hi nigel,just a thought,if possible how about putting on top of home page all the names of people online now,mike

Good idea....and maybe a chatroom?
Don't shoot me if everyone hates that idea.

Jan

nardoni, that's a good idea. The new Casio forum does that. You can see who is logged on to the forum. It also has a pretty cool PM feature.

Squeak

While we're at it, how about the number of times a post was read. We have a lot of lurkers here and it would be nice to know just how many and what topics are most popular!!

The only thing I'd like to see changed is
NEW Background COLORS instead of Maroon, Dark Green, Gold.

My 2 cents worth:

I like things the way they are.

And maroon, dark green, gold matches my underwear. (sometimes)

All right, maybe thats 3 cents worth. I'm feeling generous today.

I have no idea why that would be of benefit. I've seen that on forums. Why would I care who's online?

Anyway, I suggested something many months ago but the answer was this software is what it is. I was saying it would help immensely if you could see who posted last to a thread. In fact, I kinda got shot down by some people, like "Why are you bitching, we like this place." I wasn't bitching, I was suggesting. I didn't know an upgrade from this version would be a big deal. I love the forum but new versions do have some very helpful features.

SemiLive,
I don't think you're bitching Being able to see who posted last is really nice. Personally I think the Zone is a great forum. I've been here for just over four years now I belong to a Casio forum too. This one has some cool features. You can see who is logged on, Send private messages, and who last replied to the topic. They're very nice features. I don't want Nigel to think I am knocking this site because I'm not. I'm very grateful that he has provided a place for me to post and discuss keyboards for the last four years. I've met some interesting people, shared ideas, sold, and exchanged a few things, and even bought from members as well. It's a great forum to belong to.

Squeak

I agree 100% with you!
This forum wouldn't be the same with different colours, viewer or poster information.
I believe in the slogan "don't mess with success"! Period!

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Roy-Andrè

While it would be nice to be able to add new features the software that I am using doesn't support it. Without abandoning this BBS system completely and restarting from new with new software there really isn't a way I can add this to the current system. You can always include Yahoo Messenger names in your profile interests and use that for a live chatroom with other BBS members.

This forum works nice, has a good lay-out, not especially nice, but it's working quite well. A forum for me should be easy and the most important thing; FAST to work with. So the only improvement for the software in it's current state would be a 'login' option so the password is not required everytime.

Nigel, I don't doubt your professionality at all, but if you're thinking about changing the software, I'm willing to help. Got some experience with this and even can write my own forumsoftware if I would like

[This message has been edited by Sander (edited 11-14-2004).]

Sander, you shouldn't have to be entering a password everytime. It sounds like you don't have cookies enabled. This BBS sets a cookie and automatically remembers your username and password so you don't have to keep re-entering it. Check the "Profile" and "Preferences" links at the top of the BBS pages and see if you have that enabled.

What BBS software are you experienced with ? I would be open to setting up a separate test BBS to see if that would be a good future option. My main requirements are that it must have IP logging and an email based password system.


[This message has been edited by Nigel (edited 11-14-2004).]

hi nigel,i didn,t realise how difficult it would be,its fine as it is ,just ideas to make it better,mike

Well, I'm on board if we are volunteering expertise and time to setup a test board. I am currently running the Snitz 2000 forum and it's easy as pie and very functional and most importantly; it's FREE!!!
http://forum.snitz.com/

Check out: http://www.shallowsband.com/forum/default.asp

There are so many sites that use this forum software. The only problem is, it is written in ASP and I see your site only supports CGI.

It would be cool to test some new software

[This message has been edited by kbrkr (edited 11-14-2004).]

kbrkr: so, basically we can create another synthzone for free ? It looks cool and I might just do that.

How do you pay for the bandwidth for the people loggin in , etc ? I assume snitz is your own creation.

I Have had a live chat room on starchatnet for years. About a year ago I opened up another room for forum members and posted this info on GA and Technote forums. Only one person had any interest and never followed through.
This room can have an unlimited number of people in it who can chat, play music, swap music files, etc. We have used it and enjoyed it for years. My rooms on Starchatnet are #MIDI, #MIDIOTS and #TECHNICS KEYBOARDS.
I don't think there is any interest in chat rooms amongst this group Nigel
Bebop

Oh, No.. I can't take credit for the Snitz forums. That was created as an Open Source project; many developers worked on it and it's part of the Public Domain.