• things that you don't find very practical to use ;
• others that you find difficult to understand, not very emphasized;
• things that are not pretty, misaligned or imperfect;
• small additions that could be useful or even life-changing.

Just copying over my suggestions from the other thread

1. I think it would look at bit better if there was more space between the button to go forward/backward one page and the button to bring you to the start/end of the thread. The way it is now, a brief glance makes it look like there is just one button with three arrows. This isn't a big thing by any means, but it might make the site a bit more user-intuitive. (Note: They look much closer together on the actual site than in the below screenshot because they're smaller)

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2. Another formatting thing is if the search options could look a bit more like drop-downs instead of just a list of information. I didn't even realize they did anything until I accidentally clicked on one of them. Maybe if there was an outline around each option or something, it would be more obvious? I'm not sure.

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3. Also with the search screen, it would be amazing to have a way to search for a specific forum in the filters. There are a lot of forums and subforms to scroll through in such a small place, and although it will probably be a lot of work to implement, I think it might be worth it. I understand that Zachary is really busy, and don't expect this to be done any time soon, but I might as well plant the seed for the idea.

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4. A quick-link at the bottom of the site to your drafts page would make life a lot easier. As it is, you have to first go to the "favorites" page, then go to the dropdown at the top and click on the "drafts" option. As someone who does most of their writing in a stop-and-start fashion, adding the quick-link and taking out that extra step would be super helpful. If the extra link in the footer doesn't fit on mobile devices, a solution might be to just hide it on smaller screens. Having the quick-link some of the time is still better than none of the time.

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5. I honestly have no idea how hard it would be to implement this, but an alert for when you try to leave a page with unsaved changes to a draft would be really helpful. I know a lot of people just write their replies elsewhere, like Microsoft Word of a Google Document, but this would help the site be less reliant on other services. I think I've heard other suggestions about having an auto-save feature, but I feel like this might be easier to implement. If not, feel free to correct me. (The screenshot below is an example of what I'm thinking about from Desmos, an online graphing calculator)

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6. This is a new one, but I think some of the buttons on the site might look a bit better and be easier to click with more padding, in particular on the "save draft" page. I went into Inspect Element and played around a bit with it, the buttons in the picture below have a padding of 3 pixels on the top and bottom, and 7 pixels on the left and right. Obviously, you can choose whatever values look best, but I think the padding makes them look a bit less smushed.

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You're the best, Zachary!

I've been thinking about this for a while, but wasn't sure if it was possible, so I didn't suggest it. However, the newest fix for entering other houses' dorms made me think of it again. Right now, when you click the "x" button on the Marauder's Map, it immediately takes you back to the site's homepage. However, it might be helpful if instead of this, it took you to the last place you were, like the "x" button used in the update does. For example, if I open the Marauder's Map in the Library, when I close it, it would take me back to the Library.

Additionally, I thought you might like to know that the two "x" buttons are different colors and sizes

Button on Slytherin Dorm Entrance

Button on Marauder's Map

I really appreciate everything you do, Zachary!

Lavinia Cloven wrote: ↑16 Feb 2021, 21:38 A suggestion that I have is that there is a way to delete previous drafts. For example in the Applications for specialty races or abilities I have 20 drafts, some of which date back to 2019. This would be like a little x button to the side of the draft list. Or a select button where you could click it and then click delete selected, then another box would pop up asking if you want to confirm our deletion. This is just an idea because I know that some people go in and out of drafts frequently and have used the same thread many times. I was just thinking that this might be useful thank you for all the new updates, the site looks the best it’s ever been!

I was thinking that it would be useful if there was a way to mention a bunch of people at once, like clubs or something. For example, when someone wants to mention all the people in a club for whatever thread or such that they are doing, then they just put the name of the club in the mention code and everyone in it gets a notification. This is just a suggestion that I think would be quite helpful for times when you want to mention a bunch of people, but this site is already very amazing!