So I’ve been subscribed for a couple of weeks now and so far I’m loving it. I’m keen to get as much going on the forums as possible and I’m hoping they really turn into a great resource.
Some requests though to the top dogs / admins here.
Please can you add the quick reply option / plugin to the forums. It’s kind of annoying to have to hit reply then have a new screen open without showing what you’re replying to (ie having the thread visible)
Please can you give us the ability to stay logged in. Whenever I close my browser I have to log back into the site when I return. Also there appears to be a timeout when I leave the browser window open - it loggs me off after a while (not sure how long)
Please can the site be sped up a little - not sure if the server is getting hammered or the pipe to the internet needs to be bigger but I find it really slow to navigate around the site. When I download stuff I only get 30KB/s speeds which is pretty low by todays standards. This is especially an issue to me considering I’m paying for access (ie if it was free I wouldn’t care). This also becomes a bit of a pain when it comes to streaming video. It constantly buffers etc so I have to pause it, wait 5 mins, then come back to watch it.
Why can we only download two courses?
Email replies to forum posts - can the forums be setup to automatically email whenever there’s a reply to a post please? Pretty much every forum I’ve ever been a member of offers this functionality.
[quote]bouffont (3/10/2009)[hr]
Please can you add the quick reply option / plugin to the forums. It’s kind of annoying to have to hit reply then have a new screen open without showing what you’re replying to (ie having the thread visible)
Please can you give us the ability to stay logged in. Whenever I close my browser I have to log back into the site when I return. Also there appears to be a timeout when I leave the browser window open - it loggs me off after a while (not sure how long)
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Good call
[quote]bouffont (3/10/2009)[hr]
Email replies to forum posts - can the forums be setup to automatically email whenever there’s a reply to a post please? Pretty much every forum I’ve ever been a member of offers this functionality.
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If you do can you make it so i can opt OUT of this as i find nothing more annoying. Thanks
you can change your forum subscription settings in the forum control panel… if youve assigned it to send emails you can switch it of there.
our forums use instanforum version 4.1 which dosnt have quick reply. 
version 4.2 is due out soon which does… 
we are aware of the user login / hosting issues and are looking into them.
we are also looking into a better video deliver solution. probably streamed flash which should make things faster and more compatible.
Good newsage guys, I look forward to the improvements. Shocking there’s no quick reply already! I personally love Vbulletin because of all the natty add ons you can get for it, not too pricey either.
How do you get to teh forum control panel to turn on email notifications, I can’t seem to find it.
guys
thanks for the feedback - as phil said we’re already switched on to most of these issues and will be working on them over the next while.
we’ve had a mad few months running and growing the site - we’re still only a small bunch of guys here in belfast but we have lots of exciting things going on that mean that we will be able to make the site even better in the next few months
so keep the feedback coming and thanks for your patience with all the niggly things that we haven’t got quite right (yet!)
kev
go to topic options on the top right of a thread
Thanks Phil, that did it.
Do you know of a way to do it globally for all my posts. I can see that being a bit tiresome.