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Old 07-30-2018
Hello Neo,

I believe it is still NOT late(please don't think like that this SITE is always WONDERFUL), I would like to request you that since you are busy in site's enhancement(which is no. 1 priority), if we could form a team with MODs and Forum advisers who could come up with plan for the site's future(adding new sub forums, add courses like man pages etc etc)? We all could give our thoughts or share ideas along with discussions and could let you know the PLAN for future and then if possible we could try to contribute to it too?

Thanks,
R. Singh

Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 07-30-2018 at 03:56 AM..
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Old 07-30-2018
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Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13
Hello Neo,

if we could form a team with MODs and Forum advisers who could come up with plan for the site's future (adding new sub forums, add courses like man pages etc etc)? We all could give our thoughts or share ideas along with discussions and could let you know the PLAN for future and then if possible we could try to contribute to it too?
Ideas are good; but I think the future may be based more on tags and less on forums, since the trend for forums seems less relevant than tags.

Every discussion should be started with at least one tag, I think; because that seems to be the long standing trend; and hierarchical forums seems to be on the decline.

Isn't that right?

After all, with tags we can do all that is done with forums, and for existing thread, we can easily right code to tag each thread in a forum with a tag which is related to that forum, like a "shell script" tag etc; and then some day we can get rid of the forums and make the site tag based?
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Old 08-01-2018
Here is one thing that might be useful.
(Apologies for typos etc...)

The 'Thanks' button could be open to the public and not to the logged in members only.
There is many a time where I have searched for something and would love just to give a thanks or an upvote because it was just what I was looking for.
It doesn't need to be hidden until logged in after all it is just a counter and you get the word 'Guest' appear on your post, whether the post is locked or not, to acknowledge the fact.

On the front page you could mention:
"If you have found a solution to your query please press the 'Thanks', <icon_here>, button on the relevant post(s)."

As it stands the UNIX pages are fast loading, nothing infuriates me more than a large page taking all day to load. I have no problem with bringing the code up to current standards but if it slows down the user experience then it is not necessarily a good move.
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Old 08-01-2018
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Originally Posted by wisecracker
Here is one thing that might be useful.
(Apologies for typos etc...)

The 'Thanks' button could be open to the public and not to the logged in members only.
There is many a time where I have searched for something and would love just to give a thanks or an upvote because it was just what I was looking for.
It doesn't need to be hidden until logged in after all it is just a counter and you get the word 'Guest' appear on your post, whether the post is locked or not, to acknowledge the fact.


On the front page you could mention:
"If you have found a solution to your query please press the 'Thanks', <icon_here>, button on the relevant post(s)."
Yes, it's doable, of course.

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Originally Posted by wisecracker
As it stands the UNIX pages are fast loading, nothing infuriates me more than a large page taking all day to load. I have no problem with bringing the code up to current standards but if it slows down the user experience then it is not necessarily a good move.
Yes, it keeps getting faster as I consolidate code, clean up CSS and JS, and get rid of image files and replace them with fast loading CSS text-based icons, etc. It will be even faster when I make more changes to the code.

Since I'm the only coder coding the site at this time, I have no choice but to prioritize; and the priority is to get rid of obsolete code, especially table tags.

We cannot keep these table tags, it is too constraining and someday soon, table tags will be completely obsolete in HTML.
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