what do you want on archiseek

[Paul Clerkin]

Is there anything that you really want to see on here?

[GrahamH]

Not a major feature or anything, but is there any way in the forums section that a little toolbar with Image, Hyperlink, Bold and Italic could feature at the top of the Quick Reply box, as seen on TV so to speak...
It'd be very handy.

[sw101]

i'd be inclined to leave it as it is. too much formatting can ruin a thread

[ctesiphon]

Another couple of minor points:

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How long does a window stay 'live'? Sometimes, after composing a reply, when I go to submit it I find I've been automatically logged out and I have to log back in. And once or twice - though not recently I should add - the text has disappeared when I log back in, necessitating recompsing, which is a drag if the reply was longish.

I've taken now to copying the reply into Word before hitting submit, in case the auto log out happens, but occasionally I forget to do this.

As we all know my opinions are very important, particularly the long-winded, pugnacious ones, so it would be a shame to jeopardise them.

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Also, is there a chance you could put a log out button on the archiseek.com front page?

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*copies text into Word*

[GrahamH]

Your log in session seems to last for half an hour, regardless of what you're up to - so can easily expire while composing a reply. Not a problem if you just log directly back in again, but yep it can happen you lose your post for various reasons. Just copy it before hitting submit - no need even for Word unless your IE is prone to crashing...

As for the toolbar, it'd only be something simple like this - indeed really only Image, Quote and Link would be necessary.



It just makes it much easier when you want to quickly refer back to other posts or pictures on a thread when writing a reply, which you can't do if in the seperate Post Reply page. Or just for a quick picture or two, or quote or two - again very handy.

[ctesiphon]

IE? Get with the times, G! I'm a Firefox man all the way.

Thanks for the tips.

[tungstentee]

a blogspot

photo albums dedicated to particular building types etc

[ctesiphon]

a blogspot

http://www.archiseek.com/onsite/

[Devin]

what do you want on archiseek

Columned text! Would be handy sometimes for captioning pictures that are side by side in the post.

[lostexpectation]

Is there anything that you really want to see on here?

well I dunno if you wnat to stick with it being a discussion forum and an archive,

maybe embeds and making more of the front page of archeire

[Devin]

Or if not columns, text boxes might do the same trick …

And what about somewhere to store drafts of posts …… for example while you’re awaiting a key piece of info to complete the post?

And maybe an on-site masseuse to ease those PC-induced musculo-skeletal disorders.
Ok, I’m just getting selfish now?

[shamrockmetro]

I would like to know who deletes some of my posts...

some of them I agree could of been deleted but not some of them

can I have a list of who has mod rights and know which mod deleted which posts...

[sw101]

no.

[Paul Clerkin]

I would like to know who deletes some of my posts...

some of them I agree could of been deleted but not some of them

can I have a list of who has mod rights and know which mod deleted which posts...

I deleted your posts cos they are largely irrelevant and offtopic

[massamann]

I've got to agree with ctesiphon - his posts are certainly the most useful item on this site, if not the whole of the interweb, and often are the only reason that I get out of bed in the morning. That, and a small bladder. Anything we can do to propogate those ideas needs to be supported!

How about an Architect of the Week section? Maybe we could pick an Irish architect, get a few photos of their projects, even conduct a simple interview, and put it up as an Archeire article each week or each month. Or just choose a single building of theirs, and email them a few simple questions. After we get through the obvious ones, maybe we could move to Irish architects working abroad.

And a flashy new frontpage - although by flashy and new, I actually mean clutter-free yet funky.

[Paul Clerkin]

the site will be getting a new "look and feel' in the new year after a number of new features are rolled out

[ctesiphon]

I've got to agree with ctesiphon - his posts are certainly the most useful item on this site, if not the whole of the interweb, and often are the only reason that I get out of bed in the morning.

Thanks mum.

Now where's my porridge?

[notjim]

It would be good if a little archeire symbol showed up on the location bar before the url: this is actually pretty handy since it means you can delete the name of the bookmark if you include it in the bookmark folder: if sites are marked by their symbol without their names more fit on the bookmark bar.

[ctesiphon]

there is a time out on editing of posts

A very welcome development. Thanks.

[shamrockmetro]

how many people can vote with no identity???

look at my thread...

Buskers & Peformers & Christmas trees

3 people I have no idea who they are??

[notjim]

It would be good if a little archeire symbol showed up on the location bar before the url: this is actually pretty handy since it means you can delete the name of the bookmark if you include it in the bookmark folder: if sites are marked by their symbol without their names more fit on the bookmark bar.

Thanks!

[ctesiphon]

Something's changed. Looks great.

[Paul Clerkin]

yeah not complete yet - need to bring into line with design of rest of site

[DJM]

How about creating a bookmark / link to Facebook for us young whipper snappers?!

[Paul Clerkin]

In the process of rolling that out....

Its available on German / French / UK pages now
and on the Irish News.