AnswerBank Site Tweaks: Your Turn

[AB Editor]

Any suggestions for minor improvements across the site?

[mccfluff]

IM NOT LOOKING

[sunny-dave]

what are you not licking fluff?

[mccfluff]

*stomps off to play bejewelled*

[shoota]

**Tangent warning**

[ChuckFickens]

**Secant warning**

(geometry jokes probably make me look like a right geek!)

[Maydup]

-An edit facility would be great.
-The ability to click to the end of a thread rather than default to the beginning would be a pleasure.
-When looking at Latest Posts, an indication of the topic under which a thread has been post would be really useful.I .
- A Home button to remind people that there is a home page. (Quite a useful place to go)
- An idea of who the mods are and whether they "look after" certain topics.

[Maydup]

^^^ See - I need an edit facility! Please ignore third suggestion because its already there.

[ChuckFickens]

"When looking at Latest Posts, an indication of the topic under which a thread has been post would be really useful.I ."

Yes, maybe like the name of the topic just underneath.... oh wait!

[Maydup]

^^^^ Its on the Most Recent posts on the home page that I'd like to know the topic heading.

[ChuckFickens]

If you hover your mouse over the question on the home page and look at the bottom bar of your browser you can see what topic the post is in (not ideal for what your suggesting I know)

[Maydup]

Thanks Chuck, useful to know but topic heading would be good too.

[vodkancoke]

Can we have some emoticons? The "banging a head against a brick wall" one would be great at the moment with certain posts in adverts. (I'm naming no-one!)

[excelsior-1]

i made my suggestion a few months ago.

it was turned down.

[naomi24]

It's a shame when on-going threads disappear from the front page, so I'd like the most popular to pop to the top of the pile as they do on other websites - but I don't suppose that would be considered 'minor'.

And I'd still like a FAO section where ABers could leave short messages for others. Only yesterday I had to call someone's attention to a post I'd left for him on another thread that he hadn't seen.

[vivandorron]

Ed...You may agree that most of my suggestions are rubbish. Consequently, I am holding back for the moment :-)

Nevertheless, I am endeavouring to follow this thread with interest because useful information is forthcoming. I like he fact that Chuck has told us to hover over a question to establish the section in which it is.

Ron.

[Calibax]

How about a button to show the previous 6 'Latest Posts'? I often see an interesting topic disappear off the Latest Posts list before I have time to register the category or exact title and have to go searching for it.

[naomi24]

Me too Calibax. Isn't that frustrating!! I don't think there'd be room though.

[woofgang]

Mick Talbots idea about separating out the jokes would be good.....with respect to the jokers, it gets a bit irritating when they fill latest posts.

[JonnyBoy12]

I am with mcfluff on this one. A preview box should be mandatory along with a spell checker function. That may put those pesky Spelling Police out of a job but who cares?