Suggestions for the RC India forum/website

[likith]

hi everyone i dont know if there is a suggestions thread here but everyone please post your suggestions here.

i feel like there should be a search bar for this site.

[martian2121]

guess u could try this for search........... or perhaps u meant something different.......

[anwar]

I see that "Search" being just an option in the main menu is a bit hard to notice, and a "Search Box" would make it more visible.  I will try to add it as time permits.  Thank you for taking the time to suggest this 

I do have one suggestion though    Please take a moment to put a meaningful "subject" on each new thread/topic you are starting; and try to put it in the appropriate board.  For example, this topic itself, was just "suggestions", it would have made more sense to put it as "Suggestions for the forum" (removing any ambiguity as to whether it is a suggestion about a model or flying or the site itself).  Also, using capital letters for the the first word of a topic also makes it looks nice (even though that is more of a "nice to have").  I have updated the topic subject for this one, and moved it to the "RC India Forum" board.

[likith]

thanks

[likith]

hey i have another suggestion too.why dont you create a sent box where we can see all the messages we sent?i dont mean outbox where you have to manually check the box to store a copy of it

[likith]

one more why dont you increase the limit of the attachments like 500kb or 1mb?

[anwar]

hey i have another suggestion too.why dont you create a sent box where we can see all the messages we sent?i dont mean outbox where you have to manually check the box to store a copy of it

That is available already. If you click on the "Profile" option (you should see it below the main menu when you are logged in), then choose the "Personal Message Options" from the left side, you can see a check-box which says "Save a copy of each Personal Message in my outbox by default".  Just enable that, and you will have every message you sent out saved in your Outbox by default.

[anwar]

one more why dont you increase the limit of the attachments like 500kb or 1mb?

Answered here : http://www.rcindia.org/rc-india-forum/forum-usage-tips/msg2336/#msg2336

In short, those nasty people who own this forum do not seem to want to bear the cost of people like you and me being lazy about resizing the images     

On a serious note, most pictures have too much resolution, which can be reduced quite a bit without losing clarity/information.  Why take up server space (which is a costly commodity) indefinitely for something that adds NO value ?

BTW, your suggestions are sincerely appreciated    Please keep them coming.....

[likith]

what about .pdf files like there is a good info about nitro rc cars and that engine thing which you posted?i wanted to post a file which was 700kb

[mail4ajo]

Anwar, can we have a facility to quote multiple posts? Sometimes, I want to respond to multiple posts in one reply.

[anwar]

what about .pdf files like there is a good info about nitro rc cars and that engine thing which you posted?i wanted to post a file which was 700kb

Good point, I had not considered those. 

Since we do not have the ability to control attachment sizes by file type (and writing the code required is a matter of free time), and increasing the limit would cause more common attachments like images to uploaded with "extra" resolution, the simplest solution is for you email such  attachments (which are relatively rare) to the address on the footer of any page here, and we will help you attach them to your post.

[likith]

can we quote only the matter we want? 4 eg:

Answered here : http://www.rcindia.org/rc-india-forum/forum-usage-tips/msg2336/#msg2336

In short, those nasty people who own this forum do not seem to want to bear the cost of people like you and me being lazy about resizing the images     

On a serious note, most pictures have too much resolution, which can be reduced quite a bit without losing clarity/information.  Why take up server space (which is a costly commodity) indefinitely for something that adds NO value ?

BTW, your suggestions are sincerely appreciated    Please keep them coming.....

i only wanted to quote from why to value.

[anwar]

Just hit "Quote" and then remove the parts you do not want (select the text you want to remove like you do in any document, and hit "delete").

[Pikle6]

just wanted to thank you anwar bhaiya for addition of the smileys they are awsome 

subbu

[anwar]

Anwar, can we have a facility to quote multiple posts? Sometimes, I want to respond to multiple posts in one reply.

This is another useful one, but currently not supported by the forum software.  Again, we can write a "mod" to handle this, but it is a question of having a big enough need to warrant the time/resources.  It is fairly uncommon to have this need.

If I wanted to do quote on say three different posts in a single reply, what I do is to "right click" on the Quote button for the first two, and choose "Open in a new window" (which is supported by all the browsers).  Finally I left click (normal click) quote on the 3rd one.  After replying to the third one on the original window, I cut and paste the "quoted text" from the other two windows into the third one and put in responses under each. Not very elegant, but works for the rare times when one feels the need.

[anwar]

Anwar, can we have a facility to quote multiple posts? Sometimes, I want to respond to multiple posts in one reply.

This is another useful one, but currently not supported by the forum software.  Again, we can write a "mod" to handle this, but it is a question of having a big enough need to warrant the time/resources.  It is fairly uncommon to have this need.

I realize now that "quoting multiple earlier posts" in a reply is possible, if you use the "Quick Reply" box/option (instead of the regular "Reply" option.

While in the "Quick Reply" box, just click on the "Quote" button for various posts you want to quote from (at least the ones on the same page), and they will all show up in the reply that you are composing !

[amir]

i have a simple suggestion..
there should be an option to send a PM to all the members of the forum. 

[Drone]

is there an instant messaging option ?

[anwar]

IM/chat functionality was discussed before.  But that would take away from discussing many matters of interest on the forum (which makes it permanent), so I decided not to enable that option. 

[ankur]

what abt pm to all??

[anwar]

Why on earth would I (or anyone else) want to do something like that ?  The whole idea is to limit spam on such a forum where registration is not moderated !

[defygravity]

Some times the ad-line below the navigation bar wraps to two lines. This causes the page below it to jump up and down. Can you do something about this?

[anwar]

Can you post a screen-shot ?  The issue is not clear from the above description alone.

[Sethji]

Anwar, the image is attached... hope this helps...

[defygravity]

Strange!! Have you already set it right?
My LCD screen at home is wider but when I browsed earlier in another older CRT model, the animated line with green text ..."win a reflex simulator etc" kept wrapping to two lines when longer text "free ads for all..." came in.
Anyway, never mind.