seeing, and as far as I'm concerned I am fully up-to-date on accepting / rejecting HCD's.
Mandatory board registration - This has been argued at me by some of you. The mod's have argued at me over it. Ultimately
(and I don't do this very often
) I'm pulling rank on this one. I don't want to close it down yet.
The new forum core will have flood control, this will reduce bot spamming - which most of the Chinese gibberish posting is. They're also pretty poor at changing the computer they post from, so I can if necessary block their access to the server - period. Right now though three posts a week isn't an issue.
tripper_11,
You've lost me here my friend. The forum works fully on HPC2000. Even uploads work.
thcrw739,
Find me some permanent download mirror hosts and we'll explore the viability of it
Nick,
Installing ActiveState on the server isn't an option I want to explore. The point of having database content is to perform strip out. The BBC use XML data services.
The main rendering problem on the H/PC is with the site layout rather than specific content images - though it may cause X scrolling. Again I point you to the above and ask to come back to this in a few weeks.
Thanks all.