I wanted to start a thread of my own here (hopefully the staff is ok with that), for site suggestions.
#1. In our personal profile, their sections for IM contact information, if possible, please add the GMail/Google IM as that is the main one I use these days. I only put my Aim in there since you can use Aim from the GMail IM which is great since I am not a big fan of the excessively liberal AOL folks.
#2. If possible, please make it so that we can save our writing preferences and don't have to adjust it each time we start writing again. For example, I prefer the blue colored font. By the way, I also prefer bold too but you guys probably don't want me writing in bold as the norm correct?
#3. If possible, please add Lucida Calligraphy font or one similar to it.
#4. In the past I had used my milbucks to purchase some stuff here and I am not seeing it anywhere. A thief broke in I guess during my absence and cleaned me out. Can the staff fix that for me?
#5. Can we change our username? I'd like to be able to.

More to follow as I think of them

#1-#3 You'll see quite a lot of changes/improvements in here when I get time to upgrade to the latest version of vbulletin.

#4 Taken care of, check your mail.

#5 Yes, but that costs Milbucks. or you can PM me of you have a very good reason to change your name and I can do it for you

Thank you Redleg, your an awesome babysitter even though your not as pretty as the one I used to have.

#6. I prefer military time. Anyway you could also make the times on the forum show military time instead of the a.m., p.m. crap?

#7. In the MilChat, if possible, show how many users are inside without having to go into chat.

#6 Hm, I really haven't thought about that before but it seems like a good idea so I've changed it now.
#7 The Milchat isn't used very much, and it will be changed into a better one later this summer so I don't bother to do much with it right now.

Originally Posted by Redleg

#6 Hm, I really haven't thought about that before but it seems like a good idea so I've changed it now.

Is that an overall change or an option?

#8. In our profiles, the space that is there to put stuff about our background, if possible, I think it would be wise to increase the amount of writing we can put in there. I wasn't going to put everything but what I was going to put in some the spaces wouldn't fit, so I just put very basic stuff or even in one section, I just wrote numerous.



RedLeg:
Thank you very much for #4, #5 and #6!

Originally Posted by The Other Guy

Is that an overall change or an option?

Overall change.


And to AikiRooster: I'm not going to do anything about the profile fields until we move over to vBulletin 3.7.0 since we're getting a "brand new" profile style and many new options then..

10-4 RedLeg, Thank you.

Any ball park guess as to when the change over is going down?

#9. I have tried things from the store that I had to spend milbucks on in the past, didn't like it and immediately got rid of it, when I get rid of it, the milbucks were not returned. At the very least, can an example be displayed of what the feature will do if we purchase? Sorry for the child proof issue but if it didn't negatively effect me I wouldn't be belly aching.

#10. Sorry for the double post but this thread and every once in awhile some others I've posted in no longer show me an edit button for me to edit a previous post. (After posting this, edit button is showing for this post but not the others in the thread so maybe if a certain amount of time goes by the edit button is no longer available for a particular post).

#11. Items in the Gear box, if possible, would be nice if we could hover over them with the pointer like we can with the national colors and than the pop up indicating what it is was there. Most helpful in the gear box with some of the unfamiliar items as currently we have to go to the PX to look up certain items if we want to know what they are.

#10 it's not possible to edit own posts after 7 days, to prevent members from messing up old threads if they get angry (for some reason), or to prevent prevent fakers to delete "evidence" after they've been busted (both have happened on more than one occasion in here before..)

#11 I had added that before, but I may have forgot to change the code after a previous forum upgrade so I'll add it again soon.
It's also possible to click the "gear" text above the gear to get more info.