The new site settled a bit so let's talk: what would you like to see next?

[Brock Beauchamp]

I just want to touch base with all of you and get a feel for how you like the site now that things have settled in a bit.

What would you like to see next on the site? Where can we improve? Where are we succeeding? Anything you have to say, please share. The backbone of this site is the forum community and we need your input to keep making things better.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

That dark mode frequently mentioned by others would sure be awfully sweet

[Brock Beauchamp]

2 minutes ago, Ron Robinsons Beard said:

That dark mode frequently mentioned by others would sure be awfully sweet

Heh, I kinda forgot about that. It's proving to be more work than I expected but I'll log some real hours on it tomorrow and see how far I can get.

[Sixtolezcano]

I would like to see a “block” option so I don’t view specific user comments.

[timpep]

2 hours ago, Sixtolezcano said:

I would like to see a “block” option so I don’t view specific user comments.

click on your username on top right and go to ignored users

[edfunderburk]

9 hours ago, Ron Robinsons Beard said:

That dark mode frequently mentioned by others would sure be awfully sweet

Agreed

I always triple click my iPhone to read in dark mode

[Brock Beauchamp]

@Ron Robinsons Beard @edfunderburk I had a boring D&D session tonight - yes, that's the kind of person I am - so I actually fixed most of the obvious issues with dark mode while I was playing. I'm relatively confident I can roll it out tomorrow some time.

[AKCheesehead]

One small thing I miss-and I don’t know if this is something mods can still do here or not, is: they used to edit the game thread titles after the game, adding the final score and sometimes a quick bit about what was noteworthy about the game. I always appreciated that. 
 

From a nostalgic standpoint, I miss the old Link Report logo. 

[igor67]

Brock allow me to recommend Pathfinder and Starfinder to cure your D&D boredom. Public play options in the Twin Cities

https://www.meetup.com/msp-pathfinders/

I follow baseball, teach science, and play table top RPG's, so I think it's fine. Historically we've had a lot of programmers in the area participate.

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

34 minutes ago, igor67 said:

Brock allow me to recommend Pathfinder and Starfinder to cure your D&D boredom. Public play options in the Twin Cities

https://www.meetup.com/msp-pathfinders/

I follow baseball, teach science, and play table top RPG's, so I think it's fine. Historically we've had a lot of programmers in the area participate.

Oh, I quite like the game I'm in, that session just had a lot of idle time for my character. I'm the dumb brute of the party and it was a "thinkin' man" session so my character didn't have anything to kill.

But thank you for the recommendation, I'll keep it in mind!

[Brock Beauchamp]

@edfunderburk @Ron Robinsons Beard Here you go!

 

 

[SomewhereInTime]

Instead of caretaker option, let me pay for an option to be able to say whatever I want with no ability to block, ban, delete, or suspend me.

[Brock Beauchamp]

27 minutes ago, SomewhereInTime said:

Instead of caretaker option, let me pay for an option to be able to say whatever I want with no ability to block, ban, delete, or suspend me.

I’m not sure if this is a joke but sorry, no. This community - and especially me - take a lot of pride in being part of something that is inclusive, rational, and not… *gestures wildly at the rest of the internet*

[wallus]

Would be nice to try and get chats from front office people, players, people with respected opinions. (not podcast dudes from their basement) 

Not that I would necessarily partake but there used to be a bfan ticket deal.

There used to be a probationary (not sure that is the proper word) on new posters. It helped from new posters being idiots and that would be great if it came back.

So far so good on this place.

[SomewhereInTime]

4 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I’m not sure if this is a joke but sorry, no. This community - and especially me - take a lot of pride in being part of something that is inclusive, rational, and not… *gestures wildly at the rest of the internet*

I take offense to that as someone who resides in the portion of the internet you wildly gesture at.

[GAME05]

Not sure how it is on mobile, but when the ad at the bottom of the page changes, it throws you out of the text box and you have to click on it again to continue typing. Not the world's worst thing by any stretch, but it's annoying.

[jerichoholicninja]

Maybe this is just more of a technical issue but it takes a long time for Tweets to load for me. At least 10 seconds if not more sometimes.

[Brock Beauchamp]

40 minutes ago, jerichoholicninja said:

Maybe this is just more of a technical issue but it takes a long time for Tweets to load for me. At least 10 seconds if not more sometimes.

I've noticed that tweets seem to load really late, moreso than Twins Daily. I'll keep an eye on this and see if there's an actual difference.

[homer]

@Brock BeauchampI don't know how hard this is code wise, but it would be really cool if we could somehow drag and drop to re-order a prospect list in the Prospect Ranking thread rather than cut and paste. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

10 minutes ago, homer said:

@Brock BeauchampI don't know how hard this is code wise, but it would be really cool if we could somehow drag and drop to re-order a prospect list in the Prospect Ranking thread rather than cut and paste. 

Yeah, I've spun this around in my head a few times and don't have a great solution. The admin side of the prospect tracker is actually drag-and-drop and for this kind of work, it's actually not great. I'm sorry I decided to go that route instead of just numbering them by hand.

Drag-and-drop is particularly difficult to do well on mobile.