The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>I've gotta say, i hate forums formats where there is only a header and all the replies are just crammed inside. It is hard to tell how much you've read and if there are new replies when you re-visit. Kudos to Sine for the RPGboard format. That is all.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Well on larger more active boards, it's probley more convient to have them crammed inside.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>If there was one thing about RPGBoard I wish would change, it's what happens when one particular section of a thread gets eighteen zillion replies. The index for the replies just keeps going and going and going off to the right, and the post subjects keep getting squashed into smaller and smaller horizontal spaces while getting stretched out vertically.

Unfortunately, damned if I know how to fix it. Maybe forcibly trailing off subjects (so that you have to click on the post to read them) and then resetting the post index back over to the left after a certain number of posts?

*shrug* Either way, it's a bitch, but it's worth it to not have to scroll through 15 pages (which are mostly sigs) to read a thread on one of those other boards.

Only other thing that might make this place a little better and/or more accessible would be to snazzify it up a bit. I mean, the functionality is great, but the interface is not exactly what I would call eye-catching. Again, totally unnecessary. But it would be nice.

<i>-57</i></div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The best way to get around that is to just post your reply further up the thread. That's how we did it in Ruminations for a while back when it was REALLY active.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>This format works better for casual conversation, but for bigger, more involved discussions the EZ-Board (and the other one I can't remember) is best.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, can you imagine Utopia Politics with this type of board, it would be near hell =)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>That's why I keep wanting to experiment with a hybrid format on Ruminations. But you guys are so damned steadfast to not changing that it makes it a major problem to try to innovate for the sake of the MB.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>"Neat" headers really helps, too. It's the one tht puts that little arrow on way too long subjects, but you can still look at the rest of the subject with a tool tip.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Sometimes, I'll hit the "New Messages" link at the top to check which forums have new stuff (or just read the replies, if I can get the thread in context).

Honestly, though, I'm trying to get some of the format closer to the other boards, since like Gentz said, this format is only good for casual use. Most people don't want to go really far in a conversation, partly because the thread runs too far and is hard to read. I've seen threads in other boards stretch to 10-20 pages, simply because they can still talk about it without a readability problem.

I have the capability now (and for a while) to use different formats in different forums, but nobody wants to switch even Ruminations to something else.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>You could try just doing it to one forum for maybe a week. As long as it's known it will eventually revert, I think people will go along with it.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>That's like boycotting gas for a day. People will not use it for a week and then go back. That doesn't help me at all.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>If you explain beforehand, I think people will be okay with it.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>For a long time, I was thrown off by the random yellow blobs that appears on the board :-)</div>