Fucking Report system already
Frontpage links actually going to latest post if you've visted the thread before
User titles/More coin shit
Enhance the text editor, inline images etc please
Subforum filters
The subforums really ought to be consolidated. There are only three threads in News Node which have been active within the past day. Hell, News Node was never popular, so I wouldn’t miss it if it were deleted. There’s a single thread which was recently active in Science - a thread which could have gone in SH. Fashion was dead on arrival. Therapy heavily overlaps with Social. Many of the game subforums could be consolidated too, by genre, medium or developer, as opposed to subforums for franchises or even individual games.
Just the way that the subforums are right now, there’s a serious misalignment between what the community here wants, and what Garry and the lads think we want. Eg just because you create a subforum for Fashion doesn’t necessarily mean that people will actually use that subforum. This is why I made my suggestion the other day about users crowdsourcing their coins into implementing new subforums here - because at least you would know that there’s demand for those subforums.
The real issue with NN at the moment is that news bots don't even work. Most threads there on the old site came from the news bots and while there were quite a few threads that never got any posts the subforum was decently active nonetheless. At the very least I know that a lot of the threads that got no posts still had a lot of people read them. There's just not much to say about an announcement that X game is on sale.
Implement reporting
Unfuck the stupid as hell subforum system and change it back because its clearly not working
Let me decide what posts I do and don't get notifications for. I have no desire to see funny ratings on LMAO pics posts from 5 weeks ago
also on the topic of subforums, the gaming subs should be genres, not specific games. garry's ridiculous idea that people would magically use subforums and ditch megathreads after banning them (which was literally rescinded not even a few days later) is misguided, just peeking at the far cry sub, the last post in a thread that wasnt the megathread was 9 days ago, and that itself was a bump of a month old thread. objectively, this "experiment" into changing the way the forums are organized has failed.
Bring back perma'd users.
Make it so you can buy 80 x 160 without giving an arm/leg worth of coins.
View counter.
Private messages.
and the Zing rating.
Report system
Option to display images in quotes
Oldpunch style profiles and DMs
Mark unread button for the times I accidentally open something on mobile I wanted to read later
Refugee camp, or better yet the ability to view ban history. (Makes spotting a troll/shitposter much easier in unfamiliar sections)
Optimistic rating would be nice to have back as well.
bring back the smiley picker
editable quotes(maybe limit it to just shortening it, so you can only delete characters but not add any new ones?)
You can do that by highlighting whatever section you want before hitting quote, but being able to delete stuff inside quotes would be a lot more intuitive.
Don't show every single subforum thread in the Games forum
I really don't get the point of this, you're reducing the exposure of smaller games in order to show off every little TF2 thread. If someone wants to look at specific TF2 content they'll click the TF2 forum. There's already a TF2 forum right on the main site, we don't need it everywhere. Being able to filter out tags would definitely help, though even before the change there was a problem of threads being sent to later pages just because of the small number of threads per page.
Hey how about fucking not having a post editor that's absolutely horrid? I was going to make my second point about letting us decide how many threads we see per page, but then when I tried to put a second bullet point in, this dogshit post editor changed it from 2 to 1 every time. So fuck it, that's my second point. BBcode was old and a bit clunky but at least it let me post what I told it to post. Posting on newpunch can be such a pain, it fights you every step of the way. Want to post a full sized image? Fuck you, we're making it an imgur embed that's smaller for no reason. Want to clip quotes down to the actually relevant part? Oh no we've done away with that, what is this, 2005? We've got a quote function for you right here, one that automatically quotes whatever part of your post we decide to quote, and ever line after it. Being able to just tag exactly what you wanted exactly how you wanted was so much easier. The new post editor is a downgrade in every way. I mean look at this shitty formatting on this post. I have no idea how to fix it, you have no control over anything.
Also, do we REALLY need to reset your scrolling every single time you past something?
Also point one, I fucking guess. Let us choose how many threads we see per page. Having to click through four pages of GGD to find threads that aren't even a week old is ridiculous. Particularly when you want to check in on a specific thread and you have to CTRL+F every page.
4.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/257085/3b083e3c-d312-4dff-8827-b8d0ad3dd2f7/image.png
When you try to resize the window to fit onto the side of your screen so you can have something else open on another window, the site turns into a fucking awful mess. The rarely useful "latest threads" sidebar takes up nearly half the screen, recent posts takes up a third of the screen, yet somehow manages to also be almost entirely dead space, AND cut off most of the thread titles in possibly the most inefficient use of space I've ever seen in a website, and the most important part of the screen, the forums and sub-forums, get squashed into an un-usable mess. Inside threads it's less egregious, but you're still dedicating way too much space for profile backgrounds. When the window is small, it needs to be more space efficient than the default site, not the other way around.
No, seriously, fix this fucking formatting, it's awful. I'm back to 1 again.
Fix the sub-forum system. Please, threads that don't go into any of the sub-categories get lost to page 7 if nobody posts in them in 15 minutes. Let us filter them or get rid of the change completely.
Make the quotes actually show what's in them instead of just links (embeds, pictures etc.)
Reporting system.
Functional mobile-page. I use FP droid but I'd like to be able to just use a browser normally.
Option to not use the weird WYSIWYG -text editor when posting. Maybe an option for the old FP-editor? I find it difficult to format my posts like I want. This automatically created bulleting-list can't be edited at all for example, just look at the posts with several 1. after another.
better mobile
ban anime
user titles and shit to spend coins on
main background customisation
ban anime again
"classic" view for subforums - I.E, links to the subforums at the top/side and no subforum posts within it's parent board.
Make mobile actually usable
Working report function
more coin stuff
DMs, at least as a stopgap measure until garry finds away to have truly private messages if he still wants to do that (or as a replacement if he dont)
Number one above all else is popular threads. The lack of it is making me use this website so much less than I used to.
The only other thing I can think of is a list of threads you are following so you can find dead threads easier when you want to post in them again.
1: Let us turn off the latest threads ticker on the left.
2: Real time ticker again
3: Quote editing/proper quoting in general
something for fp_read (whatever garry wanted just sucks, keeping track of threads is something I can't do anymore)
Private Messaging
Websockets Implementation (For Ticker, Notifications)
Mobile Improvements (even if it's a separate site, like a PWA)
Report Systems
Mobile fix. I browse mostly from phone. Having to use my computer to get my fix now.
Request desktop site on your phone.
I meant like under your avatar on your posts.
1- Working mobile
2- Popular threads
3 - Working quotes for embedded stuff
4- Generally fix embeds - some videos don't plat at all, some autoplay, some constantly loop, some embeds twitch all over the place, some are broken and cannot be scrolled
Simple things really. I don't like the current subforum system one bit and tags in the parent forum seem pointless but I am willing to give that time.
To be perfectly honest I mainly browsed SH, polidicks, LMAO and hardware and software along with whatever caught my interest in popular threads, but with no mobile so no access at work and the really shitty looking formatting in SH/Polidicks along with difficulties in quoting has made me lose more and more interest in FP. I find myself browsing much less these days.
I'll put them from most desired to least.
1: Improve subforums (better categories, toggle them in parent forum)
2: Report system
3: Fix mobile
4: PMs
5: Emote menu
Fix the subforum mess.
Having subforums show up in parent forums does not increase the visibility of subforum threads. Instead it drowns out parent forum threads while forcing separate subforums to compete for attention on the main page. There should be a link to each subforum from the parent forum and a link back to the parent forum from each subforum. Subforum threads should not show up in the parent forum (maybe add it as an option if people want it). The games forum, as has been brought up by myself and many others repeatedly, is a fucking mess right now and most of the previously active threads are dead. The same has also happened in General Discussion where Drugs and Cars have pretty much taken the place over.
To continue on that, make subforum topics broader. Far Cry doesn't need an entire subforum it can barely maintain a single thread, turns out flavour of the month games don't generate a huge amount of discussion. The Games subforums should be genre based, have a platformer section, a shooter section, an action section, and a strategy section, then leave the main forum for less popular genres like stealth games or rhythm games. Having a subforum for a single game is just a waste of space and doomed to a slow death. It's fine to have sections for Facepunch games but that only works because this is Facepunch's forum, sections for other companies could work like a Ubisoft forum or a Bethesda forum, but even then big publishers are putting out fewer, bigger games all the time and those forums would only have a small number of active threads.
Make thread title lengths much longer.
Thread titles were already too short on oldpunch. Making them shorter just makes things worse. Almost every thread in Sensationalist Headlines has to be cut down. Megathreads also used to have fun descriptors or comments in the title which gave people a sense of the game r the community surrounding it, they're not super important but they made the Games section feel more laid back to have jokes in the titles.
More post formatting options.
We need more options regarding how we format posts. We need to be able to thumb images, turn the images into links (very useful for OPs), and to place images on the same line. It would also be nice to have more control over how links are displayed. If I paste a link I don't want it to automatically use whatever title the link is associated with, give me the option to use that, to leave the link as it is, or to add my own text. I know we can highlight text and make it into a link but it shouldn't be the only way. Personally I'd like to see an editor that lets be format my posts manually as I hate the WYSIWYG system.
Social media links on profile pages and profile cards.
Simple enough, when we go to someone's profile, or hover on their card we should be able to see icons linking to their social media accounts like we had on oldpunch. While we can just throw the link into the profile page I think a dedicated section with links on profile cards would encourage people to show off their social media accounts. It was really nice to be able to see someone's steam profile or their youtube channel just by clicking an icon under their avatar on oldpunch.
A page where we can see anything we've uploaded to Facepunch.
We can upload files to Facepunch now but we have no way of keeping track of them , so if you want to upload an image you've already uploaded you need to upload it again. It's not a problem space wise but that shit can add up, especially if people are uploading larger files. More importantly it would be really fucking handy if you could let people know you uploaded something before so they can go to your upload page and find it themselves. It would be especially useful if file types, file sizes, and upload dates/date ranges could be used to filter such a page.
Lastly, we need a report system badly.
Yeah, yeah, post 5 things you want. Well I don't want a report system, the forums need it. Right now the mods are using discord and Pascall's report thread to sort forum reports and that's a super shitty system. We need an integrated report system ASAP. It should have been the top priority when the forums got migrated.
Clicking the latest thread from the main page should take you to the latest post - not the OP.
Adding highlight back to your own posts would be helpful - the green highlight on oldpunch was awful. Maybe a nice shade of blue this time. It just made it easier to find your own posts.
Multiple minor Quality of Life additions including editing quotes, spoilers should require a click NOT a highlight, profile cards should require a click to see the whole pop up, increased OP titles, report system, mobile, etc.
Subforum's need to be worked on - they were added and abandoned immediately. Shouldn't make big changes like this and then not immediately continue fixing and developing it.
Mostly other small changes tbh. I don't give a shit about the coin system or titles to have any input on those.
Change the order of ratings as in this thread A new ratings order
Undo the sub-forum changes. Poorly thought out, widely hated change that improved nothing
Proper reporting system
Show avatar on profile pages and let other users post (so your profile is almost like your own thread)
More things to spend coins on would be nice
Subforum fixes (i'm still not sure what the best idea is)
finalize the auth system (remove auth methods)
better profile pages
Adding one more small thing, when you click on a thread from the main page, it takes you to the first page. Could it instead take you to the last read page?
These four + actual subforums. Threads from a subforum should not be visible in the parent thread.
@Hezzy to retire.
You've been here too long.
Go have a nap grandad.
Nice car tho
Hi
Oh also, having the subforums listed within the parent forum would make accessing them way easier
All I want is Optimistic back.
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