[spoiler=a screenshot] hidden stuff here [/spoiler]
When you sign up for the forum, you don't have to validate your email address to prove that you are the owner of your email address.
Marquees are annoying (anything that moves is annoying) and should be removed.
Spoiler boxesHmmm, so let's see!
As Sami noted elsewhere, the like feature doesn't work yet.
QuoteI found a setting for that, and changed it to require e-mail verification. I hope someone who registers after this change can confirm this works now.
Confirmed :) Hello, and wow this place echoes it's so new and squeaky clean ;D
I have mixed good-bad feelings on the Saami picture in the background. As it currently displays it looks like Saami is peeking his eyes out over top of the blue text box. I get it that Saami ought to be visible. Its the combo of photo size vs board display. It may change for some users? For me I'm wondering if Saami is sneaking a look.
Mentions send an email, and there should be some way to choose whether to be emailed or not.
What do you people think, would mentions be a good feature or not? If not, we can just unistall the module, as an e-mail per mention might become spammy if you are not given an option to toggle off the mails. But, if you think mentions would be a good way to organize and personalize forum discussions, then I will invest some more time in fixing it. (Generally speaking, SMF source codes seem pleasant to read, I'd guess adding a simple checkbox in the account settings wouldn't be a big problem)It would probably be enough to show mentions on the forum and never email them. Sure some users might want email from such, but at least it shouldn't be on by default. And some kind of anti-spam is needed into such. It could be to send at most 1 email a day where it could collect mentions after first to be sent at later time (unless the user visited the forum to clear them). Not sure how much coding would that need. In any case, it is inevitable that at some point someone(s) will try to cause flood of dozens of posts if they know it'll spam them.
It would probably be enough to show mentions on the forum and never email them. Sure some users might want email from such, but at least it shouldn't be on by default.
I have noticed that you can select an avatar from a couple of galleries. Are this galleries editable? Maybe we could have some UrW related avatars. Like the pictures of the game characters, some tiles, some random Finnish stuff. I would rather have that than SciFy and Simpsons stuff like now, I'm ok with the cats tough.
I think there is a setting for that.
Let's try: From the menu bar choose 'Profile', and from the drop-down menu pick 'Forum Pofile',
then, hover the mouse over 'Modify Profile' and it opens an another drop-down menu, choose 'Look and Layout',
and there you should have a checkbox for 'Return to topics after posting by default.'
But, yeah, when I have time I'll take a look if that can be toggled on by default for new user accounts.