Site enhacements

[Shawn Philip Nelson]

I had two simple ideas for this message board and I didn't know who to send it to (Jarred?). As background, my job and degree is computer science and I primarily do UI design.

Feature Request #1: Make a "Favorite Threads" folder in each person's private profile. When you see a thread you really like you could click "Add to my favorite threads" and it would create a private thread link in your profile so you can find it again. I find myself wanting this almost every day.

Feature Request #2: Allow each forum (such as Audio or Cafe, etc) to have a new category of threads called "Golden Threads" that are really helpful threads (as tagged by moderators) but aren't quite worthy of "sticky" honor. The audio thread is a great example. There are already 3 or so stickies and so the mods dont want to add more and yet there are some amazing threads that get buried. If the mods would tag the good threads as "Golden" I could then sort all the golden threads. There is a gold mine of info in the archives here and this feature would help bring that gold to the surface!

Please please please please please.... (homer voice)

 

[filmmaker1977]

my support..

 

[retaf99]

Cool

Cool

Sounds like a good idea.

 

[Karl151k]

I'll donate $1 to this cause! (Although there is a 99¢ surcharge and a 1¢ restocking fee)

 

[ryan brown]

Sounds good... I'm in.

 

[William_Robinette]

love it

 

[Brandon Rice]

I like those ideas a lot.

 

[Karl151k]

Maybe we should make THIS a golden thread!

 

[Jay Rodriguez]

oh those are good ideas,,,,,, i like!

 

[Shawn Philip Nelson]

Hmm, Jarred never piped in. Should I email my suggestions to him or does someone else do site enhancements?

 

[TwistedLincoln]

I'm not 100%, but these may not be easily doable. I notice the forum is powered by vBulletin -- there's not as many user-contributed mods for this forum vs another format such as phpbb2, so it may require paying someone to create those features.

This brings up an interesting question for Jarred: why did you pick vBulletin over phpbb2? I realize vBulletin is more powerful out of the box, but it is certainly more expensive than phpbb2 (free).