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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 17/2/2010 8:54:19 PM

Rgirvan44

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Its not like there is a massive amount of traffic in that forum as it is. Having a subforum seems a little limiting. As a BR owner now I have had no problems with the way it is currently set up - plus you will have repeat DVD and Blu Ray threads which dilutes discussion even further.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 17/2/2010 9:19:21 PM

UTB

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But the repetition goes on anyway, there are countless threads that relate to a film already out on DVD being released on Blu Ray. If we had a separate forum these could go in there.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 11/3/2010 12:32:07 PM

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Any update on when these changes are going to happen?

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 22/3/2010 7:37:03 PM

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I can't seem to leave a message in the Blogs with the code on, I write the message enter the correct code and then when the screen comes back my post isn't, Is this a delay so that it can be approved? Is my system not working right?

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 9/5/2010 5:21:03 PM

Scruffybobby

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It may have already been mentioned, but can we have a "jump to page" function? It can be a bit of bugger finding stuff in a long running thread only being able to jump back or foward 3 pages or so.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 9/5/2010 8:56:12 PM

Jim

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No idea if this is the right thread but here goes.

I just bought an Android phone the other week and I've discovered this rather nifty app called Tapatalk that makes reading forums much easier by formatting them appropriately for the phone screen. Seems forum owners need to download and install a small, free plugin on their end to give users this capability. I'm using it on a couple of other forums that I visit and it's really very useful. Is there any chance Empire would consider adding this?

Website and info is here http://www.tapatalk.com/ as you can see it's for iPhone, Android and a couple others.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 9/6/2010 7:37:01 AM

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i agree with u..

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 9/6/2010 7:44:41 AM

Felix

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Scruffybobby

It may have already been mentioned, but can we have a "jump to page" function? It can be a bit of bugger finding stuff in a long running thread only being able to jump back or foward 3 pages or so.

Just change the page number in the URL, for example, with this thread...

http://www.empireonline.com/forum/tm.asp?m=2188259&mpage=7&key=&NID=0#2748625

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 9/6/2010 8:57:57 AM

elab49

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Jim

No idea if this is the right thread but here goes.

I just bought an Android phone the other week and I've discovered this rather nifty app called Tapatalk that makes reading forums much easier by formatting them appropriately for the phone screen. Seems forum owners need to download and install a small, free plugin on their end to give users this capability. I'm using it on a couple of other forums that I visit and it's really very useful. Is there any chance Empire would consider adding this?

Website and info is here http://www.tapatalk.com/ as you can see it's for iPhone, Android and a couple others.

Jim, you might be better off posting this in the Iphone forum. First, it's probably more likely to be noticed by Empire as it is a more new and shiny place and second, there is some stuff on something called androids in there already.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 22/7/2010 11:29:17 PM

rich

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If you've gotta change anything, stop the title changes in replies so that I can see the topic that is actually being discussed in the most recent reply.

Hmm this was January 2009.... any chance ? It's a total pain seeing all these random words from the forum main index page.

You could also do with making the links in some of the special forums actually work "Comment on this article" leads nowhere in many. Just now - the game review section.

Changing your own user title would be nice too - and spare up Moderator time

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 29/7/2010 1:01:14 PM

UTB

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Please can we disable coolstar's 'New Post' button?

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 19/8/2010 6:36:06 PM

DJ Satan

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Any updates on these proposed changes? Lots of good ideas here.

Another suggestion that I will know will never happen: Can the avatars of users who are not coming back be altered? Either faded out or removed entirely. I keep seeing old posts I want to reply to and then realise the original poster is no longer here.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 30/9/2010 4:19:25 PM

Gram123

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Is there any intetion to implement any of the suggestions made in this thread?

What happened to the original "We'll give you until 15 March [2009] to make your suggestions"?? We've overan that by 18 months.

My suggestion is: if you've requested that people give you suggestions for improving the site, you should address those suggestions in some capacity!

To be honest, it feels like we're using outdated forum software. It's often slow to open pages (especially via Firefox, for some reason, where the smileys and other minor images take forever to open).

The font system is still weird - something I shouted about maybe a year ago (I think in a different thread?).
The original issue - text formats like coloured fonts and bold disappearing after you submit the post - seems to have stopped (or at least I haven't experienced it for a while) However, font behaviour is still dodgy. Most recently, I've noticed that if I edit a message that has non-standard font in it (e.g. Courier, for it's fixed-width-ness), and copy and paste a piece of that text, the pasted text looks different to the text I've just copied! Wha?!? This never used to happen. What's going on?

The Search facility sometimes just doesn't seem to work - you enter your search terms for something you know you wrote some time ago, and it just fails to find it. I've sometimes had better results using Google and searching for Empire Online Forum plus the search item....
E.g., we know the words "blu ray" have been used multiple times in this thread.
Go to Search, enter the Search Term "blu ray" (without quotes). Set the forum to Empire Online. Other options are set to:
- Topics and Replies
- Subject
- within -- All topics
- single-byte chars
- Top 300 results, match all words
And what does it come back with? One thread. And it ain't this one.

I don't know, it just feels like the whole thing needs overhauling. Little seems to have changed in the 4.5+ years since I joined. Is anything happening? Planned for the future?

Oh, and I can't remember if there's been a response to this in a different thread (I've tried the Search, it doesn't work!), but here's my earlier suggestion, made in May 2009, which certainly got no response in this thread, and which other people have also suggested multiple times:

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ORIGINAL: Gram123
I think a Blu Ray forum is becoming more desirable over time.
[...]
If it's not considered big enough to get it's own full forum, perhaps "BD Discussion" could be added as a sub-forum of DVD Discussion, as with Objects of Desire under Actors and Auters.

If it's a no go, then maybe just renaming DVD Discussion to "DVD & Blu Ray Discussion" or similar?

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 30/9/2010 6:18:55 PM

elab49

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I've not heard anything about code changes in the time I've been green, sadly. What I would say though is that last time it was adjusted slightly to deal with the PM spammers - limiting the no. of people who could be PM'd - the entire PM system pretty much fell over.

I tend to the 'don't tinker' corner now.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 30/9/2010 6:20:23 PM

elab49

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Also - isn't the problem with the two separate words blu and ray the search facilities inability to deal with words of 3 letters or less?

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 1/10/2010 12:58:59 AM

Gram123

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Is it? Fair enough, however, that just shows the limitations of the search facility, I s'pose.

Another search I've tried was for something I wrote about a HK actress in the 60s who played the role of Mulan. I was trying to remember her name. I'm 99% certain it was in Knowledge Base (the other 1% is World Cinema). It was probably a couple of years ago that I wrote it. Can't get any results if I specify "Mulan" (more than 3 chars!) as the search, Knowledge Base as the forum and "Within" "All Topics" as the time filter.

Actually, I've just found it via a Google search - http://www.empireonline.com/forum/tm.asp?m=2254450&mpage=1&key=&NID=0#2255281
The thread was actually from early 2009, and the person I was looking for, Chen Yunchang.

So, what's the issue here? I'm sure we can search for things more than a year old, can't we? If not, it's another limitation to the search function, that could do with upgrading IMHO.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 9/11/2010 12:16:56 AM

bobthegrinch

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Isn't it about time the forums had one of those 'type the characters you see' boxes on the forums to see if it prevents some of the spamming that appears in every talk back now? Also is there anyway that the spellcheck thing could be changed to the English dictionary as I'm always getting the red squiggle under words and when I check them, I've spelt it right. I know it's only a little thing but I'm English, Empire is British and the American way of spelling certain words is just wrong. Like the classic colour/color.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 20/1/2011 12:01:25 PM

flemingstuart

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Hello, seems to be nice forum, i am new here..

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 18/3/2011 3:41:52 AM

Spaldron

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Erm.. ok am I back here again. Testing..

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 18/4/2011 9:11:36 AM

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A Blu-Ray subforum is something I've championed for a while now, it's such a simple change that would make a world of difference....

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 30/4/2011 4:20:35 AM

Spaldron

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quote:

ORIGINAL: bobthegrinch

Isn't it about time the forums had one of those 'type the characters you see' boxes on the forums to see if it prevents some of the spamming that appears in every talk back now? Also is there anyway that the spellcheck thing could be changed to the English dictionary as I'm always getting the red squiggle under words and when I check them, I've spelt it right. I know it's only a little thing but I'm English, Empire is British and the American way of spelling certain words is just wrong. Like the classic colour/color.

Can I just second this. A captcha first, then UK English please?

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 30/4/2011 11:23:17 AM

elab49

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We've asked about the captcha, which seems an obvious way to go since the various other spam filters being tried clearly aren't working. Personally I prefer the symbol one rather than the squiggly writing - I often find those illegible.

I'm not sure the spellcheck is possible - I've used a variety of sites and never found one with a spellcheck that's anything other than useless.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 6/7/2011 9:53:12 PM

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Hug smilie please.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 29/7/2011 2:22:26 PM

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I would love if the empire ipad app was connected to the forum.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 30/7/2011 6:25:12 PM

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 25/9/2011 1:54:53 PM

Rgirvan44

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The fourms are looking a bit old now - even from when this thread was started. For instance - embedding videos is something most up to date forums should be able to handle

The sheer number of sub forums could be cut down, or tided up without too much hassle. But to be honest, I think the place needs a coat of paint - it has been over half a decade since the place was last revamped - lot has happened in that time.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 25/9/2011 2:03:17 PM

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Can someone tell Pigeon Army not to be a big poo-poo head meanie? He changed my sig and made me cry.

Thanx.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 25/9/2011 2:50:00 PM

elab49

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Do you mean title?

Although, frankly, for The Departed comment you deserve all you get.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 25/9/2011 3:08:26 PM

MonsterCat

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Well, he changed my title and my sig, and then I changed my sig again to get back at him.

Two can play at that game, you little gumdrop.

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RE: Review of the EMPIRE Forums - your thoughts welcome! - 10/12/2011 12:17:07 AM

Rgirvan44

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So like, will anything ever come of these pages?

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