Modern Vespa

If love to see a "mods" forum with subheadings under it so discussions about variators, rollers, exhausts, suspensions, etc would all be segregated into their own place.

For mobile users, I've also had to modify the screen pivot point at which the option bar becomes a drop-down menu, as the option bar is longer now and wraps (or worse, goes off the screen) sooner than it used to.

although it works this is a bit ouch. at first test I didn't instinctively recognise it as a pull down. maybe a down arrow on the button to the right of it's text.

alternatively the classic clickable headings on the table of results

If a post is hidden ("pinked out") can an email or PM be sent to the OP to make them aware? This would be helpful to those who post in the For Sale section and had forgotten to include a [Location], as they often don't check. Why should they, as no replies should be possible, so they never see their post has been hidden and don't get a chance to re-post.

small thing, was doing a search and entering my username as a filter and my keyboard auto completed it and stuck a space on the end as it assume I was typing a sentence. the username lookup failed as you're not doing a trim. easy fix

My own tiny fight against this in years past, was to religiously move my cursor back to the top of the reply field after quoting another post. I see I no longer have to do this. I have no idea how or when you changed this but it's great not seeing all those quotes in search results.

Thank you!

Is there a way to 'Snooze' forum members so their posts dont show up.

This would be the coveted "personal ban" feature.

No, it's never been implemented. Sorry.

So here's a maybe stupid question, when it says banned under someone's name does that really mean they are banned or is it something they added for shits and giggles?

Yes.

Yes as in banned or yes as in shits and giggles?

For timeouts instead of an outright ban can users be restricted to NSM for punishment as and when deemed appropriate. This might provide better attitude adjustment than stewing at home.

Both. Generally, "Banned" means they are banned. There is one member with "Banned" as a custom title, though. And if you see them posting, you can be assured that they are not, in fact, banned.

Ok, that's a little confusing but makes sense. I've seen some that have been here for years and a very high post count but banned under their name, more than one.

There have, in fact, been a handful of long-term members that have been banned. And believe me, banning an established member is generally the very last thing I want to do, and only done as a last resort when they go off the rails. But it has happened.

The one user with "Banned" as a custom title is in fact a moderator, and he could change his title if he wanted. I guess he likes leaving people confused.

For timeouts instead of an outright ban can users be restricted to NSM for punishment as and when deemed appropriate. This might provide better attitude adjustment than stewing at home.

- please enable adding photos to PMs

- enable adding photos directly from the Mac photos like happens on the iPhone rather than having to export it to a jpeg first

- include a "List" function above the post editing window. I often can't remember the list commands

For timeouts instead of an outright ban can users be restricted to NSM for punishment as and when deemed appropriate. This might provide better attitude adjustment than stewing at home.

Adding photos to PMs: That was a feature for many years. We only recently removed attachments for PMs (a year or two ago?) because it was a very, very serious liability, being completely unmoderated and unsupervised. This feature definitely will not return, sorry. Understood



adding photos directly from the Mac photos: This has been on my list for quite a while. The delay is actually due to the lack of support for the newer image format in one of the open source utilities we use to process photos. This may have changed since last I looked, so I'll take the action to look into it again and see if anything has changed. Thanks



include a "List" function above the post editing window: I often can't remember the list commandsThis was another feature that was present for many years, but I removed it a year or two ago. The list utility did not work well, and most people found it completely bewildering. In fact, I also found it completely bewildering, and I am supposed to know how this stuff works. As it didn't work very well, hardly anyone ever used lists. Thanks. A few months ago, you introduced a method for creating bulletized lists. I couldn't remember the details and will have to go find your post to figure it out again, hence my request. Peronally, I've always liked bulletized lists

Okay, assuming we are in fact talking about searching by titles, here's what that would look like. Note that it's not just adding one more option, it's adding two, plus additional words to the original two options.

I'm also unhappy with the terms here -- using the word Topic (when we are searching by topic TITLES) tends to add more of the same confusion that just happened a few posts up.

Thinking about long URLs. Would it be easy to implement the automatic stripping of all the tracking info and shorten the links? For example everything after a question mark in the URL.

For some well-known URLs, yes. But in general, no. The part after the question mark is often (but not always) important -- even MV uses query parameters to function properly in lots of situations.

To stip an URL of the irrelevant stuff, you usually have to know something about how the URL is structured.

Makes sense. Some of it is easy for mildly informed humans, though I can see how it could be a real pain to implement that human knowledge.

For some well-known URLs, yes. But in general, no. The part after the question mark is often (but not always) important -- even MV uses query parameters to function properly in lots of situations.

To stip an URL of the irrelevant stuff, you usually have to know something about how the URL is structured.

I discovered our local news site lets you add whatever you want to urls. Hilarity ensued.

feature req:

the url in search to update as I type and click so I can copy and paste it

bug:

opened my browser and clicked refresh on my existing MV tab which is the new posts pseudo forum. it prompted me to login (don't know why) so I did and then it navigated me to https://modernvespa.com/forum/new&start=0 which gives a 404

opened my browser and clicked refresh on my existing MV tab which is the new posts pseudo forum. it prompted me to login (don't know why) so I did and then it navigated me to https://modernvespa.com/forum/new&start=0 which gives a 404

Can't search for the word 'what'. Thread i was searching for was "Another what did you do to your Vespa today thread"