Hardware Analysis - How can we improve HWA?!

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

Gerritt — 2008-03-28T11:59:22-05:00

john albrich said:

Another appearance/ease-of-use item:

Provide for auto wrap-around of long URLs to a fixed-maximum-width, so that the width of the thread page is not dictated by some gazillion-characters long URL. Those super-wide pages drive me crazy.

This would also eliminate the need for "tinyurl" which I believe is not only an HWA archival vulnerability, but a user security and privacy issue as well (all three of which I've mentioned before).

As a "big screen" bigot, I've been hammered before for my inclusion of the gazillion character URLs. I couldn't understand the bad feedback that I recieved until I had to work a 800x600 screen, but even then I could scrape it into notepad, then repost it. Being able to post the originating URL gives a better if not totally secure point of reference.

Gerritt

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

john albrich — 2008-03-27T07:52:04-05:00

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

Gerritt — 2008-03-27T04:01:08-05:00

john albrich said:

Gerritt said:

...Am I such a joke now that the present posters just ignore what I was trying to say?...
I don't really care what your bandwidth is, it is the bandwidth of HWA that I'm concerned about, and I think a profile based avitar is better than a post avitar, though none is better from my perspective....

I was just reacting to Dr. Peaceful's post re: an OTT site.

I'm on-board with your position on this, although I do also have concerns for individual bandwidth. Special concerns for someone who may be operating on a crippled system while debugging a problem and relying on HWA for help. The less taxing on system resources in those cases the better.

John, once again, we are in agreement. The cleaner it is, the better it is, especially for those with low bandwidth. But what is it that these types of folks are looking for?
Good answers with the shortest turnaround, and with the minimal load time. John, I've been hither and yaun, and don't know of a single site that has given the same degree of Power expertise as you have done here. I wanted to point out that the others may want to see the personalization that is intrensic to other sites, here.
Given the present text centric environment, I think it is good that we do so, but at the same time, permit those that want to be more expressive to do so within the profile area, vs. the inline post area.
Having explained myself, I still think that we are in agreement on this.

Gerritt

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

john albrich — 2008-03-25T03:42:40-05:00

Gerritt said:

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

Gerritt — 2008-03-25T02:39:42-05:00

Oy veh,
I thought I came up with a solution that helped both, clean and providing an avitar.
Am I such a joke now that the present posters just ignore what I was trying to say?
I re-state; I DON'T want avitars in the post, but am willing to accept them in the profile.
I don't really care what your bandwidth is, it is the bandwidth of HWA that I'm concerned about, and I think a profile based avitar is better than a post avitar, though none is better from my perspective.

Gerritt
GAHHHHH...my rant...sorry folks.

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

john albrich — 2008-03-24T19:46:20-05:00

Dr. Peaceful said:

...Take a look at this thread from another forum. All those smilies hurts my eyes. I hope HWA won't turn into some cheesy sh*t like that.
http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/275053.aspx

Gaaaahhhhh!!!! My eyes! My eyes!

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

Dr. Peaceful — 2008-03-24T15:39:02-05:00

After looking at some of the other forums (fora?) out there. I truly think that HWA should maintain its clean and professional look. While it won't hurt to add a tiny bit of colorful features, but I think maintaining a primarily text based system will suffice. It will keep things simple and straight to the point.

Take a look at this thread from another forum. All those smilies hurts my eyes. I hope HWA won't turn into some cheesy sh*t like that.
http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/275053.aspx

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

Gerritt — 2008-03-24T14:24:40-05:00

Insofar as the avitar/pic/gif options, why don't we compromise and attach them to the profile page only. That way if I want to see your mug or cute animated unicorn or whatnot I can see it when I view your profile, and don't have to see it in the post threads themselves?
This would allow a level of personallization without cluttering the threads, and reduce the bandwidth required to serve up the site.
Gerritt

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

john albrich — 2008-03-23T21:55:10-05:00

Moved to PM so as not to clutter here.

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

Dr. Peaceful — 2008-03-23T21:46:22-05:00

Sean Costello said:

cant wait

Me, too. Sounds like very good stuffs from Vitaliy's posts above.

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

Kieran Blenkarne — 2008-03-23T21:31:49-05:00

Whatever happens, don't turn this into one of those stupid token forums you see everywhere.

I think this forum is tidy, clean and easy to follow - some of thsoe other ones are a stupid mess of moving gif avatars, different coloured writing and a ridiculous amount of smilies that move everywhere and are atlkeat 40 pixels high by 20 wide or something.

I think avatars would be O.K. But no moving gifs!!!

HWA is the s**t - it's unique and tidy. But I am liking some of these ideas.

EDIT: Also, put me down as a moderator for a case section. Modding etc

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

_MD_ — 2008-03-23T19:14:44-05:00

It always feels like I can do more... And I will... I'm building my custom phase change system this summer, and that's when 5.5GHz won't be a barrier.

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

Mothow — 2008-03-23T18:57:05-05:00

_MD_

count you in on some serious overclocking..lol yeah right.You must be kidding with only a 4.7ghz OC..lol j/k

How does it feel to know you have the fastest PC in this forum?

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

_MD_ — 2008-03-23T18:05:35-05:00

Vitaliy (Administrator) said:

I am currently working on a news submission piece where you will be able to submit news stories to be published. I am still figuring out how the "approval" process will work, but most likely some distinguished members of HWA will be given that privilege. Also, we'll have a "leaderboard" type screen to acknowledge submitters.

That would be nice...

We are absolutely open to select a few people and assign them to be experts in their subject area. Responsibilities would include replying to forum posts, compiling FAQs, writing guides, etc. We'll introduce a special title/rank to distinguish your contributions.

Any volunteers - let us know by posting here or privately via email. Please include the subject area you are interested in. Remember, your spelling skills count!

I'd looove to participate... Count me in for some serious overclocking... And since I'm a sysadmin, you can count on my help in networking section as well as linux threads.

The plan currently is to allow attachments of files to messages - the images would not be loaded when someone reads your post, but instead a list of icons/filenames will be displayed and you'll be able to view/download th

Why not? I mean if it all comes down to bandwidth, than it's just a matter of a flag in user preferences to enable loading pix within thread or show them as attachments. I would really like to post with pictures that would be visible within a thread.

As for the HTML editor, can we at least have font/size/color options as well link parsing is a must! Thanks.

Re: How can we improve HWA?!

john albrich — 2008-03-23T09:45:57-05:00

Gerritt said:

I'm not so sure that we have to have avitars, or pictures....

I agree. No need for pretty much useless glitz or animation. Bandwidth continues to be a problem for some people, why add to the issue? Why make it more expensive to maintain and clutter up HWA servers with useless trappings and increased security exposures?