Thanks to everyone for your feedback on making these Forums better. I've upgraded to some new features that you've suggested including:
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Favorites/Bookmarking: Now when you bookmark or add a topic to your favorites, the actual topic title is saved in your bookmarks or favorites.
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Jump To Last Post: On the forums' homepage and forum pages you can now find an extra icon
to quickly jump to the last post made in a forum or topic.
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Sticky topics: Like this topic, it stays at the top of the Forum for important announcements
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Smilies in reply window: Smilies are no longer a pop-up window. I'm working on getting some cooler-looking smilies.
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Signatures: Now if you change your signature in your profile, it will update all your past posts with your new sig. (before, your old posts used your old sig)
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Quick reply: At the end of each topic is a Quick Reply box, to make replying easier
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Topic Sorting:
Each user can now sort the topics on the forum page by a couple criteria:
1) Last Post Time
2) Topic Title
3) Topic Author
4) Number of Replies
5) Number of Views
These can be sorted in ascending or descending order, and for a specified timespan
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Flood Conrol: Before if you clicked "Post new Topic" twice, it would post your reply twice. Now you have to wait 30 seconds between posts, to avoid duplicate postings.
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Posting: Auto-insertion of the Forum Code around the selected text (Internet Explorer only).
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Posting: JavaScript Form validation (no more loss of your post when you forget to enter the subject)
Plus a few others that improve download speeds. Let me know if you have any other ideas, or have any problems. Thanks everyone.
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