With all due respect, this forum is not very well made

It's not that I want to hate it, but compared to many other forums, this one is pretty terrible and what just happened to me was just too much to let it go.

I wanted to edit one of my post in the wishlist to include a temporary fix so that users could easily find it, but after I edited it and pressed post, I was greeted with a message that told me I can't edit a post that's more than 1 days old. First, why? It can be so useful, for example, what I wanted to do, but more importantly, why wasn't the edit button disabled if I couldn't edit it or why didn't it at least check after I pressed it if I could actually edit the post or not instead of letting me waste my time writing it.

It doesn't let us go to a specific page without opening the thread.

There's no way to subscribe to a thread without receiving an email(a simple message in my profile would be plenty for me).

"My topics" doesn't even show all the threads I participated it or started.

There are other things that also bothered me, but I can't think of any other right now(other than that there's no one from the opera team that's actually around), but someone really should do something about that edit button.

Originally posted by SamKook:

First, why

It can be, but it can also be abused easily by some users. If you want to edit a post that is more than 24 hours old, edit it, copy it complete with formatting, and repost as a new post at the end. If you could not edit an old post, you would have to reapply all of the formatting and links, so being able to edit old posts is very useful. After making the new post, you can delete the old copy with the broken links if its no longer relevant.

Originally posted by SamKook:

"My topics" doesn't even show all the threads I participated it or started.

That's just as well — I don't want to list all 20,882 of my posts when I click on my topics — the last seven days is quite enough. If you want more, edit the url before using paste and go.

Your Posts from 3 weeks

Originally posted by SamKook:

It doesn't let us go to a specific page without opening the thread.

Also possible by editing the URL:

Page 2 of Image Resize Topic (Copy URL from the last post button and edit the page count).

Originally posted by Pesala:

If you want to edit a post that is more than 24 hours old, edit it, copy it complete with formatting, and repost as a new post at the end.

That would defeat the purpose in my case since I wanted everyone to have an easy access to the image-resizer extension in the first post of my "Disabling the default image resize." thread in the wishlist.

Originally posted by Pesala:

If you could not edit an old post, you would have to reapply all of the formatting and links, so being able to edit old posts is very useful.

You could also simply quote your post and remove the quote tags in the newly created one and then change it as you wish. That way you don't need to copy everything and create a new post manually and it's a lot less confusing for people like me who want to edit older posts without reposting it at the end.

Originally posted by Pesala:

That's just as well — I don't want to list all 20,882 of my posts when I click on my topics — the last seven days is quite enough. If you want more, edit the url before using paste and go.

If they showed only a couple of results per page(no idea how much they show right now or if they even use a page system), it wouldn't change much for you anyway, but I would personally find it useful to have this option(it doesn't have to be the default behavior) so I could easily find old threads of mine.
Also, opera doesn't want us doing that since they disabled(probably just hid now that I think about it) that part in the address bar by default and made it so that there is no way to un-grey it.

But thanks, I didn't notice there was a number of days option in the url(I blame the grey) so it will be useful.

Edit:

Originally posted by Pesala:

Originally posted by SamKook:

It doesn't let us go to a specific page without opening the thread.

Also possible by editing the URL:

Page 2 of Image Resize Topic (Copy URL from the last post button and edit the page count).

Sure, but it's not very practical. It would be faster to click it and then choose the page number in the thread. Most forums out there will give you some of the pages choice outside of the thread which is working very well and is pretty useful(at least for me)

Originally posted by Pesala:

It can be, but it can also be abused easily by some users.

Maybe I'm not malicious enough, but I don't really see how it can be used for evil.

Originally posted by SamKook:

There's no way to subscribe to a thread without receiving an email(a simple message in my profile would be plenty for me).

Sure you can - but you can't pick and choose. At the top of this or any forum page, click on Subscriptions. At the bottom of that page there will be a button to either start or stop email notifications (which button depends on your current setting, of course). So you can have emails for every subscribed topic people post in, or they will only show up on your News page (and no emails).

Ah, thanks, I didn't notice that(Which kind of happens often in this forum). I searched in my account settings which would have been where I expected an option to be, but at least it's somewhere. Too bad I can't keep it enabled for some threads though.

Originally posted by Pesala:

edit the url

And you can use the advanced forum search for it, just type. Leave the search field blank and put your username on the "Search for a user:" one, the select "Any Date" in Time and you'll see all the topics you joined.

There's almost always an indirect way to get what you want somehow, but when you provide a feature, you should at least do it properly.

Here it's a feature called "my topics" which I would expect to actually show me all of my topics according to the name, but when you click on it, you notice they're not all there. The title inside suddenly get changed to "My Active topics" which is not what one would expect from what one clicked on and there's no definition anywhere for what an active topic actually is. Before pesala pointed out I could edit the url, I had no idea it was the ones for the past 7 days.

The fact that the forum is in php(or another language using similar url parameters) and that I'm used to the features of an advanced search engine helps to get around some of the less well made features of this forum, but compared to what's out there, I'm not very impressed by it.