Musicbanter Improvement Thread (album, members, title, reviews, quote)

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Yea, originally the image limit per-post was 4. What number should we raise to? The reason it's only 10 now, is because we didn't really have a baseline of need to go off of originally, and 10 just seemed like a nice-round number. If people have found need for a specific number of images, please post that here so we can get an idea of what people need.

Well I should say a limit isn't neccesary, but I know postings with too many images can cause problems on some computers. I'm not sure what causes this, they just stop loading images. This could also be a bug of SMF forums (my forum is an SMF forum). I'm not sure.
Eitherway, if someone wants to post images he or she will just continue in the next posting, so it doesn't stop anyone from doing so.
If it causes problems for no one, I'd say: no limit.
It could be handy though if images weren't included in quotes, or a maximum of 5 images only. Some people tend to quote postings with 10 images in them and that's a bit overdone I guess.
So, my question here is: Why is there a limit in the first place and is it really neccesary?

I like the post-done function idea, although I'm not sure whether the forum software will implement it, seeing as new updates to anything are available upon re-load to the server... like how you only see new PMs or what not, after you've refreshed or loaded a page. If you have any resources for this function, please post them.
As for smileys, is there a database of smileys we could reference?

For all I say goes: This, if the software accepts it. I realise every forum software has restrictions so no prob if it isn't going to work. I'm just going to put all my idea's down here. I hope this won't make you think that I think the software sucks or the forum sucks or 'my forum is so much better'. Because I don't think that. I just try to help .

And here's another one;
When I put a picture in a posting on my own forum, I can do this
[img width=640]http://linktotheimage.com/image.jpg[/img].
This way the image will only be 640 pixels wide. I should admit that my forum also has an option of automatically resizing images to 800 pixels but that just doesn't work. Far from perfect, thus.
Eitherway, if you want to make a link to a bigger image on my forum, you can do this
[ url=http://siteofimage/200pixelswideimage.jpg][img width=640]http://siteofimage/200pixelswideimage.jpg[/img][/url]

So it's the same as making a clickable url by doing
[ url=http://www.thisistheurl.com]CLICK HERE[/url]
Only you make a clickable image instead of a clickable URL.
Also you use the width=640 command to make the clickable image smaller while the original image stays huge ass. Very practical. Probably not possible, just sayin' ;D

Another idea; My forum provides you with a pop-up (you can turn it on or off in your profile) whenever you get a PM and when you click 'ok', it opens the pm in a new tab/window. Very practical if you ask me. I often don't see that I have a PM here.

Another one: I am a stupid ass so I always post visitor messages in my own profile when I try to reply to someone. I can't get the hang of it and I noticed it doesn't just happen to me. It would be nice if this wasn't possible.

Moar, and I really mean this one: GIMME A MEMBERS LIST! I hate not having that. It's so unpractical!