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**Locclo**

Leo_the_Rat wrote:It would be nice to have a way to collapse the various general topic fora. That way if you're not interested in 40K you can just collapse that forum and save some time when you scroll down the list of fora.

If nothing else, I'd really like a way to 'favorite' certain forums and have them all in a single list. I, for one, like reading Dakka Discussions, 40k General, (occasionally) YMDC, and the Video Games and Off-Topic forums. I know it's supremely lazy, but a way to not have to scroll past 19 other forums that I don't really care about would be nice.

**Krellnus**

For the gallery, when viewing an album perhaps being able to use the arrow keys to move from one image to another within the album?

**Platuan4th**

A dedicated News & Rumors Crew and News/Rumors page(that only the crew/admins could post on) so that we don't have to read through threads just to find info.

Something like Seiberton's front page:

http://www.seibertron.com/

And if people want to follow it with RSS or such, have it separately followable.

**kitch102**

In the "my subscribed threads" section, why not section it by

- threads created by me
- p & m threads
- news and rumour threads

etc

That'd be awesome - to know at a glance at the relevant section that one of my threads had been commented on, or an update to a rumour I'm looking out for; it means I don't have to sift through every thread name that's in no particular order in the "my subscribed" bit.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
(when I say, created by me, I do ofcourse mean each user - I'm not after a dedicated Kitch102 section

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**kitch102**

How about the ability to post multiple threads under one larger thread?

Ie

Main thread title - My Dark Eldar fiction
Sub thread 1 - first story
Sub thread 2 - second story

etc

I'm putting this forward as it would make tracking certain threads (in this case, the stories I'm writing on my Archon, Ardath Dei) easier - they'd all be in one location instead of scattered throughout the forum based on their age / number of posts

**crazyrossboy**

Not sure if this has been suggested yet, and i cant be bothered to read through 4 pages to check,
A commission blog only, section

Having all the commission modellers and painters in one place, would make things easier if you needed their services.
Personally, I like to see what the experts are doing and garner any inspiration I can.
And, with a monsoon of respect, its slightly annoying having to troll through all the blogs that pile up in the P/M blog section

EDITED: for spelling mistakes made at 4.30 am with no sleep and halfway through physics coursework!
thanks for the heads up Dysartes

**Dysartes**

Compulsory testing of the user's ability to write in English if their flag indicates they are from a country known to be primarily English-speaking - i.e., UK, USA, Aus, NZ, Can, etc.

Seriously, some of the writing by native speakers is appalling.

**Krellnus**

Dysartes wrote:Compulsory testing of the user's ability to write in English if their flag indicates they are from a country known to be primarily English-speaking - i.e., UK, USA, Aus, NZ, Can, etc.

Seriously, some of the writing by native speakers is appalling.

This.
Best idea to date imo

**darefsky (Flight Medic Paints)**

I would love the ability to upload my photos strait from my iPhone.

**Ratius**

When you ignore someone, they are ignored - utterly, no things like seeing them having posted in a thread that you have an interest in.

Make it like they dont exist to you as a user

**oni**

Please, I beg of you, change the log in process.

I hate having to go to a different page to log in, then get redirected back to the main forum, then go hunt for the thread (again) I wanted to post in.

It would be SOoo much better to be able to log in and not leave the page I'm on.

**Auxellion**

Never, ever... implement a Rep/Neg system. Horrible things

**Clthomps**

How about a map with pinpoints set by dakka users to help coordinate games and find local players.

**frgsinwntr**

I think we need a "salt" button for the rumors section....

How about a tinfoil hat button for the off topic?

Maybe just some Orkmoticons that have those flavors?

**kitch102**

You mean an orc head in front of a pile of white powder...? What kind of message are we trying to send here lol

**BrookM**

The ability to receive notifications when someone comments on pictures from your own gallery.

**Byte**

wolf13 wrote:search functionality, being able to show just thread titles instead of individual posts, sort by date, filters. the current search funtion is terrible.

A show posts with pictures only option in the P&M sections

I second this suggestion. Search needs some help with this.

**Ratius**

Whilst it would be unfair and really impractical to "force" users, would it be possible to put in some "very strong hints" to upload their pics to the dakka galleries rather than external host sites? (assuming Legos ok with that).

**Ratius**

Would we thik of redoing the front page?

Its a little cluttered and unclear as to whats what.

From the PoV of new users coming to the site to see what its about.

Being 100% honest if I saw it as it is now, I'd think it was a bit of a haphazard indy site, not the very professional set up that is within. Just being honest.

**Grot 6**

An area for Kickstarter/ publicly funded stuff.

See a bunch more Kickstarters showing up. time for them to have thier own area.

**whalemusic360**

In the drop down for moving an image from one gallery to another, have a delete option. I want to clean up my gallery, but its kind of a pain to do atm.

**Barksdale**

When someone quotes something from within a thread, it would be nice to have a button that takes you back to the original post being quoted.

**aosol**

I would like to see anything that would better choreograph geographic locations. My area has a plethora of gamers but, rarely are able to hold tournaments. I know plenty of them troll this site.

**walker90234**

I'd really love to see a debate forum in the off topic section of Dakka. It wouldn't be too hard to set up, and I'm sure loads of people would enjoy it. Nothing better than a good argument (thats the Ork side of me speaking, isn't it?)

**Dysartes**

Add to and/or replace the social elements of a user's profile - Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr (and/or other blogs), etc.

**Ratius**

Yakface?

Any good stuff in here?!

HOLLA BACK FOO'!

**Trasvi**

Get this forum on Tapatalk.
http://www.tapatalk.com/index.php

**Dysartes**

You seem to have missed one of the points from the initial post, Trasvi:

legoburner wrote:The following are not going to happen for reasons outlined in various threads in the nuts and bolts forum:
No tapatalk integration

**SagesStone**

Barksdale wrote:When someone quotes something from within a thread, it would be nice to have a button that takes you back to the original post being quoted.

The top left of every post is a little page that links to the specific post. Sort of clunky but is possible to do so. Like this.

Guess you could screw around with the formatting of it to make the colour better than it is, but that would have to assume that every uses the same scheme and for the work safe ones white text just doesn't work.

The alternative that looks more sensible is this. Probably much more friendly to links within the quote as well.

Barksdale wrote:When someone quotes something from within a thread, it would be nice to have a button that takes you back to the original post being quoted.

Which is just wrapping the url tags around the quote's first tag. While the first was simply wrapping the quote entirely with the url tags.

By no means user friendly I suppose. But, just trying to sort of make it look easyish to implement.

**Trasvi**

Dysartes wrote:You seem to have missed one of the points from the initial post, Trasvi:

Indeed I did. Its still a bit disappointing, as so much of my forum browsing is done on my tablet/phone and is making me use Warseer more. What is the reasoning behind using a custom-rolled forum software?
Regardless, the single biggest possible improvement to warseer for me would be Tapatalk, or failing that, a better mobile experience in some other way.