Feature wishlist

[Larry L.]

I thought it might be nice to start a thread to divert all the, "Hey, you know what would be nice...?" and "I miss feature X" posts to their own little ghetto so our hard-working, beloved Mr. Nixon can concentrate on the "Holy Crap This Is Completely Broken (and it's not just my computer)" posts. (If that's cool with you, C.?)

So... here's mine: I miss that posters' geographical locations were displayed under their usernames. I thought it contributed a lot to the authenticity of the discussion, like the emphasis on using real names. Helps a lot when you're trying to throw out culturally relevant references too. Now I see posts from users I don't recognize, and to me they're "Raistlin007 from somewhere in cyberspace." Less personal than "Ralph from Peoria," you know?

(Hey, the new software's formatting toolbar is not completely retarded! Cool!)

[johnmarron]

I thought I would throw in a request, although I have no idea if this is possible.  Along with showing location under a poster's username, is it possible to search the member database location field?  I recently relocated to a new city, and prior to moving, I methodically paged through the list of thousands of Forge members looking for folks in my new city.  I found one, contacted him through email, and we have been gaming for the last 4 months.  If the location field was searchable, folks could easily find other forgites in their area.

Just a thought,
John

[Callan S.]

Increase the font size by a step?

[Ben Lehman]

Ditto on the location field.  Also-- Favorites?

[Larry L.]

Default font size is fine, IMNSHO.

Callan, you know you can bump up the font size a notch or two in your web browser, right? Clinton hasn't set hard point sizes, so this works well.

[Frank T]

I would like the links to forum, channel and thread to appear also at the bottom of a page, so I don't have to scroll back up after reading the thread.

[Callan S.]

Callan, you know you can bump up the font size a notch or two in your web browser, right? Clinton hasn't set hard point sizes, so this works well.

I thought it might be so small, because there was something I could do myself to adjust it. But I tried looking in my profile for the answer, rather than my browser menu. Thanks!

[ScottM]

This is really for whoever helps first (rather than strictly Clinton). I suspect it can be done already, but I haven't tracked down how.  Right now, the link colors are the same as the text (at least for me), and I'd like to change that.  I've looked through the preferences, but didn't find a setting there that'd work.

I know I can set all sites to a uniform color for hyperlinks, but this is the only one that's indistinguishable and I'd rather not mangle the others..  Is there a way to do so for the Forge alone?  [I'm using Firefox and have Greasemonkey, but I lack the skills to do a script from scratch.]

Thanks,
Scott

[Rob Carriere]

Scott,
I don't have Greasemonkey (Firefox's "security" model is scary enough as-is), but the script below works when pasted into (a downloaded copy of) the page. The name of the function probably won't clash with any reasonably-named function on the page, but I think Greasemonkey allows you to use anonymous functions. If so, you should (simply remove the name from between the word "function" and the left brace.) You will also need to tell Greasemonkey to invoke this for every Forge page you load.

Limitation: this thing will color every link on the page, not just the invisible ones on the text. You could avoid that by walking the DOM tree and keeing track where you are on the page, but I don't have time for that right now--also it's likely fragile as long as Clinton is still tuning.

If you want to adjust the color (right now it's bright red :-) ) change the "#FF0000" thing. The first two digits regulate the red, the next 2 the green, the last two the blue. Values for a digit are 0123456789ABCDEF, higher is more of the color.

Enjoy,
SR
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function show_links_RCRCRC() {
    for (  var iLink = 0;  iLink < document.links.length;  ++iLink  ) {
        document.links[iLink].style.color = "#FF0000";
    }
}

[Clinton R. Nixon]

This is just a test of the link system.

[Clinton R. Nixon]

This is really for whoever helps first (rather than strictly Clinton). I suspect it can be done already, but I haven't tracked down how.  Right now, the link colors are the same as the text (at least for me), and I'd like to change that.  I've looked through the preferences, but didn't find a setting there that'd work.

It should not be that way, but they were kind of dark blue. I've made them this electric blue to make them stand out more. Let me know if they're still not visible.

[Vaxalon]

The contrast is there, but it's slight.  It's not so much an electric blue, at least for me, as it is a medium purple.

How about a turquoise?

[ScottM]

It should not be that way, but they were kind of dark blue. I've made them this electric blue to make them stand out more. Let me know if they're still not visible.

Thanks for the change; yes, it is visible. It's a bit purple (rather than blue), but it's visible to me.

Thanks again. The software's beautiful, and I appreciate all the work you've done.
Scott

[Rob Carriere]

Clinton,
The color you have now is very visible but not distracting. Here's my vote for "great choice".

SR
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[Larry L.]

Speaking of Location, I've noticed a bunch of new members that don't have any location listed in their profiles. I always like to know if semi-literate posts are due to either not living in an English-speaking country, or from huffing gas.