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• rotalumis

  

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  A pretty urgent one is that it asks you to input your password when you change your BTC and LTBC addresses.

  I also strongly agree with @adam's suggestion for a tighter design. There are too few topics/posts per page at the moment. Maybe this could be user-configurable, so you can choose if you want 20, 50, or whatever posts per page.

  Posted on July 8, 2014 at 3:16 AM
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• popinjay

  

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  Yup tighter design and search are my two biggest.

  The layout isn't bad, but like you guys have noticed, it would be nice to have it more compact and readable. I do like the media player at the top, I never noticed that before!

  Posted on July 9, 2014 at 6:06 AM
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• adam

  

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  @popinjay Yup tighter design and search are my two biggest.

  The layout isn't bad, but like you guys have noticed, it would be nice to have it more compact and readable. I do like the media player at the top, I never noticed that before!

  The media player will be more useful when it is persistent from page to page :) Right now if you leave the page it reloads, non-ideal.

  But yeah, the goal is to be able to listen to episodes while hanging on the forum.

  Posted on July 9, 2014 at 6:25 AM
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• popinjay

  

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  @adam

  @popinjay Yup tighter design and search are my two biggest.

  The layout isn't bad, but like you guys have noticed, it would be nice to have it more compact and readable. I do like the media player at the top, I never noticed that before!

  The media player will be more useful when it is persistent from page to page :) Right now if you leave the page it reloads, non-ideal.

  But yeah, the goal is to be able to listen to episodes while hanging on the forum.

  That would be great. Mostly I listen on my pod app on phone, but while browsing at home on the laptop/desktop it would be nice to have that feature for sure. Maybe like a drop down menu as well, so when you hover over it, you can select which episode you want to listen too. Not sure how feasible that is though as I don't know much about webpage design.

  Posted on July 9, 2014 at 6:43 AM
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• adam

  

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  @popinjay

  @adam

  @popinjay Yup tighter design and search are my two biggest.

  The layout isn't bad, but like you guys have noticed, it would be nice to have it more compact and readable. I do like the media player at the top, I never noticed that before!

  The media player will be more useful when it is persistent from page to page :) Right now if you leave the page it reloads, non-ideal.

  But yeah, the goal is to be able to listen to episodes while hanging on the forum.

  That would be great. Mostly I listen on my pod app on phone, but while browsing at home on the laptop/desktop it would be nice to have that feature for sure. Maybe like a drop down menu as well, so when you hover over it, you can select which episode you want to listen too. Not sure how feasible that is though as I don't know much about webpage design.

  Oh it's feasible and it's on the list.

  Posted on July 9, 2014 at 7:04 AM
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• Cryptonaut

  

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  For the media player thing, as a temporary solution you can click the little square with the arrow in it to the right of the player to pop out in to a new mini window. It pauses what you are playing and continues where you left off in the pop out.

  Posted on July 9, 2014 at 8:11 AM
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• Matt

  

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  @adam It would be nice to have profiles that show lists of previous posts for users. +1 to the search function. Also, a way to find out how the community is interacting with the site easier would be nice, like the picture wall we spoke of with icons and so forth.

  I have a site built on PHP (same language as this site) that combines aspects of twitter and facebook groups, I've given nick @cryptonaut access to it and I'm open to donating the code to the effort. Their is roughly 15,000 lines of code written profile pages, groups, private messaging, analytics, following, recent posts, central feed and community wall. It has a tighter design as well. I'm not sure how difficult it would be to implement. It should be live again shortly so anyone can take a look around.

  Posted on July 9, 2014 at 8:28 AM
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• MikeJohnson

  

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  I'd love to see the ability to see all of the posts that a user has commented on, so +1 to the suggestion of @Matt

  It would be great to be able to quickly move around the site!

  Posted on July 9, 2014 at 10:07 AM
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• William

  

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  +1 on search, +1 on post-history. Also the ability to give posts a +1 would be nice. Wasn't there an "agree" function on the old forum? I liked that too.

  Posted on July 9, 2014 at 11:47 AM
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• Matt

  

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  @coinfire I'd love to see the ability to see all of the posts that a user has commented on, so +1 to the suggestion of @Matt

  It would be great to be able to quickly move around the site!

  Thanks, here's a screenshot of what the old site looked like. It was built in 2012. The "community picture wall" on the right updates as users interact with the site in real time, so as long as there is activity on the site the wall is moving. Icons display the activity that was made and the users avatar moves to the top of the list. The posts are not limited to characters just 3 lines and are expanded by clicking on the post.

  http://i.imgur.com/mJcY6o8.png

  Posted on July 9, 2014 at 1:13 PM
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