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OK, look, I know you folks worked hard on this software but... I'm sorry.... it really sucks. There's no way to preview posts. It's terribly slow. If I highlight text then click one of the format options, the code is put after[i][/i] the text instead of around it. Forget about WYSIWYG support. I don't see any way to read new posts and paging to the end of a topic takes forever. I marked all topics as read and they look the same as they looked before marking them. Some of the BB code is non-standard and there's no help to tell us how any BB codes work beyond what is at the top of the input box so I guess we're stuck with just those commands. I just spent 20 minutes making a new topic. When I hit 'create topic', the topic was thrown out. It turns out I needed to give it a topic title. Instead of reposting my text and letting me pick a title, it just threw the entire thing out! This isn't friggin' Twitter, guys, we spend TIME making these posts. Oh, and you might actually want to label the subject line. Right now it's just a slightly darker band over the top of the input box. Honestly, the forum software we've got for our five-person guild is way better than this. Edit: Ah ha! Now I see the difference between a topic with new posts and one with no new posts. The topic with new posts has a white icon. The one with no new posts has a light gray icon. Way too subtle, folks. Use a different icon. P.S. The first post in a topic should not count as a reply.
OK, look, I know you folks worked hard on this software but... I'm sorry.... it really sucks. There's no way to preview posts. It's terribly slow. If I highlight text then click one of the format options, the code is put after[i][/i] the text instead of around it. Forget about WYSIWYG support. I don't see any way to read new posts and paging to the end of a topic takes forever. I marked all topics as read and they look the same as they looked before marking them. Some of the BB code is non-standard and there's no help to tell us how any BB codes work beyond what is at the top of the input box so I guess we're stuck with just those commands.

I just spent 20 minutes making a new topic. When I hit 'create topic', the topic was thrown out. It turns out I needed to give it a topic title. Instead of reposting my text and letting me pick a title, it just threw the entire thing out! This isn't friggin' Twitter, guys, we spend TIME making these posts. Oh, and you might actually want to label the subject line. Right now it's just a slightly darker band over the top of the input box.

Honestly, the forum software we've got for our five-person guild is way better than this.

Edit: Ah ha! Now I see the difference between a topic with new posts and one with no new posts. The topic with new posts has a white icon. The one with no new posts has a light gray icon. Way too subtle, folks. Use a different icon.

P.S. The first post in a topic should not count as a reply.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

-- Doctor Who, "Face of Evil"

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Posted 11/02/2012 02:44 AM   
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