#EdenUpdate - Forum Update - Suggestions Needed

I'm going to echo cherryredhead88 - vBulletin style forums are much easier to navigate. The EF forums are not really intuitive.

Also, what's the point of a private poll if the response gets splashed on your wall anyway?

I agree with all of Kindreds suggestions! I think having sticky notes or something to get away from all the "spam" type of stuff. I have had a few reviews that took a while to even get looked at due to the fact that they get pushed behind 'men vs. women' or 'scrabble' or something like that.

Also a link that integrates all the recent reviews. I know I can go to the eden community for that, but I have to scroll down 3/4 of the page past all the promotional reviews (that are gonna get 100 views) from the top products that are usually too expensive for me to own anyways, to get to them. And then they only show me 10 reviews at a time. Sometimes there are 30 from one day and I would like to see them all, cause not every product will interest me.

Also, these are my suggestions.

1. I would like to be able to sort out WHAT activities of my followed contributors shows up on my wall. For instance, I really don't care who wants what, but I DO care about their comments, reviews and posts.

2. I would like to be able to selectively bring up a contributors recent activity, perhaps the option of "See Recent Activity" or "Contributor's Home Page" when you select them out of your list. That way my wall could switch to show only their activity until I changed contributors or switched it back to all.

3. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a way to find my Favorite contributors threads, other than having to switch the layout to alphabetical order and then search through hundreds of pages of threads to find the section encompassing theirs. (maybe a search bar specific to the forum with the option of what you would like to search for (Topic/Contributor/Dat e) This would be specific to only those things that appear in the thread line and none of the content posted within them.

4. I think perhaps the threads being closed could be limited to a number of responses as opposed to an end date, or possibly the option to choose. I mean, who REALLY wants to read through 254 posts to an question of "do you like it in the butt?". This one could just be me being whiney, I don't read these threads past maybe the first page and I only read em every once in a while but I doubt anybody is going to read all 10 pages of responses to that so it seems excessive to me. Obviously this would not work for discussions such as the parties and clubs but it would be nice to be able to set your own cut off point.

5. Now that I have said that I am just wishing there was a way to make certain threads invisible. Just like setting favorites, if there were a button which would make certain threads invisible to you on the main page that would be fantastic and would eliminate a huge amount of the clutter for most of us.

That is all I can come up with..... FOR NOW.

Can we get some kind of a chatroom type feature that updates automatically when someone posts for the discussions? I think there must be something available that can also be saved so anyone who is interested could hit the link and see what was discussed??

Okay... so I was chatting it up with DeliciousSurprise the other night... we were talking about this thread and SHE MENTIONED... the ability for a moderator to MERGE threads.

THIS would eliminate 400 threads about deep throating, load blowing facials, and threesomes! It's more work, maybe, but HOW MANY THREADS could we free up?!?!

Here's what I want in order of importance:

-the ability to ignore a thread and never see it again.

-an indicator on the list of threads where someone has replied to one of my posts.

-options to mark a post 'agree' or 'disagree' to save users from replying just to say "What Kindred said is exactly what I think." Actually on my knitting forum, these two options are available along with 'educational', 'interesting' and 'love.' I find myself wanting to click these options all the time, then I remember that this isn't my knitting forum.

-the ability to delete or edit individual posts even after someone posted after me.

-the ability to follow a user with a selection on their flyout profile.

-the ability to click on something in a user's flyout profile to see all their posts in a particular thread.

-the ability to ignore a user and not see that users posts.

The ability to merge duplicate/similar threads would be fantastic. I would volunteer to help with that.

Also, a link at the bottom of a forum page to take you back to the main forum page so I don't have to scroll from the bottom to the top again and again and again.

And a tab or other way to see all threads where someone replied to one of my posts.

I would really like to be able to put certain posters and threads on ignore.



'Cause sometimes there is just nothing nice to be said.

Some really great ideas, most of them would get my vote.

I would like some way of putting certain folks that I follow on my profile page. Sure I can look through the 213 people I am following, but a lot of them were friends 200 back. I know a search will find them but it would be nice to be able to have a small list with links to like five contributors on my profile page.

I also would like to remove past comments on my wall. I have never needed to go back a year and see what so and so said.

I must agree that I'd love to make threads or users invisible or ignored. And though I see why they didn't want everyone to be able to edit or delete old posts (similar to why there will never be a chatroom) I would still LOVE to have that feature, at least with my club posts. Pleeeaaase.