This is going to kick up a long thread, but we should consolidate our Forum wishes here for when that fateful day comes that they will go PHP. So lets hear those wishes. And/or, give me links to sites that have examples of what you want/like. *Let me go ahead and get this one out of the way - Yes...we know you all want avatars, lol. AgentSmith

what is php?

EASILY created & manipulated webpages, html on steroids. Definition: The PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP -- yes, the first "P" in the acronym does indeed stand for PHP!) allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP applications are normally found on Linux servers and in conjunction with MySQL databases. It provides those servers with functionality similar to that provided to the Windows platform by Active Server Pages technology.

Attached Link: http://www.php.net/

OK, so it's (snap) ow! My brain!!

I like avitars. So that is oen thing I woudl liek to see here. Some of the other sites I go to are lame to me but I have a cool avitar.

Sticky threads? especially useful for threads like this one :-)

Yup, one of the staffs all time fave wish - sticky posts. ;o) AS

A forum search with booleans (or even one that works).

anything that gets us out of the stoneage (i.e. this forum). thanks, drac

drac - wish granted! AS

I'd like to see newest posts at the top of the list with an icon that shows if it's been read or not (a'la DAZ forums). Avatars are cool as long as they're limited in size. I'd also like having text tags buttons for things like bold or Italics (quotes would be nice too...) Best; Dan

Sticky threads are good... as long as there aren't like 10 of them.....thinking of some of a few php 3d forums that seem to breed stickies that hang around for months past their use by date. Avitars - not bad, as long as there's a size limit. I've noticed at DAZ that at one stage people felt the need to make 100kb avitars and I think thats a bit over the top (especially to anyone on slowband connections). Hopefully the php will have a useful forum search as well. (I don't mind the one we seem to have at the moment, but the daz one is damn near impossible to find anything with)

I'm glad they're updating, but I hope they don't change 'every' aspect of the way the forum works.
(If it's not broken, don't fix it.)

Stickies and avatars would be great, and I'm assuming that threads will 'come to front' whenever they're posted to - after this update.

One thing I would NEVER change though, is the sequential layout of the thread pages. Renderosity is the only forum I use where I can see 'at a glance' everyone who's posted in a thread - before I decide to enter it. I suppose on the surface that's not really important. But I really kinda like it like that, and I think R'osity just wouldn't feel the same without it.

It's one of those things where you wouldn't really miss it, unless of course, it was suddenly taken away from you.

Len.
(If that goes - you'll want it back BIG-TIME, you just don't realize it yet)

In addition to my previous post I would like to add:

I think it's equally important to have a thread which asks the question:
"What Would You Like To Stay After The Update?"

On site the size of R'osity, with a huge membership, I think it would be rather careless not to do so, or you just might remove the stuff that makes R'osity...

R'osity!

Len.

When I log on to 'rosity and I get the message "MySQL server has gone away" I would like the tune Hall & Oates "She's gone" tune to play She's Gone She's Gone Oh why? Oh why? I better learn how to face it She's Gone She's Gone Oh why? Oh why? I'd pay the devil to replace her She's Gone She's Gone Oh why? Oh why? What went wrong?

In the 'Member Options' a tick box for 'Ignore SOWS' & 'Ignore Posts from (designate a Member here)' Also a subtext that says something like: 'This artist has been assigned 'Diety' status by X number of members.' Also: 'My sexual orientation is Straight-Gay-Bi. Do not show any images that do not match my sexual orientation. A totaly separate Forum for Bryce Purists (Heretics need not apply) A facility for posting those tiny little moving smileys with your post. One's that say things like 'You're Great' 'You Rock!' 'Thank You' etc.

Drop down from your User name for Gallery/HP/URL/etc. my .02

I want my Bryce Chat back please and thanks :)

I dislike the change to the archive, used to be it pulled up all the old threads, now you have to put in a year and a month.

I dislike the "mark all read" I'd like to mark each thread individually as "read" cause sometimes I want to clean up a bit but don't have time to read all the threads in one sitting.
:)

Message edited on: 03/31/2006 09:24

a breakdown of forum threads.. catagorize stuff. Like...Off Topic talk section... Help with this or that...freebie section...that would be grand!

just make it easy for old duffers to understand..;)

• wysiwyg text editor - split long threads into pages.

• limited size on avatars and signatures if any are to be implemented. Nothing says "I'm a newb" like a 400x200 100Kb signature with animated photoshopped thingies and quotes about eleventeen lines long :) - I second Rayraz in WYSIWYG text editor - please leave the ability to see who replied in the thread, it is really interesting :) - flags like "Freebie" or "Cool thingie linky" will be much appreciated if it will be possible to make a search on them! kitty5

You tell us how many replies we get but how about showing us how many reads we get...When something is posted it is frustraing to lnow if its been read or not..

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/index.ez?viewStory=13011

http://www.renderosity.com/index.ez?viewStory=13011

and the guy doing the coding wrote ->

avatar size limit...150kb !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

groan

Message edited on: 03/31/2006 18:28

Yup. I knew it was going to happen this Monday, but couldn't yet say anything. AS

Sounds like the first rollout is already in stone.

checks calendar - April 1 here

Maybe we should have 1MB limit on avitars at 800x1000 pixels :)

Message edited on: 03/31/2006 18:34

ICM -"Drop down from your User name for Gallery/HP/URL/etc" -You lost me, what does that mean? Pumeco; -Yup, the various "opinion" threads on the new PHP forums will be un-ending for a while, lol. What is great is we can actually implement the changes quickly. -I do not know for sure about the "sequential layout of the thread pages". The new forums are up (for me) to look at, but there are no posts in them yet. Again, I REALLY do not know what it will look like finally, and we might have an option for that layout thing. I'll find out about that about the same time as everybody else, lol. (when it opens). Ang25; -Bryce chat will/should be back asap as when we switch over to the new server. -"I'd like to mark each thread individually as "read". -I'm not sure about that one way or another as an option. Member options will be added on after the forums are up and running, and we get a feel for them. Rayraz; -wysiwyg text editor & split long threads into pages; -I believe both those options will be available. Splitting long threads should be available from the start, with options for how many "Threads per forum page", and "Messages per thread page", you individually want. -The wysiwyg text editor has alreday been suggested by staffers to the site programmers, I don't see why it wouldn't be brought on at some point. (Hope) Notes; If they are giving us avatars, I would be apt to assume they found a way to put less demand on the servers, so...I would hope eventually they will give us full forum search abilities back. Ability to see how many views per thread - Yeah, that's basically back in there from what I can see. 150kb for an avatar? far too big, imo. It might work if members can have an option to turn them off. Even with my cable modem, 6mpbs connection, I would still turn them off! I want Fast MUCH more than Pretty. AgentSmith

Unless it's more like DAZ

Gotcha. I like that. ZBrush Central has those. AS

I don't see why the list of replies cannot be collapsible, so you can get DAZ/CG Society look or the current Renderosity look. And every PHP forum I now has an Ignore/Favourite list. But! One hundred! And! Fifty! Kilobytes! For an avatar! Are they insane? Or it's a typo? Why not limit it to 100x100 and 10-12 kilobytes? Imagine a thread with 15 replies and a 150 kB avatar each. It's 2.25 MB of nothing really. Off to Community forum to rant. :-)

Yeah...I'm not sure that 150kb avatar thing will stick. I would hope that would get reduced. Even if the new servers can handle it, it would still be hell for the dial-up users. AS

Poles.... so we can quiz people on good or lame Q&A

Hm, okay, sounds cool. AS

150kb avatars is absurd and the person who thought it up should be ashamed of him/herself for pushing this through as using oversized files is one of the most basic errors made in website design... 10-20 kbyte at 100-150 px sounds more like it (my personal preference would be something like 80x80@10kb or 100x100@15kb). Ray's most basic webdesign rules: rule 1: Keep it intuitive and efficient. rule 2: Keep it compact. rule 3: make it idiot proof. rule 4: Keep it reasonable. "The wysiwyg text editor has alreday been suggested by staffers to the site programmers, I don't see why it wouldn't be brought on at some point. (Hope)" Does this mean it won't be there (yet) in the initial release on monday? hmm.. slightly disappointing.

ooh, ooh, i just got an intersting question! I just read there's like 2.5 million posts being converted to fit into the php forums. This makes me wonder... How is this database working? As a coder i'd like to get some insight into that. Is it just one GIANT mysql dbase (which i assume would be rather slow)? or do u use one GIANT (and thus slower) archive dbase and a smaller more managable (thus faster) dbase for the more recent posts? Or is there another brainy way of fixing this? Input much appreciated ;-)

Ray, there's just one rule. (One rule to find them and in a website bind them. :-)) KISS!

THE SEARCH IS WORKING!!!!!!! Yipppeeeee! (still didn't find what I was looking for though) My wish list: Don't change the look of the forums, I love the nice friendly way the thread scrolls down, and I love the nice frinedly purple/lilac colour I've chosen is there waiting for me when I log in. Okay, so to squeeze in avatars you'll need to change it a bit - but don't go mad with it!!! It would be nice if we could search threads by images. (that way I'd have found what I was looking for) And following on from that - it would be nice if someone forgot to include the image on their post about... a wip (for instance) - if they could go back and add the image to that first post - if they began the thread. I dunno if that's possible? It would also be nice if a thread that someone starts, and then deletes - would actually go away completely. So that we stop having all those irritating threads that are totally empty except for "this post was deleted by..." I'm sure I'll think of some more tomorrow, but not now.

Rayraz, have NO idea. Contact the guy answering all the questions in the comments; http://www.renderosity.com/index.ez?viewStory=13011 Fran - The new forum looks very different. Sorry, but these forums have remained unchanged for like nearly 8,9,10 years. (Something like that) I guranatee you people will go mad with avatars. That's just what happens. I for one, hate forums that are flooded with avatars and signatures. But, oh well, when in Rome... "It would be nice if we could search threads by images" - Uhm...how would you go about that? Adding in a pic after the fact - Not sure. I would bet the 15 minute edit window will still be in effect. Maybe that can be changed for just the image part of the post. Forum posts will not go away completely when deleted, again, sorry. We need to keep a record of what's going on and being said. AS

"The new forum looks very different" Let me add to that, that I would assume at some point we will be able to custom change the colors, and sure, you could re-assume your old color scheme, at least. I assume, I don't know for sure at this time. AS

I must be able to turn off avatars.

I must be able to see replies to a thread like we do now.

I must not have the ability to ignore people simply because they are idiotic mindless hootinannies, because it's the exposure to opinions vastly different than our own that keeps us from becoming even more narrow minded.

I must not have to wonder if I've read a thread before or be surprised if the last 7 replies were all by pumeco.

I must not have to scroll thru a page and a half of stickies explaing every quirk of Bryce or special announcements for something that happened a week ago.

I must not suffer from constant deja vu every time some ninny feels like quoting an entire reply then adding a smiley.

I must not be given the options to "return to forum" after I've marked all the topics as read, I just marked them all as read, I'm probably done with that forum you think? As a matter of fact, what's with that special magic page that tells me my replies been post? I really wanted to wait another 45 seconds to make sure you got that ok. Oh! look! I can return to the index OR view my post! I certainly want to review my post, I'm not sure I put enough smileys in it. Why can't I go back to the forum? I'm still reading, just because I've made a reply to one thread now I'm done with any thread having to do with Bryce? Thank you oh friendly helpful little computer machine for keeping me from exceeding my daily limit of Bryce topics.

Oh, sorry. I'll stop.

Brycers do it overnight.

"I must be able to turn off avatars." -I agree. Hope we get that, if not at first, at least everntually! "I must be able to see replies to a thread like we do now" -Don't think so. Look at most other modern PHP forums. But, still not sure of that completely as of yet. "I must not have the ability to ignore people" -I'm very sure that is in the official suggestion list already. :o) "Stickies and Special Announcements" -Although I am drooling to finally get stickies, I totally agree with you, I hate seeing a dozen stickies at the top of a Forum. I'll be easy with them, promise, lol. AS

"I must not suffer from constant deja vu every time some ninny feels like quoting an entire reply then adding a smiley." That's certainly doable. CG Society runs on vBulletin, a PHP forum soft, and has the minimum characters limit. Whether it will be implemented here, is another question. :-)

Amen to that, imho. AS

"I must not have to wonder if I've read a thread before or be surprised if the last 7 replies were all by pumeco."

Ooooooooo - did you figure that out all by yourself, or were you influenced by a certain lamer?

How's 'bout this then...

Hi xenic!

Len.
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Hi xenic! Len. (Reply #2)

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Hi xenic! Len. (Reply #4)

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