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Request Forum Updates / Changes
- Thread starter Jwest7788
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Perhaps a reputation option, or even two separate reps, one for classifieds similar to any online marketplace, feedback and the like, and one for knowledge/posts. The points and likes are similar, but require slight digging to find, and don't appear to have negatives visible to regular users.
I've only been able to find one reputation manager at the moment that is not dependent on an existing vBulletin forum:
https://brivium.com/resources/advanced-reputation-system.281/
Has a cost associated. So this is one idea that may need to wait for a bit. Any other thoughts?
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Not sure if I'm wording this properly or maybe it already exists - but some feature that auto-sizes or controls max size of posted image, or maybe provides feedback that its a big megabyte whopper & are you sure you want to do that? I've seen this feature on other forums. Personally, I've committed this upload-oops myself in the past by inadvertently grabbing a jpeg in default camera file size vs, the cropped/reduced version intending to post.
Did some digging but couldn't find anyone referencing this issue online
Any other information you can provide that would help me to investigate?
JW.
Can you please confirm which browser and OS you're using? Thanks!
One forum I used to be on in the USA had a "one-time Premium Donation" button. It was a good idea for those who wanted to contribute to the Admin costs, but couldn't commit to a monthly or quarterly payment. I don't think it allowed the full "Premium" package, but it was a compromise for those who wished to help out, even if only once. I used it, just because I'd rather contribute and be acknowledged, but not have a monthly fee. Just a thought 
Thanks.
Thanks.
Will see what I can figure out.One forum I used to be on in the USA had a "one-time Premium Donation" button. It was a good idea for those who wanted to contribute to the Admin costs, but couldn't commit to a monthly or quarterly payment. I don't think it allowed the full "Premium" package, but it was a compromise for those who wished to help out, even if only once. I used it, just because I'd rather contribute and be acknowledged, but not have a monthly fee. Just a thought
Thanks.
So Josh a good improvement would be to address the picture rotating problem. I see when I take photos and upload them using my phone they look fine on the phone, rotated correctly. But when I look at the same photos on my computer then the photos are rotated. Somebody else was complaining about this Jimbo Jones maybe? I see examples of this on the Metal Blackening thread. If you were going to spend any time on anything I'd say this problem is something that comes up repeatedly. Other issues are probably just not worth fixing, like the themes.
The issue with picture rotation is something I did look into briefly in the past. I'll revisit it, but I seem to recall that it was actually more an issue with how some phones take the photo vertically always (iPhones included) and actually add a meta data for "rotate this image 90 degrees counter clockwise when displaying this image" type thing.
This is also why the images are rotated wrong on your computer, and the forum. They're actually displaying the image accurately, as it is a vertical image, but the forum isn't interpreting the meta data, or something like that.
I'll look into it again though for sure.
Sent from my iPhone.
This is also why the images are rotated wrong on your computer, and the forum. They're actually displaying the image accurately, as it is a vertical image, but the forum isn't interpreting the meta data, or something like that.
I'll look into it again though for sure.
Sent from my iPhone.
One forum I used to be on in the USA had a "one-time Premium Donation" button. It was a good idea for those who wanted to contribute to the Admin costs, but couldn't commit to a monthly or quarterly payment. I don't think it allowed the full "Premium" package, but it was a compromise for those who wished to help out, even if only once. I used it, just because I'd rather contribute and be acknowledged, but not have a monthly fee. Just a thought
Thanks.
http://screencast.com/t/V4Ya7a3nWQ
I can't find a way to have both "pick your donation amount" and also automatically tie it to the upgrade system. I think as a workaround, I'll manually (permentantly) upgrade anyone to a new level (give a fancy banner under your name) whenever I see a manual donation come through the donate button. That work for everyone? (Little more manual on my end, but I think it should work)
Edit: Figured out how to make a donate any amount function, but will need to process the user upgrade (banner) manually!
Other forums are complaining about this issue too:
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/images-sideways.56171/
They're talking about a solution, but I can't seem to get access to the script they're using, but will keep looking. The solutions I do find all try to put the onus on the user to rotate the image properly before uploading, which isn't ideal...
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Good idea! @Jwest7788 Josh? What do you think?
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Sorry for the delay, it's been a crazy few weeks.
Setup now! Great idea too!
http://canadianhobbymetalworkers.com/forums/blacksmithing-foundry-forge-anvils-etc.35/
JW
Setup now! Great idea too!
http://canadianhobbymetalworkers.com/forums/blacksmithing-foundry-forge-anvils-etc.35/
JW
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