Creatures Caves

Thank you for the quick feedback! I appreciate everyone taking the time to respond. Please keep the suggestions coming. No suggestion is too small! (i.e. feel free to suggest moving a link to a different part of a page, or making a textbox bigger, etc. -- please tell me any little pet peeve you may have about the site!)

Grendel_Man wrote:
I said it a bunch of times before, but I'll say it again: How about a "Mark as read" button?

To be honest, the reason that I haven't implemented that feature is because I personally don't understand the point of it. Why would anyone want to mark threads read that he or she hasn't actually read? The yellow star on each individual forum turns blue once you've read any thread in it, so there's no need to attempt to change the color of that star.

Malkin wrote:
An option to turn off the yellow update star for likes.

This is definitely going to be added shortly.

(Update: Done)

Malkin wrote:
A 'visit my website' button under everyone's names on the forums if they've got a website listed in their profiles.

I love this idea! I think I'll implement it tonight.

(Update: Done)

Malkin wrote:
Perhaps an option for 'my computer is'... in the profile, so that people can just look up and see what their computer setup is.

I like the idea of this, but I'm not sure exactly how to implement it. Would there be a drop down menu with like "Windows XP", "Mac OS X 5.0", etc.? Or just an open textbox that people can type anything in? If the latter is the idea, then I think that it would be the same for people just type their computer stats in their "info" section. However, I could add a little "note" below the info box to remind users that it's suggested that they include their computer and game details.

ylukyun wrote:
Could you set it up so when you click a forum topic in a feed, it goes to that post, or at least the page the post is on, instead of the first page?

Ideally I would like it to function like this as well, but at the time I coded the Updates page I was unable to make it work properly. I'll keep tinkering with it and see what I can come up with.

(Update: Done)

Laura wrote:
Please would it still be possible to situate CC Chat a little more prominently on the site, in a similar way to how the forums are?

I'll work on it.

(Update: Done)

Laura wrote:
I think a 'favourites' feature for downloads would be really cool. In the same way that forum bookmarks and favourite users work, all your favourite downloads could be listed in one place. This could also be useful as a quick reference if they ever needed to be downloaded again or linked to, etc. Maybe they could be categorised too?

I really like this idea. Actually I think the COBs section needs a LOT of work to really make it more useful. Perhaps I could just make a way to view "COBs that I have liked"? So basically if you 'like' a COB, it becomes one of your 'favorites'. It could also be cool if I could go to, for example, Ghosthande's profile and see all of her favorite COBs. What does everyone think about this? Could be useful for metarooms and adoptions as well.

Laura wrote:
Have you thought much more about introducing the Staff Member user level at some point? This topic seems to indicate that people like the idea so far.

I actually want to implement it, but I just don't think the community is active enough at the moment for it to really be used to its full potential. I think perhaps once C4 is released, however, we could revisit the topic.

Additionally: The main section that I really want to improve on is the downloads section, particularly COBs. For those of you who are developers -- please let me know what changes you would like to see in this area, and the best way that you see to implement them. I'd really like to the make the Creatures Caves COBs section the "one stop shop" for the best and most up-to-date COBs in the community.