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First of all, I want to congratulate the staff for getting this board into such a good shape so early on! It is a pleasure to use it, for sure.

That said, here goes my suggestion list:


#1



The "Home" and "Forum" links in the navigation bar take you to the exact same place. There's no need for that, and to that effect I propose to remove "Forum" and add a "New threads" link, preferably to the right of "New posts" (which I find hardly useful - it just takes you to a long scroll of disjointed messages), for convenience. Oh, about that...


#2
The "New threads" feature exists already (queenchat.boards.net/threads/recent). However, it isn't as useful as I hoped it would be.



In other boards, below the thread title/link you get the subforum info (so that you immediately know the title "Queen - Innuendo" below refers to a rare clip upload rather than a discussion about the album or song - we can't see that at the moment). In addition, the author and creation date is also visible within the same line below the thread title/link. Here, we do see the author when looking at the following column in the current feature, but it's not as neat or informative.

Lastly, when clicking the thread title, it will always take you to the first page/post. Other boards know when you have visited it and take you to the page you last were.


#3
There isn't an actual dark theme / mode. Some captures to illustrate this:



This is the default theme (which is fine for a light theme).

There's a "Black" theme which is kind of misleading because it's just a black background with bright foreground objects on top, so let's try the "DarkSkin" theme:



Observe that it's not quite perfect, nor all that dark. The lines and outlines are missing, and as for the color choice, I would try and set a more stark contrast such as white text over black background: a sort of ADATR theme

Now, this comes quite close:



What you see here is me on Firefox (desktop computer) using a dark mode extension that injects CSS into the page in order to emulate dark themes where none are available. I find myself resorting to these add-ons many times, but this is not a great option for most users or mobile browsing for that matter.


#4
The current functionality of the "Quote" button is actually that of a "Reply" button. And the "Reply" button works as a "New message" button! Am I the only one who finds it odd? As a matter of fact, the "Reply" button takes you to the "Create Post" function, haha.

A "Quote" button should just add quoted messages (this function is called "multiquote") to a new message so that you have the ability to reply to more than one user within the same new post.


Again, this place is still getting started and you're doing an excellent job! Just trying to constructively contribute to its usability.

Thank you Martin!

Want to request this one again - is it possible to increase the character count per title? It's just too short for sharing section sometimes.

Any reason why I can't add a poll to a thread created in the "Studio - Demos, remixes, outtakes" section? Bug or intentional?

Just give it a shot: I can add a poll to a new thread in other boards, but I can't do it in that particular subforum.

Also, I just checked that it is already possible to add a poll to a thread I made a few days ago in one of the discussion subforums.

Whether editing my existing thread or trying to create a new one, there's simply no button.

It's nowhere to be found, in the cog menu or anywhere else. It just shows up on other subforums, and I can add it to a thread created days ago. Hopefull BrƎИsꓘi (Brenski) can do something about it.

It was a permissions issue.  I think it should work for you now. 

Proboards Software will only allow polls to be created in two places:
■ Brand New Thread
■ First Post in an Old Thread.
so, if you were the OP in an old thread, then you should be able to go back to it and edit your OP.

However, as LF has said (and fixed) - it looks like one of the subs didn't retain the same standard permissions of all other boards here.

That's a good idea mate. Is this possible Martin?

I remember a board where the users had to "thank" or "like" the OP so that the link would be revealed. Very old feature too. I'm sure there are many other formulas available.

Apologies, my post about the multi 9age search should have gone in here.

Is it possible to limit the number of characters allowed in a quote?

Asking for a friend.

Hey, don't block me! Thanks emrabt – you're one of the lucky ones; I'll spare you a block!  

I think it was quite bit ambitious, but I had the thought that it would be a rare event where quoting more than 100 characters of what someone said would be necessary in order to contextualise a response