What do you click/use the most on DiV?

[Jarre]

Re: What do you click/use the most on DiV?

New posts always when I arrive at the website.

[Feba]

Re: What do you click/use the most on DiV?

I have New Posts bookmarked

[Aksannyi]

Re: What do you click/use the most on DiV?

I browse through my User CP first. I subscribe to every thread I post in, so I always check those first to see if there are any new replies. Once I've finished with those threads, I go straight to New Posts looking for ... new posts.

Search is like this on every vBulletin forum, I doubt anything really can be done with it. It's always been a crapshoot in my opinion.

[Solymir]

Re: What do you click/use the most on DiV?

New Posts

[Taskmage]

Re: What do you click/use the most on DiV?

Ok, wait wait. Raise your hand if you actually browse from the forum main page and use the categories. Because it sounds like it'd be best to have all the threads in one forum where the new posts could just rise to the top.

[Akashimo]

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Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread - Last Page

New posts

Subscribed Threads.

That order :x

[LilithAngel]

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I actually use the Top 7 statistics page to check new posts.

However, if you just made everything dump into one all-consuming forum, I could see that as bad, way bad. Olde posts (where a lot of good info is) would sink like a rock, never to surface again, then you'd get all these newbs asking the same damn questions 5475943 times over because they're too lazy to search. At least now, with everything categorized, they actually look before n00bing it up a bit.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What do you click/use the most on DiV?

I actually use the Top 7 statistics page to check new posts.

However, if you just made everything dump into one all-consuming forum, I could see that as bad, way bad. Olde posts (where a lot of good info is) would sink like a rock, never to surface again, then you'd get all these newbs asking the same damn questions 5475943 times over because they're too lazy to search. At least now, with everything categorized, they actually look before n00bing it up a bit.

I agree. I do like the organization. Sometimes if I'm looking for something specific, I'll go to the proper forum for it. Usually I'm not looking for answers, though, so I browse the new posts looking for people who are.

[Taskmage]

Re: What do you click/use the most on DiV?

Perhaps there would be some way I could reduce that information to a thread property so that if you wanted to see all the red mage threads you could filter for just those threads rather than navigating to the red mage forum. You could set multiple flags per thread so for example a thread on tanking might show up under either the pld or nin filter. I wonder if the forum software would accomodate something like that.

[DakAttack]

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Condense forums, add a new post box for each topic?

[LilithAngel]

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Would prolly be a lot of work to teach the forums that the key word 'tanking' would tag the thread for both Paladin and Ninja, but also would need to realize that it could also be talking about Blue Mage, Red Mage, Warrior, or anything else unorthodox but capable. Same for other concepts and key words.

Also, a good number of people usually give threads names that have nothing to do with the topic. Don't ask me why people are idiots like that, they just are. Those will quickly get lost in the shuffle.

[bikkebakke]

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I pretty much just use the "New Posts" link.

[Taskmage]

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Nuu teaching the forums to parse the topics would be too much work. The reorganizing would be hard enough. I was thinking more like checkboxes on the new thread form. We'd need job, craft, and server flags and some for OT categories maybe. There's got to be an ergonomic way to organize that information ..

[LilithAngel]

Re: What do you click/use the most on DiV?

Oh, well, yeah, I'm sure pre-setting the list of what kind of tags you slap on a thread when you make it wouldn't be too hard, but that still will be a good number of them. There's a wide variety of topics at hand for FFXI, be it tanking, support, DD, farming, HELM, crafting, fishing, NMs, Assault, ENM, job, quest, ad infinitum.

I'd prolly go with a collapsable menu the thread maker could open up, or a pop up like with the extra smileys, for these tic boxes, cuz otherwise, half the screen could easily be filled with them before they even get to the part where they start typing the message.

[Feba]

Re: What do you click/use the most on DiV?

Ok, wait wait. Raise your hand if you actually browse from the forum main page and use the categories. Because it sounds like it'd be best to have all the threads in one forum where the new posts could just rise to the top.

Actually, this would be a great idea, on two conditions:

1- A Tag system, which would also allow people to tag threads STARTED BY OTHER POSTERS. It would also need to allow ONLY posts tagged with that to be shown. This would also be a very cool way of letting people keep personal 'folders' of threads by tagging them, say by adding "YM-Guide", YM could keep track of guides that he finds particularly good at getting him to suck less. Using public tags, it'd also be kinda neat to sort through what other people find interesting. For example, someone new to the site could look at BBQ-Fun and quickly pick up that BBQ loves SMT games, or Feba-Interests and realize that Feba is dangerously insane.

2- SAGE. fukken sage. We've been needing this for years, no idea how I forgot it 'till now.