Ugh - but when I use the full-screen option, the Post button is gone!

I have to un-full screen first before I can post. That's awkward, too.

I'd forgotten there was a full screen button - lol. I never use it. But yes, that's an option too. 

Thank you ... we are discovering a lot here ... sometimes more than we even expected.  Even as a coordinator, alas I would like to add, that these discoveries ... the "fixes" should be made available to all.  Perhaps once things are done we can make a little tute on our site.  As mentioned some of these things seem hidden, not obvious.  Just a thought. Carry on.

Boni

This also might seem odd, but I'd like to add things I actually like about the site changes.  I like that we CAN add photos directly in the text frame ... and videos.  Some sites make that a two screen process.  Some only let you add one image per post.  This I would say is a vast improvement. 

Boni

This also might seem odd, but I'd like to add things I actually like about the site changes.  I like that we CAN add photos directly in the text frame ... and videos.  Some sites make that a two screen process.  Some only let you add one image per post.  This I would say is a vast improvement. 

Boni

Both Hivewire, and RDNA sites have "Advanced" screens and "Post quick reply" screens. Maybe something like that might be a better option, particularly for someone like BagginsBill.

1. Multiple Quotes in a reply. (Multi-quote capability) Either a UI Button in the Reply options to format an embedded quote or "multiquote" option buttons beside each post, so they can be toggled to be added to the reply when it's created.

2. Variable size composition window for replies. (A little window drag-sizer icon at the lower-right corner of the window.)

3. Non-volatile memory for the reply window. I just had to retype this because I clicked on the "Full Page" option and back-paged to return to this window and it dumped everything I had written. :)

4. Would automatically interpreted hotlinks be too much to ask? (ie: Pasted raw links) Or, is the forum going to be blocking all html commands?

5. Please take the Forum Monster out back, behind the office, and shoot it in the head - It likes to eat my posts... :)

6. Auto-refreshing after Reply, so I can see my reply in the thread so I don't have to actually click on the thread's link in order to force a refresh.

7. A "Do Art More Better" button beside each post, so I can re-render the posted render in order to make it look more betterer... ;)

8. A "Thank You, You're Awesome" button that appears besides any BagginsBill post, so I can click it, lots. (Seriously.)

I'm just going to list one like and one dislike, things that bug me...

1. I can browse and load multiple images to a post, not just one image per post like previous. That is an improvement.

2. The search function is still broken IMHO. If it isn't 'broken' please post the protocols for effective operation, because they aren't what I would think are logical. As an example, post 'pearl shader' and see what you get. To actually find anything where pearl is mentioned at the top of the search returns, you have to go into advanced mode and incrementally increase the range. I found it by extending the range to cover 1 day to 1500 days (excessive maybe, but 700 days didn't cut it). What is so hard about searching sequentially? 'pearl' then filter returns by 'shader'...or 'shader' first, then filter to posts that also include 'pearl'.

Enough, please, with the vanishing scroll bar.

My main problem may be caused by a recent update of my security program, but I will mention it anyway:  I am more and more surprised when ANY Rendo page opens correctly, but especially Forum pages, as I usually get "Page not responding" notices which sometimes close the page (refresh will not reopen) or even kick me from the internet.  I had also thought the update was making this place run slower, but that seems to be an actual issue for others as well, so I am not sure just how much of the PNR notices are ads being blocked and how much are speed issues where the page is, in fact, not responding.

Adding to my post, above:

1. Do not automatically subscribe to threads in which you have created a reply. (If this is a toggled feature, I don't know how to untoggle it. :) )

2. The reply window should filter out unprinted text commands, like line-feeds and page-breaks. Currently, they are still being detected and included when pasting from certain formats. ie:
   commands

the font on top of forum the title of the threads the fonts a bit on the large size.

I like the colors and darkness of the forums

every one wanted ignore buttons but no one will use them.
I think when the fighting starts the mods alt to be able to put those fighting on each others ignore list.

and copy paste fixed 

Tomorrow morning I will be sending the link to this thread as the primary source for issues with the forum to the administrators (along with a few other instances in other threads).  Thank you all your cooperation and contributions.

Sincerely

Boni

Adding to my post, above:

1. Do not automatically subscribe to threads in which you have created a reply. (If this is a toggled feature, I don't know how to untoggle it. :) )

2. The reply window should filter out unprinted text commands, like line-feeds and page-breaks. Currently, they are still being detected and included when pasting from certain formats. ie:
   commands

For the auto-notifications on reply, right underneath the reply box is a yellow bar with a toggle "Notify me when someone replies". Uncheck that before you post.

Adding to my post, above:

1. Do not automatically subscribe to threads in which you have created a reply. (If this is a toggled feature, I don't know how to untoggle it. :) )

2. The reply window should filter out unprinted text commands, like line-feeds and page-breaks. Currently, they are still being detected and included when pasting from certain formats. ie:
   commands

For the auto-notifications on reply, right underneath the reply box is a yellow bar with a toggle "Notify me when someone replies". Uncheck that before you post.

Where is it in the Hivewire forum because that little feature is really starting to p*ss me off. I think that feature on ANY forum should be defaulted to the off position.

Adding to my post, above:

1. Do not automatically subscribe to threads in which you have created a reply. (If this is a toggled feature, I don't know how to untoggle it. :) )

2. The reply window should filter out unprinted text commands, like line-feeds and page-breaks. Currently, they are still being detected and included when pasting from certain formats. ie:
   commands

For the auto-notifications on reply, right underneath the reply box is a yellow bar with a toggle "Notify me when someone replies". Uncheck that before you post.

Where is it in the Hivewire forum because that little feature is really starting to p*ss me off. I think that feature on ANY forum should be defaulted to the off position.

For Hivewire, click your username in the upper right > Settings > Notifications tab. You might want to untick the 2 options under the Discussions heading in that tab. Those will subscribe you to topics you start regardless of what the subscribe button on the topic says.

for renderosity there's a unsubscribe in red at the top of the thread also.

to each his own

I like n need my some one posted notification .but I only get them some times even thou I have subscribe to a thread. 
has something to do with if I have posted in that thread with in a certain amount of time I think ,just a guess.

the threaads on top of forum the title of the threads use to change colors so ya knew if ya clicked on it or not.

would like to have that back 

I haven't minded Rendo's forum notifications because they all get filtered into Gmail's Forum tab and not clutter up my main inbox.

The lack of forum notification is my biggest complaint. I'm tired of "checking back" to see if something is new in my threads.

Greetings Fellow Posites. 

I have sent a list including this thread to the administrators along with some of my own observations concerning various functional an social issues that has happened recently in the forum.  They will be reviewing this and should get these handled in a timely manner.  I want to thank all of you again for your participation.  I will keep you updated as to our progress. :)

Boni

Greetings Fellow Posites. 

I have sent a list including this thread to the administrators along with some of my own observations concerning various functional an social issues that has happened recently in the forum.  They will be reviewing this and should get these handled in a timely manner.  I want to thank all of you again for your participation.  I will keep you updated as to our progress. :)

Boni

Thank you, Boni.  Most of all, for caring!

The lack of forum notification is my biggest complaint. I'm tired of "checking back" to see if something is new in my threads.

I'm with eclark, in that I don't need an email every time someone responds, but I do like having the OPTION back for folks like you.

Please, any of you ... don't hesitate to contact me with any issues you may feel uncomfortable bringing up in open forums.  I will look into requests.  Thanks.

Just found out the site has problems with non-ASCII characters. I posted a gallery image with a new gold lamé shader. The e with acute didn't survive passing through the editor on its way into the gallery.

It might have had something to do with previewing the post first, which I did.

Seems OK in the forum though.

Greetings Fellow Posites. 

I have sent a list including this thread to the administrators along with some of my own observations concerning various functional an social issues that has happened recently in the forum.  They will be reviewing this and should get these handled in a timely manner.  I want to thank all of you again for your participation.  I will keep you updated as to our progress. :)

Boni

I will be watching very closely to see if and when anything actually gets done. I really do like to try and give people the benefit of the doubt, but I'm not an idiot about it.

I don't recall seeing this one mentioned, but it bugs the hell out of me:

After quoting someone, the first keyboard return is ignored and treated like a line no-space line break, which leaves no space between paragraphs, even though, in the text editor box, it clearly shows a new paragraph. Putting in an extra return to avoid this, however, doesn't work, as the first actually shows up then and you get a really big space.

Not a bug but... the huge difference in font size between quotes and posted text is silly and extremely unfriendly to people with vision problems who use larger fonts. In fact, the relationships between the sizes of various elements (icons vs text, banners vs text, etc, etc) is completely out of whack. The entire site needs to be tested for ACCESSIBILITY, otherwise it's seriously discriminating against the vision/hearing/mobility impaired. And while that's totally legal, it's superbly bad customer service.

Quotes should show the username of the person quoted.

Boni,

Would it be too much to ask that who ever needs to fix this forum, make a post acknowleging that they have indeed read this thread? Frankly, considering how long  we've been complaining, I don't think it's too much to ask for a sign of good faith from Renderosity that something indeed will be done to fix the problems we've listed.

How do I edit my signature?

Not a bug but... the huge difference in font size between quotes and posted text is silly and extremely unfriendly to people with vision problems who use larger fonts. 

..

Quotes should show the username of the person quoted.

The quoted text being larger than the actual post has annoyed me from day one. I was sure it was just a temporary glitch, but months later it remains unchanged, so obviously somebody thinks IT SOMEHOW MAKES SENSE TO HAVE THE QUOTED TEXT SHOUTING EVEN THOUGH ITS PURPOSE IS ONLY TO GIVE CONTEXT TO THE POST WHICH FOLLOWSand the posted text itself is somewhat lost on the page, even though it is the entire point of the forum, it's what we come here to read,

and then you think this is a continuation of my post, but it's difficult to understand how it relates to my post until you realise that it isn't actually part of the post, it's my signature, a pretentious quote or something which is confusing the first time you read it, and every time after that it's just plain fucking annoying and you have to turn everyone's signatures off to make it go away.

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Make the quoted text LESS visually dominant (LESS, not more) than the post which follows, it's purpose is secondary to the post.

Give the name of the person being quoted. As well as being polite, it is helpful.

Draw some sort of line after the posted text and before the signature so the eye doesn't just run uninterrupted into the signature in every post in every thread. Make the signature text LESS dominant than the post text. Signatures serve a purpose (supplementary links and background info) but they are useless if they are so annoying that they have to be turned off.

Really, why is this basic stuff so difficult? Even with all the great precedent, a million examples of forums which work really well out there, why did Rendo have to ignore all that and start from scratch inventing one which fails on almost every level? Welcome to the new improved Rendo forums, really awkward to read and really hard to post in. Money well spent, I'd say.

How to edit a post? There is obviously a time limit. Take away that way to short time limit. And where are the smilies. I'd like to put a real crumpy face in here.

"Give the name of the person being quoted. As well as being polite, it is helpful."

I wholeheartedly agree.  Along with it being polite, it would also cut down on attributing things quoted by one person  from being thought to have come from another person. Especially if you have the person being quoted on ignore.
I might also suggest having quotes within quote marks and italizied.

Greetings. 

I personally e-mailed this thread among other comments throughout the forum to a major administrator as per their request from me.  So as far as I know this is being looked into by the administrators.  Just to let you know. :)

Boni

Really, why is this basic stuff so difficult? Even with all the great precedent, a million examples of forums which work really well out there, why did Rendo have to ignore all that and start from scratch inventing one which fails on almost every level? Welcome to the new improved Rendo forums, really awkward to read and really hard to post in. Money well spent, I'd say.

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(Notice that I manually changed the font of the quote to italics and placed a horizontal line after it. I tried to reduce the font size, but there's no option for that.)

This puzzles me as well. Not only are there millions of examples of forums to use as guides, there are any number of third party bulletin boards that you can just drop in to your site. vBulletin is one that has been around for years.

How do I edit my signature?

Top of the page > Forums > My Forum Options

Boni,

Would it be too much to ask that who ever needs to fix this forum, make a post acknowleging that they have indeed read this thread? Frankly, considering how long  we've been complaining, I don't think it's too much to ask for a sign of good faith from Renderosity that something indeed will be done to fix the problems we've listed.

I am still keeping an eye on this topic and if any results are coming.  It's been four days as of this post and so far my request  that someone who will be working on the forum at least acknowlege that they have at least read the thread of forum greivances seems to have been ignored. If they can't (or won't) even grant a simple request like that, I have little hope that anything else will change. But since it is only four days so far, I'm still willing to give the benefit of the doubt.

A "me too" and I'd like to add I had to manually look for the recent reply since I do not get emails about replies but for a few rare examples, and only for about a day on any given thread - then nothing forever more.

At the very least, the cynic in me would appreciate something like "I looked at the email code and I can't see what's wrong - perhaps you could help, Ted." Because I could help. I get paid to write software (which happens to work - what a shock)

bagginsbill : since your all ready the shader master how about you be the forum master also

Greetings. 

I personally e-mailed this thread among other comments throughout the forum to a major administrator as per their request from me.  So as far as I know this is being looked into by the administrators.  Just to let you know. :)

Boni

SIX DAYS later and still no acknowledgement from anyone at Renderosity that anyone other than Boni, Shane and Fictionalbookshelf have even seen this thread. SIX days. All I asked for was one lousy stinking post from ANYONE other than a forum moderator at Rendo to at least  acknowledge that they have read this thread and there's STILL no response.

Ach Earl, do not get nervous.
It's only been a year that "some" promised to adapt the header to take less space.
Some of the header surfaces here are a textbook example of "Pollution".

Proposition :

We

should

all

start

to 

write

in

the

same

way

as

the

forum

header. 

Damm,

my

previous

post

is

too

short.

It

fits

on

a

single

1920x1080

page.

Oh,
and

please

do

not

edit

your

posts

twice.

All

your

first

changes

are

lost

in

heaven. 

Sorry

Rendero

Just

writing

in

your

own 

header

style.

If

you

can

do

that?

So

can

we.

LOL. 

EClark1894 : found out who owns renderosity and call the CEO.

But
do

it

vertically.
LOL. 

S E R I O U S???

What clown messed up the freebie section??

I am sorry there is no word ... I have forwarded the "free stuff" thread to the administration forums just now.  I will try to get some feedback to you next week. 

How come the banner aren't rotating anymore? It's not a bug or a big deal, just curious.

I am sorry there is no word ...  

Not a big surprise, but thanks for trying...

I don't get why ya need to close ya account.if ya don't want to come back ,don't.
I've never closed a account anywhere I just don't go there.what am I missing ? 

anyways did renderosity get sold to politicians or did they just stop supporting the free parts forums n freestuff or go broke or what ?

at this point it's way past just a error .

Writings on the Wall.

I don't get why ya need to close ya account.if ya don't want to come back ,don't.
I've never closed a account anywhere I just don't go there.what am I missing ?

There's no drama in that... ;)

NINE days, no response from Renderosity Admins. It's becoming rather obvious that they just don't care. If they do, they sure seem to have a funny way of showing it.