Misc Suggestions

[Spidey]

This is going to sound insensitive, but you should get rid of the stolen motorcycles board.  I know that a stolen motorcycle is a big deal to the person to whom it happens and I don't mean to minize that, but making people aware via a thread in General is more than sufficient.  It's just not worth devoting an entire board to it, especially when it gets one post every three months and then often not even a monster or a Ducati.

[herm]

move the following "sticky" threads from the general monster forum to FAQ (or somewhere else...)

why we're here
embedded video
other forums and links

the general monster forum is getting over crowded with stickies (as others have mentioned)

[Spidey]

A while ago, I wrote-up a draft uber-sticky for the purpose of organizing the stickies in General --

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=20592.0

[Spidey]

A while ago, I wrote-up a draft uber-sticky for the purpose of organizing the stickies in General --

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=20592.0

Bump.  There number of stickied threads in General keeps growin' and in case it bugs anyone other than me, I didn't want the "draft" post I wrote to organize 'em to get lost. 

[M(*)nster]

Is there any way you guys could add the feature where a preview of the thread comes up when you rest your mouse pointer over the title of the thread?  I've seen some other forums that have that and I think it adds some efficiency/user-friendliness to the whole forum experience.

Just a thought...

[ducpainter]

Is there any way you guys could add the feature where a preview of the thread comes up when you rest your mouse pointer over the title of the thread?  I've seen some other forums that have that and I think it adds some efficiency/user-friendliness to the whole forum experience.

Just a thought...

Just tried...

the mod isn't compatible with our version of SMF.

[herm]

just as well...
i actually find that function a little annoying at times

[M(*)nster]

Just tried...

the mod isn't compatible with our version of SMF.

Hey, thanks for at least trying!  I think it's more annoying when people are can't seem to be descriptive enough in the title of their threads.  Nothing worse than having to click through 5 threads with a title like "Help?" or "Question" and nothing else.  Really muddies up the search function too.

[arai_speed]

How about resizing or limiting the size of externally hosted avatars?


For example (and I'm not picking on the OP at all):

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=42842.0

Page weight = 420K
273KB of which are for the totally uncompressed avatar of a beautiful baby:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5013078126_5a8b05d213_b.jpg

[ducpainter]

How about resizing or limiting the size of externally hosted avatars?


For example (and I'm not picking on the OP at all):

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=42842.0

Page weight = 420K
273KB of which are for the totally uncompressed avatar of a beautiful baby:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5013078126_5a8b05d213_b.jpg

The software automatically adjusts the pixel size, and while I agree it would speed page loads if people would resize before linking, I see no way of enforcing it as the software will accept any image.

[arai_speed]

The software automatically adjusts the pixel size, and while I agree it would speed page loads if people would resize before linking, I see no way of enforcing it as the software will accept any image.

Humm...you can't modify the code to only accept certain dimensions?

Code Select Expand



<?php
//variables
$maxW = 90;
$maxH  = 100;

//error_reporting(0);

if ($_POST['form_check']) {

$image = $_POST[imageURL];
list($width, $height) = getimagesize($image);

    if (($width/$height > $maxW/$maxH) || ($width > $maxW) || ($height > $maxH)) {
echo "The image dimensions should not exceed 90x100";

    } else {
     echo "Thanks for your update";
    }

} else {
print <<<_HTML_
<form method="post" onSubmit="return validate_form(this);" name="ImageTest" action="$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]">
<input type="hidden" name="form_check" value="true">
<input class="imageURL" type="text" id="imageURL" name="imageURL"  width="15" size="40"  />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" class="submitButton" />
</form>
_HTML_;
}

?>



[ducpainter]

Humm...you can't modify the code to only accept certain dimensions?

Code Select Expand



<?php
//variables
$maxW = 90;
$maxH  = 100;

//error_reporting(0);

if ($_POST['form_check']) {

$image = $_POST[imageURL];
list($width, $height) = getimagesize($image);

    if (($width/$height > $maxW/$maxH) || ($width > $maxW) || ($height > $maxH)) {
echo "The image dimensions should not exceed 90x100";

    } else {
     echo "Thanks for your update";
    }

} else {
print <<<_HTML_
<form method="post" onSubmit="return validate_form(this);" name="ImageTest" action="$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]">
<input type="hidden" name="form_check" value="true">
<input class="imageURL" type="text" id="imageURL" name="imageURL"  width="15" size="40"  />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" class="submitButton" />
</form>
_HTML_;
}

?>



Yes we could....but...

We decided long ago that the forum software would not be modified because when we tried doing it that way it needed to be brought back to original or updates wouldn't work.

That's too much work in our opinion.

We did modify the css style sheets to get the look we have, but that doesn't mess with things.

[arai_speed]

No worries - I understand it's easier to update/patch the standard install.

[ducpainter]

No worries - I understand it's easier to update/patch the standard install.

Keep in mind if there were serious issues with the way things worked we'd do what we had to do.

Other than minor slowdowns, caused IMO by our host, things have been chugging along like the 'little engine that could'.

I firmly believe that if it isn't broke leave the thing alone.

It won't get any bigger.

[GAAN]

what do you think about the idea of giving me money?

say around $230.00 a day?

think on it and get back to me