In one topic near here we discuss the limits for the newbies on this forum, that is a few posts before the first thread etc.
I would like to add some more ideas to implement:
Update the search, now it’s just terrible! When I search for something, I almost always know where to search, and I don’t want to search an iOS question in the Android forum. But now it’s only possible to choose between Forums (ALL the forums!), Answers and Feedback - not convenient.
Also this search gives a lot of links on the same thread. You can add a choice what to include in the result - every single post or just one thread, so as not to make the mess result.
Adding a Link in the post is not convenient, either. When I insert a link and press OK I have something like [U R L=“link”]link[/U R L], and I have to select all the text (looooong link) between the open and close tags and remove it and insert a text to display. But on one forum I have seen a feature, when this text to display is selected right away, and I just should replace it with what I want. And I think you can do like that or add another field on the Add Link dialog to enter a text to display.
Thanks for the attention! I really like this forum, the guys are great here and I would like to make it more convenient to use.
Write your text first, then select the desired word or words and click the link button afterwards. The selected text will become a link. You don’t need to do what you described about selecting text, removing it, etc.
Now I got that! Thanks!
But it’s not so clear, of course It works, but it’s impossible to guess to do that. Many users would prefer more intuitive way.
I’m on windows. Does it invert all the screen colors? But then white will be black, and black on white is very high contrast, maybe a very dark grey like the pro editor
Also, a “Like” option on posts would be cool, though…
Yea a dark theme on the forum would be great, I do not know why every website around is all light colors when dark colors put less strain on your eyes. It must be marketing
Yeah, google is a good way, but I would like to have a good search here, on this forum. Now I can’t say it’s at least a bit convenient - it’s terrible.
I feel like there should be a sticky somewhere, our web developers are working on the outrageously terrible search, as well as a whole heap of other stuff we’d like to improve We have a small web dev team who take care of the entire site + localised sites so they are pretty busy, things are moving forward but it’s slow going.
If you focus on an game engine and not web development, yes.
To be clear, searching in database is not a easy subject. Google is doing a good job at this because this is their main business, organize the data for search, index words and phrases to give fast results. A forum does not have the search as its primary goal in mind. Data is structured for storing the posts and organize them in categories called threads and forums. Then optimize this structure to serve the latest posts very fast and very cheap (memory and processor consumption) to as many clients as possible.
I am using Google to search for a simple reason: it will bring up results outside unity domain, increasing the chances to get an answer to my problem.
Just write the text as normal, then highlight the word you want to be a link, and click the link button.
We have a small web dev team who take care of the entire site + localised sites so they are pretty busy, things are moving forward but it’s slow going.