Forum Features Wishlist, for Coomer Options

[azian_advanced]

Now that you're more active on the site, i'd just like to post some features that maybe you can add to improve the forum.

first, can you activate the forum to tapatalk? it's free. http://www.tapatalk.com/. it'll make reading fast and easy on the droid.

second, some forums are able to post embedded youtube videos and lets you watch from within the post without having to open a new window.

third, can you add a filter to the search page that will only result to posts with posted pictures. it'll make searching a specific picture or diagram a lot easier. this should be an easy mod.

fourth, this might be a big wish to ask for but maybe the buy and sell can use a facelift. what i had in mind was to have the BS forum set up with ebay-like styling.
kinda like this: <thumbnail pic> | TRD Front Bumper (Blue) For Sale | $400 | <username & seller rating> | <available or sold icon>
clicking on the title will lead to another page with more details, pics, comments etc just like any other thread. this mod will of course need everyone's approval first but i think it's a great idea. some forums have this and works great.

[Coomer]

Now that you're more active on the site, i'd just like to post some features that maybe you can add to improve the forum.

first, can you activate the forum to tapatalk? it's free. http://www.tapatalk.com/. it'll make reading fast and easy on the droid.

It is highly unlikely that I'll do this. Tapatalk is only compatible with the newer versions of the forum software, and I do not plan to upgrade as the newer forum software is slower, even more feature bloated, costs money, and would be very difficult considering how much I modified this codebase.

That, and I don't think reading a forum should have to be done through a locked-down third-party app that consumers (and developers) have to pay for. As a developer, I wouldn't even be able to fully test that my own site works without paying that company money - that just doesn't stand well with me as a matter of principle. A better scenario would be making the forums and site more mobile-browser compatible, so everyone can get the benefit, not just iPhone and Android users through this one application (which might actually get removed from the app store at any time.)

second, some forums are able to post embedded youtube videos and lets you watch from within the post without having to open a new window.

I'll see what I can do here. I agree that would be nice.

third, can you add a filter to the search page that will only result to posts with posted pictures. it'll make searching a specific picture or diagram a lot easier. this should be an easy mod.

Negative, this is unfortunately not an easy mod. That said, it would be nice and I'll look into it.

fourth, this might be a big wish to ask for but maybe the buy and sell can use a facelift. what i had in mind was to have the BS forum set up with ebay-like styling.
kinda like this: <thumbnail pic> | TRD Front Bumper (Blue) For Sale | $400 | <username & seller rating> | <available or sold icon>
clicking on the title will lead to another page with more details, pics, comments etc just like any other thread. this mod will of course need everyone's approval first but i think it's a great idea. some forums have this and works great.

I'll see, but likely to do something like this I'd want to move the buying/selling out of the forums and into the rest of the site, which will be a codebase that's easy to modify. The current forum software is huge, is written in PHP, and is a nightmare to modify. Parts of the site built going forward will be done in Rails, which is way more fun and faster for me to develop stuff in.