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A few suggestions: ribbons & user profiles
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Uusimaa, Finland
Joined: March 30, 2004
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Posted: Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 02:09 AM UTC
Hi,
Now after the revisions to the forum appareance, a couple of other suggestions popped into my mind.
First, campaign ribbons. Please make them more easily viewable, or even re-introduce them to posts (with an option to choose whether to see them or not), if possible.
First they were visible next to every post, but were removed to improve performance.
This has made it tricky to view any ribbons if an individual doesn't have a self-made signature image with his awards in it. To view a certain user's award's, you have to locate a post made by that individual to click on his "profile" button.

Another way is the user directory, but that has puzzled me for while. Where is the complete user directory? (or am I that blind and it's actually right there? )
The link on the homepage is related to the country of the user, listing only users from his/her country. You can of course use the community feature to see user lists from a country of your choice, but I think is overly tedious, even more if you can't remember the country of the user you're after.
And another thing, why aren't campaign ribbons shown in "my account" page? To see your profile with awards, you have to either find one of your posts or search the user list.

To put it short, here's my suggestions improve kitmaker network some more:
-make campaign awards appear in "my account"
-possibly re-introduce ribbons to user info bar in posts? (with settings to turn them off)
-add a link on the frontpage to the complete user list

Those ribbons could of course be showed by making a signature image with them, to save bandwidth.
But what do you think, are these suggestions all that dumb?
KoSprueOne
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Posted: Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 02:33 AM UTC

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CALLSIGN: Emeritus
Hi,
Now after the revisions to the forum appareance, a couple of other suggestions popped into my mind.
. . . Another way is the user directory, but that has puzzled me for while. Where is the complete user directory? (or am I that blind and it's actually right there? )
The link on the homepage is related to the country of the user, listing only users from his/her country. You can of course use the community feature to see user lists from a country of your choice, but I think is overly tedious, even more if you can't remember the country of the user you're after.
. . .



here is the member directory




Emeritus
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Posted: Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 02:39 AM UTC
Thanks.
I remember having that bookmarked but lost it somwhere.
KoSprueOne
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Posted: Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 03:12 AM UTC
I would like to be able to click on member's name under their photo to link to the member's forum profile.






KoSprueOne
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Posted: Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 03:30 AM UTC
or click on member's callsign name after you get here






staff_Jim
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Posted: Monday, August 06, 2007 - 09:43 AM UTC
I am working on some revisions to the way the medals are displayed on the account page. If I can I will try to have a "selected award" for display in the forums that won't require a new query.

Re: the gallery links... yes I have been meaning to fix those for some time. Thanks for reminding me.

Cheers,
Jim
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