BB Code

[mateinone]

Is someone looking at the BB Code side of the forum?
A couple of nice little tweaks could really help such as including borders in table or header fields so that a table can take on a nicer looks.

Also there are a number of other nice little options that can be added in minutes without a great deal of difficulty to sexy up the forum.

[malo]

On a Non related matter, tell you what would be fantastic at high volume times like this ......a CSC phone app that scrolls latest posts & allows you reply to them !

(I have very poor iOS app developing skills BTW.....in case you're wondering)

[mateinone]

I think an rss style feed would even do it.

[PassIt2Carrots]

Tapatalk is an option.

I agree re sprucing it up a little, give the keys to MIO for a day and see what he can do.

[LP]

There are lots of features already built into Simple Machines but you have to keep it manageable and secure. I'd rather have Spanner keep it reliable and lean than have it looking flash and falling over frequently.

[mateinone]

I agree LP in that it needs to be done by the mod/admins here.
But this forum is already better than the last and one of the benefits should be just some extra features, not talking about tearing the house down.

Just a simple mod such as this
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/...c=527734.0

Would allow tables to look like the following

http://futxchange.com/testforum/index.php?topic=2.0

The one I done there was actually using the  tag this site has disabled, it does so with a decent reason regarding vulnerabilities it can introduce, but expanding on the abilities to alter layouts a little isn't going to break anything, isn't introducing all sorts of risk (which the straight out  tag could or anything major.

[shadesy]

Tapatalk is an option.

I agree re sprucing it up a little, give the keys to MIO for a day and see what he can do.

We have tried to implement Tapatalk before, I am very keen on that. Will see what we can do.

[Lods]

These things are beyond the comprehension of myself.
I can delete, ban and merge and play around with colours.....but we obviously have a bit of expertise here.
We should use it.

What we might do is have a discussion among the mod/admin team as to how best to put some of these ideas into practice.
One idea would be to maybe have a tech sub-forum for those with the knowledge to work these ideas through and make suggestions.

[nato]

hey, view a lot, don't post too much.

I'd be looking at applying a responsive theme, then it can adapt to screen/device size. There are some cheap phpBB responsive themes out there, but has to be some free ones too, haven't looked too much.  Eliminates the need for tapatalk or other mobile apps.  I can help with this if needed....

Going responsive though, means it's best to eliminate tables, unless they're styled on percentage and not fixed width... which was the original point of this post.

My two cents. take it easy.

[mateinone]

So revisiting once more.

Looking at Twitter and there is a great video of Jack getting told he was nominated for a Rising Star Award.
It would be great to see us move forward (rather than risk being left behind) and still incorporate some of these things.

If no one can add modules for Twitter etc, then some basic BBCode would still do the trick.

Here is the embed code for the Silvagni video

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's the moment <a href="https://twitter.com/jacksilvagni">@jacksilvagni</a> was told he'd won a Rising Star nomination. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BoundByBlue?src=hash">#BoundByBlue</a> <a href="https://t.co/PLHkNJ4fkG">pic.twitter.com/PLHkNJ4fkG</a></p>&mdash; Carlton FC (@CarltonFC) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarltonFC/status/876745102772781057">June 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Big footy has a module built in that allows you to just take the ID (in this case 876745102772781057) to embed the tweet.

Most of us have been coming here for years and love chatting footy and want the place to keep going, but it feels at times feel very 'old' (imo)