Nairaland is undoubtedly the biggest online forum in Nigeria if not the whole of Africa, but i thin it's high time they upgrade cos they lack some basic forum features.Some of this features are:
(1) You cannot quote someone's post if the person's post is not in the last page, so i feel every post made should have a quote button.
(2) I think every post should come with the picture of the poster.
(3) I think we should be able to code little it with HTML

afam4eva:

(2) I think every post should come with the  picture of the poster.

Rubbish!

Why should people's post come with pictures and why must we go through every thread peppered with forumites pixes?!

No disrespect but i think it is a senseless suggestion!

MrCrackles:


Rubbish!

Why should people's post come with pictures and why must we go through every thread peppered with forumites pixes?!

No disrespect but i think it is a senseless suggestion!

It's optional for the poster though

Recent versions of SMF have afam's version so perhaps, he is used to it. It's not a rubbish idea.

I believe seun knows all that. Nairaland is big and would require someone on the smf team to do the upgrade.

In other words, i wont advise him to upgrade it by himself.
The versions that came after this one are many.
Trying to upgrade to the latest versions ,
Say v1.1.8 or 2.0 which is still in beta can destroy many things.

But then i dont see this forum running on this version forever.

Some guys in SMF team can upgrade it but they may ask for a little dough

Just check www.alabiforum.com to see what i'm talking about

afam4eva:

Just check www.alabiforum.com to see what i'm talking about

the forum is also running on version 1.1.7 outdated.

plus i wonder why the owner allowed bots to register. These spam bots just occupy spaces and nothing good.

a lot of mods that prevents spams are available in smf website.
or he can go to registration.php and stop them himself

I made a lot of changes to the version of SMF I started with, and I would need to reapply the changes. That's very labor-intensive, and the benefits are not clear. The database schema is still horribly denormalized, and the new anti-spam tools are not sufficient to prevent the kind of spam we experience on Nairaland. I don't want to upgrade to a newer version of SMF; I want to upgrade to something completely fresh and improved.

Seun:

I made a lot of changes to the version of SMF I started with, and I would need to reapply the changes. That's very labor-intensive, and the benefits are not clear. The database schema is still horribly denormalized, and the new anti-spam tools are not sufficient to prevent[b] the kind of spam we experience on Nairaland[/b]. I don't want to upgrade to a newer version of SMF; I want to upgrade to something completely fresh and improved.

Na wa o!

     (1) You cannot quote someone's post if the person's post is not in the last page, so i feel every post made should have a quote button.

I removed it.

     (2) I think every post should come with the  picture of the poster.

I removed it too.

     (3) I think we should be able to code little it with HTML

The above features are not compelling reasons to upgrade, since I was the one who removed them

(1) You cannot quote someone's post if the person's post is not in the last page, so i feel every post made should have a quote button.
I removed it.

Reason?

NL is the only site that doesnt have a quote button on each post. What's the cause?

i also have a problem with point 1. Its frustrating especially on threads where people make long long posts . . . you may not even be able to quote even if its on the last page.

Um can we get the modify button back?

DeReloaded:

Um can we get the modify button back?

SECONDED

Do you want spam with that? (the button was removed temporarily to combat spam)

removing modify button doesnt combat spam. How does modifying a post lead to spamming? If a person intends on spamming they will do so with the inital post, not as an afterthought.

Removing spam is the job of the mods./admin. Others hsouldnt have to suffer for it

You don't know the details, so stop yacking.