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Paydirt website update - What would make Paydirt a better site?

snowdrop		Posted : Thursday, 17 December 2015 10:58:42 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 24/12/2013(UTC) Posts: 191 Location: Canterbury Thanks: 225 times Was thanked: 66 time(s) in 49 post(s)		Couldn't agree more. Small amount from everyone doesn't break the bank. Snowdrop

snowdrop		Posted : Thursday, 17 December 2015 10:59:39 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 24/12/2013(UTC) Posts: 191 Location: Canterbury Thanks: 225 times Was thanked: 66 time(s) in 49 post(s)		Couldn't agree more. Small amount from everyone doesn't break the bank. Snowdrop

Camtrell1980		Posted : Friday, 18 December 2015 6:17:32 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Dust Groups: Registered		Message was deleted by a Moderator. \| Reason: SPAM

GoldPandemic		Posted : Wednesday, 6 January 2016 8:18:57 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 27/10/2014(UTC) Posts: 350 Location: Auckland Thanks: 266 times Was thanked: 141 time(s) in 102 post(s)		It would be nice when logging in to be kept on the same forum post, rather than being shot back to the forum front page. If that is possible. I agree with subscription based forum - then you'd have to deal with less spammers. On mobile phones the Shout Box is expanded, however on computers it is compacted - can you change this default setting ( I nearly thought it wasn't available on the computer). Edited by user Thursday, 12 May 2016 10:07:12 AM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified
		Treasure/coins: $1 Other artifacts: 1888 button Lead: 914g Copper: 46

GoldPandemic		Posted : Thursday, 12 May 2016 10:41:53 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 27/10/2014(UTC) Posts: 350 Location: Auckland Thanks: 266 times Was thanked: 141 time(s) in 102 post(s)		There is another annoying bug, when you move to different pages in a single post, it sends you back to the first page, and as you cannot see the next page it requires multiple clicks to get back to where you were. This is also an issue when doing a search. Click on page 7, it goes back to page 1, then you cannot see page 7 until anther few clicks or the arrow. I found pressing back in my browser takes me back to page 6 then I can retry 7, though perhaps this doesn't work as well for search. Clicking the 20 pages button to the left of the page buttons then putting in the page number you require can be a helpful alternative.
		Treasure/coins: $1 Other artifacts: 1888 button Lead: 914g Copper: 46

Mudwiggle		Posted : Sunday, 24 July 2016 6:38:49 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered, Moderators Joined: 22/10/2013(UTC) Posts: 742 Thanks: 182 times Was thanked: 683 time(s) in 317 post(s)		Date parameters on the search would be nice

gavzilla		Posted : Monday, 25 July 2016 12:37:44 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 24/02/2012(UTC) Posts: 60 Location: queenstown Thanks: 12 times Was thanked: 34 time(s) in 18 post(s)		Any chance you could make posting pictures a bit easier? For me it would make paydirt a much easier site to use and will obviously help people get more pics up on here, I understand it takes up a lot of server space but there must be cloud options available now with big storage.

gavin		Posted : Thursday, 11 August 2016 10:56:36 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		I'm eyeing up https://www.discourse.org/ as a possible forum replacement. You can just drag and drop pictures in = far too easy! Also has great features to allow the community itself to moderate posts etc. which I think is cool. Also as you're more active / reputation you get the more powers you get on the forums to edit stuff. Only trouble is that I would have to freeze the current forums and people would have to re-register with the new one. I think it's worth the effort though. Just doing a bit more research first, but feel it could be the way forward. Discourse has a tonne of cool features that will make things a bit more modern and convenient. If anyone wants to have a play to see how easy it is head on over to https://try.discourse.org/ - it's a nice sandbox to play in that gets blow away every day and reset. Have a play and see how easy it is to drop photos in to posts! ;)
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GoldPandemic		Posted : Friday, 12 August 2016 6:58:21 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 27/10/2014(UTC) Posts: 350 Location: Auckland Thanks: 266 times Was thanked: 141 time(s) in 102 post(s)		There is a lot of information on these forums, what would happen to all of it?
		Treasure/coins: $1 Other artifacts: 1888 button Lead: 914g Copper: 46

gavin		Posted : Friday, 12 August 2016 10:49:27 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		Originally Posted by: GoldPandemic There is a lot of information on these forums, what would happen to all of it? I was thinking of preserving it all as an archive in a read-only state, so you could still link back, search and reference old posts. Far too much good knowledge so don't want to loose it.
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gavin		Posted : Saturday, 13 August 2016 4:57:18 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		I am really keen to build up the community and empower you users more to moderate yourselves, smite trolls, and remove spam without my intervention. I'm experimenting with http://www.discourse.org/ currently and will leave it to the community to decide if we move over from this traditional old-skool forum system to something more modern that can compete with Facebook a bit more. I notice that there's a few Facebook groups, but I'm not the biggest fan of Facebook as anything posted there is a bit transient. A forum preserves information in a searchable fashion which keep on providing value years after it's been posted. One thing Facebook posting does very well is making it easy to share photos and videos. The Discourse forum platform I'm playing with allows you to drag and drop photos or paste in youtube links to get an embedded video - just like Facebook. Seems like a major forum upgrade to me, but it's a shame I can't port all you users and content. This forum would have to be left as a read-only archive, so at least nothing will be lost. Edited by user Saturday, 13 August 2016 4:58:04 PM(UTC) \| Reason: Removed accidental quote
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GoldPandemic		Posted : Saturday, 13 August 2016 8:02:06 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 27/10/2014(UTC) Posts: 350 Location: Auckland Thanks: 266 times Was thanked: 141 time(s) in 102 post(s)		Have to agree, I'm not a fan of facebook either, they change the way it operates so often aswell. I tried that metal detect nz group, and couldn't see users posts for all the American Metal Detecting spam in the newsfeed. That is a good idea about moderators, there are some good guys on here who'd be great moderators.
		Treasure/coins: $1 Other artifacts: 1888 button Lead: 914g Copper: 46

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