hey, entheon.  this is for you.

i had a thought about the forum for bandamp.  perhaps you could implament the traditional "sticky" and "lock" properties on threads for bandamp.  maybe you could have another section of the particular page's list of threads at the top, separated from the rest so that they distinctly stand out as being sticky'd.  just a thought.

obviously, admins would be the only ones to control such properties, but it'd be useful, at least

oh, and also... when i click the PM button next to a person's name in their profile... it takes me to the page to write them a PM, but it still asks me for their nickname.  is there any chance you could make their PM page a little script that uses the "get" or "post" function to pass the username to the html form?  it's just a small annoyance, but hey.  convinient is nice

hehe, also, i just noticed that the preview snippets on the main forums, like the Tech Support root, show the vB codes... for instance, the first thing in a post i made is [color="blue"], and that tag is showing up in the preview snippet.  can you have the preview snippet script go through and filter out any tags it sees when trying to display the preview?

hehe... another thing.  there's no width limit on the html tables anywhere.  (check my link page... http://tonightslastsong.bandamp.com/links.html )

users can unintentionally shoot the table width about twice as wide as the intended idea.  i know nobody would put a string of 200 w's, but hey, bandamp may as well protect the table structure and insert newline chars when displaying the posts.  i noticed that the same thing happens where i posted those cd cover images on the radio thread.  i'm not sure how to get around that without rescaling the images... unless the tables in the forums are redesigned so that they automatically adjust to a centered position when they expand.  anyway, visit those page links and you'll see what i mean

you're going to chuckle when you see all these message from me   another thing.  there's supposed to be a line under all the audio upload posts that says "Does this MP3 not follow the Rules? … Report Abuse!"  but... the "Rules" are and the "Report Abuse!" part both have a white link color applied to them... i'm not for sure if that's the "visited" color or normal color, but either way, you can't see them.

and the bandamp-quote thing doesn't work... http://forum.bandamp.com/Gear_Talk/5684.html#5971

or rather, i should say that the expander on the quote thing doesn't work.  the one i noticed was trying to pass
as the arguement.  i'm not sure that'll do much for the expander function

could we possibly get more support for some of the other more common vB codes?

i hate annoying marquee posts, but i mean stuff like highlighting and indents, [left], [right], and [center] tags.  i think lists already function.

i'm hesitant to request html tags... we don't want people having the power to write crap to screw over the forum colors, backgrounds, and whatever else they feel like destroying on the page.  for the most part, it's not terribly needed, but i think being able to at least do table html would be wonderful for making structured posts.  the only things i'd ask is standard table tags, specifically:

• bgcolor=#xxxxxx
  
• width= & height= (percents and hardcoded values)
  
• border=x
  
• align=center , =right, =left
  
• cellpadding=x & cellspacing=x
  
• frame="box" style rules
  
• bordercolor=#xxxxxx
  
• rules=none
  
• td & tr tags(duh)
  

some of that might seem oddly specific, but i'm just throwing down the sorts of things that i'd use in a table to actually make it look decent.

just to reiterate, i certainly am not asking for javascript or php support or anything.  mainly table html, i suppose.  most other vB codes do the job, but i'd hate to see vB codes emulating table html. 

also i'd keep the forum 'as is' in terms of the html filtering it does (except for these things i'm talking about).  we dont' want people tryin to change fonts and failing at it.  oi.  that would make tech support for the forum get loaded with questions about "why the eff won't THIS work?" sort of stuff.

i can't remember if this happens when i make an actual post, BUT...

when i make an edit to my existing posts, then after submiting the new edit, bandamp script takes me back to the first page of the thread.  can you implament a brief script that looks at the post number you were editing or posting, and then directs you back to the correct page and post?

oh, and none of the buttons in http://my.bandamp.com/Mailbox.html are working.  they seem to pass the right values, but they don't do anything.

by the way... i use Opera version 8.02, just in case you're wondering.  i think all these things are the same for the other browsers as well, but just in case you are curious.

after clicking on the "delete post" button, you get directed to the delete page just fine, but the page itself has the code in it twice or something.  it dulicates.  maybe a recursion error.  you don't have to actually delete the post to see what i mean.  just click the button without confirming.

make the posts parse for urls more efficiently.  right now it creates a url if someone types something like www.whateverthisis.com

click that...

see what i mean?  it just tacks the url name to the end of a random bandamp domain.  make it automatically insert the http:// part

the "GO!" links don't seem to work from the main Forum page

holy wow... that's a lotta shit...

i'll start workin on it

as far as "table html" i don't forsee ever implementing that... imo there's no real good reason too... and i also think that as you said adding any type of HTML support would be dangerous...

if you can tell me what it is you want that table html to do... then that would be great

also for the line wrapping bug, the one on your links page.. please tell me how you acheived that... so I can duplicated it myself so I can work on it

um... i'm not really doing anything out of the ordinary for the links page.  it just sorta happens.  i went in and posted the following for the description:

"this is the site im building for myself. its still in progress, so dont complain if you actually go and view it. ill posting a somewhat-weekly journal thing in there while im away to canada for my two years, so if youre interested in my adventures there, check it out this october and later.    "

and then it automatically just makes the page wide enough to accomodate.

also, i've noticed that the "edit link" button that is located at the end of the line doesn't completely do it's job.  you press it, and it fills in the url and the title so that you can edit the stuff, but the description doesn't get filled into the big edit box.  it just gets left blank.  it's probably not loading the variable into the correct spot.

yeah, as for the html stuff, like i said, that can be a dangerous path, so i wouldn't ask much to come of that.  i understand the obnoxious by-products that can come of letting the users mess with html, so i don't care to press that issue too much.

the only reason i asked about the table stuff was when i was thinking of writing that faqs stuff, but i guess, since i'm using html to write that ANYWAY now, it's not that big of a deal for the forum's abilities.

it defeintely not that big of an issue, as most of what i had in mind was being able to better organize the post data in a visual sense, having columns and colspan and such, for the sake of being able to write with a cleaner look sometimes.

but as i said, i'm doing it in html now anyway, so it's not that big of a deal.  even if you do end up persuing that though, it certainly shouldn't go very high on the priority list.

but you dont' need me to tell you that