So you are thinking having everything down there? Edit, Reply, Private Message, Print Post, Email, etc? Or just the Print, Email and Notify stuff.<br /><br />One thing for everyone to keep in mind, wherever we end up deciding to put this it needs to be some place where there will be enough room for more icons, because I would imagine over time some of the suggested features will require more icons to be added per post.<br /><br />-------------------<br />Scream<br />WWWThreads

I was just making a suggestion and showing what it may look like if you were to put the icons at the bottom of the messages.<br /><br />I really have no preference either way as I'm just gratefull that you're so willing to do these upgrades anyway.<br /><br />As far as having enough room for future expansions I would think that the bottom of the posts, on their own line, would be the best place to put this new stuff. Anywhere else may cause problems later on.<br /><br />The reply and the moderators/admins links to edit the post should probably stay where they are though. I think it's a bit more intuitive there. But added features such as email to friend, send to friend and what not should probably be at the bottom of the posts.<br /><br /><pre>Brew<br />CustomShowCars.com<br /></pre>

I think they look good on the bottom like that. They'll need to be small though.<br /><br />[]http://www.wopr.com/w3tuserpics/Eileen-sig.gif[/]

I like them like that too. The bottom would leave the added room you're referring to in your post, Scream.<br /><br />Jhariden (aka Strategist)<br />Stratics Forums

How about adding for the Admin a list of all other admins and moderators on the site.. Large boards have lots of moderators and would be a good way to keep up with who's who by name listing. I love the control panel.. Would like to test it asap.. <br /><br />

thread reminders icon should be a finger with a string around it, no? <br /><br />would give a nice visual sense of what the feature's about...<br /><br /><br />jim<br /><br />chowhound.com<br />For Those Who Live to Eat

Scream--<br /><br />A cool idea (perfect for the control panel):<br /><br />show all replies to any of your postings since last visit.<br /><br />In addition to being darned convenient, it will make users compulsively check back often throughout the day. Conditioned response, like AOL's "you've got mail" thing, makes for a much more active, personal relationship between poster and community if the control panel sometimes shows them "mail" (so to speak) sitting there waiting for them when they check back.<br /><br />Forgive me if I'm being stupid and this has already included...I looked but didn't see it.<br /><br />JIM <br /><br />chowhound.com<br />For Those Who Live to Eat

>>finger with a string around it<br /><br />YES!<br /><br />[]http://www.wopr.com/w3tuserpics/Eileen-sig.gif[/]

OK, made a finger with a string... []http://www.wwwthreads.com/files/10-33414-reminder2.gif[/] was quite complicated to draw, heh, heh []/w3timages/icons/laugh.gif[/].<br /><br />Mateo Byler<br />CruceDeCaminos.com

Small modification to the multiple pages icon, in being trimmed it wasnt displaying correctly on dark backgrounds: []http://www.wwwthreads.com/files/10-33417-pages.gif[/]<br /><br />Mateo Byler<br />CruceDeCaminos.com

And finally (I have to post one at a time because of the attachment limit of one, that I do agree with)... a slightly modified "notify moderators", the middle line crossing was thicker than the circle line. []http://www.wwwthreads.com/files/10-33419-notifymod.gif[/] This one should look better.<br /><br />Mateo Byler<br />CruceDeCaminos.com

But is it apt to be confusing to the user to find some buttons at the top of a post and some at the bottom? They might wonder if this button operates on this post above or that one below....<br /><br />I do like the idea of them all in one row, and Scream, we could then wrap them to two rows as it gets more numerous.<br /><br />Just a thought....<br /><br />:-Doug.<br />[]Doug@FootprintsintheWind.com[/]<br />www.FootprintsintheWind.com

Jim--<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr><p>show all replies to any of your postings since last visit<p><hr></blockquote><br /><br />Yes!<br /><br />:-Doug.<br />[]Doug@FootprintsintheWind.com[/]<br />www.FootprintsintheWind.com

It's great! This devel board is looking really good.<br /><br />[]http://www.wopr.com/w3tuserpics/Eileen-sig.gif[/]

just one "yes"?<br /><br />this is kind of a holy grail feature...don't know any other message board s/w that does it, and it would profoundly improve user experience. And it's perfect for the control panel.<br /><br />very surprised that there's not more support for the idea being voiced. but, hey, to each their own! (I'm just one hound!)<br /><br />jim<br /><br />chowhound.com<br />For Those Who Live to Eat

love all your other icons, but this one could be better. I'd make the circle and slash red, and make 'em thicker. Right now it's kind of murky, hard to see what it is. should instantly convey to the viewer an "emergencies only" vibe, IMO. This one's inert.<br /><br />chowhound.com<br />For Those Who Live to Eat

Probably the reason for just the one yes is because I had explained earlier why this really couldn't be done for the control panel[]/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/]. To give a quick recap, the number of queries necessary to get the control panel view is quite large and to show the latest replies to your posts would add quite a few more, way more than optimal for one page.<br /><br />However, this really is a good idea but we'll need to figure out where to place it because for the number of queries necessary to do this it needs to be on a page all it's own.<br /><br />-------------------<br />Scream<br />WWWThreads

Ah, ok, Scream. Apologies for not having read through more thoroughly; wish I had time to hang around here.<br /><br />It strikes me one the solution could also address the fact that there are now three ways to set age views ("view recent messages", "show threads active in...", and the prefs option), which is a bit sloppy and confusing.<br /><br />On my site (currently using wwwboard), we've brewed up a feature which creates a mini meta forum index console which shows all new postings as of a user-configurable date (wish it did it to the hour, but currently only by date). If W3T were to implement a solution something vaguely like this, that would consolidate the age/recent stuff, plus you could "show replies to my postings since that date" by highlighting or otherwise marking those replies.<br /><br />We have users launch this feature via javascript, so the window can be sized small. To see that, use the link to "HotPosts" atop my homepage at http://www.chowhound.com/main.html<br /><br />To go directly to HotPosts (and resize yourself), go to http://www.chowhound.com/hotpost/hotposttoo.cgi<br /><br /><br />chowhound.com<br />For Those Who Live to Eat

No. It's perfect the way it is. Red would draw too much attention to it.<br /><br />[]http://www.wopr.com/w3tuserpics/Eileen-sig.gif[/]

Yes, I wouldnt want it to be too eye appealing... its the icon that I wish they were less attracted to. And hopefully only the users who often post would use it, so not being too eye catching will not be a problem as by the time they know when a post should not be there they will also know what that link is for. Anyway, here is another version, with a thicker circle... []http://www.wwwthreads.com/files/10-33499-notifymod_dark.gif[/] I still preffer the previouss one. But as always, other users can always come up with new icons, or install one that is not the default, so if you like this one more than the other grab it just in case. []/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/]<br /><br />Mateo Byler<br />CruceDeCaminos.com