Amber's suggesTUNS

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To put my mind at rest for the time being:
    
If you feel like checking out any of the plugins I'm suggesting...

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Back to the Top Plugin:  *click*
Thread Descriptions:  *click*
Posting Activity:  *click*
Styled Member Names:  *click*
Highlightable Code:  *click*
Highlight Search Terms:  *click*

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- I think that a Back to the Top button and Back to the Bottom button would be wonderful. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm a very, very lazy person, and having to scroll to the top of the page to go back to the homepage every time I click on an updated thread gets tiring after a month or so. x'D

- Thread Descriptions would be a big help in determining what a thread is actually about without having to click on it and for those of us who have computers that are dinosaurs, wait forever for it to load and then finding out that we don't want to post in that thread, anyway. x-x

- Getting the Posting Activity plugin would really help when you're trying to determine whether a member is still active or not without having to count the weeks since they've last been online. It would also be helpful when you're trying to figure out whether a plot, mate arrangement, or collaboration with them is still going strong, or if they're much less active and... yeah. ==

- The Styled Member Names are just a little side thing that I think would spice things up a little bit as far as the forum stat area at the bottom of the homepage goes. Just an idea. C=

- Highligtable Code is something that would make using code so much faster and easier. And you don't have to do much to set it up; simple as that. C=

- The Highlight Search Terms plugin is something that I think the search area really needs. It lets you find your search terms in posts and threads immediately. For instance, if you're looking for your character's name and search, for example, "Amberflower", you would type that in and hit "search", but instead of having to leaf through every thread or spend half an hour scanning the lines of fifty different posts to find your search term, it'll be highlighted for you in a bright color so that you can find it painlessly without searching for it for forever. This is my main suggestion here, the plugin that I think would benefit forum members the most.

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1. I don't see the point in it too much when you can just hit "FN" and then the bottom + right arrow keys to get to the bottom of the screen (top + left for going up to the top).

2. Ehh, I personally hate those, but we'll see.

3. I tried that, but it wouldn't cooperate well with V5, and I don't have to count the weeks; I just click on the calendar and see if it's been a week since they've joined (for those with 0 posts) or just look at the date they last logged on, deleting their accounts if it's been exactly a month or more since they logged in.

4. This is also a possibility.

5. That's a possibility.

6. You can do that with CTRL + F. Not sure about Macs on this, since I don't use them.

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1) Ahhh... this doesn't seem to be working for me. .n.

2) I'm trying but I can't see why the hate. D: They might take up a little more space, but they're very, very helpful.

3) Yeah... you have a point there.

4) Yeay.

5) Yeay!

6) Huh, I didn't know that. That's actually really useful. =O
but, still, I'm guessing that not all people know that... take me for example. xD I mean, you could tell people that, but like you said, people with Macs might not be able to do that.

[[Acro.]]

Hi =D

I have no real opinion on most of these, but I will say I tend to really not like stylized member names. I've been on forums that do this, and it ends up making things look more frenzied and less neat. Having different colors for certain positions is really useful because it makes it easier to identify who has authority/power/ability to assist, but if everyone has the option of customizing the fonts/colors of their name it's much more difficult to find the right people. You'll most likely just end up with an unpleasant smearing of colors.

End of Thought.

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That's a good point you have there, Acro, but you could make it so that only an administrator or someone with administrating powers could change the fonts of the names. Perhaps staff could have a specific font for their names to make them stand out more, so that they'll still be easy to find, and each rank of member could have a different font to them. Just trying to spice things up over here. C= I know that there are sites that have styled names that look crammed and unorganized, but there are also sites that use the plugin well and come out with something neat-looking and attractive. If we did it right, we could create a nice-looking system of styled names that make it easier to identify different types of members. I know that the colors can already do that, and we could still keep those, but it would look a lot nicer if we fancied it up a bit, gave it some freshness.