Suggestions for this forum

[trinity]

Administrator Wrote:

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> A new rule has been introduced because this has

> been brought up before and a cafe has been

> requested not to post too often.

Thank you

[Polly D]

Sure this has been mentioned before but a search is pretty hard to do on this one: would you ever consider creating (is that the right word?) a forum app?

[ruffers]

What would it do Polly D, beyond access the forum?

[Polly D]

Urmmm, nothing special but it would let me acess the forum on my iphone, aside from going via google. Or have I missed a trick?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Going via google? Every time? Don't you just bookmark it? The bookmark can even be an icon on your phone just like an app

[Polly D]

Oops Sean, I clearly have missed a trick. Ta for the tip.

[SeanMacGabhann]

No worries. Sorry if I sounded so incredulous.

[mockney piers]

In all fairness a decent GUI could be a nice way of accessing the forum especially from the fidliness of iPhone. Even on iPad that text box can be a bit of a pita on longer posts.

Not a bad idea Polly.

I might have a bit of crack though as a pc man I can only do a dodgy version, might need a mac man to let me take the source code over and integrate some proper iOS sdk elements in and get it legitimised.

Admin, does the forum software have an api at all?

[HAL9000]

If there is an API, the details should be somewhere in here: http://www.phorum.org/

[joseba]

I'd love to be able to view "FS & Offered" where the threads are ordered by the date when they were started rather than when the latest message was posted. That's so that new items can easily be found. Or is this already possible and I miss something?

[Administrator]

Hi joseba

We did try that out for a short period during the early days of the forum, and it just confused everyone. We found it best to have all the posts listed in the the same chronological order throughout the forum.

Thank you for the suggestion though.

[Ridgley]

I still not clear how to upload photos I have followed instuctions which was kindly given but it keeps coming up as an acttachments how do I upload photos?

[ianr]

If it shows up as an attachment, you have successfully uploaded it, and anyone who wants to see it can download it (as on eg this page). Do you really want to force it to be downloaded and visible to everyone who loads the page, irrespective of their interest, wish or bandwidth?

[gm99]

Hi Mark/Admin,

I started a thread on the Businesses etc forum, which includes a suggestion about introducing a more formal 'feedback' section. I would be interested in your views.

Thanks,

GM

[Administrator]

Hi

It is a good idea but unfortunately we do not have the facilities, time or a team who can implement such a system. There are other sites out there with such systems in place but they are sites set up as businesses with money behind them, this was set up by Mark as a hobby/fun thing to do. Maybe a business would like to assist the forum by investing in it and helping to introduce such a system, it has 34,000 registered users so it would certainly reach a good few customers.

[monica]

gm99 thats a very good idea. I think the forum on the whole needs a formal feedback section. Even though the forum started out as a hobby for Mark, it was clear Mark was trying to turn this into a business, in the early days. However a free community forum who rely on donations and sponsors to cover the expenses, was never going to be a business.

Good luck in finding your investors Admin.

:)-D

[nic32]

Why not do a page for people who want to socialise?

[Huguenot]

There's a whole section called 'What's On...?'

[LadyDeliah]

Can we have a dedicated section for places to eat with reviews etc?

[El Pibe]

http://www.yelp.co.uk/search?find_desc=&find_loc=East+Dulwich%2C+London ?

[Toby Tobias]

Dear Mark

I think the Forum is brilliant and very helpful in finding out things about East Dulwich that I didn't know about (even though I have lived here for 20 years !).

I recently noticed on one of the threads that someone had tried to download a photograph and was unable to do so. I recently had a similar problem and therefore was unable to re-home an armchair which ended up being taken away by the Council - sad. Many moons ago I was able to download a photo but the rules on this seem to have changed. I wondered whether it would help if you deleted some of the really really old stuff on the forum - is it getting clogged up? If that were to happen perhaps we might be able to download pics of any size? Just a thought.

Thank you.

[El Pibe]

do you mean upload?

There have been a milion threads about how to make pictures smaller for forum use, but here's a useful online resource for doing so

http://www.shrinkpictures.com/

[spanners45]

Hi Administrator. Is there a way to delete one's own old posts so they don't become superfluous. Especially in the sell/wanted and family clasifieds there are a lot of these. E.g., things that have already been sold and collected or simply things that are no loger relevant. I am only talking about having 'control' over my own posts, not deleting other people's, of course. That would be plain rude and wrong. Thanks!

[Administrator]

Hi spanner45

Sorry, there's no functionality to delete old messages however you can edit the posts and the subject line to say "sold" or similar.

[Kalamiphile]

Hi Mark, have emailed twice with no answer or resolution. If I click on my user name no posts come up, if I enter something I know I have put on forum eg Tefal steam cuisine nothing comes up. I assume if I cannot do it nor can anyone else. It is almost as if access has been blocked. Please resolve as have had this for some weeks now. A great forum, much admiration for anyone who can do these things. BW