It's on the list, we'll be moving to new fourm software in the early part of next year (i'm not fixed on a date yet) which will have this functionality included along with a host of others but it's going to take a lot of time to get the database sorted out. If there are any good DBA's out there who would like to lend a hand I very much need the help, at the moment i'm fully engaged in dragging the site kicking and screaming into the world of xHTML and cleaning up the old dreamweavered to death code.

I should add that i've created a kind of mini-profile at the top of each post which goes some way towards this feature.

I'm not sure about sigs - but i'll have a think about it!

Any other suggestions?

I echo Miruvor.

Grep, I am not a DBA, but I can help you with testing the site. You won't have to test it on this live site that way...

About the signatures... I have seen a lot of other forums looking really bad due to peoples' signatures. I don't really like them. People put up some idiotic, big and ugly signatures..

i dnt really like sigs they take too much space and im glad that u like the idea although it was already in here! i do like the idea of ratings though i dnt know what they would be for for but ok!

Oh yes, CoE has got signatures and they look okay, only some people put too many pictures in it. I don't like or hate signatures, I only think they are unnecessary. We already have our Avatars, don't we?

they do indeed, most happy on that score - yet only 10 new people have added avatars and hardly anyone has changed their race. I thought these would be popular things?

We've been talking in Council about making istari rather than wizzards, and also having Valar, Kings, Dark Queens, He Who Must Not Be Named but them being vastly more expensive than a normal change, like say 2500 mithril, otherwise everyone would be one [checks the DB] you'd be able to afford it!

Hey I changed my location! I'm from Beleriand now! Yay! Currently living in Nargothrond, to be exact.

Woo hoo! I get to be from Mirkwood, which is where I have always wanted to be from.

Hey . Im now an EAGLE from the mountain , nice ?Thanks GREP for letting us change

Ama, you've got more Mithril than anyone else on the site apart from me (having access to the db i have an unlimited supply). You can afford to move anywhere and keep moving almost every day for a year and you'd still have loads of mithril left!

i like the idea of the Spider id never think of that. i havnt seen any Nazgul anywhere, people must be too good round these parts! My second choice would be to go The grey Haven s and then an Eagle!
I love my place Lothlorien it goes with my name: Lothlorien's Lossehelin!

Aaw well how kind of you to think of her that way Greppy haha, i know dat people have been asking this but are you going to put in the Istari race because i have been telling ppeople about PT and they asked me if they could be Wizards or the Istari. Just a query not anything urgent haha

Bingo! Make use of that Mithril feature! Exactly what I had in mind. And oh, stop giving it away on a platter everyday! Make people earn it!

Anyway, Nazgul? Did you say Nazgul? I gotta be one!

/me loves the Witch-King of Angmar!!

I searched for a search feature, but didn't find one.

Oh, that thing. Got it. Thought it consisted of an in-forum search function instead.

I hope that new forum isn't based on phpBB or invision... I've got sick of watching those all over the internet!

itz kinda drifting from the topic. just wondering Grep, is there going to be a profile for members section to PT to show who people are.

as our happy family has grown alot, i think that we should kinda get to know people better as in their real name and where the are from and a little bit about themselves, then we would be a more tight knit community if we knew at least one or two things about the people that we do not know that much about. This could be accessed through the members list or something (if it'spossible) i think that it would help us become a more efficient community what do you think Grep

The use of nicknames is to provide our members, especially our younger members with anonymity so perverts can't get to them. For the same reason people should never give out their telephone numbers or their home addresses in any forum. We can't guarantee who anyone is, or who they say they are, nor can you.

I just became a Nazgul so Vee can't have such drastic power over me. Being a man and trying to stand up to Vee was rough work!

My two cents: Avatars are great, but I don't really want one. Well, I might, if I was a good enough artist to design one "that truly reflected [my] mood." I LIKE sigs, because they can be completely personalized; I see no reason to allow pictures in them (that's what AVATARS are for, right?) and I think if it was limited to one or two lines (I prefer the latter Grondy, but that's just me.) It seems like it wouldn't get out of hand. Provided the site was set up such that two lines isn't just a requested suggestion, but a hard and fast rule. wotmania has a 255 character limit (html doesn't count, but proscribing it seems wise to me.) You'd be surprised how fast you hit that limit; I have two lines, plus a link, and I had to do some creative editing just to fit that. Two lines seems a nice compromise, but I could live with one if I had to do so. For those of us who are elliterate and on dialup though a graphic Avatar is just more trouble than it's worth.

And I happen to LIKE Invision -- a LOT! I'm only on one forum that uses it, and I constantly miss being able to click my name (or anyone elses) and go straight to a list of their posts/threads. And having subforums that bump the most recent posts in them to the top, rather than just the most recent ones on the forum. I'm sure everyone remembers occasions when new members or those that have been gone awhile showed up and ran through all the old threads; net result, a list of hot topics from one or two threads and you can look around for others. Admittedly this is less of a problem now you can just get a list of the hot topics in the main screen, but still. Just don't use wotmanias interface; I love 'em to death, but having to click on every... single... post... to read them all is murder when you're in the dialup stone age.

Oh, and is there a way to run the buttons for page numbers across the top of the page instead of the bottom? I have to wait for the whole first page of a thread to load now before I can skip the posts from "1970" I've read a dozen times and go to the last page with the new ones. That's merely an annoying inconvenience though; what I really miss is being able to stal-- er, click on people I know are cool and smart and find all their recent contributions without having to search the whole board. ;-p Stalking myself is a great time saver for finding the threads in which I'm active, and that gives me lots more time to find new ones to spam. ;-p

Really, I'm surprised and disappointed in you, Grep. Why aren't you perfect?!!! (A winking raspberry smiley would be good, too, someday; I need one about a dozen times a day.)

Edit: OK, I hit the home page and my profile: I still don't see a search button; am I just blind? I don't see Gondolin either, so I guess I'll stay in Lothlorien hording my Precious Mithril Pieces. It's not a bad place at all, though the next blonde Sindar I see gets a clothyard shaft through his temples. ;-p

Two lines were nice with no blank lines in between. Our rule also said 'only our bold, italic, and underlined text was allowed for signatures, no html or urls'; and the next person added a multi-colored signature in addition to a url. Give 'em an inch ...

I would show you the link but i dont know it, theres a thread i made asking for the words to get them, go to Website Help then to Smilies!!!!!

Thank you Grep for sorting my problem out!!!!!

Invision is good but from the coders view... I don't like it.

I think a need a new avatar because as a Nazgul, I shouldn't look like a man in the rain.

I think I know where to get just the thing...

Right now I'm actually more interested in the ad I just saw at the bottom:


So, lemme see if I understand: I can BUY Galadriel at a low low price? Is there a volume discount, say, if I want Idril Celebrindal, too? ;-p

Oh, yeah, and I can understand why programmers might not like a platform because of code, especially one with the functionality of Invision; it must be a nightmare to keep straight. But I thought ya'll LIKED that kind of stuff? Oh, well. I guess I won't demand my money back. ;-p

As to search, while I don't have a button, I DID stumble across the link in Eruwens Psych thread, so I'm good, and others should be able to use that, too, at least until there's a button for everyone. Assuming I actually did something write with html, here's the link to the smiley page:
Smileys

And here's the search link (thank you, Amarie: )
Search PT

Note that link was provided (as I'm sure Grondy recalls) by Amarie: another CM. It's a plot, I'm telling you! ;-p