Forum Suggestions V2

[Writers Block]

Working fine for me! o7 Thanks, Neam!

[valkea]

Search seems to be working fine for me, haven't had any issues since it was updated.

I was wondering though if it was possible to enable signatures for all users in News and Announcements and the Tower Fall dev blog, or if it isn't possible, what reason there is for this restriction. As it is now, I only ever see signatures from admins and some mods (Koa's and Neam's from what I've seen.. report team related maybe?), though I haven't combed through those boards to check who can and can't use signatures. When I post there, I don't even have the option to enable it and I don't recall ever having it.

It's a pretty minor thing, but I don't recall ever seeing a reason given for this oddity and it really doesn't make sense to only allow signatures in those boards for a very select few when the rest of the forum doesn't have this restriction. Sorry if I've missed something.

[PearlyReborn]

Search seems to be working fine for me, haven't had any issues since it was updated.

I was wondering though if it was possible to enable signatures for all users in News and Announcements and the Tower Fall dev blog, or if it isn't possible, what reason there is for this restriction. As it is now, I only ever see signatures from admins and some mods (Koa's and Neam's from what I've seen.. report team related maybe?), though I haven't combed through those boards to check who can and can't use signatures. When I post there, I don't even have the option to enable it and I don't recall ever having it.

It's a pretty minor thing, but I don't recall ever seeing a reason given for this oddity and it really doesn't make sense to only allow signatures in those boards for a very select few when the rest of the forum doesn't have this restriction. Sorry if I've missed something.

Yeah, it's very peculiar.

[Neamara]

I was wondering though if it was possible to enable signatures for all users in News and Announcements and the Tower Fall dev blog, or if it isn't possible, what reason there is for this restriction.

I'm assuming Cana restricted signatures in this way to prevent people from attaching busy or distracting signatures in their replies. I remember there being some code-and-symbol-heavy signatures back in the day... perhaps we should disable signatures from administrators' posts and only enable them for the WolfQuest Team, considering most of WolfQuest's employees (from Eduweb and Minnesota Zoo) are already in that group...?

As it is now, I only ever see signatures from admins and some mods (Koa's and Neam's from what I've seen.. report team related maybe?)

It's a pretty minor thing, but I don't recall ever seeing a reason given for this oddity and it really doesn't make sense to only allow signatures in those boards for a very select few when the rest of the forum doesn't have this restriction.

The Report Team never had signature permissions in that forum; looking back, the same would normally apply to moderators as well, though it has always been enabled for administrators. What I can say is that this was an unintentional oversight from some permissions tweaks that were made two days ago -- will get to work fixing it now.

• Edit

Signatures from 2-Aug-2017's permissions tweaks should no longer appear in WolfQuest News & Announcements. I'll leave it up to Dave to decide whether or not signatures should be enabled for all users in N&A and the devblog.

[alethe]

-- SPAM war (maybe. if it happens it'll likely be after the app release.)

hi can we do this please


On a more serious note, what about allowing images in all forums for users who've proven that they won't spam bad images? Like senior users, former uotms, etc?

Edit: i just realized how ironic this post was lol rip

[Paxis]

Following the search bar fix, I suppose now is a good time to bring up another function that hasn't been working (at least for me): the 'Mark Forums Read' function on the Board Index page has been broken, not sure for how long. When I click on it, no description appears to tell me that all forums have been marked read, and certainly no action to mark the forums as read ever happens.
The 'Mark Subforums Read' and 'Mark Topics Read' functions both work, it's just the one on the Board Index that seems to be glitched.

[Neamara]

Noticed the same thing a while ago - think it's been like that since before eduweb came back, though I'm not 100% sure. Good to know it isn't an isolated issue and it would be nice if it could be fixed.

In other news, the first post has been slightly updated - the legend or key now has two more categories, and some colour coding has been changed.

• POST MERGE

Got a question regarding post count rank badges.

Should we change them so that each rank is unique? Right now, each badge is in use 2-3 times for certain ranks, as shown here:

• First rank: Newborn Wolf, 1 post.
  Second rank: Pup, 20 posts.
  Third rank: Hunter-in-training, 100 posts.
  Fourth rank: Yearling, 250 posts.
  Fifth rank: Sub-adult Wolf, 500 posts.
  Sixth rank: Adult Wolf, 1,000 posts.
  Seventh rank: Dispersal Wolf, 1,750 posts.
  Eighth rank: New Pack Member, 3,000 posts.
  Ninth rank: Skilled Hunter, 5,000 posts.
  Tenth rank: Pack Leader, 10,000 posts.
  Eleventh rank: Experienced Wolf, 20,000 posts.
  Twelfth rank: Pack Elder, 40,000 posts.

To make each rank unique, we could instead do something like this:

• First rank: Newborn Wolf, 1 post.
  Second rank: Pup, 20 posts.
  Third rank: Hunter-in-training, 100 posts.

And so on. This change would only affect post-based ranks that either update automatically (gold pawprints) or are periodically checked and manually updated (moderator ranks). If we are all okay with giving this a try, that only leaves the question of which version of the pawprint to use.

Diagonal:
Vertical:

Strawpoll

[roguemoon]

Diagonal:
Vertical:

Strawpoll

I personally think the diagonal paw looks better, it shows more clearly than the vertical.

[wolf567]

Love the idea of changing the post count rank badges - I personally prefer the diagonal option.

[paperpaws]

I like that, especially considering the amount of posts between some of them. The diagonal one looks nicer to me. It looks more symmetrical somehow.

[Neamara]

Okay, I've put these together. Here's an updated preview:

• First rank: Newborn Wolf, 1 post.
  Second rank: Pup, 20 posts.
  Third rank: Hunter-in-training, 100 posts.
  Fourth rank: Yearling, 250 posts.
  Fifth rank: Sub-adult Wolf, 500 posts.
  Sixth rank: Adult Wolf, 1,000 posts.
  Seventh rank: Dispersal Wolf, 1,750 posts.
  Eighth rank: New Pack Member, 3,000 posts.
  Ninth rank: Skilled Hunter, 5,000 posts.
  Tenth rank: Pack Leader, 10,000 posts.
  Eleventh rank: Experienced Wolf, 20,000 posts.
  Twelfth rank: Pack Elder, 40,000 posts.

For the twelfth rank, do we still want to use the standard five pawprints badge, or should we try something different? Any ideas?
I was messing around with the templates for a bit, so all I've got to show for it are these two edits:

• Metallic/Emboss
  
  
  Gleam _{animates once every 5 seconds}
  

Strawpolls: Re: Twelfth rank & Metallic/embossed, gleam or other?
If you vote other in the second poll, you may contribute your own creation- closed

[Writers Block]

Ooh, I kind of like that gleam animation! It's subtle, but very nice.

[roguemoon]

i agree, the gleam is pretty cool!

[SilkenGalaxy]

The gleam looks awesome!

[wolf567]

I think it would be nice to have the 12th rank somewhat different from the others - so I vote for gleam too.