IndieAgora

I have added the draft memory feature for replies/quotes. Whenever you close the composer modal while replying to a topic/reply the text you have written will be saved even if you exit the site and go back later. This allows you to then scroll through the topic for more material to quote, or to check what someone has said, or you can have a good think about what you want to write and return later.

This should imporve the way discussions happen here.

The memory is only in replies, new topic composers do not have draft memory yet. Do you think that would be a good idea?

Yes, though it would be nice in the full composer section too for replies, and any quick reply type thing. In the forum site I use the box embedded at the bottom and rapidly scroll down ho the bottom of any page, udially the first page, just to get started on my new post. On the main site, I scroll to the bottom of a post and click the reply button which opens up the window and dims the background, then I type, but so far I prefer the way the box is embedded separate from any text at the bottom on the forum dite and how I can scroll up and check things and copy writing to paste and I never see the text in the embedded box disappear ehile doing that. What you've suggested here will be a great improvement and comforting for me since my posts very quickly can become very long with a lot of work put into them even if they are just a lot of quotes and links mostly since I read through all of those and it can be hard to go back and collect them all again in the same order, plus sometimes search redults don't show up the same if something was already clicked, which can make finding things again more difficult. Things have been going alright with the typing and posting despite the phone issues, on the forum site on certain pages my phone's google keyboard that pops up for typing acts up and keeps switching from caps to no caps repeatedly and not letting me type anything and then seitching the order of what I type like the keystrokes are delayed and later ones show up before earlier ones and it can be very frustrating, but once that error stops and typing is fine like I am typing now on the forum site, it is no problem. I don't think anything weird like that has occurred yet in my experience of the main site. Though I prefer the forum site visually and for my vision also, I have been looking at the main site more often since there are posts abd sections there I can't access from here, and soon enough I will not have access to this site either, but I'm hoping a lot or all of the things that I enjoy from here will be available there so that it doesn't feel like any loss, and even better if it somehow feels like an improvement, by there being a version that looks like this or better, shows a lot and is much more convenient and quick for me navigate through.

Even though the main site has a lot more that should make it feel bigger, this forum dite gives a sense of being more spacious, while the main site feels more indoors, closed, tight, with lots of turns and corners and closed rooms and doors, sort of dungeon-like, maybe even giving me a bit of a claustrophobic feeling just from different signals omin the way that it is dark and other design features and the way it shows up on my phone on Firefox as compared to the forum site. That is not meant to be rude or insulting or anything, I think it looks very good but maybe more like a program. The light color and size of things and layout and page numbers and my being able to see a lot more at once on the forum site makes it feel more spacious and with a lot more room and a feeling of freer movement with less turns and closed rooms and doors like how the load more even feels like a door or a gate that opens up more stuff that pours out. I've been going right to the last post to load everything, but a load everything at the top might be fine too and I'd probably use that aldo, thouhh my personal preference is as few tasks or asks as possible, so the least amount of clicking, everything loaded, things possibly separated by pages if they get too big, but I also have never liked when there are lots of pages to anything since dometimes it can be hard yo find where things are in those cases. Mainly nothing has gotten that big just yet at least.

I may go through and do another purge of my some of ehat I have collected again, even though it can make things messy until I replace what is removed, but that purge feeling comes from paranoia and concern about bringing up any political sorts of things because of the sickos and agents that could be scanning the internet to cause trouble for people at any point, so hopefully whatever has been looked at already and can now be removed by me, and I also really hate all that stuff too, it is like toxic waste just sitting around even though it does give a sense of ehat things were like around these years, just like a few clues still remain about 2017 on here.

I will re-add the static composer.

Thank You! I look forward to seeing how that will be with my usual workflow, which is how I've been posting here on the forum site as well as sites I was using earlier.

I've been using the main site more to see what would help me out in using it, but I've also been returning to the forum site to also compare and see if I'm missing mentioning anything.

I'm going to save all the thread titles, and also go through and try to separately have a list of those that are my own plus the ones I've been using a lot, but I'd much prefer not to have to do that or to refer to a separate list and then find or maybe even copy the title into the search and then hope that it is long enough and specific enough to bring up the intebded thread first.

On a few forums there was a plugin that I liked to see which chronologically listed all my posts from the first to the last in a readable way, though it had separated a number of posts per page, so it was a lot of clicks to read all my posts, do the page aspect was a little annoying maybe, but I loved having a way to see all my posts. They would usually make it only viewable from the latest to the first, so it was annoying in that respect too, that I'd have to go to the last page, then scroll up a little and read the post, then scroll up more and read the post, and to keep doing that, so a first post to last post collection for each user would be useful, and even more useful if I can zoom out to see a lot more and scroll more quickly for anyone like myself who may have a lot of lengthy posts. That would aldo be interesting to see if the things I post about also have a sensible chronological flow.

A collection of all the threads I've made with mostly the titles snd possibly some other data condensed so that many titles are visible and clickable would be convenient too, besides also a view where I can see all threads like that as an area that is either right at the start or an easy link so that is where I'd likely travel first, the way that I usually type fo and go to this forum site and it takes me to the main list of sub-forums, then I click the Ontic one usually and it lists all the threads, with a slight scroll down 13 become visible at once and I can very quickly get to see where I want to click on any of the pages.

If any of these are too difficult to implement, then you needn't worry about it as this should all be for fun probably and I wouldn't want you to be getting irritated by any of this, and thank you so much for all the rapid implementation of these features that each improve my experience a lot, I really appreciate it especially since it seems to be mainly for me and based on my experience using the site and making me more comfortable so that I can keep posting lots easily. Like even this forum site that I've been using and have become attached to was made with helping me in mind I think and I really appreciate that, that is incredibly kind of you, and I don't want any of this to seem like I'm ever very seriously bothered or ungrateful for all the work you're putting into all this while not many are even around just yet.

I think the site you've created, each time, from 2017, to the recent revival, to this forum site, to the update of this forum site, and the main site have all been very impressive and each seems to get better. The most impressive visually so far is the latest main site, and if it domehow is able to include everything great and familiar and comforting for me about these other sites and older sites and stules that I'm used to, plus all the very cool new stuff, and maybe evrn other modern things inspired from programs and social media, it could be the most ideal, easy to enjoy, with no major learning curves for me as well as newcomers.

That being said, there may be a bit of mystery for any visitirs and newcomers, and though some discouragement and obstacles can be good, it would be a little sad maybe if we're missing other good contributirs because of issues like how the things recently bumped may not be of interest and further exploration is too cumbersome or has too many clicks or is difficult to scroll through using a phone. The determination that jwmart showed in getting started typing and even testing some features I think was extraordinary, meaning literally not like how most people might behave if they were yo be exposed to any of these sites, especially since forum communication has also seemingly become quite rare and whoever tries more now are often of a different age group and are heavily pushed towards using sites like Reddit or programs like Discord, both of which I pretty much resent and even despise.

So I want gimmicks that would cheer me up, be nostalgic, make me happy, make the site attractive, make the dite seem very obvious and easy to use without having to learn much of anything, and maybe evrn design features that would specifically attract likeminded people and encourage the kind of content we each prefer, as whoever has made it this far on the site, you, Whisper, Rubsy, me, and jwmart, and whoever else may be currently contributing or planning to, have tended to be pretty similar overall in style and our mutual interests, and even the people I invited who have all fallen totally silent, which really confuses and even dort of frightens me as to what may be going on that causes bursts of activity from so many in my emails after years and thrn abrupt silence again, seemed to have been very resistent to even trying something new seeming. So at least we should be having fun on here, but also should try to make it as attractive to less willing curmudgeons to try it out and talk to us, but preferably narrowed down somewhat to people who are much more likely to be like us and like the same things that we bring up, since everything pretty much anyone has ever brought up on this site has been interesting to me and I think that everyone who has ever even used it at all has been pretty similar overall, which is pleasurable and far less abrasive as truly disagreeable and unrelated communities somehow being firced together and playing out power struggles as to who wants to talk about what, conspiracies and magic or baseball and scuba gear.

We also are not quite like the children occultists, we're a specific kind of 90s Techno-Magician Musical Everyman Paranoid Fiction character, literally each one of us, do how do we attract this very specific type of person and make participation within the rules irresistible to more of our kind on the main site?

https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top- ... u-paranoid

https://fictions-characters.fandom.com/ ... Characters

Maybe not enough Occult, Esoteric, Antiquated, and Archaic in these:

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/best-9 ... thrillers/



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimoire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonology

https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Sc ... ic_Mixture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Security_Section_9

This seems sort of on topic to what I was saying, but in many ways opposite too since it talks about how unapproachable the game would be for many people i don't think their analysis accounts for a lot of important factors, because part of the popular push for that game was by people who propped it up to oppose the Western games thought to be representing "Woke" and other things that influential voices online wanted to oppose and rebel against or punish Western companies for, to show their power.

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On a few forums there was a plugin that I liked to see which
chronologically listed all my posts from the first to the last in a
readable way, though it had separated a number of posts per page, so it
was a lot of clicks to read all my posts, do the page aspect was a
little annoying maybe, but I loved having a way to see all my posts.
They would usually make it only viewable from the latest to the first,
so it was annoying in that respect too, that I'd have to go to the last
page, then scroll up a little and read the post, then scroll up more and
read the post, and to keep doing that, so a first post to last post
collection for each user would be useful, and even more useful if I can
zoom out to see a lot more and scroll more quickly for anyone like
myself who may have a lot of lengthy posts. That would aldo be
interesting to see if the things I post about also have a sensible
chronological flow.[/quote]

Yes I do recall myBB having a 'My Posts' or 'My Threads' feature. This is now in Connect. I can add a sorting toggle so that you can see oldest/newest first.

I'll be adding more of these features over the coming weeks.

Awesome! This is all so exciting really! Thank you so much! I really love how you are able to so quickly and effortlessly from my perspective just make these great improvements and additions!