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Suggestions for new chainBB features
Without a doubt chainBB is one of the coolest forums I've seen. I feel like the way it categorizes things is so much better than steemit.
Some suggestions after going through it for a while:
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As a new user, not having a
Post Nowbutton on the home page made it a little overwhelming trying to figure out how to make a post. I think if you added a button to the home page it could possibly take the user to a screen that allowed them to pick from categories or a dropdown listing the popular ones.
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Before I clicked on any of the categories on the home screen I tried to do a search based on what I was looking for, "Poetry" for example. When I typed in "Poetry" into the search box it listed a few posts, but did not result in the category I was looking for. My suggestion is to have 2 search fields; one for
Post Searchand the other forCategory Search.
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In order to prevent users from creating their own categories and subcategories (as this could just create a mess on the forum) I think there should be a section to suggest or request that new categories be created. Maybe allow them to define the primary tag that they want, but if it isn't already an existing category/subcategory within chainBB then it would would have to be approved by admin. Until that happens its categorized under their next tag that is used for their post.
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Making the
Post Bodybox size adjustable (just vertically would be fine). -
An awesome favicon is definitely needed!
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My last suggestion for the time being is to add a "live" side-by-side preview of your markdown, similar to the way this open source online markdown editor does it https://github.com/benweet/stackedit. That way you can see what your markdown looks like as you are typing.
Overall, #chainbb is awesome. I hope there is some way that we can find ways for this to be used for other crypto projects soon. Looking forward to the next version!
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Its pretty cool, I checked it out myself and put a few posts on there, hopefully will engage with some new faces there! Enjoy the upboat!
I have followed you bc you seem to know a bit about this stuff! I am new to this and not sure how to make the most of it yet, but willing to learn...Check out my art, if you like and follow me if you like what you see :) https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmUA6CNxGuwuUQaoPErSq9ExRmX91VoR2P11LLbGfsNLCP/Stardust.jpg
@jesta what if there was a tab on each profile where you can view every post a user has upvoted?
(erroneous post)
@jesta, another couple of minor suggestions here
Replybutton it would be nice for the cursor to automatically go into the text field box so that the user doesn't have to click in the text box before beginning to type.Hmmm, comparing the posts on the forum to steemit, it looks like all replies go to the original post, and not to replies of other users. So this is just another "test" reply from chainBB by replying to my latest comment.
I personally think that would just be too cumbersome for the forum. Right now chainBB is simple and clean and should remain that way. Something like steemd would be a better place for that kind of information.
Well ignore those previous comments and suggestion. I guess I still have some learning to do. Nesting looks wonderful on chainBB for comments to other users.
true, I definitely think it is a feature that SOME application should incorporate
I think to have some kind of stats for users might be ok, but not overly details information because it'll just weight down this simple and elegant forum design.
i could agree with that, perhaps that kind of details is more suited for steemd or steemdb
meep
beautiful. feel free to check out my posts and follow ;)
Meep!
meep
I am missing posts from my follewers.
I have to comment on the first to see them on my "responses" tab on chainbb.
Thanks jesta! :)
Interesting suggestions.
I love it how you can fidget with two decimals.
But nevermind that, I used 100% here.
Don't use 100% powerup. It is worth more to sell SBD at an exchange, buy steem and then power up 100%
I'm excited to see what features
meep_bot/0.0.2releases! :)All great suggestions, thanks so much @stoner19 for putting these together. I'll see if I can squeeze a few of them into the next release. You've nailed a few of the minor things that have been bugging me as well :)
Always happy to help friends!
excellent poste very good @stoner19 thank you for sharing
meep
Was just entering a bunch of these in github so I don't forget
This one though, does it not resize for you? Chrome/macOS has a little draggable icon in the bottom right that let's me resize it vertically. What OS/Browser combo isn't working?