Forum Upgrade Ideas

[marcusaurailius]

Hi Don, couple of things,

1, a section dealing soley with , different decades of cars


2, Photo,s are a good idea, but should go thru some thing like Photo Bucket / Piccassa, ect, to save on band width

3, a section with which people can put up their dyno charts, so all can see differnt results / mods have done. [ planet MX have this ]

Marcus

[69-CHVL]

As mentioned, better search functions needed. I also like how on some sites, you can put the cursor over the topic, and even w/o clicking on it, a little dialog box opens up briefly displaying the first several lines of the post itself. I love that

[k-star]

1. would be the picture deal.

2. And just as important to me, A section just for the businesses, where the general public can't access. It would be nice to net work with other builders and discuss subjects with out your customers being able to see what your talking about.

Keith

[AdioSS]

1. would be the picture deal.

2. And just as important to me, A section just for the businesses, where the general public can't access. It would be nice to net work with other builders and discuss subjects with out your customers being able to see what your talking about.

Keith

Isn't the "Industry" forum just that?

Lots of good suggestions posted.

[tb_3456]

I'm on a dial up connection and pre-load pages, problem is after page 3 of a long topic the pages only show 1 at a time. I can't request page 5 until page 4 is loaded. (1,2,3,4...12,13,14) I would much prefer 1...2,3,4,5,6...14

Better yet just show them all

Tom

[k-star]

1. would be the picture deal.

2. And just as important to me, A section just for the businesses, where the general public can't access. It would be nice to net work with other builders and discuss subjects with out your customers being able to see what your talking about.

Keith

Isn't the "Industry" forum just that?

Lots of good suggestions posted.

Yea but anybody can log on and see the post, you don't need to own a shop to read/post there.

Keith

[af2]

Yea but anybody can log on and see the post, you don't need to own a shop to read/post there.

Keith

You have to get approval before you can access it. And yes all I have seen own and operate a business in this section.

[k-star]

I have a customer that tells me he can access the section and read all that is there.

[jakesporting1]

Yea but anybody can log on and see the post, you don't need to own a shop to read/post there.

Keith

You have to get approval before you can access it. And yes all I have seen own and operate a business in this section.

The only thing is you have to be registered and logged in to view just like the advanced engine section .

I also would like the preview of a post and the site hosting pictures would be nice .

Jake

[af2]

I have a customer that tells me he can access the section and read all that is there.

Good call.
Posting must be different and need approval.

[Engguy]

First since this is the only website I use that will not allow you edit without waiting a predetermined amount of time, I see no reason for that to happen.

The picture posting thing would be a huge improvement. And why I've tried to see old photos that have disapeared. Its funny the website software about 8 years ago used to allow pictures to be on the various websites I frequented. What happened?

A little thingy at the top where it says profile logout and all that, to click on to go to threads you have contributed to or started would be very nice. Other sites have that feature.

[agawam]

while I am a gearhead, I don't do much racing, I am into ratrods streetrods, street machines,they don't have to be the fastest but rather to run as good as possible, not just the engine but good all around performance, into retrofitting and swaps, I'd like to see a colum for street guys and I like the picture idea , I've posted a few times but mostly read and learn, I am old school and new tech is good to know, I am also into older street bikes, 85 down,when acceleration fever strikes I get on my kawi H1 500 two stroke, my car...54 buick ratrod

[needforspeed66gt]

First since this is the only website I use that will not allow you edit without waiting a predetermined amount of time, I see no reason for that to happen.

Yeah - that having to wait 60 seconds kills me when I spot a typo or double word like the the, and can't fix it immediately.

A subject that comes up often enough to warrant it's own section would be equipment reviews, machining procedures, help with, etc...somewhere to talk directly about machining operations and the equipment and tooling we use to get the job done so it doesn't get mixed up with the general engine tech information.

A classifieds section would be nice, but I wouldn't want to see it turn into a marketplace - in other words right now it's pretty informal on the site as to how people conduct business, if someone post's up that they need some engine work it's generally referred to whomever specializes in that type of work or is local to the OP. I don't want to see this site turn into a general car forum where there are "Sponsors" who are afforded the right to hawk their goods and who get preferential treatment. That always leads to a conflict of interest and introduces a lot of bias in the information handed out on the site if people have a monetary interest in what they are doing here...just IMHO

[crazyman]

A suggestions forum, and a bragging forum.

X2 on pics, and the hover over thread icon.

[fastvette]

1. would be the picture deal.

2. And just as important to me, A section just for the businesses, where the general public can't access. It would be nice to net work with other builders and discuss subjects with out your customers being able to see what your talking about.

Keith

I like what Keith says here.

Randy