Nice! Love it !

I love it too! It's super useful! Good job Travis!

Thanks. Is there a way for posters to send private messages?

Not yet, but this is the start of said system

Awesome Travis! Wow, you have been a busy guy. Much appreciated!

Great! Thanks for the speedy reply.

That's nice. I'm hoping that at some point in the future you'll also allow notifications that focus on replies to my specific post, not just an entire thread. This, along with a "nested" option, would make it much easier to follow responses to individual posts, not just the first one in the thread. (This is currently how IMDb works, and it saves a lot of time and confusion.) This can be very helpful especially in a long, busy thread. We could still go to the end of a thread if we want to see the latest post(s), but this option would allow us to easily keep track of responses to our posts in particular.

That's nice. I'm hoping that at some point in the future you'll also allow notifications that focus on replies to my specific post, not just an entire thread

If you click a link from the notification window, they DO take you straight to the newest comment (and not just the first thread), that's their beauty!

This, along with a "nested" option, would make it much easier to follow responses to individual posts, not just the first one in the thread.

Nested is still a big maybe, no guarantees on that yet.

@SixtiesHoldout

notifications that focus on replies to my specific post

Tell me if I misunderstand:
So if someone puts @SixtiesHoldout in a reply,
then you'd get a notification ... but if someone
replies to anyone else in the thread (or doesn't use @...),
then you would NOT want to be notified?

@LucusNon said:

@SixtiesHoldout

notifications that focus on replies to my specific post

Tell me if I misunderstand:
So if someone puts @SixtiesHoldout in a reply,
then you'd get a notification ... but if someone
replies to anyone else in the thread (or doesn't use @...),
then you would NOT want to be notified?

Yes, exactly. But it's a lot more than that. All I'm suggesting is to make things easier to follow and less confusing by simply doing what IMDb has always done, because it just makes so much sense. I.e., instead of having to insert the @name thing/do a quote of the other message, if someone wants to reply to my post, even if my post is somewhere in the middle of a long thread, they just hit a "Reply" button associated with the specific post to which they're replying, not just to the thread. Then, depending on one's personal board settings (e.g., "Nest"), the person to whom the second person is replying can get a notification that someone just replied to their specific post, wherever it is located in the thread, and then be taken to the board where they will see that reply nested right below their own post, not at the end of the thread. This also eliminates the need to do a lot of quoting that folks now do to make it clear to whom they are replying.

Unless someone has just done a fix that I'm not aware of, replying to a specific post involves a clumsy process of @name and quoting and then editing the quoting down to just what one wants actually quoted. Sometimes I don't want to quote any part of the other person's message. I just want to reply to their message, so that folks can see my reply and then just scroll up a bit to the other poster's message (directly above mine) so they can also see that. Currently the way IMDb does it so elegantly is that when I am composing a reply, I can see the other person's message right above, and I can copy and paste selected parts and signify that I am quoting. I just wish the designers here had spent a lot of time over at IMDb looking at these elegant and brilliant design elements--actually using the boards exhaustively over there to see what I'm talking about. Then we wouldn't have to be playing this painful game of twenty questions to get across the design element and the reason for it.

By the way, at IMDb, to quote something, I just hit a "Quote" button which puts down leading and trailing brackets between which I can paste the quotation after lifting the text from the other person's message that is still showing directly above as I compose my reply. So simple.

... I just wish the designers here had spent a lot of time over at IMDb looking at these elegant and brilliant design elements ...

OK but FWIW, the administrator here has been "spending a lot of time" responding to various requests recently.  IMO this responsive approach compares favorably against IMDb's frequent inability to fix some of the simplest bugs and issues that we reported years ago.

... By the way, at IMDb, to quote something, I just hit a "Quote" button which puts down leading and trailing brackets between which I can paste the quotation after lifting the text from the other person's message that is still showing directly above as I compose my reply. So simple.

But here I can simply use the old traditional Usenet-style way of just typing the ">" character to start a quotation and paste the text after it.  I like that very old, simple, primitive method  (but hey, I'm a very old, simple, primitive kinda guy).

@LucusNon said:

OK but FWIW, the administrator here has been "spending a lot of time" responding to various requests recently.  IMO this responsive approach compares favorably against IMDb's frequent inability to fix some of the simplest bugs and issues that we reported years ago.

Not sure what bugs you're referring to. I've been over there for more than 16 years, and everything has been working just fine for me (and a lot of my friends) all the time. Perhaps you haven't been there in recent years. If not, then you may have missed an opportunity to take the best from them and use it here before it's gone.

But here I can simply use the old traditional Usenet-style way of just typing the ">" character to start a quotation and paste the text after it.  I like that very old, simple, primitive method  (but hey, I'm a very old, simple, primitive kinda guy).

That may be part of the issue. Usenet is so last century.

@pt100 said:

That may be part of the issue. Usenet is so last century.

Wow, Usenet. That takes me back a while. As I recall, we had to put a > mark before each individual line in order to quote a block of text that went on for several lines/sentences. What a pain. It's much quicker and easier to copy and paste an entire block of text as a quote the way you can at IMDb. Sorry, but it just is.

@Moon_Doggie said:

@pt100 said:

That may be part of the issue. Usenet is so last century.

Wow, Usenet. That takes me back a while. As I recall, we had to put a > mark before each individual line in order to quote a block of text that went on for several lines/sentences. What a pain. It's much quicker and easier to copy and paste an entire block of text as a quote the way you can at IMDb. Sorry, but it just is.

Yes, the problem with the "quote" button here is that it forces one to quote the entire message. Then, if one wants to quote only a small portion, one has to delete a lot of text. At IMDB, all one does is hit the "quote" button and it lays down brackets around pasted text to be quoted; or else one can hit the button to lay down the brackets and then paste quoted text between them. The leading and trailing brackets look like this: [quote] [/quote]

This easily allows quoting of entire paragraphs, or just a sentence or two, or even just a phrase in a sentence. Piece of cake.

This can all be improved over time. This is literally v1.