What would you like to see in the new forum?

[waynne]

Heres your chance to moan whinge and make suggestions.

I'm looking at a new forum. Vbulletin seems to be quite good, what features would you like to see here? Here is my list - add to it or make other suggestions.

FASTER - the forum needs to be much quicker (we now have over 3000 members and the database is slowing up! I'm moving to a faster server sometime this week so there might be a couple of hours downtime but this should be a short term fix.

SPAM - Rather than limiting everyone to so many posts within a time limit and banning PMs for everyone exept for on request I would prefer to see tighter control on new members and relax this after say 10 posts. This will mean we get a better and spam free exisitance.

SUBFORUMS - It would be nice to have all the makes and models as a sub forum rather than all take up space on the front page.

BLOGS - Members should be able to have an online diary about their cars and update us on their projects - this can then be part of the main site and open to everyone rather than just the forum members to read.

PICTURES - It needs to be really easy to upload and include pictures in our posts. At the moment it is not particularly easy to do.

GALLERY - We need a faster and easier to use gallery.

What else would you like to see or are any of the things I have mentioned not important to you? Games? Chatroom? Users can publish articles on the main site as well?

[pgarner]

Originally Posted by waynne

FASTER - the forum needs to be much quicker (we now have over 3000 members and the database is slowing up! I'm moving to a faster server sometime this week so there might be a couple of hours downtime but this should be a short term fix.

know it sounds simple but when not delete someof the older members that have not posted
had a look on the memberslist and 19 on the first page joined in 2005 have never posted. bount to be a few hundred more that should free up some room

[waynne]

Good point - I will be doing a clean up of the memberlist. Any who have not confirmed membership will be deleted. All those not posting will be given an opportunity to do so - we have quite a few lurkers that read but don't post and I wouldn't want to shut them out .

[pgarner]

how about you make it a sort o rule that you must post say 5 posts a year min plus must intorduce your self within 2 days

[nitroangel]

a members car section........

[waynne]

Theres one already! http://www.torquecars.com/forums/f47/ Start a new thread and use the picture upload option. Let me know if you have any problems as its all new. I do know that when you select a picture from your uploads it will go where your mouse was in the main window but you can move the picture around. I will work on a garage type part of the profile - my first attempt didn't work well enough and I've been too busy with the rest of this forum to go back to it - but I will!

[waynne]

When viewing threads I have moved the username and details back to the left like we had on the other forum, it means the pages are a little shorter. Do you prefer this or the previous method having the username and details above each post?

[Doughnutter]

A MegaSquirt / MegaJolt subforum would be good to talk about installation, Modifications, bugs, advice, share maps etc etc

[Doughnutter]

Might of missed it but I havn't seen a Lo-cost / Kit either

[waynne]

Feel free to start a new thread in Car tuning, explain what MS/MJ are for newbies and if there is enough interest and posts you will get a dedicated subforum. (Thats what happened with Drifting, Drag racing and 4x4 etc...