Wouldn’t It Be Nice If the site had…

1 Preview
The option of previewing your post before posting it (this has been mentioned previously be for by both Raupi and psault).

2 Basic formatting
Some basic bold, underline, italic tags would be good along with possibly a heading tag or two.

3 Delete/move posts
Being able to delete or move your own erroneous post posting.

4 Private messaging
I don’t mind having private communications, but I do not want to publicise my email address.

5 Thread tracking
Being notified when there has been activity on a thread that you are participating in.

6 Highlight new posts
Highlighting new posts since your last log in is a great time saver if you are like me and ‘drop in’ a few times while at work.

Any more?

7 Quoting
A quote button under each post, when clicked inserts something like "<username> wrote: <text>" in your post.

And
To see all the posted which a user sent

because sometimes, i am lost where i post it, and i don't find there, and the question stay not answered

8 An inline code tag.
There are times when you may want to make reference to a function call or other line of code in a sentence. It would be good to have this part of the sentence formatted as the code block. e.g.
"after you call [icode]cin >> x;[/icode] it is advisable to call [icode]...[/icode]"

Hi guys,
Your feedback is very appreciated.
I've been implementing some of your suggestions, and they are now live for testing in the forums...

1 Preview The option of previewing your post before posting it (this has been mentioned previously be for by both Raupi and psault).

Now, there is a "Preview" button available when you are writing a message - this opens a popup showing how your message will look like.

2 Basic formatting Some basic bold, underline, italic tags would be good along with possibly a heading tag or two.

Some formatting is available using simple bbcode tags - a set of buttons also appears to the right of the edit box with the tags available.

3 Delete/move posts Being able to delete or move your own erroneous post posting.

The last post in a thread will be deletable by its own author, but only before it is answered.

4 Private messaging I don’t mind having private communications, but I do not want to publicise my email address.

Private messaging is now possible. It requires that the user has this feature enabled in his/her user settings. To reach your user settings click on "user cp" right bellow your nickname on the right sige of the blue band on top of all pages.

5 Thread tracking Being notified when there has been activity on a thread that you are participating in.

In your user control panel you can now follow the threads you are participating in.

6 Highlight new posts Highlighting new posts since your last log in is a great time saver if you are like me and ‘drop in’ a few times while at work.

This should work already once you have logged in at least twice.

7 Quoting A quote button under each post, when clicked inserts something like "<username> wrote: <text>" in your post.

It is one of the new formatting bbcode tags ("quote").

To see all the posted which a user sent

In the user's profile you can see his/her las 5 posts. For your own posts, you can reach the active posts where you have participated in the user control panel.

8 An inline code tag.

The "code" bbcode tag now works also for inline code: cin >> x;.

Thanks, Gery Wolf, Steak Rider and ropez for your suggestions.

Thanks for adding the new functionality - sounds good.

Just one more thing to ask - Can we get all new users to read Grey Wolfs 'How To Ask...' article before they post:-)

As if by magic the Beginers board has changed - thanks!

Well... I hope it helps.

Out of interest, what happened to the copy of 'How To: Ask Questions The Smart Way' at the head of the Beginners board? I was going to ask someone to read it but noticed it had gone.

EDIT: Found it, incorporated in to the Welcome -- read before posting! post...

9. Post deletion after a reply. ;)
10. Topic deletion.
11. Karma levels (every day you visit the boards, you gain a point...points allow access to higher-level boards...etc. Just call it something else, I don't want a lawsuit from GameFAQs or other sites using it.)

9: You can do this
10: You can do this if your the topic creator.

I mean for 9:
I can't delete the post I wrote at 1:33 because you replied.
10:
Can't delete a topic at all.

You can't delete a post after someone has replied. Just edit it and change it, but put an "Edit" comment in it. Or leave it, either is fine.

I'm pleased with the updates. The only thing I miss is all the keyboard shortcuts for formatting like Dani has over at DaniWeb.

For example, pressing Ctrl-B brackets the selected text with [B][/B], or if no text is selected just inserts [B][/B] and puts the cursor in the middle ready for you to start typing.

(I'm not holding my breath though. No pressure. :-) )

I would like to see the teletype format (or some other) not eat multiple white spaces.

So you could do this sort of thing

Or
without having to use code tags.

╔═══╤═══╤═══╦═══╤═══╤═══╦═══╤═══╤═══╗
a║ │ │ 7 ║ │ │ 1 ║ 3 │ │ ║
╟───┼───┼───╫───┼───┼───╫───┼───┼───╢

---------------------------------------------------------
NAME HW HR OT-PAY GROSS TAX NETPAY
---------------------------------------------------------
Wolf 40 50.70 0.00 2028.00 608.40 1419.60
Frank 37 24.50 0.00 906.50 271.95 634.55
Jenny 50 10.20 153.00 663.00 198.90 464.10
---------------------------------------------------------
The average net pay for 3 employees is 839.42

The new flags are nice to show what has changed since you last logged on, but it woudl be nice to have a quick way to clear them from threads you were not interested in - currently you have to enter the thread and jump back to the list, which takes a while on Monday morning when I've not had a chance to look at the list over the weekend:-)

I've never had a problem with that. If I ignore a thread, it is no longer marked as new the next time I log in.

What I'd like to be able to do is glance at the forum, mark a number as 'read' (IE not new) then look at the others through the morning (rather than taking a large chunk of time out at one go), whiel still being alerted to any changes through the morning (Yeh, I know, some people are never satisfied...:-)

That would be nice, at the moment I just keep a copy of IE open on this site and hit refresh every now and then.

A url tag would be very useful. ie. [url=http://www.phpbb.com/] Visit phpBB! [/url].
There is a small glitch in the current handling of URLs, if you put a URL within say a superscript tag, it includes the closing tag in the URL and dose not close the tag...
^{http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/1433/#msg9916} unless you put a space between the URL and closing tag.
While I think about it, I would prefer that a new window/tab be opened when you click on a link rather than open the link in the current window, what do others think?

and an img tag would also be nice, for diagrams and such...

I would prefer that a new window/tab be opened when you click on a link rather than open the link in the current window, what do others think?

I used to think I liked it. Over at http://www.blenderartists.org/ that's how all the links work. For that kind of forum it is kinda nice, but in general I think it is a terrible idea. If you want a new window, just middle-click the hyperlink. That way I retain control over what tabs are open.

This site in particular is so blazingly fast I never have a problem normal-clicking a topic because just clicking the forum name in the left menu lets me escape back to where I was without any appreciable wait.

My $0.02

I'd like there to be a ban on email addresses/@ symbol when creating a new post (not in jobs though). Only after someone has replied is it allowed.

@ would be allowed in code tags however.


This would stop people going:
please do X and email it to me at blah@nowhere.org