Community

Significant issues that need addressing:

• FIXED: Black text on white background. This may seem like a minor issue, but it becomes quite the strain on the eyes. Where I used to spend hours at the old boards, I can barely handle reading for more then a half hour or so. This appears to be a rather large issue for many people beyond just myself. A softer background would go a long way to aleviating this, even just a transition to an off white for now, and a more styalized look later (if you so wish... perhaps through additional skins)
• FireFox's Spellcheck doesn't work in combination with the text box for replies. As I'm sure you'll see, I am a very poor speller and rely heavily on firefox's spellcheck to make my posts look less ... inept. I am unsure if you can make the two compatible or incorporate a similar spellchecker into it as default. This problem is further complicated by HTML issues arising from copy/pasting from MS word into the text box (which is, in itself an issue (the workaround to which is to copy/paste into notepad first, then copy/paste from notepad to the text box, but thats unwieldly)).
• The navigation headers skip subforums, at least in the dnd boards. For example, when I open the dnd forums and go to D&D Fundamentals, at the top I have Clasic view > Dungeon's and Dragons > D&D Fundamentals. But if I then enter into 4E book Errata, I get Clasic view > Dungeon's and Dragons > 4E Book Errata... and D&D Fundamentals is no longer in the list to navigate back to. If I then enter Divine Power, I can't navigate back to ether D&D Fundamentals nor 4E Book Errata. In combination with the subforums being listed in a paragraph list rather then point form, this makes navigating through the subforums very clunky and uncomfortable.
• Better Subscription functionality/navigation needs to be implemented, or a similar to the old site alternative, as that was essential to many individuals ability to track threads they were involved in. As there is currently no ability to track both, my participation in a thread combined with notification of recent activity in those threads I've participated (the combination of both being in large part what made subscriptions so invaluable (the ability to keep track of old/dead posts that were useful and/or refferenced often being another large part)), it is currently time consuming and annoying to have to open every thread I've been involved in (via the feed in my profile... which is only for recent posts anyways, doesn't help if I thread I posted in 2 weeks ago gets a reply)
• Ability to see recent posts when replying to a thread. Not all posts need to be quoted, and those not quoted aren't visable when posting. Not being quoted is not the same as not being relevant, and oftentimes one needs to look back to confirm they are attributing the proper credit to other peoples ideas (as well as properly interpreting those ideas) while posting (IE, "as XXXX said, that particular YYYYYY isn't entirely needed, you could always ZZZZZZZZZZ instead")
• Wiki Functionality is simply a mess. I'm working on a wiki page here documenting my learning experience, and it's not going well at all.

Some minor issues (that may very well be user error on my part):

• FIXED: There should be a way to adjust ones signiture in the profile page (rather then in the much more obscured forum prefferences)
• FIXED (more or less. subscriptions are now available from profile, once subscription functionallity is improved, this will be great): Perhaps "My Favourites" could include quick links to desireable forums so if I generally go to D&D fundamentals, I can jump right there from my home page rather then having to click forums, then the dnd icon, then click D&D fundamentals.
• FIXED: Line spacing, it's current setting is a waste of space.
• When reading the forums, it is not erganomic to have the post interaction bottons (quote, edit, etc) at the top of the post, so one needs to scroll up in order to respond to a post one has read from top down.
• FIXED: Post preview does not display "quotation" box's (at least, it doesn't if there are multiple box's).
• Blogs editor doesn't recognize bullets. They will be seen in the preview, but upon actualy posting the bullets disappear.
• No indication of when or even if a post has been edited, allowing for confusions and revisionist history.
• The header link of a quote links to the individuals profile, it should link to the post being quoted.
• FIXED: The current Subscription options don't work between different forums (Group forums vs regular ones. (IE, if I'm in a group forum, select preferences > Subscriptions and click on a D&D thread in my list, I get a "Sorry, you cannot access this forum. Please go back." error)
• Reworded: Wiki has nothing in the user profile to keep track of wiki pages you've made (in the way you have a blogs page). The only way to keep track of pages you've created is to bookmark them externally, post a thread with a link to them or remember their name and do a manual search for them. not practical. Perhaps an ability to add wiki pages to your profiles "favourites".
• FIXED: When viewing a forums index, there is no method of skipping to a specific page of that thread.
• When posting a link and choosing the option to make my links open in a new window, they don't, instead opening in the same page/tab.
• There is no means to search for threads that an individual (including yourself) has participated in, without getting a by post result. IE, if I've posted 20 replies in one thread and 15 in another, those two threads alone will return 35 results on a search rather then simply 2. This (along with "threads started by") used to be a standard option within peoples user profiles, now doesn't exist in any form.
• FIXED?(I don't get many PM's, but seems fixed): New Mail icon is not immediately removed upon reading all new mail. In fact, i appears to only toggle when a new message is received.
• The Blog section has pannels with pre-set search results in them (such as staff blogs and features. However, if you click on the titles, whicb are presented as links, the page loads to the general blogs page (which you were already in to click the link anyways) rather then to a result page digging deeper into the subject. IE, if I see the staff blogs pannel and I want to see more then the 4 blogs presented, I should be able to click the "Staff Blogs" title to get an auto-search with staff blog results.
• Fixed: URLs pasted directly into the text editor (rather then using the link tool) get truncated, and if edited or previewed, will break.
• Fixed: A redirect to the featured page the first time you come to the site each time you open  browser is very annoying.
• No way to search for threads, all results are in the form of posts IE, If I want to search for the wizards handbook thread, I get results from every post that even mentions the wizard handbook, such as 5 posts from the Brainstorming: Ways to get the Thunder keyword on powers