Answer me these questions three.

[Paul the Human]

Question the first: Would it be possible to make the 'Newest Posts' and 'Newest Threads' on the Overview show as 'read' or 'unread'? Bold for anything 'unread' would suffice.

Next question: Wouldn't it be cool if the Shoutbox scrolled the other way, so that the newest posts were on the bottom? More like an actual chat.

Four! (three, sir) Three!: Have you ever considered creating a repository of knowledge? Perhaps a forum (or maybe just a thread) that houses good points, arguments, refutations, and the like. Something useful to help atheists that have been posed a question or encountered an argument they aren't sure how to answer/counter.

[Darwinian]

That's weird and spooky.. I was just thinking about three myself. Some sort of tag system for an individual post that could then be searched for..

I mean, some of the posts on this forum are almost in the realm of dissertations.

[fr0d0]

1. Yeah at the moment that's anonymous. Today's posts does that.

2. hmm yeah

3. Good idea. Tis subjective of course, and discriminatory against us, your superiors :S

I mean, some of the posts on this forum are almost in the realm of dissertations.

You're too kind

[Darwinian]

I mean, some of the posts on this forum are almost in the realm of dissertations.

You're too kind

I said posts, not ramblings :p

[Violet]

I like the third idea a lot One might be sometimes interesting, but we really can just look at http://atheistforums.org/search.php?action=getdaily for that. I'm all for expanding the overview box and making it customizable though!

2 seems like a option that could be added in for some people.... if you beg Adrian for it he might give it to you I support your idea of more little choices on the forums!

[theblindferrengi]

Those are good ideas.

[Tiberius]

Question the first: Would it be possible to make the 'Newest Posts' and 'Newest Threads' on the Overview show as 'read' or 'unread'? Bold for anything 'unread' would suffice.

No.

Next question: Wouldn't it be cool if the Shoutbox scrolled the other way, so that the newest posts were on the bottom? More like an actual chat.

We have a chat room for that. The shoutbox is for shouts. I don't see a problem with scrolling down; every other shoutbox seems to do it.

Four! (three, sir) Three!: Have you ever considered creating a repository of knowledge? Perhaps a forum (or maybe just a thread) that houses good points, arguments, refutations, and the like. Something useful to help atheists that have been posed a question or encountered an argument they aren't sure how to answer/counter.

Saerules kinda requested something like this: http://atheistforums.org/topposts.php

[fr0d0]

Coo... Top Posts (that wasn't there already was it??)

This forum is getting gargantuan in it's customisation. It'll soon have a mind of it's own.

[Tiberius]

I'm gonna have to redesign a lot of the customisation. The problem with them is that they all require complex MySQL queries, which are a strain on the server. The only solution is to have a cache of results which I can read easily and then simply update that cache every 15 minutes.

So there will be a 15 minute delay in getting results out, but it shouldn't affect the system too much.

[fr0d0]

The vast majority of stats doen't need to be live IMO. It's great that it can be 15 minutes old, heck I'd live with daily.