Why can't a star be added to someone's reputation anymore?

Ian (Mackem_Beefy)

Hi all, there are some god points being made here, I'll pass them on to the web team.

Erm Reenie, are you trying to tell us something about the moderation of this forum? I'd read that back bonny lass. ;-)

Ian (Mackem_Beefy)

Holy cow! Apologies for the blasphemy!

Can we have a 'like' button? That would be nice :)

It looks well, and no issues so far, keep up the great work.

Just had an odd experience. Wrote a post that contained a URL and when I hit submit, a post appeared with my name, which appeared to have no content. I tried editing it several times to no avail, and only succeeded in getting anything to come up when I removed part of the URL which contained a hashtag in it. Are hashtags blocked?

Hi HazyJane,

I've passed it on to one of the teckie dudes :)

Thanks

Hi All
This is my first of many posts hopefully.
I think there definitely needs to be a restructure of the home page and how threads are organised. I know that there is a filter for topics but I think that there should be structure such as the student room or http://www.new-606.co.uk/, which is a sports forum. There are just so many threads about cover letters and CV's, that these should be sticky topics (parden my ignorance if you have this already).

I like the format of this forum. It's one of the many reasons I use it. There aren't enough posts for categories anyway. The studentroom has a really annoying structure.

At the moment its just a list of threads which you can search through.
I think general CV/cover letter advice should definitely be a sticky. There are far too many people who start new threads for these when they could have a sticky as their first port of call and then if they need more specific advice then they post in the subject areas- my next suggestion.
The only categories I could see are in the top right hand corner which splits threads into Phd, Masters and off topic.
I think it would be really helpful if there were also breakdowns for different topic- There don't have to be many. It could be something like
-Natural/health sciences
-Engineering/IT
-Arts
-Humanities.

Finally a section for non academic stuff- because people do post about topics such as relationships, work/life balance, money etc. For example if I want to (and I will shortly as Im due to begin in October) start a thread on accomodation, then after a few days of no activity, the thread will go on to the second page and wont be seen as often.
I'm not one for change for change sake, so I really I think these could reduce the duplication of topics, and make it easier to find the relevant topics

There is now a categories section?? Has that always been there???

I've found a bit of a flaw with the private message interface. I open a message, read through it and then click on the button at the bottom right so that I can reply. (In the same position that the 'submit' button currently is on my screen right now). Only that's the 'delete' button, not a 'reply' button. To reply you have to scroll back to the top.

Twice now I've accidentally deleted messages when I wanted to reply. Perhaps it's just me being daft, but would it be possible for this UI problem to be examined? Possible solutions include moving the 'reply' bottom to the bottom so you are forced to look and choose, a trashcan from which you can retrieve accidentally deleted messaged, or a confirmation "Are you sure you want to delete this message?" type pop up.

Thanks

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I have passed your observations onto the web team and will keep you updated on our progress.

When I login I tick the keep logged in box, but it doesn't seem to be remembering for any length of time (a day or more!). So I have to keep logging in again and again. Which is somewhat exasperating. Would be grateful it it could be fixed. Thanks.