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Biochemkris · 03-12-2008, 01:16 PM

I've been sitting here at my computer looking through some of the suggestions that have been made over the years and thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to have a thread where we thanked members for the wonderful suggestions?" So, here it is. I know some of these suggestions came from more than one person and that there are many suggestions not listed here or those we haven't implemented. I don't mean to leave anyone out. My brain isn't what it used to be so, I'm listing those suggestions that were written here that have been implemented on the site.

So, first of all, I want to thank EVERYONE for their suggestions over the years. Even if your suggestion wasn't implemented or we changed your idea around a bit, every suggestion is valuable to us and helps us brainstorm ways of making the site better. Your suggestions help keep the site growing, fresh, and new so, please don't hesitate to keep posting in the Suggestions thread. Thank you!

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Originally Posted by Esh

SS is very attractive at the moment. I really find the way the forums for each activity is named really nice. For example - the forum for fanfic is named Grimmauld Place. But then, I heard that the School has a Hogsmeade included which also includes a Zonko's Joke Shop. Now, the forum for games is also name Zonko's Joke Shop. It wouldn't be too good if you eliminated the Joke Shop from Hogsmeade for this reason - though, you could rename the one where games are played to something else like "Weasley's Wizard Wheezes" or "Gambol and Jape'

A lot of people have mentioned this problem over the years and we were definitely aware of the problem. When we decided we were going to start up a permanent Ministry RPG we changed all the forum names because we wanted to change the "School" forum to "Wizarding World" which was already in use (and our upgraded forum software wouldn't let us have two forums with the same name, anyway). So, we changed all the forums in the former "Wizarding World" category (now "Diagon Alley") to shops in Diagon Alley.

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Originally Posted by laudienne

I don't mind that our Hogwarts character names are now listed next to each post, but I was wondering if it'd be possible to add a line break AFTER "Hogwarts Name:", so that it would read instead:

That way, the name wouldn't be broken in half for most people. I know this is probably inconsequential to just about everybody but me, lol, but I just think that, since this will now be seen after every single post we make, it may look more uniform this way.

P.S. Will profile fields be created eventually where we can describe our MoM characters/their wands/their heritage/whatever as well?

I've recently taken this suggestion one step further and added line breaks in between the School and Ministry info to the sides of the posts. We have also added a few more fields for the Ministry. Thank you for your suggestions!

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Originally Posted by Lemonlimeoranges

As of now, there are TONS of fan clubs, something for nearly everyone. However, I was thinking that it might be nice to have ‘shipper’ fan clubs, ranging from the canon H/G, the sunken ship of H/Hr, to Ron and Luna. There are so many popular ships, with so many supporters; I think it could go really well. The fact that only fan club members can post in fan threads might help to prevent ship bashing too. I know that so many people love to support their ships by use of avvies and siggys; why not clubs as well?

The Seven Seas.... 'nough said.

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Originally Posted by potterfanatio

SS should also start on a weekly e-mail newsletter on all the stuff happening in the HP movies and HP news and SS stuff. I know Mugglenet has the same thing but our own site can have something like that too (with difference of course) for all the members to subscribe to. I thought I saw something like that in the News forum in January but it magically stopped.

We may not have a weekly newsletter but, we do have a monthly newspaper, Seeker of the Snitch. Thank you for your suggestions!

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Originally Posted by Harry's_Girl

I purpose that we do a SS podcast, in knowing that we already have SS radio and the Daily news forum, I understand if it’s too much.

We did have a podcast for quite a while (thank you, evlpez!) The podcast was phased out as interest waned and the SotS filled the needs the podcast once filled.

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Originally Posted by Parslemouth555

Well, I for one believe that we may benefit from some sort of archive forum, instead of simply deleting threads. I had around 1200 posts when I left for a while, and I come back with 600! So instead of deleting them, you could lock and move them to the archive, so people keep their posts and look back for reference or nostalgia!

As I explained before, the reason we don't archive is because we have so many threads that it takes up a ton of space in the database (and if we'd archived all those threads SS would still be down from yesterday's maintenance snafu since it would have taken 4 or 5 times as long to complete the fixes). However, we now have something in place to prevent post count reductions when we do delete threads. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Originally Posted by many different people

Can we add ____ as a smilie?

We've added quite a few smilies over the years. Have a favorite, SS appropriate smilie that isn't already in our extensive list? Drop me a PM and we'll see about adding it.

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Originally Posted by unknown

I don't know if this is possible but I think we should be able to have a default font and color. This is not because of my laziness (although it might be my subconscious mind's), it's because either I forget or I make a mistake such as forgetting to put oone bracket and making a typo in the code... It's not something that would attract people on the site, but it would sure make my life easier...

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Originally Posted by football_chick

This is kinda half a question, and half a suggestion. Everytime I want to make a post, after I've typed everything up, I have to select the whole text and then change it to 'Bold' and change it's colour to this shade of blue manually for every single post. Is there a way that we can enter our preferences into our User CP and then for every post, it'll automatically appear according to our settings?

This is a suggestion that has bee made over and over again (as you can see). I finally managed to pull it off, too! I can't wait to finally get used to not having to code my School RPG post color.

Again, I'm sorry I can't remember everyone who has ever made a suggestion but, I thought it would be fun to have a thread where you guys could see that your opinions DO matter and that your ideas help us shape and improve SS. So, please keep those ideas coming! Even if we can't implement something now, there's always the future (that default post color thing has been suggested over and over for the past few YEARS and we only recently managed to implement it). So....

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!

caseym · 03-12-2008, 02:03 PM

Ooh, sounds wonderful!

Thanks for the updates, and thanks to all the members who suggested these things! (And you did brilliantly getting the site back up yesterday!)

peipei · 03-12-2008, 11:42 PM

Wow! It sounds so awesome! Great job on everything!

Pottermaniac · 03-13-2008, 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by unknown

I don't know if this is possible but I think we should be able to have a default font and color. This is not because of my laziness (although it might be my subconscious mind's), it's because either I forget or I make a mistake such as forgetting to put oone bracket and making a typo in the code... It's not something that would attract people on the site, but it would sure make my life easier...

That was me.

(don't change the unknown though (please), it makes me giggle, for some weird reason)

*shows off the nice steelblue she didn't have to code herself due to subconscious laziness*

ravenclawrox*_* · 03-13-2008, 10:34 PM

That sounds awesome! Also great job getting the site back on too! I wonder the next suggestion will be...!

laudienne · 03-14-2008, 07:09 AM

I've been noticing the different changes around the site, and I must say I love them. You guys are AMAZING and we really appreciate ALL of your work to make our experience here a great one!

Hermione rocks! · 03-16-2008, 12:58 AM

I for one love this new font thing!

cedricdiggory · 01-16-2009, 06:49 AM

oh!It's awesome..that thing is great

Mad Eye Touz · 03-16-2009, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

I mentioned this to one of the admins a while back, and I can't remember who it was now. So I'll just post my suggestion in here instead of trying to track that person down.

Is there any way we can possibly get the size limit for profile pics increased? It's at 32 KB right now, and it's quite difficult to make something of a decent quality at that size. I usually have to lower the size of my profile pics so much that the image and fonts on it become distorted. Would it be possible to increase the limit to something a little closer to the 60 KB allowed for siggies?

Thank you!

It took me a while to get all the ducks in a row -- but profile picture file sizes have been raised. Go wild. Thanks for the suggestion, Anna!!

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Originally Posted by milloy112

I had this idea and i wasnt sure were to post it so i settled with here. Well i have seen alot of amazing writers on ss and i was thinking of a creative writing place were tere can be competiotions or they can do it for fun. I am not sure about others but the rule that says all stories have to be harry potter related bugs me and i think that people should be abl to post stories of all kinds that are suitable for kids to read there. This was just a suggestion that i kind of liked but if you do not like it then i am fine with that.

Thanks for the suggestion! The FanFic team have just launched a New FanFic event. Go check it out!

And lastly, The Dark Mark forum has been opened as per request from Taxus.

Thanks everyone.