Suggestions for the RC India forum/website

[xxkrishxx]

Now the green colour links became blue colour?!

[anwar]

Still experimenting... this seems a little better than green.

[anwar]

Based on more feedback, went back to the original green.  People are reporting that it is the best (so far) in terms of contrast and readability.

[dhaksha_dx]

this is the most user friendly forum ive ever seen

[dst161]

Based on more feedback, went back to the original green.  People are reporting that it is the best (so far) in terms of contrast and readability.

Agree...

Thanks for reverting back. BTW the teal blue also looked good.

[abhay]

Anwar sir,
sometime i feel the need of "mark as favorite" option for the threads which can be of future use.. It may make it easy to hunt the topic in near future when we need it. 

[anwar]

There is a bookmark option. Unfortunately, it is a little hidden, on the "Topic Tools" drop down on the top right of any thread.

And you can access your Bookmarks via the "Quick Links -> My Bookmarks" option (in the main menu).

[PankajC]

Anwar,How about my long standing wish for a separate tab for build logs... kit,scratch etc, but all types of build logs as a separate thread.

[anwar]

I have always wanted to create (and split) new boards... you can see the discussion here.

http://www.rcindia.org/rc-india-forum/a-new-board-break-up-for-rc-india/

Time was the issue, because I have some technical challenges in terms of the "pretty urls" stuff that we are using to make the links readable. 

I am planning to get back to it soon.

[PankajC]

Hmm maybe a generate a Kind of a fixed number of options for the meta data (for the same post to appear in multiple threads) by the creator or moderator for the thread and then have members 'filter' threads based on the choice of meta data

[amit_delhi]

There are 2 bugs/improvements I want to suggest:

1. When we click on replies/views links, it sorts the threads in accending order, it should be desending ie from highest to lowest.
2. When we search anything on forums and on results page click on any link and than on browser click go back the results page gives and error, it comes up again when I click on try again link.

[anwar]

1.  Go to your "Profile".  Click on "Look and Layout Preferences" on the left.  Then enable the check-box for "Show most recent posts at the top".

http://www.rcindia.org/profile/?u=5142;sa=theme (this is a custom link for your profile, but anyone can do the same with their own profile).

This is configurable for each member, by themselves.

2.  That is just standard browser behavior when you have "post" pages (pages in which you have entered some information and then clicked "submit").  The way most people work around it is by opening the result links in a new page. Right click and choose "open link in a new page" or something like that in most browsers.

[amit_delhi]

Hi Anwar, thanks for merging with existing thread.

I think i could not explain the first point before.

To reproduce it:

1. Pls go to this link http://www.rcindia.org/for-sale/
2. Click on Replies or Views links, you will notice the threads appearing there are in ascending order, thrreads with 0 replies are coming on top. From usability point of view, if I am clicking on Views or Replies link than I am interested in threads with most number of replies or views not least.

Regarding 2nd point this can be achieved by using .htaccess redirects. Added advantage will be search results pages will be static pages without post request and urls will be like this http://www.rcindia.org/search2/pusher%trainer. Easy to crawl by search engines.

[anwar]

On the first one, you can always click "Views" or "Replies" again, and it will sort in reverse order.  So it is a matter of just an extra click.

On the second one, what you have described has nothing to do with "back button" behavior (from what I understand).  We are already using .htaccess for SEF ("search engine friendly") urls.  But whether one uses SEF or not  has little do with how browsers handle back button requests on "forms" that are "POSTed". The basic issue is that when you hit back button after submitting a Search request here, you are trying to go back to a page that was just "POST"ed, instead of one on which you did a "GET" (in web parlance).  Since POST requests send information to the server other than just the URL (and cookies), most browsers double check ("are you sure you want to send this information again?").  They do this to prevent things like not making the same payment twice in online banking... for example.  And if you decide to go ahead, you can say "yes, I really want to send this information again" and the browser will comply... which is exactly the behavior you described.

[roopeshkrishna]

our Forum is a fertile place, and getting more utility.. very happy to know.. a million salute for Anwar Saab for these efforts..this place is my inspiration and piece of mind..

[amit_delhi]

  thanks for the detailed explanation ....

[traxxrc1]

Anwar, please take a note on this.
Buy/Sell section needs some serious changes to prevent spam.
I found this on another real popuplar forum. Hope this helps

[anwar]

Buy/Sell section needs some serious changes to prevent spam.

Many of those don't apply in our context, and couple of them are valid suggestions.  Most importantly, WHY this seriousness about spam all of a sudden ?  Probably I did not notice the threads that caused concern to you, so please let me know what those are (via PM is fine, public would be even better).

I thought we are vigilant about "spam" per se, so I am concerned about this "serious changes to prevent spam" statement.

One thing is for sure.  There are lots of people who became members here after they sought a venue to sell their RC stuff.  So, at least in a first thought, I don't think it is the right to make people wait for 3 months to sell here.  Making it easy to conduct such commerce is one of the founding reasons for this site.

Another (previously popular and now defunct) Indian RC site had a rule that someone needed to post 10 times or so to use the classifieds.  People would just post "Very nice" and "Good luck" on 10 different threads, just to post their classifieds sale.  I think what we need is a vigilant community, which we already seem to have (at least to a large degree). 

Again, if you can point out things that I failed to see, that would be much appreciated. 

[KALYANPRODHAN]

Misuse comes after Use. And I think RCIndia members haves much more time to grow.
Again, RCIndia community is so frindly and crystal clear (Specially known sellers) that it encourages the hobbiest and cares in afterborn periode to become GOOD LHSs (But at first they all are RC FAN & Helper to me) unlike other forum.

In RC Community where RCIndia stand today is really due to the dedication of Anwar sir and some of specially serious guides cum teacher cum buyers and of course DETECTIVES like Divyam Sir, VC, MJA.. and lots more. Ex. 10 Channel thread.

Moreover, serious FRAUD sellers does not want to CHEAT only one time and so they don't want to make their BAD Reputation here but sells through separate Site and Engineering college student chain. So they FEAR our beloved forum.
And they really understood the POWER of us, Unitedly.

And so, its not needed instantly.

[anwar]

And so, its not needed instantly.

I will always welcome needed changes to how this forum works.  We just need to understand the problem(s), and figure out what/if changes are required.  We also need to look at a larger picture while doing so.

[theflyer]

One of the global moderators has asked me not to post sms language

Why
And how do you gain the flower things and repo power

[akumar40]

I will always welcome needed changes to how this forum works.  We just need to understand the problem(s), and figure out what/if changes are required.  We also need to look at a larger picture while doing so.

Anwar ji, I am of a very strong belief that most people hardly ever change at the grass root. They may be better informed over a period of time and with varios experiences. I feel that you are doing an awesome job of managing this forum, it will keep evolving as people evolve.

Thank you for all your efforts, most of which may go unsung, but I am certain that the people who matter, apreciate it.

Warm regards,
Amit K

[sutend]

One of the global moderators has asked me not to post sms language

Why
And how do you gain the flower things and repo power

I am also not sure how I can gain the repo power and the flower things. Most of all I would like the flower things because I love flowers and I often get fresh cheap and luxury flowers bypost from serenata. Maybe I can now also get the flower things.


Moderator Note: Unnecessary advertising link removed.

[AEROVISHWA]

anwar sir...please take a look

the recent posts or the recent updated topics on the homepage do not show all the updated or new posts, missed some posts.... specially "  Understanding aerodynamics of prop and frame"

also
under the " view new  replies"  not all  the new replies  are visible. some replies are  not found and  have to  be  searched  manually through the forum

[KALYANPRODHAN]

theflyer,

SMS languages cannot be searched when they are required as those are not dictionary word. The sentence may look complete to poster/writer but not to all. As this is India having so long list of language and binded by English, we try to post correct, complete english for all and that is why this rule introduced and
I personally happy with the rule, though sometime it takes some extra time to post.

Thanks