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New feature on the forum! (thanks)
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Author:  admin [ 13 Sep 2017, 09:19 ]
Post subject:  New feature on the forum! (thanks)

Hi everyone,

I understand that the forum has been slowing down because, well, we already talked and discussed 99% of what could be said/explained on LD and LD Players over the years.

I can see that visitors are reading/searching the forum but less contributions these days, except maybe in the "technical questions" for Players starting to age and slowly breaking down.

There are, however, a LOT of good posts and great information laying deep in the old topics that would benefit from more exposure/indexing.
After considering several options, I decided to give "Thanks for Posts" a try: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/thanks_for_posts
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For now you can add a "thank you note" on a post linked to an active account (not yours obviously, this is not Facebook!) and when enough thanks are received, I'll be able to pull out a list of popular topics and posters (in quality, not in quantity or most recent posts).

If you bookmarked or liked an old post, don't hesitate to go like it to give him a chance to shine again for newcomers!

And if you want to enable notifications (PM or Email) when someone thanked you, you will have to update your User Profile here:

http://forum.lddb.com/ucp.php?i=prefs&mode=personal

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Julien

Author:  confederate [ 13 Sep 2017, 14:16 ]
Post subject:  Re: New feature on the forum! (thanks)

That's wonderful, Julien. Thank you ! I have always wanted to be able to thank people on this forum for their particular posts without having to write it.

Author:  admin [ 13 Sep 2017, 14:40 ]
Post subject:  Re: New feature on the forum! (thanks)

confederate wrote:
I have always wanted to able to thank people on this forum for their particular posts without having to write it.


Glad you like it!

I hope it will not be understood as something similar to a Facebook "Like", but as a tool to highlight significantly insightful/well argued/documented posts that are worth reading even years later. Some of Disclord's posts on the technicality of video/audio formats were really great!

Julien

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