nothing. all a quote is is [ QUOTE=... ]...[ /quote ] without the spaces.

 

WooHoo, it's Friday!

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you don't actually HAVE to say it to be quoted.

True, a quote is content of the post in which it appears. The

tags are just there to style the quoted text.

SFN has one of the best layouts of any forum I've ever used, so I'd have to vote for the first option. However, there's one suggestion I might make, just to add to the conversation.

 

A percentage tally for posts in different sections would be interesting (if possible and not difficult to code), which would be a chart in their profile with numbers of posts in each forum, perhaps with a percentage score beside it. Someone who made 3 posts in General Discussion, 2 posts in Physics (probably best to count posts in the science sub-forums into their main forum), 2 posts in Politics, and 1 post in Philosophy & Religion would have a chart like so:

 

General Discussion - 3 posts (37.5%)

Physics - 2 posts (25%)

Politics - 2 posts (25%)

Philosophy & Religion - 1 post (12.5%)

 

the purpose being that people would know which sections others post in the most, which might be helpful to some or just interesting to see.

is the irc chat offline as well now?

is the irc chat offline as well now?

 

the chat room is still 100% operational and has been since the start, there`s only ever been 2 occasions of downtime for upgrade that I`m aware of

does anyone know when we will have latex back?

What is latex? I mean besides the rubbery substance.

LaTex is the program we use to write math. [math]...[/math]

What is latex? I mean besides the rubbery substance.

Latex is a rubbery substance. LaTeX is what we use to write equations. LaTeX is pronounced latech, because the X is actually the Greek capital letter chi.

I think the general layout is amazing, this is obviously quite a popular view, however there are always little tiny things that are nice little extras.

 

for example J'Dona's post #28 would be very interesting.

 

in general statistics and numbers tend to make good interesting extras...

How many of you guys like the 'active topics' box?

I think the categories need clarification. We often see posts on the same topic in different categories, just because the poster hasn't checked every category before posting and isn't sure which category the post belongs to.

 

Otherwise, it is great as it is.

How about a wysigwyg editor for the quick replie box instead of a textarea?

How many of you guys like the 'active topics' box?

 

what do you mean by that?

 

the 'new post' button is wicked, but what do you mean?

I think he means the "Newest Posts" thing on the front page...

I agree with blike, It's a pretty cool thing.

I think SFN setup overall is excellent.If anything could improve it...it would be to auto direct you to the last post in the thread.

Errr... it does. Click the little arrow after the last poster's name in any forum/search overview, or the "View first unread" link at the top-left of any thread.

thankyou

also it might be nice that when it says looking at user profile on the active users list to say whos profile. But that might be a bit complicated

What?

Which active users list?

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/online.php?

 

For those of us who like to watch people............

So when you click on a person to see their profile, you want it to display who?

 

It already does.

No, when it says under what there doing e.g. Viewing Index

Science Forums and Debate , sometimes it says 'Viewing User Profile' it might be nice for it to say whos user profile they are viewing, if you see what i mean.

 

The advantage of which, would be that if somebody had noticed something on somebodies profile, then people watching would be alerted, and who could also check it out.

yeah, i sometimes go onto the who's online list and suprisingly there's normally at least one person 'viewing user profile' and you often wonder who's they are looking at.

Oh I see.

 

That would be relatively simple-it can already do threads, why not profiles?