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Access to HW over HTTPS.

An "unsubscribe from this thread" button---not for threads that I've subscribed to, but for threads in forums I've subscribed to, so that I don't get notices about uninteresting threads in interesting forums.

A "Mark this forum and its subforums read" button.

An option to have forum post notifications and new topic notifications act like topic reply notifications, only preventing further notifications until my next visit or that topic, not the whole forum.

kingjon wrote:

[list][*]Access to HW over HTTPS.

In an ideal world, sure. But, we don't have a real reason to need HTTPS; we don't handle credit card data or anything, so SSL would just be pointless geek cred. Since we're donation-supported, we don't have the money to spend on that. (Unless you'd like to donate $75/year specifically for that purpose.

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Dieki Kondrael wrote:

kingjon wrote:

[list][*]Access to HW over HTTPS.

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Like I said, minor; the sole reason I put it on my list of things to suggest is that the "you're submitting a form in the clear!" warnings (which I leave enabled because of the occasional sneaky site) become ... tiresome. (But given the prevalence of people using one password for everything despite frequent warnings against it, there's good reason to encrypt all network transmissions we can.) On the gripping hand, though I was thinking more that a site like this wouldn't need to go to the expense of getting a "real" (CA-signed) certificate (yeah, $75/year matches my vague memories of what I think I heard one would cost ... sigh ...), when a self-signed one would do just as well.

Author:	kingjon [ September 9th, 2011, 12:43 pm ]
Post subject:	A handful of miscellaneous suggestions
Now that Q & A is doubling as a Suggestion Box, I present a few minor features it would be nice to see here: Access to HW over HTTPS. An "unsubscribe from this thread" button---not for threads that I've subscribed to, but for threads in forums I've subscribed to, so that I don't get notices about uninteresting threads in interesting forums. A "Mark this forum and its subforums read" button. An option to have forum post notifications and new topic notifications act like topic reply notifications, only preventing further notifications until my next visit or that topic, not the whole forum.

Author:	Elly [ September 9th, 2011, 1:10 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: A handful of miscellaneous suggestions
I think we need a "Mark as read/unread" private message button.

Author:	Dieki Kondrael [ September 9th, 2011, 8:39 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: A handful of miscellaneous suggestions
kingjon wrote: Access to HW over HTTPS. In an ideal world, sure. But, we don't have a real reason to need HTTPS; we don't handle credit card data or anything, so SSL would just be pointless geek cred. Since we're donation-supported, we don't have the money to spend on that. (Unless you'd like to donate $75/year specifically for that purpose. ) Quote: An "unsubscribe from this thread" button---not for threads that I've subscribed to, but for threads in forums I've subscribed to, so that I don't get notices about uninteresting threads in interesting forums. A "Mark this forum and its subforums read" button. While this might indeed be useful, I believe the way phpBB handles notifications and subforums makes it quite difficult, if not near-impossible. I'm not implementing it. (Maybe one of the other dev team members is interested?) Quote: An option to have forum post notifications and new topic notifications act like topic reply notifications, only preventing further notifications until my next visit or that topic, not the whole forum. Should be possible, I'll add it to my list.

Author:	kingjon [ September 9th, 2011, 9:02 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: A handful of miscellaneous suggestions
Dieki Kondrael wrote: kingjon wrote: [list][*]Access to HW over HTTPS. In an ideal world, sure. But, we don't have a real reason to need HTTPS; we don't handle credit card data or anything, so SSL would just be pointless geek cred. Since we're donation-supported, we don't have the money to spend on that. (Unless you'd like to donate $75/year specifically for that purpose. ) Like I said, minor; the sole reason I put it on my list of things to suggest is that the "you're submitting a form in the clear!" warnings (which I leave enabled because of the occasional sneaky site) become ... tiresome. (But given the prevalence of people using one password for everything despite frequent warnings against it, there's good reason to encrypt all network transmissions we can.) On the gripping hand, though I was thinking more that a site like this wouldn't need to go to the expense of getting a "real" (CA-signed) certificate (yeah, $75/year matches my vague memories of what I think I heard one would cost ... sigh ...), when a self-signed one would do just as well.

Author:	Whythawye [ September 10th, 2011, 3:44 am ]
Post subject:	Re: A handful of miscellaneous suggestions
HTTPS also makes the site run slower due to greater server latency. Our site is already struggling with speed issues. Mark as read buttons in the Inbox would be nice, yes.

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Author:	Dieki Kondrael [ September 10th, 2011, 6:13 am ]
Post subject:	Re: A handful of miscellaneous suggestions
kingjon wrote: Dieki Kondrael wrote: kingjon wrote: [list][*]Access to HW over HTTPS. In an ideal world, sure. But, we don't have a real reason to need HTTPS; we don't handle credit card data or anything, so SSL would just be pointless geek cred. Since we're donation-supported, we don't have the money to spend on that. (Unless you'd like to donate $75/year specifically for that purpose. ) Like I said, minor; the sole reason I put it on my list of things to suggest is that the "you're submitting a form in the clear!" warnings (which I leave enabled because of the occasional sneaky site) become ... tiresome. (But given the prevalence of people using one password for everything despite frequent warnings against it, there's good reason to encrypt all network transmissions we can.) On the gripping hand, though I was thinking more that a site like this wouldn't need to go to the expense of getting a "real" (CA-signed) certificate (yeah, $75/year matches my vague memories of what I think I heard one would cost ... sigh ...), when a self-signed one would do just as well. A self-signed one wouldn't add any security against MitM attacks; and if I recall correctly, it would give users a nasty warning, which is utterly unacceptable. It'd still cost us $30\year, too. As for the password reuse, that's not our responsibility.

Author:	Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ September 11th, 2011, 6:36 am ]
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Quote: An "unsubscribe from this thread" button---not for threads that I've subscribed to, but for threads in forums I've subscribed to, so that I don't get notices about uninteresting threads in interesting forums. A "Mark this forum and its subforums read" button. kingjon, these are both very, very annoying to me and things I'd really like to be fixed. Since Dieki can't, p'raps I'll take a look at them one of these days eru

Author:	Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ March 13th, 2012, 1:30 pm ]
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pokes self Suiauthon brought the 'Mark forum and subforums' button up, and mentioned it's implemented on Historical, so we'll see where that can go adds to todo list Andrew

Author:	Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ March 25th, 2012, 5:34 am ]
Post subject:	Re: A handful of miscellaneous suggestions
What Dieki and Jay says stands, excepting the 'Mark Posts and Subforums read' button which I hope to get up. Mods, this thread can be locked and archived Andrew

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