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Discussions about AChat => Share your creative ideas => Topic started by: Pafe on August 14, 2012, 02:07:19 PM

Title: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Pafe on August 14, 2012, 02:07:19 PM: Hiya's...

I've been away for a while, only popping into the game occasionally, and not spending much time here in the Forum. The whole reorganizing of the Forum is a great idea, but I would like to put in my 2 cents worth.

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We could use some more organization here. This Category "Share your creative ideas" has become (in my opinion) a mess. Would it be possible to give the Ideas and Voting polls their own space? The pinned topics take up more than half the page, and a lot of the other topics have been buried.

You would still have the "Share your creative ideas" section only include one and put the Ideas and Voting polls in another section. That way we could have our debates and discussions here and take the suggestions to the other section to be included in the Voting poll. Also... these should be located near the top of the "Home Page" of the Forum to make them easier to find.

The Height Map Tutorial for Texture Editing and the Editing cloth textures should be moved to the Artist's Alley and pinned to the top.

Another thing I see we could use is a spot to put Suggestions for the Forum. If we had that, this post would have gone there, instead of taking up space here. Maybe it could be moved to the Organizations & Events section or let the Forum have it's own space.

This is by no means a criticism of the immense job of reorganizing the Forum, these are only suggestions. I want to compliment everyone involved on a great idea and I realize how much work it is for such an endeavor. Thank you all. :)

Thanks for letting me share,
Pafe

Edit: Another thing I noticed while reading through the Forum and catching up. I don't know if this is possible or not, but would it be possible to adjust the pages so the "MOVED" topics would be further down? Or would we have to bump the other topics to make that happen? If that is what it will take, I'll be willing to help with the bumping.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Rukya on August 14, 2012, 02:28:00 PM: welcome back pafe :)
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: chien_lubrik on August 14, 2012, 02:29:24 PM: I must say that, now having spending some time on the DreamWorld's Forum I am a bit less lost than in my start.
But It is true a new commer may be a bit ... disoriented by the many entries in some place of the forum.

I am not good at organizing things ( Lord ... you may have a look at my room ... ) But I think two things about it.

First, that the efforts done by Moderators are very welcome by me . It help me a lot to find special topic more easely.

Second , that some sections are also a bit a Mess ... And that the kind efforts may continue, and Yes I can Imagine how hard it may be
to tidy up all those topic that sometime cross each others. And really Miss Pafe have a nice view on the less confuse topics may be.

So " Gambatte " Modérators ( as some of my japanese friends usualy said )
And be sure that your effort are not worthless and are appreciated.

Please accept my best humbly regards.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Bear on August 14, 2012, 04:08:02 PM: been looking at the suggestion box idea... there is an issue with how many topic lines we can have... and I don't think we want a general thread on that... too easily missed imo.

Cleanup will occur when Tight and myself get added to this section.

I fully agree some shuffling still needs to be acheived here... we just haven't conluded where to all.

But all sugestions will be noted! Thnaks for the input
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: TightFit74 on August 15, 2012, 02:27:52 AM: I can only speak for myself, but I value tthe input that is given here and in other posts.

To answer a few questions: we are not able to move threads around or determine the order of a section. How they are organised, is based on the date of the last reply. All the 'moved topic' threads can be removed after a while. Unsure of the time thart should pass before we do. Bumping all other topics is a solution, but more time consuming as removing the threads.

Some threads are not that easy to move, as they fall into several ideas. Adding more sections will make the homepage of the forum very long, the question is if we want that. The dev-team have announced to us they don't want too many sections. So within the sections that are there now, we will try to make a logical division.

Thanks for the feedback :)
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Rukya on August 15, 2012, 06:40:46 AM: pafe is right about the polls , they could be moved to the events section , like this they will save place in the first page of "share your creatives ideas" for more topics we can talk to .

After all , voting is a little event ;D

And the texture editing tutorial to the artist alley , as all the ones who will try to make clothes will post them there
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Bear on August 15, 2012, 09:46:10 AM: I agree.. and now that they have added Tight asnd I here... we can do some shifting. I'll forward your suggestions to the other Mods, and see if they all feel in accordance about moving the polls to the contests aong with the other suggestions.

There is another thread we have here looking for suggestions btw

http://www.funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/index.php/topic,1473.45/topicseen.html

worth bumping up if you see something worthy to comment on
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: TightFit74 on August 15, 2012, 12:40:27 PM: concerning the moved topics post everywhere on forum, taking up a lot of space on the pages, merging them into one topic should solve that problem. I'll give it a go in the erotic stories section and you can tell me what you think
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Pafe on August 15, 2012, 01:04:36 PM: Hiya's...

More food for thought.

I would keep the Polls with the Creative Ideas, keeping them under the "Discussions about AChat" category. That way they would all be together. What would be nice, but I don't know if you have the room for it, would be to have the Ideas compiled in a seperate topic, like it was before the poll began.

We would have our "Share your creative ideas" for my boudoir shoes, and scarves, rooms, etc., then have the Ideas collected into their own topic, then that could be changed to the poll when it is time to vote. Something like Keiko did earlier when we went from Ideas to Vote. According to Covems's research (which I agree with) that is probably the only category the Dev-Team is interested in.

If we're looking to conserve space (there is a limit that the Admins have set on the size of the Forum?), we could consolidate "Got any problems running AChat?" with "Slip of the pen (Report Bugs)". They're pretty much the same thing, only different. (http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs50/f/2009/332/e/0/think_happy_by_krissi001.png) I don't know if that's what they have in mind or not... just a suggestion.

We could also move the entire "Off Topic" category, with the quizz and off topic discussions to the new "Organizations & Events" Category or vise versa. That might save some space.

Again, I want to than you moderators for undertaking this, and restructuring the Forum. I love this place in the AChat world, and I love all you people that are here.

Thanks for letting me share,
Pafe

Edit: P.S. @Tight... I just checked out what you did in the Erotic Stories with the moved topics. Fantastic! It brought all the other topics back up.

My only suggestion for it would be to pin the "Find all moved topics" to the top of the page for a month or so, until we get used to the new layout. I know I used the "Moved" to find the NSPD thread, and there may be others like me out there who've take a bit of a hiatus from AChat.

Thanks for letting me share,
Pafe
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Bear on August 15, 2012, 02:44:59 PM: Movement notifications can be striped out at this point imo, we are pushing 3 weeks now and if someone isn't aware of the changes at this point, it is unlikely to matter further since they probably aren't posting anylonger.
I had anticipated a month... myself before remocing... reviewing what I had they were "dead" topics for the most part.

Right now I am of the opinion merging the personal ads and Introduce yourself into one catagory would save additional space.

DOing so would allow the polls to be added to this section.
The suggestion thread can be stickied onto this section without creating a new topic section. They are creative ideas imo.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: hentaiboy69 on August 15, 2012, 03:16:23 PM: I don't have more to add to what i had read here, just few words.

All that is linked to the forum and in game life MUST be discussed in this section and we can check two different things:

-Forum stuff:
all about the organization of the forum and its section

-Games suggestion and poll:
i think the name will say all: collecting idea for the game experience and poll for new poses, dress, accessories and similar!

Now, being a bit tired after a looong they of full vacancy on the mountain, i will stop here!

And Pafe.....whit this topic, you are back like a bomb on us! nice, my dear! ;D
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Rukya on August 15, 2012, 03:25:50 PM: welcome back hentai ;D
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Lover on August 17, 2012, 01:25:54 PM: Thanks to all for their opinion. This is exactly what we need cause we want this a great place to be.
The re-organizing has started and is not finished yet. But we need time and also some experiences with anything here to find the best solution. And at least, as Tight and Bear mentioned, we're a bit limited in our own possibilities. We need the support of the A-Team and their ideas and ours must fit together.
But every suggestion is one point on our "to-do-list" and will be discussed.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Rukya on August 25, 2012, 07:34:07 PM: maybe , as now its proved that dev team dont read some sections , maybe it will be better to erase the woman with woman section .

1 - They never read it

2 - they dont pay any attention to us

I know its a bad idea , but frankly , it will change nothing if this section stay or not
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: TightFit74 on August 28, 2012, 11:51:46 AM: A great idea Rukya, I think they should do that right away... (sarcasm ::))
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Rukya on August 28, 2012, 01:54:06 PM: i was serious , who read this section ? since 2 months 4 or 5 peoples seem to have read it : Bear , Hentai , Gothic girl and me ( + maybe another )

I know i like talk , but talk alone the major part of the time , lead nowhere
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: hentaiboy69 on August 28, 2012, 02:00:43 PM: Rukya, don't forget it was summer....give to all some other days to move back and i think things gonna be a little better
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: bluedenim on August 28, 2012, 02:31:07 PM: Rukya,

I follow your breadcrumbs everywhere!

But I do agree with you. I seem to most of the time.

xxxx
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Lover on August 28, 2012, 04:14:23 PM: Rukya, don't confound reading with writing.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Rukya on August 28, 2012, 10:55:42 PM: i think i'm not far to the reality lover :) look at this : http://www.funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/index.php/topic,1247.75.html

Do it seem interest peoples ? Only 5 voters , so no i dont think it interest peoples
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Delahz on August 28, 2012, 11:09:05 PM: Quote from: Rukya on August 28, 2012, 10:55:42 PM
i think i'm not far to the reality lover :) look at this : http://www.funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/index.php/topic,1247.75.html

Do it seem interest peoples ? Only 5 voters , so no i dont think it interest peoples

To be fair, I at least haven't voted there because I'm still waiting for any of the top results from the previous poll to be added. I keep an eye on things but mostly just waiting for updates.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: hentaiboy69 on August 29, 2012, 12:57:23 AM: Rukya, i don't think there is the need to tell you why i don't have put my vote there.......or maybe yes!? ;D

Anyway, my dear friend.......i can understand why you are so upset with dev-team, but you are not right when you say other users don't care of it. I swear you are absolutely wrong!
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Lover on August 29, 2012, 05:31:50 AM: Rukya, this is the problem. Much to less lesbian or bi woman are voting. I read and look but don't vote - I think I'm not the best to decide for you.

Just please don't attack everyone and every topic on your campaign against the A-Team. You have a lot of support here and many friends too. Don't hurt them... I know its not your attention but it can happen.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: chien_lubrik on August 29, 2012, 09:28:29 AM: I agree Both Lover and HentaiBoy Miss Rukya
I read lots of others ... orientation ... topics with interest, because it help me to know better peoples who are here, because I feel interested also into the Dreamworld's Forum's life.

But I hardly put a comment on Topics who are specifics to other orientations. I am not competent in it.
My even on my side's topics I usually put dumbs posts ... that would be worst on subjects I don't know about.

Anyway, I understand you Miss Rukya, posting alone or without feedback is really unfair; for, of course the heart of posting is to share ideas and feelings ... sharing something hardly be done alone :P

Also another subject : about your "campaign" for developping other than M/F poses.
I really understand you, that is really frustrating for who I may call " Minority" ( think the S/S/S Group Poses are only 6 ;D )
But I don't share your anger against the AChat's Gods . I still hope that they think about us ( I mean all kind of orientation minorities )
The economic contingencies of running such a site surely put the M/F Pose development on the top of the list, but still we sometime have some releases ( even the last one for us was a bit disappointing ) .

Well, if the AChat's Gods answers you ( that I cross my finger for it will happen ) that will be because of you ;D

Please accept my best humbly regards.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Rukya on August 29, 2012, 11:38:28 PM: Quote from: chien_lubrik on August 29, 2012, 09:28:29 AM

The economic contingencies of running such a site surely put the M/F Pose development on the top of the list, but still we sometime have some releases ( even the last one for us was a bit disappointing ) .

Well, if the AChat's Gods answers you ( that I cross my finger for it will happen ) that will be because of you ;D

Please accept my best humbly regards.
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the economic contingencies are not a good explanation . As i said in another post somewhere in the forum , all what we buy in the shop is paid with A$ . Its not real money and it give no more funds to dev team to do a pose . so what if its a MF pose who give them ZERO DOLLARS or a FF (or others) pose who give them ZERO DOLLAR . They use the money i pay for my premium membership to do the poses , so if they dont want do FF (or others) poses , they need to let us free to use the ones we have and do poses for MF only with MF money .
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: hentaiboy69 on August 30, 2012, 02:03:33 AM: Rukya, for sure the MF poses are the one they sell more often and this mean thei have their profit basically from hetero. but this is not an excuse for them!

they are back on work to hetero poses and forget about LGBT......a minority, maybe, but a tangible presence: i don't know what are they thinking for next release and project about AChat, but for sure this is a wrong direction for the users like you, Janine (where is she!?), Adera, Concerto.....and all the others! hope the dev-team.....no, not only the dev team but the full staff, gonna recognize they are going to lost a good amount of users if they continue on this road.

We all know there are others site like AChat and they offer ton of good entertainment, not only sex (sex is just one aspect of adult life!). yes, they have highest price, maybe some are full of bug, but for sure they can be interessing under different point of you!

AChat is good for its purpouse, but need to reach a good level for any orientation: please, AChat, stop releasing new poses for hetero and work for all the others! this is the request we all want to do to you all!
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Brandybee on September 03, 2012, 06:37:32 AM: I agree with you all.

Achat Gods, please go back to rotation releases. Concentrate on the FF, SS & MM pose releases please. Its getting to the stage, every time you release a MF pose now, you are strengthening the belief that you dont care about the minority members on here.

I am sure thats not true. But even I am starting to wonder after out pleas for more poses for them seem to be ignored.

We, as in MF, dont need more poses at the moment. Please let the other groups catch up now. We need to expand the game, improve it .. encourage new members... of all orientations.. not just MF ...

I dont know, .... if you arnt interested, cant you release the pose maps or something so these minority members can convert the poses themselves, like we have our own designer members for clothes.... someone must have that kind of expertise out there who would be willing to help, I am sure.

Just do something, ignoring this issue, really is not an option .. you are going to lose members through frustration and boredom otherwise.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Rukya on September 03, 2012, 07:18:40 AM: i'm not for do the same thing with poses than with clothes .

This will not made one pose for heteros , but two per week if designers are able to create new poses .

And anyway , i think its too late . 90 % of the peoples who are in my lover list ave not log since more than one month now .

I think dev team have yet lost interest for many and many lesbians , gays , and tg .

They are not Achats gods , but Achat devils
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: hentaiboy69 on September 03, 2012, 10:14:03 AM: Rukya, everyday, during summer, my friend list had get short too......not sure if this happend cause they leave AChat forever or just for summer vacation.

Here, we all agree with your feelings and some of us share them.......honestly, if i was you i will act the same, probably......the bad things is lost all the contact i have here now, so i will ponder the decision to leave veeeery well! and, at least, i hope you will stay even as free user.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Rukya on September 03, 2012, 11:34:29 AM: i will stay even as free member , but just in the forum . I dont see the interest to go in game and have only hmmm what are the basics poses ? ah yes :

1 - from behind
2 - cow girl

its little limited after more than on year of premium membership buying all poses , and clothes ( exept the 2 last months )
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Rukya on September 04, 2012, 12:45:09 AM: yesterday i visited another forum and saw an interessant option .

Its an option to go dirrectly at the bottom of a page ( if you are at the top ) and to go dirrectly to the top of a page ( if you are at the bottom)

this could be interesting to have this option here as the pages are sometimes really long ( Ex : the pages of the achat tattler , or the little concept art one )

What do you think of it ?
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: hentaiboy69 on September 04, 2012, 01:17:13 AM: Mmmmh, yes, it can help a lot, even in page of the B&G and Ice House....strange no one had think about it before!

Rukya, very well done! :-*
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Lover on September 04, 2012, 02:33:56 AM: Good idea :)
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Covems on September 04, 2012, 03:41:56 AM: Quote from: Rukya on September 04, 2012, 12:45:09 AM
yesterday i visited another forum and saw an interessant option .

Its an option to go dirrectly at the bottom of a page ( if you are at the top ) and to go dirrectly to the top of a page ( if you are at the bottom)

this could be interesting to have this option here as the pages are sometimes really long ( Ex : the pages of the achat tattler , or the little concept art one )

What do you think of it ?

Ummmm.... Errrrrrr... Ahhhhh... most of us already have that feature. For me it is on my keyboard. Two keys... one is marked "Home" that takes you to the top of the page... the other is under the home key and is marked "End". That takes me to the bottom of the page. I'm not sure how keyboards for different languages are set up, but I'm sure somewhere on your keyboard those two keys exist.

EDIT: Those functions will work on almost any program you are running, the AChat Forum, your text editor, even drawing programs or that racy online novel you're reading. Also, in your profile of the Forum you can change your setting in the Preference and Layout to have the latest post at the top of the page instead of the bottom. I had that set for a while, but changed it back to the default setting (latest post at the bottom) I get more of a surprise that way.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Brandybee on September 04, 2012, 05:42:15 AM: Its a fabulous idea Rukya.

Hey Covems, I got those keys and it worked !!! I learnt something new thats really useful . Big hug & Mwah xxx

Mine are little keys on the right side of the keyboard... Happy happy days ;D ;D
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Pookie77 on December 24, 2012, 09:17:44 AM: :)
I have a suggestion for the moderators, and anyone else for that matter: When you move a topic, or direct someone to a particular post, instead of just putting the url (clicking on it doesn't help), would you please put the actual location of it too?

Like this one for instance: Discussions about AChat / Share your creative ideas / Suggestions for the Forum / Pg.4 (which is where I found this)

I may cause some people to read interesting topics that are no longer active. I know I read some.

Thanks
:)
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Lover on December 24, 2012, 09:22:55 AM: Hello Pookie,

The function for active url is't active unfortunately.
Your idea is welcome and not just for us mods. Everyone here is able and allowed to give hints and links to other threads.

Merry Christmas :)
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: apollo13nut on December 29, 2012, 01:43:24 PM: I wonder if it would be possible to have a place on the forum to vent about things that happen, like people being rude or feeling that something has changed. Here's an example: I signed up in March 2010, and I still get on next to daily. I have paid for a 1 year membership 3 times. But now I am not sure I want to renew again in March...too many girls demanding A$, people are getting ruder; the atmosphere has changed dramatically since 2010 and I no longer feel welcome here. That may be a strange feeling, but still, it is how I feel; why pay for something you don't enjoy, right?
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: Lover on December 29, 2012, 04:23:37 PM: Hi apollo, welcome back!

You know we have some topics about that. I'm sure you mean one place which stays rather on top then several own threads which are lost by time.
The forum is never finished, it's always in change and we try to improve step by step.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: apollo13nut on December 29, 2012, 10:34:40 PM: Quote from: Lover on December 29, 2012, 04:23:37 PM
Hi apollo, welcome back!

You know we have some topics about that. I'm sure you mean one place which stays rather on top then several own threads which are lost by time.
The forum is never finished, it's always in change and we try to improve step by step.

Yeah, something like that or it's own category like "Discussions about sex" has sub divisions...maybe a "Rants and Raves" with sub divisions of atmosphere, people, and general, etc.
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: AusWoody on November 24, 2014, 08:43:31 AM: Be nice if there was a indicator top tell if the pm we send have been read???
Title: Re: Suggestions for the Forum
Post by: hentaiboy69 on November 24, 2014, 10:01:21 AM: Not a priority, but it can be a nice add, Woody! Usefull for us mods, I have to say!|