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Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22708 - Karma: 76,633
Over the summer is when we do all the major work on newschoolers. Thats when about 40% of you guys hit the road and peace out until next christmas...

However, for the ones of you who are still left, why don't you post up all those suggestions for things you've always wanted to see here on Newschoolers.com!

We won't by any means get to all of them, but you never know what will happen... so think freely here, even if it sounds stupid to you!

Apr 6 2007 9:06AM
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Jernt
Posts: 838 - Karma: 96
I don't know if this has been said, I haven't read this in a while but why not clean up the cults. So many of those are dead.
May 7 2007 12:03PM
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John.
Posts: 1327 - Karma: 11
maybe some more options when replying. Like being able to quote more than one response or being able to change the font a little bit.
May 7 2007 11:27PM
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ikellen
Posts: 247 - Karma: 10
I'm posting this as its something that's caused me much frustration on this site, and would also solve lots of problems.

A SEARCH ENGINE THAT WILL SEARCH MORE THAN JUST TITLES!!!!1

Now, I dont think the current search is bad, but because it only searches titles, you only get maybe 30% of the results that are relevant to your query.

The other aspect that would be nice would be being able to search by the author of the thread/post. Much easier to find other people's FS threads and what not.

Need an example? Go use the vBulletin search. MUCH better.
May 8 2007 2:57AM
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-+Siver+-
Posts: 1902 - Karma: 12
maybe like a tone when you get a new message
May 8 2007 4:28PM
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=FLO=
Posts: 1969 - Karma: 39
Make Mythreads work!!!! I would love to have the threads that i post in show up in my threads, but about 1 in 10 actually does.
May 8 2007 6:50PM
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=FLO=
Posts: 1969 - Karma: 39
good idea
May 8 2007 6:51PM
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dowalibeast
Posts: 3339 - Karma: 207
this may have been posted but i am not gonna look through this thread. i haven't been paying attention since the first page.  It would be awesome to be able to set a default region for when you click on regional forums.  every time i have to scroll and find montana, it would be sweet if regional forum just took me to montana. OR being able to create your own quick links! similar to boomarks toolbar in firefox, that would be raaaddd.
May 9 2007 10:01PM
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=FLO=
Posts: 1969 - Karma: 39
Taken from T Morry in another thread

I say TRASH MyThreads, add a "subscribe/unsubscribe" link, have MyThreads becoming My Subscribed Threads, and when you go to the list, your threads you subscribed to are there. The already viewed ones are in normal font, and the ones with new post/content are in bold. The top of the list is the bold, most recently posted thread, then the bottom of the bold list is a thread you havent checked in since it's recieved new posts, but least recently responded. Then the thrads you've read take the same most recent view/post order.


This is such a good idea, mythreads never works anyways
May 10 2007 11:25AM
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almostaskier
Posts: 13809 - Karma: 93
MyThreads works great, if you used it from the start...
May 10 2007 12:31PM
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*cowboy*
Posts: 8830 - Karma: 214
yay for the RSS button!! NS FEEDS
May 12 2007 4:04PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
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May 12 2007 8:33PM
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Chicken_P
Posts: 885 - Karma: 21
deffinaltely a good idea
May 13 2007 12:07AM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
Not sure if someone has mentioned this, but the little "Legal" link at the bottom right of every page is broken... thats kinda important, eh?
May 13 2007 1:22PM
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Jwenz
Posts: 8893 - Karma: 7,633
that truly is a good one

but my biggest thing is to seperate the SKI EQUIPMENT into but all under one:

so youl clik  Ski EQupiment forum which will bring you into


||||||||SKi equip discussion||||||||                ||||||||||||||||Gear Swap|||||||||||||||||||||              ||||||||||||||Reviews||||||||||||||||||


THread: What is good ski for me      |||     Thread: FS: Scratch bla   |||          Top Rated: G10mx


etc

and all under diff pages


that way they are all put to good use
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May 13 2007 1:48PM
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cracko
Posts: 2904 - Karma: 12
it would be really great if you were able to search within cults. im not quite sure how youd do it, but for example in the 420 forum, there are pages and pages of threads and i wanted to find a really old one today but did not have the patience to go through like 20 pages.
May 14 2007 6:55PM
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artfullydodged
Posts: 8358 - Karma: 1,674
an icon maker (to make animated icons and shrink images to the right size)
May 14 2007 8:19PM
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JGP.
Posts: 2785 - Karma: 474
minor, but i think it would be really helpful to have the rest of your offline friends listed below the online ones, with dimmed or grey names. many times i have needed to pm or check pics, etc and when your friend isnt online it would be nice to have them right there. the Online Members list could just move down a bit. not very important.
May 15 2007 7:31PM
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ride-rider
Posts: 1761 - Karma: 20
mabey their should be a forum section just for music, cuz their is lots of posts about music.
May 16 2007 12:28AM
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freezed
Posts: 12973 - Karma: 500
you can just click interact > members. 
May 16 2007 12:55AM
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toominator
Posts: 4792 - Karma: 120
Bingo..

Trick tips would be pretty sweet cause theres alot of people who can't throw down but would stil like to progress, like even the real basic stuff like how to hit jumps properly. I know there are alot of threads on those kinds of things but it would be good if there was just a single guide that people could check out in the first instance.

Also the tips on how to wax and tune would be a good idea also, cause again there are always people asking for tips on how to do it.

Search bar for cults would also be good, even if you had a seperate searchbar inside the cult itself.

May 16 2007 4:03AM
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dweezileast
Posts: 9661 - Karma: 276
There should be an easier way to invite people to cults. As of now, you have to copy their name, and go all the way to the cult's home page and paste it in the box. I think if you were a button with the "make friend" buttons in people's profiles that were to say "invite to cult", and then bring up a list of cults that you are a leader in, convenience would be acheived.
May 16 2007 4:07PM
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Alkyy
Posts: 2839 - Karma: 149
might be a cool little thing to do, have mods pic a "Video of the week" one that is really good but might not be top rated to go on the homepage
May 16 2007 5:49PM
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papasteeze
Posts: 12055 - Karma: 913

thats a good idea..

May 16 2007 5:59PM
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henrik
Posts: 98 - Karma: 53
make the searchbar more userfriendly, like when you search, you search both title and the post by the creator of the thread..

and make it so that if youre logged on ns and get a message from someone theres a sound alerting you. like on msn.
May 16 2007 6:32PM
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JGP.
Posts: 2785 - Karma: 474
i know, but its kinda a pain. idk, i just think it would be an easy but helpful addition, just cause i dont really care which 400 other members are online, thats whats the friends list is for.
May 16 2007 6:51PM
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toominator
Posts: 4792 - Karma: 120
not sure if it has already been suggested or not.. having a feature where the videos are able to be categorised by length would be really sweet, kinda like youtube where you can sort by date or length or whatever. I know it would be hard to do but you could maybe do it for only the videos that are hosted by NS, as they already say how long they are.

Heh you guys are gonna have a busy summer of coding if you listen to even a few of these suggestions!
May 17 2007 2:17AM
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K2skipunk
Posts: 2837 - Karma: 111
 
May 18 2007 10:43AM
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BargainBinLaden
Posts: 863 - Karma: 14
song title in videos
May 18 2007 3:29PM
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Sknsnw9
Posts: 957 - Karma: 10
just what he said..

also add:

joined (date you joined the site) and

location

like when you post on the thread under their name it says join or location i think it would be easier so you wont have go into their profile to check when they joined or where they are from.

for example:



proudNMAmember
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Location: Great Lakes
May 18 2007 3:40PM
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BFFset.
Posts: 2210 - Karma: 12
sorry, i didnt check the whole thread to see if this was already in here, but possibly add sigs to the searchbar? i have had times where i saw a funny one or something but then couldnt remember who it was... i dunno
May 19 2007 12:30AM
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45.
Posts: 3164 - Karma: 170
a picture of the week where that selected picture is put on the front page for a week
May 20 2007 9:46AM
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Mat.
Posts: 7167 - Karma: 94
honestly.. # 1 thing I agree with in here..

I honestly met so many other skiers and people from my hometown through this thing.
#2 yeah.. like everyone else said, your search bar needs some serious work.

I liked the search bar from about 3 years ago better.
you could type the word "fuck" for example and every picture, video, thread, contents in the thread that found the words "fuck" said in it would come up in the search results. much much much much better that way.. dont know why it was ever taken away other than the fact that it might have used a shitload of bandwidth.
May 21 2007 8:43PM
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josh.
Posts: 3469 - Karma: 42
word
May 24 2007 9:28PM
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720skiguy
Posts: 4553 - Karma: 21
simple photo uploading tool, so that you can browse your computer and/or upload multiple files at once


ability to delete your own threads and edit your posts
May 25 2007 12:32AM
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freezed
Posts: 12973 - Karma: 500
yeah, they're changing the searchbar to be like that again. I agree with you, its way better like that.
May 25 2007 1:23AM
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lyndon
Posts: 7266 - Karma: 128
I have been asking for this for quite a while.
In the EDITS section, it would be cool if there was a heading to fill out titled "SONG", just like "SKIER", and "LOCATION". That way there wont be 12 posts going "oh oh oh oh oh WHAT SONG!!!!!!!"
May 26 2007 12:16PM
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TheMoostafian
Posts: 4504 - Karma: 9,435
make it so when you reach 20,000 posts your status becomes "skiierman"


and have noob training
May 27 2007 7:28PM
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TimothyLord
Posts: 2114 - Karma: 568
the song title idea is amazing. would save everybody so much time. ive asked the question too many times. time for change
May 29 2007 9:19PM
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TimothyLord
Posts: 2114 - Karma: 568
i dont know if it has been said before. but in forums have a resort review kinda thing. there are always people asking how this mountain is and stuff like that and to have a forum for that would be good.
May 30 2007 9:44AM
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Shorton
Posts: 2889 - Karma: 13
how about a status thing, like on ebay, for people buying off other people, ive heard of so many people getting ripped off, so people could comment members and rate them
Jun 4 2007 12:49PM
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KyleM
Posts: 876 - Karma: 10
Deleting your own thread, color in the cults and more bling 
Jun 4 2007 8:42PM
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skier_dude_1831
Posts: 2064 - Karma: 19
definately deleting your own thread
Jun 4 2007 8:51PM
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grams.
Posts: 7406 - Karma: 186
no deleting your own thread, that could get out of hand..if they wanted to make the thread they obviously wanted everyone to see it


it would be dope if you could quote reply's from pictures and blogs and stuff
Jun 6 2007 4:28PM
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ShadyHillGroup
Posts: 2881 - Karma: 213
sub forums for ski equipment, so one for skis and gear, one for outerwear, one for electronics, just clean it up a little
Jun 6 2007 6:01PM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,014
yeah organization is nice
Jun 6 2007 8:57PM
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Dakoulas
Posts: 2894 - Karma: 40
Or delete your own post...boy have I made some stupid posts when I was drunk.
Jun 6 2007 9:15PM
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.jon
Posts: 2121 - Karma: 345
make a newb screen name like smarterchild that responds to newb questions with good answers

ex. newb: how do i do a backflip???

newb smarterchild: very carefully son, very carefully...
Jun 7 2007 12:54AM
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Riley.
Posts: 2214 - Karma: 259
werd
Jun 7 2007 4:32AM
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KyleM
Posts: 876 - Karma: 10
NS needs way for storage for there  free email.
Jun 7 2007 3:26PM
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cobra_commander
Posts: 16909 - Karma: 4,687
How about editable quick links, so that you could add a forum into the quick links bar so you could add say one of your favorite cults forums to it or you local regional one.

Another idea similar to this is to make a recent threads list that would be below the quick links list and this would just be the last 10-20 threads you posted in.

The next idea is 'marking' threads. so up by the top of the thread right above the first post would be a mark thread box that you could check and uncheck. then the thread would appear highlighted compared to the rest of the threads in that forum and could go up next to the recent threads list or even in it's own special forum. (like my threads but it wont leave affter you view it again.

And the Best Idea yet is to have larger video upload capacities yeah I know it's expensive but it would be worth it.
or as an alternative NS could become a sudo pay site, where the size of the video or picture you can upload gets bigger with your donator status (my money is coming this weekend after I get my pay check)
Jun 7 2007 11:39PM
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