Forum Suggestions

[Nicole]

Right now our Forum etiquette page includes a request for captions for photos, but there is no rule or technical fix.

Forum Etiquette

It was decided by the Advisory Panel that the old "Forum Etiquette" section of the forum rules should be removed as they were not enforced standards but rather encouraged guidelines of conversation. I firmly believe that new users (especially those unfamiliar with internet fora) who are...

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[Ice]

Can we remove the personal attacks rule so I can call @sereniv a weirdo

<3

 

[sereniv]

Can we remove the personal attacks rule so I can call @sereniv a weirdo

<3

like my status to vote kick lce from the forum

 

[horsesboy]

Would there be a way to add the ability to send picture in PMs? I was trying to send something to someone that I didn't fee; In should share publicly at this time and couldn't find away to add it as an attachment.

 

[Zachary]

Would there be a way to add the ability to send picture in PMs? I was trying to send something to someone that I didn't fee; In should share publicly at this time and couldn't find away to add it as an attachment.

We've previously not allowed attachments over direct messages in an effort to keep attachment bulk down as much as possible. While attachments on the main boards equate to public content for everyone that could be useful to many folks for years to come, content shared via private conversations is often a one-and-done situation for the people involved. Hence, having to keep hosting such content represents essentially no community benefit.

We're looking into possibly allowing attachments in private conversations for active donors though—likely with some sort of warning that every so often private message attachments may be wiped to preserve storage capacity.

 

[Ice]

Holy shit, a donor perk? That's wild.

Make this shit pay to win, donors get one monthly temp ban they can use on anyone to ban them for 24 hours.

 

[Alf33]

Would there be a way to add the ability to send picture in PMs? I was trying to send something to someone that I didn't fee; In should share publicly at this time and couldn't find away to add it as an attachment.

A work around for this is if you have cloud storage account (many free ones out there) you can put the picture or whatever it is on that site and then generate a download link and just send the intended person the download link in the PM.

 

[panopticon31]

A work around for this is if you have cloud storage account (many free ones out there) you can put the picture or whatever it is on that site and then generate a download link and just send the intended person the download link in the PM.

Imgur is dead simple for this and includes the ability to make the URL private and not public

 

[RollyCoaster]

This update causing me a headache lol How do I go back to forum page without scrolling back to the top of a thread on mobile? Looks very sleek btw thank y’all for keeping the site updated

 

[Gavin]

The current theme is just the old one but very broken. @Zachary is working on a new theme that will be fixed, it’s just going to take some time. You can always swipe to go back to the last page or use the arrow in the footer.

 

[zanderman72]

It would be kinda cool to have a thread table of contents.

For example, looking back at Invadr (project 2017), it would be really cool to see how people's opinions and theories changed after, say, the second marketing video was released. As it stands right now, I have to comb through 99 pages to see how the community responded. Indexing everything would be cool so that I would know to navigate exactly to page X to get the community's reaction.

It would also be cool to quickly get up to speed on upcoming projects. I know the official blog posts do a good job of this, but a document giving a quick recap would be awesome so a new user doesn't have to slog through page after page of theories that became obsolete.

 

[Zachary]

It's certainly an issue we've thought about. For threads with wiki sections, any user can go and start building one already if they want to. I had been maintaining the Major Updates section in the wiki for the DarKoaster thread, but I haven't added to it in a bit. If there's something anyone out there thinks should be added, by all means, go right ahead! Hopefully the effort renders that thread far more useful for folks who stumble upon it long into the future.

It's my intention to continue to wiki-ify all major project threads moving forward, but going through and manually indexing older threads after the fact sounds like a really daunting task. In my case, I'd rather put that effort into building out/updating more wiki pages for park attractions, events, etc.

That said, if someone else has a particular interest in building out an index of some of the older project mega-threads, I'm happy to wiki-ify spesific, older project threads so people have a place to do so.

This applies to any thread really. If someone is feeling particularly inspired to write an index of a big thread or wiki page for an attraction that doesn't have one yet, just let us know and we can get whatever thread you're interested in wiki-ified.

 

[I64 Trekker]

I am heading to my home park when I was growing up next Saturday, Marriott's Great America. I know it's Six Flags now, but nevertheless, I found this awesome resource related to math and science days the park is holding this month - https://static.sixflags.com/website/files/sfgm_physics-day-teacher-workbook.pdf

The ride stats themselves can be found on RCDB, but there is a lot of other cool information here, such as what happens when you enter the tunnel on Raging Bull. Any chance ParkFans could compile similar resources somewhere?