Feature & change requests for LES

AnthonySmith

Let's hear them 😉

Features, changes, small or huge.

10 upvotes (not karma) - considered no specific priority or guaranteed.
25 upvotes (not karma) - considered with higher priority but no guarantee.
50 upvotes (not karma) - top priority will happen as long as it's technically feasible.

somik

Make a server verify clone and email @Neoon for yabs.

somik

Make search in category (not global) or search in single thread or search in messages by single user.

Global search results in too much nonsense for such a large forum. When I try to find something specific, it's impossible...

Admin edit: Threshold reached, and request implemented.

rpqu

@somik said:
Make search in category (not global) or search in single thread or search in messages by single user.

Global search results in too much nonsense for such a large forum. When I try to find something specific, it's impossible...

Make search function which supports regex + date from & to. Also don't truncate the response

WSS

Make it suck less.

flips

Make it possible to ignore specific threads/topics.

WJJ

A short page somewhere that explains what "winner", "platinum", "popular" etc. actually represent (I.e. an explanation of the ruleset behind the scenes that defines these).

Could just be included on the about page!

Admin note: tags have changed to be more clear since this request, marking complete

MichaelCee

@WJJ said:
A short page somewhere that explains what "winner", "platinum", "popular" etc. actually represent (I.e. an explanation of the ruleset behind the scenes that defines these).

Could just be included on the about page!

I started adding a little bit of the tag stuff to the about page (at least for now if Ant wants to do something different)

But I need to fill in the blanks/make corrections as I'm not 100% sure myself

Forum Tags

Below is an explanation for the several tags which can be acquired through the forum.

• Administrator - Highest level of forum management
• Moderator - Volunteer staff who help moderate the forum
• Hosting Provider - A registered provider of hosting services
• Service Provider - A registered provider of other services
• OG - Given to users who joined in 2019
• User - Users with over 5 karma
• Popular - Users with over 50 karma
• Winner - Users with over 500 karma
• Platinum - Users with over 2000 karma

flips

@flips said:
Make it possible to ignore specific threads/topics.

And make it possible to ignore/block specific users.
(Or was that already added as a feature? I think there was some discussion at least ...🤔 I don't see the option ...)

DP

@flips said: ignore/block specific users

You can do that via the user's profile.

flips

@DP said:

@flips said: ignore/block specific users

You can do that via the user's profile.

Oh, in Dark Theme on mobile, I have to click large "Edit Profile" button to get/see that option

teamacc

Request to hide new user threads/possibly the new providers threads

Edit: or at least have it be in its own sub-category that's not on the homepage if that setting is enabled

MichaelCee

I am torn with the new member idea. On one hand, I love that it forces a public introduction and that it takes the burden off mods to approve users.

On the other hand, most if not all of the community banned users I would have probably approved if there was no double accounts or sketchy stuff.

The real question is why are people getting down voted?

For example this thread: https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/11142/new-member-ilove#latest

To me it seems like they were down voted simply because English isn't a strong point of theirs to articulate proper answers.

Is that the qualifying factor for being a member of LES?

Then we have comments like the one by @somik

I have adjusted my vote 5 times today (downvote/upvote) to keep the slider at or near zero

Are votes a true factor if they are just thrown either way willy nilly like that?

I honestly don't have a better recommendation but I look forward to the discussion thread so I can see people's thoughts.

somik

@MichaelCee said:
Then we have comments like the one by @somik

I have adjusted my vote 5 times today (downvote/upvote) to keep the slider at or near zero

Are votes a true factor if they are just thrown either way willy nilly like that?

I was trying to prove a point. That being the member votes are not a reliable way to approve new members.

And I totally agree with you on the fact that members are being banned willy nilly...

MichaelCee

@somik said:

@MichaelCee said:
Then we have comments like the one by @somik

I have adjusted my vote 5 times today (downvote/upvote) to keep the slider at or near zero

Are votes a true factor if they are just thrown either way willy nilly like that?

I was trying to prove a point. That being the member votes are not a reliable way to approve new members.

And I totally agree with you on the fact that members are being banned willy nilly...

Yep, I'm guessing there's a lot of others who aren't vocal downvoting/up voting for x y reason too. But I do really like the framework of the idea

bikegremlin

Forum Tags

Below is an explanation for the several tags which can be acquired through the forum.

• Administrator - Highest level of forum management
• Moderator - Volunteer staff who help moderate the forum Paid in gold, house by the sea or a million pigeons.

Fixed the typos. Carry on.

jaden

@MichaelCee said:

@somik said:

@MichaelCee said:
Then we have comments like the one by @somik

I have adjusted my vote 5 times today (downvote/upvote) to keep the slider at or near zero

Are votes a true factor if they are just thrown either way willy nilly like that?

I was trying to prove a point. That being the member votes are not a reliable way to approve new members.

And I totally agree with you on the fact that members are being banned willy nilly...

Yep, I'm guessing there's a lot of others who aren't vocal downvoting/up voting for x y reason too. But I do really like the framework of the idea

It's hard to tell if the user is a real person, especially when they don't respond. I get wanting to avoid spammers and AI, but if we're also trying to grow the community, banning the majority of new users isn't going in the right direction. I don't have a silver bullet, just sharing my thoughts.

Not_Oles

Hi!

I used to be able to find on my profile a link for a list of all my posts and another link for a list of all my comments. These lists made it easy to find my recent posts and comments. Now, when I click View Profile I go to my new, very nice Provider profile. But I don't know where nowadays to find my posts and comments histories. Help, please! Thanks!

Thanks!

Tom

jaden

@Not_Oles said:
Hi!

I used to be able to find on my profile a link for a list of all my posts and another link for a list of all my comments. These lists made it easy to find my recent posts and comments. Now, when I click View Profile I go to my new, very nice Provider profile. But I don't know where nowadays to find my posts and comments histories. Help, please! Thanks!

Thanks!

Tom

You should have those links in the right sidebar.

Not_Oles

Hi @jaden! Thanks for helping! Here is what I see. It says my post total, but, apparently, no links to my thread or comment history?

jaden

@Not_Oles said:
Hi @jaden! Thanks for helping! Here is what I see. It says my post total, but, apparently, no links to my thread or comment history?

Interesting, it could be an issue with the theme. Maybe try using the light theme temporarily to see if they show up?

This is what I see (and they're links):

jaden

@jaden said:

@Not_Oles said:
Hi @jaden! Thanks for helping! Here is what I see. It says my post total, but, apparently, no links to my thread or comment history?

Interesting, it could be an issue with the theme. Maybe try using the light theme temporarily to see if they show up?

This is what I see (and they're links):

@Not_Oles I was curious so I tried switching themes but I always had those links in the sidebar. It looks like you have a different profile page because you're considered a provider, and for some reason provider profiles don't have those links.

Not_Oles

@jaden Thanks for further research and testing! Maybe I am missing something. We will see before too long I bet! Thanks again!

angstrom

Perhaps it's just me (!), but I've accidentally clicked "Mark All Read" a couple of times when I intended to click on (the leftmost) "LOWEND SPIRIT". My request would be to move "Mark All Read" to the rightmost position (after "Support") to keep it more "out of the way"

DP

@jaden said:

@jaden said:

@Not_Oles said:
Hi @jaden! Thanks for helping! Here is what I see. It says my post total, but, apparently, no links to my thread or comment history?

Interesting, it could be an issue with the theme. Maybe try using the light theme temporarily to see if they show up?

This is what I see (and they're links):

@Not_Oles I was curious so I tried switching themes but I always had those links in the sidebar. It looks like you have a different profile page because you're considered a provider, and for some reason provider profiles don't have those links.

The provider profile does not have those links, but you can still view and access them via https://lowendspirit.com/profile/discussions/Not_Oles.

angstrom

@MichaelCeePlatinum said: I honestly don't have a better recommendation but I look forward to the discussion thread so I can see people's thoughts.

Frankly, in my view, it's not working as intended, not to mention that the questions are silly (and partly redundant: Why do you want to join? vs Why do you want to join this forum?)

To me, it seems like a poorly thought-out initiation rite at a third-class boarding school, and if I were a newcomer, I would run in the opposite direction as quickly as possible and never look back

(I would not have passed the initiation rite)

(Sorry for my frankness)

rpqu

Requesting feature:
Favorite symbol for a post, viewable only by the user which faved it

Admin edit: Bookmark specific posts within threads.

somik

@rpqu said:
Requesting feature:
Favorite symbol for a post, viewable only by the user which faved it

Use the star on thread?

rpqu

@somik said:

@rpqu said:
Requesting feature:
Favorite symbol for a post, viewable only by the user which faved it

Use the star on thread?

Troublesome if it's on the cest pit

AnthonySmith

@rpqu said:

@somik said:

@rpqu said:
Requesting feature:
Favorite symbol for a post, viewable only by the user which faved it

Use the star on thread?

Troublesome if it's on the cest pit

do you mean like bookmarking a post within a thread rather than a whole thread?

rpqu

@AnthonySmith said:

@rpqu said:

@somik said:

@rpqu said:
Requesting feature:
Favorite symbol for a post, viewable only by the user which faved it

Use the star on thread?

Troublesome if it's on the cest pit

do you mean like bookmarking a post within a thread rather than a whole thread?

That's correct.

somik

@rpqu said:

@AnthonySmith said:

@rpqu said:

@somik said:

@rpqu said:
Requesting feature:
Favorite symbol for a post, viewable only by the user which faved it

Use the star on thread?

Troublesome if it's on the cest pit

do you mean like bookmarking a post within a thread rather than a whole thread?

That's correct.

Can't you use your browsers bookmark to bookmark the post? Maybe add a link to name it make it easy to bookmark?

AnthonySmith

@somik said:
Make search in category (not global) or search in single thread or search in messages by single user.

Global search results in too much nonsense for such a large forum. When I try to find something specific, it's impossible...

Threshold reached, as it was trivial, work has been done:

You can also select categorie(s) in the general search page.

somik

@AnthonySmith said:

@somik said:
Make search in category (not global) or search in single thread or search in messages by single user.

Global search results in too much nonsense for such a large forum. When I try to find something specific, it's impossible...

Threshold reached, as it was trivial, work has been done:

You can also select categorie(s) in the general search page.

Wow, the advanced search looks nice!

teamacc

@AnthonySmith for providers, you cannot get a list of their posts + threads started (nor for provider representatives) right now using point+click. If I go to your profile, the "comments/threads started" things arent clickable.

AnthonySmith

@teamacc said:
@AnthonySmith for providers, you cannot get a list of their posts + threads started (nor for provider representatives) right now using point+click. If I go to your profile, the "comments/threads started" things arent clickable.

I will treat that as a bug report rather than a feature request.

Will have a look tomorrow.

AnthonySmith

How about a tamagochi style profile page pet that eats and evolves by being fed good karma.

AnthonySmith

How about a LES style v86 project built into the forum so you can spin up browser based VM's and we can finally have a place to donate idle VPS as web sockets to give them external IP addresses.

If you don't understand that, trust me it's fun https://copy.sh/v86/ example.

teamacc

@AnthonySmith said:

@teamacc said:
@AnthonySmith for providers, you cannot get a list of their posts + threads started (nor for provider representatives) right now using point+click. If I go to your profile, the "comments/threads started" things arent clickable.

I will treat that as a bug report rather than a feature request.

Will have a look tomorrow.

Yeah, couldnt find the bug report thread, and this one was on the homepage.

WSS

Drugs are a hell of a drug.

flips

@flips said:
Make it possible to ignore specific threads/topics.

Hey, some of you forgot to upvote my excellent suggestion 🫣😂

eliphas

@flips said:

@flips said:
Make it possible to ignore specific threads/topics.

Hey, some of you forgot to upvote my excellent suggestion 🫣😂

Ignored specific topic. Easy

flips

Seemed only result was more down votes, though ... 🤪 So maybe someone felt annoyed, but I dunno where else to discuss the feature wishes ... And I have no idea why someone would vote against having the possibility to mute/ignore certain threads. 🤷‍♂️ Like if there a megathread with a topic I don't care about, it will pop back all the time, after I have used Mark all as read ... No big deal, but would be neat to just mute/ignore it.👍

And really, if a feature doesn't sound interesting to you, why downvote? (Been too much on Reddit?)
Just leaving it alone should be sufficient ...

All in all I like many of the new things @AnthonySmith has done in v2, great initiative 👏😃

AnthonySmith

@flips said:
Seemed only result was more down votes, though ... 🤪 So maybe someone felt annoyed, but I dunno where else to discuss the feature wishes ... And I have no idea why someone would vote against having the possibility to mute/ignore certain threads. 🤷‍♂️ Like if there a megathread with a topic I don't care about, it will pop back all the time, after I have used Mark all as read ... No big deal, but would be neat to just mute/ignore it.👍

And really, if a feature doesn't sound interesting to you, why downvote? (Been too much on Reddit?)
Just leaving it alone should be sufficient ...

All in all I like many of the new things @AnthonySmith has done in v2, great initiative 👏😃

It's a great idea I will probably do it anyway

epsilun

Push notifications

mikho

@epsilun said:
Push notifications

Turn on email notification and have a really loud alarm go off when emails are sent from here?

Freek

@mikho said:

@epsilun said:
Push notifications

Turn on email notification and have a really loud alarm go off when emails are sent from here?

Even better, have them sent to a fax machine

somik

@Freek said:
Even better, have them sent to a fax machine

Back in 2014, one of the European hosts I used required the server termination request to be sent via fax to them. They own entire data center. They can't use email or contact form or have any button to cancel the server contract. Only hard copy signed and sent via fax...

After that I gave up on hosting my servers in Europe regions in fear of this....

mikho

@somik said:

@Freek said:
Even better, have them sent to a fax machine

Back in 2014, one of the European hosts I used required the server termination request to be sent via fax to them. They own entire data center. They can't use email or contact form or have any button to cancel the server contract. Only hard copy signed and sent via fax...

After that I gave up on hosting my servers in Europe regions in fear of this....

3 weeks ago I requested an insurance company to send their invoices via email.
They denied the request and said they could only send them via post.

But reminders of unpaid invoices could be sent via email. 🤷🏻🤔

somik

@mikho said:

@somik said:

@Freek said:
Even better, have them sent to a fax machine

Back in 2014, one of the European hosts I used required the server termination request to be sent via fax to them. They own entire data center. They can't use email or contact form or have any button to cancel the server contract. Only hard copy signed and sent via fax...

After that I gave up on hosting my servers in Europe regions in fear of this....

3 weeks ago I requested an insurance company to send their invoices via email.
They denied the request and said they could only send them via post.

But reminders of unpaid invoices could be sent via email. 🤷🏻🤔

When I moved to a new address, I updated my address in the bank's online portal. They sent 2 letters, one to old address, one to new address to inform the address is being changed, and 1 week later, the address has been changed. After 1 month, they sent my new card to the old address and the card "activation pin" to the new address?!? When I called them, they said the card, which i requested 3 weeks after the address change confirmation mail, was requested before the change was reflected, and all further letters will be sent to new address.

Well fine, not much issue. Next month, the bank statement/report still sent to old address. Call them again, they apologize and promise it wont happen again. Next week I get another letter to my new address saying the address change has been reflected. Next month, same thing. Letters sent to old address...

Well, next week, when I called to cancel my bank account, the conversation with their L2 support was a fun one. Would you like to guess which mailing address was used when they confirmed my bank account was closed? Yep, the old address

ascicode

I wonder why some threads are small with an eye to click/open and most not. Could that be an option for all, to shrink the list of threads?
Any option to separate them?