think tank forum

-> a user list feature?
-> threads to break into multiple pages?
-> more advanced search options?

a user list feature would be nice, but not necessary.

threads breaking into multiple pages would be nice for those long threads, but so far, I haven't seen many that I think would need to be split up, that just make people load more pages to find what they want.

With the search, if it is a long post and the word doesn't show up in the first part, it will get cut off and you don't see how the word you searched for was used in the post.

and just as I hit post, I thought to add, I think an edit feature would be more helpful than the other ideas

> I haven't seen many that I think would need to be split up

well ttf is used on other sites as well, and i want to make it generally useful. so maybe splitting into pages would be nice, especially at like 50 or 100.

> and just as I hit post, I thought to add, I think an edit feature would be more helpful than the other ideas

true. i'm not willing to do this until i can do it with revisions. and that's a lot of work. so that'll come after v1.0-rel.

thanks for the input, sd

oops, forgot about this:

> With the search, if it is a long post and the word doesn't show up in the first part, it will get cut off and you don't see how the word you searched for was used in the post.

give me some keywords so i can replicate this problem, please. it works fine for me.

when I tried out the search feature to give you feedback I used 'steve' (without quotes of course) and the last one listed is a article you posted, Steve appears later on in the article, but not in the search results.

Oh, and with the split, my vote is at 100 posts.

and another afterthought, would it be possible to put the thread title in the page title. (ie. "think tank forums v1-gamma : : do we need...") That might get long but it would be helpful for me because I'm used to look at the title bar to see the title of the thread I'm viewing esp. when I have a couple windows/tabs open.

> would it be possible to put the thread title in the page title.

yeah. coming soon:
http://code.google.com/p/thinktankforums/issu … n=2&q=

> Steve appears later on in the article, but not in the search results.

thanks! added to the issue:
http://code.google.com/p/thinktankforums/issu … n=2&q=

> Oh, and with the split, my vote is at 100 posts.

decided to go with it:
http://code.google.com/p/thinktankforums/issu … n=2&q=

and for reference..

> I think an edit feature would be more helpful than the other ideas

http://code.google.com/p/thinktankforums/issu … n=2&q=

p.s. if someone can fix the 'steve' search problem, i'll send them cookies.

http://thinktankforums.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/search.php

I think navigating pages of threads should be improved. if you want me to take a look at it and see what I can do let me know. seems like it would be pretty simple.

I don't like threads that break into multiple pages. if you did do this I think it should be a really high number of replies per page. or user configurable.

also, what's the deal with the new thread creation? I don't really like that it creates the thread before you make your original post to it. where's the logic in this new approach?

well, before, when you created a thread, ttf would actually generate a new thread and a new post.

now the front-end is true to the back-end. there's no reason in particular to do it this way, except that it requires less html, is more consistent, and for some weird reason people can make empty threads (which they could have done before by making a thread then archiving the first post).

> I think navigating pages of threads should be improved. if you want me to take a look at it and see what I can do let me know. seems like it would be pretty simple.

what do you mean?