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Matt,
You are doing a fantastic job with this forum. We are all grateful you set it up and impressed with how you have responded to suggestions. I would like to add one. Could you make the Private Messages automatically forward to the email in the person's profile? Yesterday I sent a PM to you and a few others. I received replies from two of the members. I suspect you have been too busy to reply and that perhaps the other just hasn't seen that he has a message waiting for him. The Jive forum had this setting, that a message to a user was forwarded to their email without revealing their email address. I think this is a good approach as it assures the message is seen and yet it protects the recipients' email from being exposed.

Thanks for considering this.

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DennisD wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 11:17 am Matt,
You are doing a fantastic job with this forum. We are all grateful you set it up and impressed with how you have responded to suggestions....

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Hear hear!! I will drink to that!!

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DennisD wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 11:17 am Matt,
You are doing a fantastic job with this forum. We are all grateful you set it up and impressed with how you have responded to suggestions. I would like to add one. Could you make the Private Messages automatically forward to the email in the person's profile? Yesterday I sent a PM to you and a few others. I received replies from two of the members. I suspect you have been too busy to reply and that perhaps the other just hasn't seen that he has a message waiting for him. The Jive forum had this setting, that a message to a user was forwarded to their email without revealing their email address. I think this is a good approach as it assures the message is seen and yet it protects the recipients' email from being exposed.

Thanks for considering this.

- - -Dennis
Thanks, @DennisD ! I'll see what I can do about that. I should also post a public "to do" list so you all can see what's in progress.

And about the other thing, I didn't respond immediately because I needed to think about it. And then I got involved in other stuff. I'll try to make it back to that message, and respond.
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matt wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:29 pm
DennisD wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 11:17 am Matt,
You are doing a fantastic job with this forum. We are all grateful you set it up and impressed with how you have responded to suggestions. I would like to add one. Could you make the Private Messages automatically forward to the email in the person's profile? Yesterday I sent a PM to you and a few others. I received replies from two of the members. I suspect you have been too busy to reply and that perhaps the other just hasn't seen that he has a message waiting for him. The Jive forum had this setting, that a message to a user was forwarded to their email without revealing their email address. I think this is a good approach as it assures the message is seen and yet it protects the recipients' email from being exposed.

Thanks for considering this.

- - -Dennis
Thanks, @DennisD ! I'll see what I can do about that. I should also post a public "to do" list so you all can see what's in progress.

And about the other thing, I didn't respond immediately because I needed to think about it. And then I got involved in other stuff. I'll try to make it back to that message, and respond.
When you get the to do list established, don't forget to implement a progress bar...No need to reinvent one, just use this one (I think I suggested it elsewhere, should work here too):
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Any ideas you don't/can't implement just move them to "Submitted to R&D". Seems to be working well elsewhere...
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mattpeneguy wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:41 pm When you get the to do list established, don't forget to implement a progress bar...No need to reinvent one, just use this one (I think I suggested it elsewhere, should work here too):
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Any ideas you don't/can't implement just move them to "Submitted to R&D". Seems to be working well elsewhere...
Missing a few states "Rejected", "Cancelled", "Submitted to 3DSWYM"
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jcapriotti wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:17 pm
mattpeneguy wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:41 pm When you get the to do list established, don't forget to implement a progress bar...No need to reinvent one, just use this one (I think I suggested it elsewhere, should work here too):
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Any ideas you don't/can't implement just move them to "Submitted to R&D". Seems to be working well elsewhere...
Missing a few states "Rejected", "Cancelled", "Submitted to 3DSWYM"
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@matt

Is there an extension that lets GIF's play inline? (You know, like the old site. :))
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SPerman wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 2:26 pm @matt

Is there an extension that lets GIF's play inline? (You know, like the old site. :))
Yeah, I can redirect the main url to www.swym.com :lol:

There should be. I'll look into it.
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Is it possible to have a pasted link to another thread show more information?
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SPerman wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 4:49 pm Is it possible to have a pasted link to another thread show more information?

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There's an add-on, I believe, that will convert links to the metadata title(I might be wrong on the name), so for instance if I were to link this thread, it wouldn't show a link, it would show a text with "Forum Feature Requests". Is that what you'd like to see?
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Yes, please. I know I've seen it on other forums, but I don't know what platform they were hosted on.
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