Forum changes you'd like to see

[Psopho]

As I mentioned in my introduction post I've been nagging Steve with offers of help in running the forum. A big part of that is going to be getting it upgraded as the forum software and the server it's on are both well out of date. This puts it at risk of things going wrong and putting this awesome resource at risk.
I'm keen for everyone's input on changes and improvements you'd like to see on the forum so we can factor those in when the upgrades happen. Anything along the lines of "I wish that ..." or "it's frustrating that/when ...".
A couple from me to get things started:
- A better search function would be a huge help. Especially for it to show individual posts not just the whole thread.
- Image uploads seem prohibitive in terms of how large the image can be. It would be better if larger images were accepted and then resized automatically.

Keen for any thoughts.

Cheers,
Nic

[Roger Dowding]

" Phospho ",

Greetings, Yes it would be great to have some better functions, I use the small " Search " function a lot using keywords but it tends to bring up whole threads and then when you open a thread the " Keyword " is highlighted but in black.

Images ; size and also number is restrictive, usually up to 6 at a time, and I know others often only do 4 as it take some time to firstly resize to under 185kb and then to post.

Will be great for the forum to continue, with perhaps a small annual subscription for members, although of course it can be viewed by anyone.
There is a lot of information on TRS that is worth saving. Much of it is on Facebook groups but they are often hard to search as well.

Cheers

Roger.



This guy !!

[Psopho]

Thanks Roger.
Good point on the search result highlighting. I've changed that now so the search term will be highlighted in red text rather than the black background.
There are some options with image uploading like increasing the limit beyond 6 or enabling automatic resizing but I don't want to change those without a bit more investigation into the implications.