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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 883
Hey everyone,

I'm collecting a list of suggestions for improvements or additions to NS. I will offer this list to the site admins to help them continue to improve the site.

Please offer any reasonable suggestions you may have...

Thanks
'What! How could I fail women's studies, I love bitches?!'
Sep 28 2004 7:54AM
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willbski9
Posts: 2014 - Karma: 31
a way to go back and edit a post you made







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Sep 28 2004 1:42PM
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Bob_Loblaw
Posts: 8384 - Karma: 38
^ no

NS Radio!!
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Sep 28 2004 1:47PM
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pa_freeskier
Posts: 418 - Karma: 10
crash section in videos
Sep 28 2004 3:32PM
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Dakoulas
Posts: 2894 - Karma: 40
An actual improvement is already in the works, just let the actual admins come to you for suggestions.

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Sep 28 2004 3:44PM
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NickMartini
Posts: 7761 - Karma: 8,356
what would that improvement be?



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Sep 28 2004 4:48PM
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CanadianSkiGod
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No auto-rate on the videos, half of the people comment but don't change the 7, so the video scores are not what they should be.

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Sep 28 2004 7:45PM
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Itsbackfliptime
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drop downs that work with Firefox plz!?!!!!!!!!

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Sep 28 2004 7:48PM
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r5tommy
Posts: 3608 - Karma: 89
and also make a little icon for firefox tabs
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Sep 28 2004 8:03PM
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The_Greek
Posts: 176 - Karma: 206
and let the fucking mods do their jobs, they dont need a little shit-head like you to start a thread.


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Sep 28 2004 8:31PM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 883
We will be working on making the menu fully compatible with firefox (I'm a firefox user myself).

As for getting rid of the autorating, I agree that it does skew the results, this should be easy to change.

I am going to be the person in charge of site modifications now that Harvey has left. We have alot of ideas for great changes but they will take time. We first have to go through a bit of a transition with how work is assigned and reported, it will no longer be very centralized as when Harvey was still around.

Before any new features can be added (or old bugs fixed) we are going to be doing some server tuning and back-end site upgrades.

You will all notice many good changes to NS in the comming months. We are all really excited!!

Thanks for the suggestions, keep them comming!

'What! How could I fail women's studies, I love bitches?!'
Sep 28 2004 9:17PM
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Mattman
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^ and who are you?



I almost broke my penis once, i fell down my gfs stairs naked and with a boner, i was never so scared in my life - Lateralis

I have nothing, I dont save anything from ns, i have mostly porn on my comp tho- Lateralis

If I was a fat black chick, id live in a zoo- Lateralis

Hi, My name is Matt and I'm a postaholic
Sep 28 2004 9:24PM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 883
Hey all, well since I havn't yet been formally introducted here is my informal introduction.

The name is Paul. I met Harvey in college and we've been skiing together since. I also bike and ski with MacMahoooon, one of the moderators.

From time to time I've offered Harvey advice with Linux or network problems and he trusts my skills. When he knew that he was no longer going to be with NS he recommended me as a 'replacement' coder for NS.

I've been a member of NS for years, tho never really participated in the forums. That is about to change. I'm super excited to be part of the NS team and want to do everything possible to help the site grow.

I will be frequenting the the 'Site Discussion' section of the forums to see what members are saying about the site. This feedback is definetly useful to us so please keep it comming!

Ciao!
'What! How could I fail women's studies, I love bitches?!'
Sep 28 2004 9:34PM
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lanks
Posts: 12544 - Karma: 73
here's a start. ban the_greek.
ps, do you live here in ottawa?


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Sep 28 2004 11:40PM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 883
Yes, I do live in ottawa!

BTW, I'm not in the habit of banning users unless they do something that is clearly wrong. When moderators report abuse we deal with it accordingly.

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Sep 29 2004 6:38AM
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Astomp
Posts: 10090 - Karma: 344
how bout when are the clothes gonna come back?



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Sep 29 2004 1:10PM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 883
This is another thing we are working on.

Personally I'm only in charge of maintaining the site, clothes and media are the responsibilities of CKO and MDFresh. They are working to bring the clothes back ASAP.

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Sep 29 2004 6:24PM
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proZach
Posts: 7163 - Karma: 919
i never was able to experience the radio of ns. can that be broughten (wow, its that a word or am i tired or somehting...) back?



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Sep 29 2004 7:16PM
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park_kid111
Posts: 428 - Karma: 10
yeah ^ i never have heard the radio
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Sep 29 2004 8:10PM
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bigJ
Posts: 3148 - Karma: 10
southern regional forum, please make one



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Sep 30 2004 12:03PM
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Markman
Posts: 1582 - Karma: 47
/yah, the few times I heard the radio it was cool. bring it back
Sep 30 2004 1:24PM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 883
Hey guys. Yah we would love to bring back NS radio. But first we have to work out some licensing issues.... Artists have to eat too apparently. ;)

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Oct 1 2004 8:27PM
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devine
Posts: 1720 - Karma: 10
the radio was pritty cool



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'do i look gullable to you , or even a gulla-calf?'
Oct 1 2004 11:03PM
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Jaskittin
Posts: 5606 - Karma: 195
Nopoles, how come it doesnt say donator under your name.






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Oct 2 2004 12:15AM
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cobalt
Posts: 1913 - Karma: 12
In the cults section, put the link to the message board above all of the cult members.

Right now, if a cult has a lot of members we have to scroll through them all to get to the message board.
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Oct 2 2004 7:30AM
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Bob_Loblaw
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...or you could click forum at the cults listings.
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Oct 2 2004 11:10AM
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r5tommy
Posts: 3608 - Karma: 89
^OHHHHHHHHH

thank youuuuu

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Oct 2 2004 1:50PM
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deezam
Posts: 12 - Karma: 10
How about adding a Mid-Atlantic/Southeast section to the regional forums. These regions include resorts like Snowshoe in WV, resorts in VA and a few in NC. Its not much, but better than nothing. I know there are several other skiers on the site from these areas.
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Oct 6 2004 12:37PM
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SiverMike
Posts: 2367 - Karma: 13
hey Nopoles i just wanna thank you for being part of newschoolers and i cant wait for some improvments!



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i actually endorse drug use. i dont do them myself, but i think it acts as a form of natural selection.

a safety conscious drug user...isnt that an oxy-moron?

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Oct 6 2004 1:03PM
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Ghst
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NS RADIO!!!
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Oct 6 2004 4:39PM
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KillerMonkey
Posts: 6436 - Karma: 109
how bout maybe a new color scheme
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Oct 6 2004 8:02PM
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KillerMonkey
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and also a way to make polls in the forums so we dont have to go through each posts counting each vote.
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Oct 6 2004 8:03PM
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Mike-O
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The color scheme is great as it is,much better than the old blue!
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Oct 7 2004 11:44AM
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CTD
Posts: 6300 - Karma: 348
yah, the forum lacks alot of the features most other ones have. LIke the ability to post pics from your hard drive, edit post, use those gay little smilies, and such. here is what i have seen on other forums, and would love to see here.

Polls, this would be a great tool, and could solve the whole bush kerrry debate. (at least a little)

in the forum listing, you should be able to scroll over the thread, and read the first few sentences. this is great, because you dont have to waste time on threads that are just spam, or if the title isnt very discriptive.

again, posting pics is a pain. one or two isnt a problem, but its a real bitch to do multiple ones.

on the top link bar, you should be able to jump to sub-catagorys instead of having to go to the 'forum' page or such.

also, he number of members has gotten Sooo large recently, the 7 forums are pretty unfocused. i suggested a rolling forum earlier, where it just focuses on current topics, like the olympics, bush/kerry, or jibberish. there should definatly be a buy sell forum, so that people looking for equipment could find stuff, and people who are selling dont have to distract others.





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Oct 10 2004 12:58AM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 883
Hmm... Ok, I've been hearing alot about changing the forums. We have been talking about this and we have two options available to us.

First is to revamp the forums to include all of the lacking features such as smilies, GUI assisted HTML editor, editing posts, picutre uploades, etc...

Or second we can grab some other open-source forum and modify it to suit our needs.

From my standpoint, redoing the forums from scratch or using a 3rd party forum that can then be hacked up would be the easiest and quickest way to upgrade the forums with modern features.

In addition to the cosmetic and feature changes that are requested, there is alot of work to be done on the back end if we were to upgrade our current forum.

We are open to both options, what do you guys thing? Re-code of the forum from scratch or using an open source forum?

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Oct 10 2004 9:25AM
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mauii
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giving people here more options in the forum is like giving a stoned baby a chainsaw.

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Oct 10 2004 12:57PM
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Swirly999
Posts: 2833 - Karma: 10
yea if pictures are made easier to post and people are aloud to use smilies things may get out of control. I can't stand thsoe stupid little yellow things and its nice now cause not everyone knows how to post pictures.


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Stoners sit and wait for it to turn green
Oct 10 2004 1:14PM
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Skier10322
Posts: 2170 - Karma: 145
If you add edit post make it so you can only change it for like the first 5 minutes after you post it. Also if you recode the forum keep it lookin the same, don't just copy one of the forums we see on every other website.
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Oct 10 2004 2:27PM
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mikee
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no smileys please please please please please please pleasE~!!!!! NO SMILEYS, no edit post! Polls is the only thign maybe.

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Oct 10 2004 2:27PM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 883
Thanks for the feedback. If we do decide to use a 4rd party forum it would be modified to integrate into the site the way the current forum does. ...We would probably rip out the smilies as well. ;)

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Oct 10 2004 3:33PM
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proZach
Posts: 7163 - Karma: 919
no smiles at all. i like how we have to kinda work to paste the pictures. i like the simplicity of the forums as well. also, the blue is awesome. it reminds me of snow/ice. newschoolers is awesome.





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Oct 10 2004 6:15PM
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ESB
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I like Skier10322's suggestion: If there is an 'edit post' option, make it only be active for 5-10 minutes after the post has been made. people going back and changing their posts throws off the flow of the threads. If they can't get it right the first time, too bad.

Also, on Macs the drop-down menus turn transparent when you move the mouse over them... it gets a bit confusing! That should be fixed.

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Oct 10 2004 6:50PM
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nopoles
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I will be making changes to the menu to make them more compatible with non-IE browsers.

When you say on Mac, do you mean in Safari?

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Oct 10 2004 7:56PM
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Swirly999
Posts: 2833 - Karma: 10
Would that mean that teh dropdowns would work on firefox cause that would be sick.


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Oct 10 2004 11:36PM
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skodeo7
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having the drop down menus work on Safari would be nice, but Ive gotten used to them not working so it really doesnt matter too much.
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Oct 13 2004 1:42PM
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Tosh
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emoticons i love those things



also please make a IMG button when you go to reply to a post so it will make it so much easier for people

Oct 13 2004 1:56PM
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sconniestyle
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to be quite honest, i enjoy the fact that ns is less teeny-im ish than other forums. the lack of smiley faces all over the place is something i enjoy, not despair over. the 5 min post-change thing would be nice, but if it is a big deal to do, we have lived without it for a long time. the site is good in its simplicity, and while i would welcome most changes in the name of progress, i implore you to rethink the emoticon idea.



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Oct 13 2004 2:23PM
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faah
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i think there should be a 'next' button in the pictures where you can just look at one after the other without having to go back. the forums now are fine without emoticons or an easier way to post pictures. if you made those easier to use, both would become abused. also, you should update a few sections under media such as 'games' and 'radio'. either bring it back, or take it off

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Oct 13 2004 4:24PM
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faah
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^the radio part

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Oct 13 2004 4:25PM
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pmills
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i had this but only 1 person looked at the thread...a nice addition would be column that says when the last post in it was made, sometimes cults go inactive, and instead of checking it every so often in the forums, just have it there on you're cult page, cult name, forum, grand master, # members, last post date
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