Suggestions for the RC India forum/website

[KALYANPRODHAN]

Yes Sir, /?imode is the trick. I use it in need.

Thanks

[vinay]

Can you please put the smilies in the MORE section in the second row. Most are not getting used and its pain to do 3 more clicks. 

[anwar]

I found that sometimes loading each of these smilies are taking a while, so I put the most common ones in the initial "Reply"/"Preview" screen itself.  If there are any that are frequently used, I will move them also.

[vinay]

Oh, ok. I have a fast net connection (so do most) so did not notice delay much enough to bother me.

[anwar]

Atul, is there a Emoticon for expressing gratitude other than for this    like  :kiss: thanks a lot for this link, will be of gr8 help.

For your suggestion :

[iamahuman]

 

Use this

[rcpilotacro]

anwar bhai, more emoticons, like the ones you added, can you device something RC specific, like for a 'successful maiden' 'crashed and burnt' etc

[iamahuman]

nice idea

[vinay]

Have you checked the icons on Erodov? If not check it out and you will never use icons at all in your life, so frustruating 

[rcpilotacro]

Erodov? saw them, some of them of sick and scary, i was talking about, is there RC specific emoticons ? anywhere ? if not should we try it out as the first RC forum ever to do that.

[anwar]

If the creative/artistic folks here can build some RC specific ones, I will make sure they are uploaded here

[abhay]

I think that there should be a text chat facility as well on this site. This can be a better alternative for PMs, when people are online, except for business deals.
It could be a better means of communication between online members...

[anwar]

I think we should force people to search before posting

http://www.rcindia.org/rc-india-forum/suggestions/msg18574/#msg18574 (in this same thread!)

Please keep the suggestions coming... they have greatly improved this forum for everyone !

[anwar]

Have you checked the icons on Erodov? If not check it out and you will never use icons at all in your life, so frustruating 

Solution : http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/the-emoticon-keypad-20110124/ 

[xxkrishxx]

may i know why u have not yet provided this gadget as many people are expecting this?

[vinay]

Heights of it! 

[ujjwaana]

'Recently Updated Topics' looks clattery!

I have found that the Recent topics section looks clattery. I bet it is most visited single section as most of the regular members use it as 'Breaking News Page'. Some times the new post are hard to read when people use All Caps, and when the single topic gets 'Wrapped' to next line.

1. How about removing the name of the Forum where the post was posted. since we dont have too many forums with varied interest people. If not removing, we can truncate the name of the forum with max 10-12characters

2. Leaving the borders of the table/Grid so that each new topic stands out.

Attaching the SS


<Edit: Instead of putting the border, I made cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" for the table. see the 2nd SS with Forum Name of first few topics removed and above changes done to give space between post topics list.>

[anwar]

Wow, you are putting a serious effort into this

A lot of what you are asking is one click away, namely "Recent Topics" in the main menu :

http://www.rcindia.org/recenttopics/

It has the grids, better formatting, and more detail.  I duplicated it on the front page to help people save that one click !  But the dedicated "Recent Topics" page is lighter, and will load faster (if ever that is an issue).

Let me see what can be done to improve the readability of the existing list on the main page.

[iamahuman]

I don't find it very hard.In fact,it is better the way it is.

[J A Vincent]

RCINDIA Brotherhood
Is it possible to add personal E-mail id, mobile number and address in the personal profile, so that we can communicate and talk to and meet them, who are within meet-able distance and to help each other.
javincent

[anwar]

I would strongly urge people NOT to do that, even though the forum software already has the provisions.  The reason is that this may lead to unsolicited calls/mails from not only tele-marketers and email spammers, but also from forum members (YES).

Instead of email, use PM. If you want to call and talk to someone, PM and ask them for their number. This way, the callee gets to decide if they want to entertain phone calls or not. People may voluntarily PM their numbers to others, if they think they can be of help.

We do NOT want the forum to be a source for invasion of privacy of individuals.

[J A Vincent]

I understand the consequences now

thanks a lot

javincent

[xxkrishxx]

Hi Anwar,I'm not able to send pms since yesterday.I have not tried it though computer but most of the time i browse using my mobile.Anybody else facing the same problem?

[anwar]

There is a quota for PMs, did you hit that ?  What error message (if any) are you getting ?

[pvn2000]

how abt making a rcindia applet for the blackberries and i phones,,,it would be more in access