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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jul 11, 2018 at 08:58 PM
As to any forum upgrades, editing would be nice, but not having it forces us to re-read and re-think our thoughts before actually clicking the Post button, and I see this as something positive, so it would not be a priority.
I would like to see 3 somewhat minor changes:
1- Persistent login
2- Page links at the top and the bottom of the page, with > 6 pages, ideally 10 or more
3- They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so being able to upload and view images in posts would be great !
Pierre
Posted by Ken
Jul 13, 2018 at 05:14 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
Ken wrote:
>>Quite funny! :) Will we need to worry about gentrification if the site
>becomes Mac only? ;)
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>Humm… interesting association. With the apparent lack of interest for
>any significant hardware development from Apple (and to a lesser extent,
>MacOS too), innovation is IMHO more on the PC-Windows side these days.
>And users, power users in particular, are getting increasingly
>frustrated:
>https://www.macrumors.com/2018/06/15/developer-slams-lack-of-mac-updates/
My (somewhat poor) attempt at humor was trying to poke fun at how Apple occupies a premium niche in the world of marketing. Right or wrong, there is a bit of exclusivity in the brand, and I was just trying to get in a humorous reply to nathanb’s quite funny post. And for the record, I do own several Apple tablets and have a nephew who works in Cupertino (and my wife’s works in Redmond). We are an agnostic house when it comes to technology.
—Ken
>Of course, some will argue that Macs were so much more advanced w.r.t.
>PCs, that the latter is only doing catch up. May be, may be not.
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>Big Thanks to Chris for keeping this forum alive. It is also one of the
>very few that I read every day.
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>Pierre
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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 15, 2018 at 09:35 PM
Chris, belated thanks for providing the infrastructure and support to a forum that is now 12 years old—in this incarnation, not to mention the valuable archives from its previous life.
I have only one request which should be fairly easy to implement and consistent with your taxonomy vision: the ability to search posts by user or, alternatively, user names being clickable tags so one can list all contribution of a certain user.
More and more, I find myself remembering posts by person, but searching only finds users in posts where their name appears in the body, i.e. where they’ve been quoted by others.
It would also be nice to be able to recall what I myself have posted in the past and assess whether I’ve become any wiser…
Chris Murtland wrote:
>Better search and categorization options are needed, but I think I would
>prefer a looser, tag-based approach rather than a strict top-down
>ordering.