If you could change two things about the CodeIgniter forums, they would be…

Discuss. :-D

- a spam filter that works
- a mark-as-read button on the search results (now you have to go back, and risk marking posts that have been placed after the search)

A good moderator team!

Latley i see more and more discussions standing in the wrong forums.

Perhaps a better forum layout, so it will be obvious where you should open your topic.

Something like this (from the head):

- introduce your self
- codeigniter questions
- codeigniter discussion
- frontend
- script requests
- Design paterns

something like that.

1. No active links for new members combined with
2. Only x posts per x time period for new members.

Existing spam reporting will expose abusive members before they are able to have links displayed.

1) Better SPAM filtering.
2) New CodeIgniter 2.0 forum.

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Derek Jones - 19 November 2010 03:55 PM

If you could change two things about the CodeIgniter forums, they would be…

I’m going to keep one in reserve, and for now just suggest ISO 8601 date formats for the list of threads page - that wonky US mm/dd/yyyy format consistently screws with my brain.

It works pretty well for me, but maybe a forum for non-newbs that requires at least x posts to ask a question.

That said, newbs often learn a lot from discussions they don’t quite understand yet. Plus, I’m a semi-newb

I think the forums are pretty good already. I’d be careful about any additional segmentation. Unless the categories are clearly different, it doesn’t usually work that well. For example, “CodeIgniter Discussion” and “Code & App Dev” get pretty much the same type of questions. Also be careful with spam prevention that hinders legitimate and especially new legitimate users. Maybe check out Akismet.

a “SOLVED” button, just that

Sorting search results by date and relevance.

jedd - 20 November 2010 12:13 AM

I’m going to keep one in reserve, and for now just suggest ISO 8601 date formats for the list of threads page - that wonky US mm/dd/yyyy format consistently screws with my brain.

Especially as the ‘posted’ date is so nicely formatted but the joined date is different. Consistency people!!!

Also spam filters. It’s been said, but it’s really really really annoying. Like people using ‘really’ too many times..

One more addition: it would be nice if the search results are ordered by date. Now old ones can be on the first page, new ones on other pages. Which means that you sometimes “mark as read” while there are new ones you haven’t seen yet.

edit: noticed Bullspit asked something similar…

In a forum listing, hovering over the title of a thread gives… the title! It would be useful to show the first paragraph or so of the text, as in certain other forum softwares.

More Features!

1) New forum topic - Forum Rules.

A lot of new users are not using code tags and not stating what
version of CodeIgniter they are using…

This should be a sticky.

How to use Post Reply and code tags to wrap their code.
How to specify the CI version they are using.
etc.

InsiteFX

Better spam filtering.

Search Thread Facility, trawling through some threads looking for the info you want sometimes takes quite a while.