Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26440657-20180325124340

I know suggestions should go to Special:Contact/feedback, I want to post it here first to see if people think they are good and/or also get some more ideas from other people to make this better.


 * Text formatting, link formatting, and image formatting. You can't even write a proper rules/guidelines because of the lack of formatting. Images are often too large right now whenever they are on a thread. I can't believe /d doesn't have these yet after all this time, these are the first things a forum needs yet they might be the last features to be implemented.
 * A recent discussions activity feed. There's an installable js one on the dev wiki but it isn't as nice as the recent activity on wikis. (sorry Flightmare, I still love annoying  you!)
 * Option to limit what can be seen in the preview of a post. Sometimes, people will write an article-length story/suggestion/feedback etc as a post and all of it will be displayed on the home page, it gets worse when the user had attached a large image. There should be a limit on characters or the window of what you can see.
 * Actual Categories instead of boards so threads can be found as easily as on the forum. People usually just ask new questions because scrolling down on a board can take a while.
 * A search function for /d threads. The search bar only gives results for things on the wiki.
 * A "board" where deleted threads get dumped in, or an option to minimize deleted threads to a single line that only shows the title. When a spammer makes a lot of threads in a board or multiple boards, staff will still need to scroll through the deleted threads in those boards when Hide deleted is enabled, that is a big hindrance especially if the threads made were huge.
 * An option for individual deleted threads to be hidden or shown instead of all of it at the same time. I used to have all deleted threads hidden because of thread spam but I wouldn't be able to keep track of less abusive posts made by other users, or issues other mods have resolved.
 * An option to ban a user, or at least a way to stop them from contributing. As of now, the only thing a /d mod can do is delete spam/troll posts, it's counterproductive since they need to inform an admin to do the blocking anyway, mods are basically just middlemen. Since there's a "delete all" button already, maybe that feature could be extended to delete future posts as well, or maybe a button to hide all existing and future posts. At least that will give mods the power to deter trolls instead of waiting for an admin.
 * Staff be allowed to edit posts inside locked/deleted threads. As of now, you have to unlock a thread to be able to edit posts. If a thread was locked because of a heated argument, it can't be left open while mods are deleting foul content within the posts.
 * Option to highlight posts like on the forum. It's hard to make a thread noticeable on the /d since everything just gets easily lost in there.
 * Mods be allowed to make/edit boards.
 * Clicking on the timestamp of a post leads to its link. The forum has this and it's very handy. As of now, the only way to link a specific post is to check a person's /d contributions then find the post in there. You'd have a bad day if that person had already made too many posts since then, it will be buried out of sight.
 * Way to see who had upvoted posts. This is handy in seeing if a person asking for help had already seen your reply. Of course, they could totally just skip upvoting it but the feature would still help.
 * More sorting features for the boards. Reverse latest to oldest to be shown first etc.
 * Discussions notifications function similar to the thread notifications for forums. The forum one categorizes posts from different wikis while the /d one doesn't, you could easily glance past a notification from a different wiki that you are waiting for. As a side note, when all notifications for the forum had been viewed, hovering over the notifications icon on another wiki (when you have multiple wikis open) automatically marks them as read. It's not the same for the /d one.
 * Make the /d part of the actual wiki so global CSS or JS can affect it. If this was allowed then at least some of the above suggestions can be temporarily remedied by users ASAP while they are waiting for it to be officially implemented.

If anyone makes another suggestion that's good, I'll add it to the list. :D 