see?

As it is now, you have to manually paste the text in between the quote tags for it to work.

Ideally: - By default it should search the body and author fields as well as title (ie: search *every* field). - Non-default search options could be made available by having an "advanced search" button that takes you to a search page with assorted options. Here's a good forum search page example: Link and another: Link - An author-only search option would be nice, to be able to find all my posts (not just those threads I started) or, say, Frogboys. - Similarly, it'd be nice if the "My Posts" button showed *all* my posts, not just those I've started. - And it'd also be great if I could click on another user's profile and from there be able to get a list of all his/her posts. - If you think these author searches will take up too much forum server horsepower, you can help that by adding options to search only the "last 5 days", "last 30 days", etc.

Those are excellent Ideas in my opinion. I'm not sure what the bosses think, but I like those points. I would find the personally quite useful too, and probably something everyone would benefit from. We'll see how things go though. I'm really not sure what the plans are for "new" features. We're in bug hunting mode at the moment.

No you don't..HIGHLIGHT the text in the post you want to quote and PRESS the quote button and the text is automatically pasted into your topic.

Yes, you do. It *used* to work like you described it, but then it just stopped. I highlighted your text, pressed quote, then went back between the [quote ] and [/ quote] tags and hit ctrl-v to paste what I wanted to quote. When the forums still had that 'new forum smell' to them, it worked like you're saying it does. Now, not so much. I think it's a fuction of more users than they anticipated/can handle.

Also, Brad, I HATE, LOATHE, DESPISE how it dumps everything into the GalCivII thread in addition to the one you try to post it in. I think this feature is broken as I will often go back to the board I meant to post it into in the first place and it will never show up there. I have to go back to the general forum and edit my post in order for it to end up in the right place. Even if this feature functioned like it should, it would turn general GalCivII into some kind of hellish WoW-esque forum, wherein every 5 seconds if you refresh the entirety of the topics will be different.

Yes, you do. It *used* to work like you described it, but then it just stopped.

Still does, actually. I'd always been under the impression that it was broken, too, but I just tried it the way it's described above (highlight it, but DON'T copy it (as that'll un-highlight it)... just strictly highlight and leave it alone, then hit the Quote button while the text is still highlighted), and it worked perfectly. It sounds like you're highlighting, copying, then hitting Quote, which, as we have all known, will not work properly.

Now, it could conceivably be a browser problem causing it to work in different ways. I'm currently using IE6 (at work, no Firefox ), so it seems to work fine in IE. Are you using a different browser?

As far as general suggestions about the forum, though, now that (at least for me) the quote functionality is fixed, I'd definitely like to see a way to watch my own replies (I don't start threads myself, so the "My Posts" button is useless for me, and it's a pain to have to "Watch" every thread I post a reply in... how about just automatically "Watching" a thread where you post a reply?).

It works in IE not in FireFox. With FireFox all you get now is the quote begin/end brackets.

Doubly confirmed. Back home now on Firefox 1.5.0.1, and it doesn't work.

I'd just like to point out that sometime ago, after some forum code update, it has become impossible to access the hidden subforums (Ideas->colonies, etc.) using the "more" selection at the bottom of the GalCiv II main forum. I have had to resort to bookmarking the "idea" subforum as a separate entry just so I can get other there (because there are no tags at the top for it). Someone might want to take a look at that form code.

watch function seems to be fixed now

I can't understand why Stardock wouldn't just use one of the bajillion freebie off-the-shelf packages. NIH-itis?

1. Fix the quote function. There is nothing wrong with the quote function. Highlight the text you want to quote, hit quote, voila, quote added to post.

Yes, but in ALL other fourms I have been too, the Quote button simply quoted every work in the post you pressed it on. And since thats the way it usually work thats the way people expect it to work.
This is handy if you know about it, but I know I never learned of it until you told me in your post.

The only thing I don't like is that links you get in email notification don't bump directly to last post you haven't seen before in the thread.
They just bring you to the thread, when you manually need to serach and find last post you read.

That's my main gripe.

I also noticed that edits are not real time.
Often, when I need to edit thread more then once (very often consideing those ugly HTML tags), after I start second edit, the changes from first edit are not there.
It usually results in completly messing my posts.

Also, recent edits sometimes don't appear in posts immediately after edit.

There is nothing wrong with the quote function. Highlight the text you want to quote, hit quote, voila, quote added to post.

We should not have to.


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I'm sorry but we are not all programmers or internet pro. It would be simple to use existing model of forum that work truly better than this one. If anyone ever played the game "SuperPower 2", you saw there a great forum where it was easy to spot your message and most of topics, wich is not the case on this forum.