1. The "Manage ads" feature, which I love is located under the Paid Settings category. I'd add it to "Board settings" in "General settings"
2. A newsletter option would be cool. You can have it so it emails everyone on the forum, or you can input the people you want to receive it by inserting their email into a field. Sometimes, I want to email only my staff, so every time have to go through their profiles and find their emails can be annoying. So, maybe we can make "email groups" or something. Example:
Staff:
staf1@yahoo.com
staff2@yahoo.com
staff3@yahoo.com
Newsletter Committee
writer1@yahoo.com
writer@yahoo.com
Each group would have a check box next to them and you would select the ones you want to receive the email.
3. Spell check would be awesome. I'd make it a general setting option.
4. The general settings panel is getting kinda big, and its just going to get bigger. I would make branch off of it and Board Customization Features separate.
5. In the modify profile area, whats the difference between hiding your age and your birthday? If I know your birthday, I can easily find your age lol. Kind of the same.
6. In the banning area, I'd make "Reason" and Issues Separate fields. "Issued" meaning date. Unless, what I think you mean is Reason Issued as one word, in which that case, I'd get rid of that big space between them.
7. I'd add a merge feature. I think that would be very helpful. Though, people might say add a split feature as well. I don't think you really need that.
8. I'd like it if you could add a "Note from admin" or something like that field to the registration page. We can put our ground rules ect. So, there are no excuses if members break them on the forum. "You agreed to it when you signed up so it shouldn't have happened"
9. View by letter would be helpful in the member area.
10. When you make a sub-board, the "sub-board name" text has an off alignment.
11. Birthdays/Events I'd just decrease the width of the users online in past 24 hours box. Then, make another box on the far right and have a vertical list of the events/birthday.Maybe make this an option.
12. I like how the categories are clickable, but don't like the reason. Whats the advantage of being on a page with just those boards for that specific category? If you are going to make it clickable, I'd make it so you can hide/show it.
13. A portal page. Members can obviously choose whether or not to have it. You can allow them to fully customize it too. They should be able to choose from a blog, chat box, recent posts, forum news, ect.
14. When you quote people, have it be a link to another page. You can choose the posts you want to quote by checking a box, would be good for people who want to muli-quote posts. I still don't know how to do it. xD
15. Comment about the IC. I don't like how all the staff and members are mixed together. I think staff should be on one line, and members on another. I thought I was staff here for a second, cuz my name was parallel with "Staff members" Also, it's to close together and jumbled. I think you should make users online and events/birthdays if you add it one box, then users online in past 24 hours an additional box below that.
16. A code to prevent images stretching the papge would be cool.
17. An option to disable account activations.
18. Can we add "useful links" to the IC?
19. When you click on the most recent post on the main page, I'd have it so it takes you to the page that reply is on. NOt the first page all the time.
20. View by join date. I've always wanted that option in the members panel. You can see who the veterans are ect. Might be pointless though idk.
I hope with all these suggestions you take it as a "I think this software sux" kinda thing. I am actually very pleased with it and see voluminous potential with it. Many of the annoyances I have had with other softwares aren't present in this. I salute you vForum staff!
O, and one comment for this forum. No offense to who made it, but the banner isn't that good. Actually, it isn't bad. But, I just don't like the text. Maybe add a drop shadow, a grad to the BG too, idk.
how do you get it working?
