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I would like a small section about the people that run Pinside cause I think you do a great job. Like maybe if you click the 'Contact' like at the top there is a short bio and email links for the staff.
EDIT: Nevermind... just found The Story of Pinside.
http://pinside.com/pinball/help/how-it-started-the-story-of-the-pinside
You've officially thought of everything.
Perhaps a small improvement. Not a huge deal.
- Move 'Add a tag' to the bottom of the a thread. I'm always adding tags to threads accidentally when I'm really trying to search the forum (I always delete them after). Could just be me.
Maybe some sort of browseable/searchable wiki knowledge base with common questions and solutions. Anyone could answer and other users could vote for the best answer (possibly flag or vote off poor answers). It could start with simple things like "What should I polish my playfield with" or "Where should I buy LED upgrades?" and maybe progress to include technical repairs info for specific pins.
Kinda like Yahoo! Answers I guess.
Perhaps mod edits to vague topic titles (you don't really know what the topic is until you click and read the post). It was a pet peeve of mine when I ran a forum. Example bad topic title:
"Does anyone here..." would be changed by a mod to "Does anyone here like Data East pins?"
Quoted from RobT:The biggest difference you could make to improve the forum and encourage more involvement by members in each thread would be to give the ability to subscribe to threads and receive email notifications whenever someone posts to a subscribed thread.
+1
Would love that. Sometimes I forget what threads I've posted in.
Is there an obvious "Compose New Message" button for Pinside mail that I'm just missing? I always seem to have trouble when trying to send a new mail to someone.
Also, If you could start typing a name for the recipient of the Pinside mail on a new message and it would try to auto-fill a member name based one what you are typing that would be a great feature too.
Quoted from jrrdw:If I ever get back into iPhone programming I might try to write an App that lets you easily rate machines in the wild. Don't know how many people would use it... but I would!
That would be great for using at shows. But until then we can print these like I'm gonna do for the York show on the 7Th Oct.
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/print-off-for-rating-pinball-machine
Oh, cool! Didn't see that thread until now.
Maybe a little larger photo navigation for viewing images in the archive for people on phones? Currently have to zoom way up to hit the forward and back buttons. Page numbering links in the forum could be a little larger too.
Collector groups for owners of specific machines to talk amongst themselves.
So instead of sending a Pinside Mail to a specific person you could send a mail to everyone with Terminator 2 (as an example) listed in their current collection. Giving a person the ability to unsubscribe from a group would be good too.
This idea is kinda out there... But maybe some way to aid collectors in figuring out which machines they should buy or look for. Would be cool if it was somehow tied into ratings. Like after you rate a pin it would say 'you may also like' or 'people who rated this machine highly also like'.
Quoted from robin:Good idea! Like recommendations? "If you like Demolition Man and Dirty Harry you will also like Johnny Mnemonic". That's a good idea. I'll see if I can come up with some smart mechanism to make these [
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Exactly! It might help collectors who are on the fence about buying a certain machines make up their mind.
Another similar thing would be visual relationship map. No idea how hard that would be to implement... but it would be neat to look at.
Examples:
http://www.musicplasma.com/
http://www.music-map.com/metallica.html
How about if someone has something for sale in the market it does something to their mini-profile info (the stuff to the left of each post)?
It could maybe put a green dollar sign next to the heart. Clicking the dollar sign would take you to the listing in the market.
Just a little extra advertising for sellers.
Maybe an indexing / archive of old articles an stories that have been on the front page. Seems like once they leave the front page they get a bit tricky to find. Some type of browsable knowledge base would be really nice.
Then, maybe some of the stickies in the forum that are more like articles (and less like discussions) could be moved to this archive.
Quoted from desertT1:If there is not a way currently, a way to jump to the last unread post would be awesome.
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