Quoting: Thomas
A. Allow custom avatars (not that I have any good ones [yet])
I like the fact that Avatars are based on Doom. This way the forum has a clean and tidy look (note that I even took up the work of grayscaling them all to achive a pleasant color-scheme). Also I don't want people uploading avatars, cause I for once don't like when people use "rubber duckies", "pokemons" or other crap as avatars. No, I DO have a sense of humor and easy going, but this just isn't the place for such things ^_^. As for the question wether it is possible -- Yes it is.
Quoting: Thomas
B. Get custom titles (once you've been a prodctive member of the forums for a long time of course)
I don't think I understand what you mean by "custom titles". DoomRL forum gives two titles to the user -- one is the rank (by post count) that is also visible as the avatar, and the other one is special rank set by me, that describes the users support for DoomRL.
I did however wonder to make a little diversity here, and give Turgor and Malek "Wiki Sysop" or "Wiki Admin" instead of just "Team Member" -- if the mentioned users would like me to change that, go ahead and tell me ;-).
Quoting: Thomas
C. Show in the topic icon wheter there's been anyone posting in it since I last read it.
Hell, I would like that too -- unfortunately minibb does not provide any ready solution for this. I wanted to code that myself, but with the very little spare time I have due to the upcomming exams I'd much prefer to spend that time working on 0.9.9.
In general I'd like to hear more users comment on that, my decisions aren't final.
Quoting: Kornel Kisielewicz
Insert long disscussion about A here
Makes sence, I guess if this was implemented, then you'd probably want a pre-selected group of avatars, with a "click the avatar you want" screen in the preferences screen.
Quoting: Kornel Kisielewicz
Insert long disscussion about B here
I mean, once you hit a HUGE amount of posts, (e.g. 500) as long as you have done your best not to spam, (under 5% or somthing), then you get to either:
1. Continue being a hell knight/baron of hell
2. Ask a mod/admin if you can have it changed to somthing else.
Quoting: Kornel Kisielewicz
Insert long disscussion about C here
Sad to hear that. Possibly try a new forum template?
Well I was going to suggest invison (the forum template I see on most sites) but it turns out that costs 200-500 dollars...
Quoting: Turgor
my title now might give people the wrong idea, like i can pull some strings and make stuff happen for DoomRL itself! (Not that i don't wish that was true ;D)
You already make me not sleep at night -- worrying that I'm doing DoomRL 0.9.9 and do stupid university work instead ^_^
Quoting: Turgor
Yeah, Wiki Admin would be better, as i am not really on your team ;)
Done ;-)
Quoting: Thomas
2. Ask a mod/admin if you can have it changed to somthing else.
How about getting "Forum Team" instead of "Member" then? ;-)
Quoting: Thomas
Sad to hear that. Possibly try a new forum template?
It took a lot of work to make this forum look doomish, and I realy like the "simplicity" of it's design. I don't have time to teach myself a new board template system and make a new skin for it. Moreover minibb is realy lightweight, and considering that I have a 20MB cap on each single database, then minibb is even greater.
And even if, there are many great alternatives to bloated bug-ridden giants like Invision or phpBB. If I were to migrate to another board script now, it would probably be SMF.
Quoting: Kornel Kisielewicz
If I were to migrate to another board script now, it would probably be SMF.
SMF? Never heard of it.