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Tekomandor
Member
Alerts when quoted/a subscribed thread is replied to would be nice. I'm not sure how easy that would be on such a heavily modified version of vbulletin though.
MrCunningham
Member
WebM avatars.
theusedversion
Member
Care to explain which ideas are bad and why?
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
Definitely need gifs to be disabled for mobile
Fantastical
Death Prophet
You can disable gifs on mobile but it doesn't work for all of them for some reason.
Princess Viola
Member
gaf needs a doug button
POWERSPHERE
Member
Itd be cooler with a live resident DJ.
Notifications to replies should happen but it costs money.
Notifications to replies should happen but it costs money.
We are going to have to raise the minimum age for gaf members from 13 to 21 then.
And then we would proceed to act like we are shocked when the general maturity level didn't change at all.
Wowfunhappy
Member
I don't think anyone's asking for the forum to be turned into reddit.
It would be nice to have QOL enhancements though. Ability to quickly see who quoted you, basic formatting for making OT threads, AJAX notifications when you've received a PM, etc.
Tweets from Twitter to be easily shareable rather than having to take screencaps would be useful. Quite a few other forums' tech allow that.
(Giant Bomb)
We had twitter embed support for like an hour and a half, but it was immediately abused and so it was turned off.
Additionally, you can only post once every 60 seconds.
This gets my vote.
How did people abuse it? Just fill threads with it for no reason?
Please do share!
Yeah, I'm tired of slow loading +20MB gifs. Especially on mobile.
There are pros and cons to going fully responsive.
Going responsive would fix the following issues:
- m.neogaf.com screen scrapes meaning every page request done on mobile requires extra work on the server
- If the desktop skin is changed enough, m.neogaf.com breaks
- All areas of the forum are not available on mobile (control panel, admin tools, etc.)
- m.neogaf.com simply works and is proven
- m.neogaf.com outputs much less code/css and thus renders faster and uses less bandwidth
- m.neogaf.com has a few unique features unavailable on desktop
- Making all of neogaf.com responsive would be a major undertaking
It's because if a GIF is added to a post but the URL doesn't include ".gif", there's no way for m.neogaf.com to know what the format of the image is. For example, some image sharing sites simply have the GIF url as "http://host.com/asdf23".
Ampersands
Member
The search system also has a certain time limitation. I think having a restriction on frequent posting has some use but I don't think people can really abuse search.
Timan
Developer
Yep, thats why you don't fix what isn't broken. m.neogaf.com works too well right now.
Though (vbulletin/limitation wise) nothing is really stopping us from adding some of these features back on the desktop version as well.
HideyoshiJP
Member
Oh, if we're talking wish lists, I want a redesign with those stupid circular avatars that make non-photo ones look bad. Endless scrolling that consumes RAM is great, especially when it makes you lose your place when you go back a page; pagination apparently sucks because it's old. I would also love it if the page loaded javascript from at least 25 different domains and required a Core i5 to process. Hiding menus behind an unlabeled and unexplained three bar menu button looks nice, too.
...Alright, I may be a little salty.
...Alright, I may be a little salty.
Fury Sense
Member
Most of the newer forum software I've seen is really fucking ugly. Traditional shit like vBulletin has super dense content which is excellent. New stuff has 20px padding on everything. Software like Discourse is slow as fuck and expensive to run.
However, adding things like embedding youtube or gifv would be really great improvements that only affect client-side experience. If it somehow negatively affects the flow and balance of conversations, they can just as easily be removed.
However, adding things like embedding youtube or gifv would be really great improvements that only affect client-side experience. If it somehow negatively affects the flow and balance of conversations, they can just as easily be removed.
brokenbeans
Banned
If ain't broke don't fuck it up.
Indeed; the search limitation is a mere 15 seconds. That'd only bother you if you were a bot.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
On on hand the place works great. Especially on mobile.
On the other, I'd like some added features and UI/aesthetic options. Skins or something. But sometimes simple is better and you will get resistance either way.
On the other, I'd like some added features and UI/aesthetic options. Skins or something. But sometimes simple is better and you will get resistance either way.
i've been a member of polycount for years. they redid their forums a few months ago with all that web 2 cubed stuff. It looks pretty for about 5 seconds, then you realize in terms of usability it's worse in pretty much every single way. Information density alone is probably less than half of before because I guess negative space looks pretty, so there's a lot more scrolling. I hate how it feels now and spend far less time on the forums because of that.
The point is that they added all the fancy web tech and gave it a huge face lift and it's much worse for it. Healthy communities has died from stuff like interface redesigns, don't mess with things that are proven to work unless they stop working. If stuff needs to be upgraded do it incrementally over the years.
the only feature I'd like added is some kind of notification when I've been quoted.
The point is that they added all the fancy web tech and gave it a huge face lift and it's much worse for it. Healthy communities has died from stuff like interface redesigns, don't mess with things that are proven to work unless they stop working. If stuff needs to be upgraded do it incrementally over the years.
the only feature I'd like added is some kind of notification when I've been quoted.
Coreda
Member
Technosteve
Banned
Bring back gif avatars
Everything else is fine
Everything else is fine
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Desktop site loads so slow. It's because of all the trackers on it. There are literally more trackers on GAF than the infamous Verge. I'd like a speedier desktop site. The forum is so bare bones. It shouldn't load slow.
biggersmaller
Banned
Like the design of the site. Clean and simple. Just add a few tweaks like gifv and the ability for quoted posts to include the original post's quoted text.
Overall I'm fine with the site.
Overall I'm fine with the site.
It's not just about abuse; it's about the vast amount of records NeoGAF has and how unoptimized Vbulletin is for that depth of querying. In the past IIRC they've completely disabled search in favor of a box that just spits out google results (no use of the NeoGAF servers.) I know other big forums in the 90s had to disable their search as well as the servers can't handle it.
These days DB's are faster, caching mechanisms are more advanced and server power is cheaper.. IIRC 15 seconds is half what the limitation used to be, but likely still somewhat important to stem the potential for abuse and stop regular users from slowing down the servers too much. Searching the site isn't making NeoGAF money, so it's a balance of making the site useful / useable to people vs. having to pay for more resources.
It's why there is no "show who quoted me feature" any more as it would cause people to constantly click and do heavy searches... same with why there are no AJAX style notifications.. thousands at a time causing timer based pulls on the server (about all they could do for an ancient codebase like this one.)
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