Fill up MarkG's TODO List!

[Skanky Burns]

Why preview? Edit works fine.

[Atahualpa]

I knew I didn't need to search long.

Here is a screenshot of http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...65#post3469565

[Sparrowhawk]

Hopefuly there isn't a maximum number of suggestions for the "ToDo List"....

I frequently get complaints in the Other Games Forum that I don't clean out my PM box often enough, and while I thought as a plus member it wouldn't be a problem, it still is (partially because I am unwilling to delete old messages).

The PM indicator (at the top of the page) indicates a % that your PM box is full, but this percentage is incorrect (perhaps only counting messages in your inbox instead of both the inbox and the sent folder?).

As a result mine currently shows 62% full when I have approx. 260 messages out of 300 (closer to 86% full).

[DrSpike]

Hmm, I thought Mark already fixed that.

Mine is 30% wrong also.

[Modo44]

Add a preview feature for PMs.

[DrSpike]

Would you use it? Does anyone use the existing preview?

[Modo44]

Yes, I would, and yes, I do.

It would make even more sense with PMs, because thay can't be edited if you make mistakes.

[DrSpike]

Can't you just read them before sending?

[Modo44]

I do, I do. The problem is with mixing text and formatting tags. The message looks very ugly before it's actually displayed, and finding errors by just reading it can be a problem. It is for me, that's certain. I need a debugger - the preview.

[Locutus]

That is actually a good point. I often use HTML code instead of vBB code. In PM's HTML code is disabled, but I keep forgetting that (old habits...). It can be helpful with other formatting as well (e.g. code fragments).

[Sirotnikov]

I would also support a suggestion that has risen here - joining low traffic forums.

classic games and other games is one example.

Not to mention the main forums page is getting terribly messy and will get messier when Civ IV rampage starts.

In any case, making lots of very small forums is a sure way of killing traffic to them - cause most will stop visiting the smaller forums, since they target a small audience and aren't updated as much.

[Skanky Burns]

Other Games is hardly what I'd call a low traffic forum. Putting any other forum in there, particularly low traffic ones would see their threads drop like a rock below the continuously bumped FGs. Games people are actively playing survive, classic games would not.

[Nikolai]

Agreed. But the Civ3 forums are a good example of forums that should be merged a bit more than they are today. Take "Civ3" and "Conquest" forums; First one has only a little per cent of the posts of the latter, even though they are about the same game...

[Adagio]

And RoN shouldn't have 4 sub-forums either, since none of them gets much traffic anyway...

[Nikolai]

Suggestion: Merge all the Civ3 Mp forums into one, and make underforums like the old Dinosaur forum.