Website related Bugs & Suggestions (Page 1 of 3)

Yes I read the FAQ.
Yes I read the Documentation.
And, yes I finally used the search function and finally got the answer.

But shouldn't it be in the FAQ. Alot of people asked "How to open the Mapeditor?" .
So it is a frequently asked question. Right?

Edit: PS: I even read the 5 sticky threads in the Map section of the forum and still couldn't find the answer before I used the search function.

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A suggestion, perhaps an off-topic section be added on the forums, for discussion not closely related to Teeworlds?

... Hum... though this doesn't look really like an official sticky topic... I'll post my ideas anyhow.

1) When downing a post an option to down it because: "Bad comment" or "Off topic"?

2) A new instant messenger. What that would look like is, when someone is online you can click on their name to: "View profile" or "Send instant message". The person they sent it to will have a little box saying: "Message from (input random name here), would you like to view? [Yes]/[No]  [Ignore]/[Block User]
[Ignore]: puts off the message until next time logged on.
[Block User]: sender can't send you messages anymore.
And for people that don't like I.M. from anyone can block all messages or have a list of people they allow to contact them.

3) A little bit more profound profile system. It's okay, but it seems it could be better...
A member benefited system would be nice. It'd take all the topics and posts you have and puts it into a number: Each topic with one of more [+1] or [-1] is counted and added together. If the total is more or less than 0, that dictates what kind of member you are. The more the [+1] or [-1], the better or worst the member.
Also the ability to change your I.D. to: "Member/Mapper/Artist/Mod maker... ect" would be nice.

4) An option to add a poll to your topic.

In case you don't know what a poll is, it's a system that tallies up the votes and puts the options' name in bar graph format. For instance... If some one wanted to know what the community thought of, lets say, his art, then he would add a poll. First he would input the question: "What do you think of my art?" and add option buttons like: "[It's awesome!], [Pretty cool], [Nice], [It's okay...], [I don't like it.], [You call that art?], [My eyes, they burn!]"

Other uses would be: "What kind of map would you like to see next?" Options being: [D.M.], [T.D.M.], [C.T.F.], [Race], [Instagib]. The possibilities are endless... @.@ 

5) When searching, a new option to sort results by: [Popularity] and [High Ratings].
Also, when adding in the Author's username for more specific searches, a scroll down that has all the letters of the alphabet--standing for the first letter in a Author's username--would be very nice in case you forgot how to exactly spell their name. For some reason, if you misspell one thing, it turns up no results, so this would be less headaches.

6) When making a topic, a scroll down for the different types of mandatory topics tags. I know that it is usually required to tag the topic in the topic name, so it makes it essayer for the user and also for the moderators so they don't have to put it in for them.

7) When making any question related topic, there should be a button for the maker on the topic that says "[Resolved]" so that it automatically closes the topic and puts the tag [Resolved] in the topic name to make it easier for the mods.

8) I've noticed that there is (currently) over 7,000 of registered users in Teeworlds's forums at the moment, which is fine...if they were being used. So for users that have been inactive for for over a year, they'll be on the new names possibility list. If a new member wants to make a new account, they could use their names if they wanted too. The inactive user's account wouldn't be deleted, but an E-mail would be sent to them saying, "Someone wants your name on Teeworlds. Click [here] if you wish to keep your name. No reply within 6 mounts and your name will be given to someone else and you must create a new one [here]." If they didn't reply within the given time the new user gets the name and the old user with have the name "(input old name here)2" until he/she creates the new one.

9) At the bottom of each topic, there should be tags. I know we have the current tags on the topic's name, but for maps, tags doesn't explain what gametype the map is. So instead of wandering aimlessly though all the map topics, they can chose the tag(s) they want and then search all of the topics with that tag, given by the topic's maker. I'd mean an extra step for making topics, but I'd think it's worth it.

10) An easier way to find the author of a topic. Inset of clicking on the topic to see who it is, there should be some easier way to figure that out.

11) The endless amount of questions is a problem with flooding. So I have two ideas to help "fix" it. One: in each section of the forum (example sections: Support, Development, Community News, Gameplay, Content: Maps, Content: Graphics, and Content: Other.) and above each of their own stickies there should be a question area; specifically for it's own section. So if you went into Content: Maps and wanted to ask famous FAQ like how to make a map, you could go there. Also, if someone didn't go there accidentally and posted in the normal place, some type of system could automatically place their question in the question area by seeing if their topic ended with a "?".

Another thing is, in Yahoo Questions, whenever you start typing the topic name of the question, it reads the topic name and uses probably an algorithm to find similar topic names and says "Wait! Your question might have been asked before." and post picture links to the right for you to click on. Makes it easier on the person and less flooding.

12) In the line that says "New posts Active topics Unanswered topics", why isn't there also "Sticky Topics" and "Closed Topics"?

Still waiting...

Missing a spoiler-function

It think that the blog is automaticly generated with new contents of the "developers journals" subforum and as you can use bbcode there, it is buggy in the blog feed.

But as you can see, colors ARE supported, so there are only some not available strings. (Like the "h" header code). Makeing the text bold is possible too.

Well but all others are working: Image- , bold- , italic- , linking- and the "code"code. So it seems that there is only a problem with the header code.

This most likely happens because admin used a wrong function to parse a forum message. PunBB has it's own function to parse a message with BBCodes (it's defined in /forum/include/parser.php. It's name is parse_message, I often use it myself). If this was used, there shouldn't be any problems like that anymore.

You still can see it, it's simply not shown by default. It helps to hide useless/spammy posts from a conversation and is also kind of punishing to the poster.

Youre right.
But currently you use the voting for both (if its spam and if its stuff you dont agree). So someones opinion is hidden like spam.

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