I labored over where to post this. I figured it was worthy of its own thread (rather than an add-on in the "Forum Navigation" thread)...but didn't want to put it in the "Suggestion Box" sub-forum because I don't want to divert any attention away from the very specific threads over in that section.
I tried my best to organize them into categories. A caveat: Some of the suggestions I just copied/pasted into the list because I couldn't re-word them as I didn't always understand them.
Also, some of the suggestions--of forum functionality I don't use--might have already been dealt with by the Huddler staff. Forgive me if that's true. Thanks!
FORUM NAVIGATION!:
Add bread crumbs to bottom of page.
Consider return of drop-down menu.
ADD Forum Navigation to Home Page, PM page, Search Page & Wiki Page, etc.
Include a link to the HOME page in the Forum Navigation system. I could have sworn it was there recently. Now there’s just a link to the Main Index page.
Uniformity of format across board. One example, there are different styles of presenting thread listings on home page vs. sub-forum index page. Home page doesn’t list thread start date stamp, etc. The pages just look different from each other.
Consistency on button placement. Example: Advanced Search “Reset” is in lower right instead of “Search.”
And, in the places where various threads are spotlighted (for example: the floating box and the "Recent Discussions" listing at the bottom of every page), there is no indication of what forum that thread is located in. Unfortunately, thread titles are often not as descriptive as they should be.
Return of Post #xxx of #yyy Also important is to know how many posts are in a thread when you are reading that thread. Please put back the feature in the upper-right-hand corner of each post that would simply say you were reading Post "#56 of 64." This lets you know how many more posts are ahead...especially useful at a page break.
Spoilers: Change it so you can’t read their content in preview text.
Smilies: More smilies.
Ease of access to smilies.
Allow smilies to appear from text.
Signatures: Return of Sig pix!
Be able to edit signatures with font colors, size, smilies.
Avatar Pix: Increase their size. Many are currently illegible because they are so small.
Consider making them 16:9 (more “HT”-like). There’s lot of space in those boxes!
Home page:
Please bring back the option to select "Favorite Threads." These would be threads to which people regularly posted or would often refer other members. They were displayed at the bottom of the User Control Panel page for quick access. Maybe they could be added to the Home Page.
On Home Page, instead of ten pages of ten threads (opened ten at a time with the “MORE” button), how about only showing those subscribed threads with new posts in them. Got 20, see 20. Got two, see two. Got none, see “No new posts at this time.”
Main Forum Index Page:
Customizability of Main Forum Index Page. Make it possible to re-organize sub-forum listing so favorites are at the top.
Allow for only certain forums to be visible on the Main Forum Index Page
Search: “Search Thread” functionality.
Make the Search box accept a mouse click along the full length.
Private Messages:
Make it easier to send a PM. Way too many steps now. 1.) Click on “x new messages”, Compose, type in member’s name, exter text, submit…or, 2.) Click on member’s name, go to profile page, “send PM, etc.
Please return the flashing envelope that used to greet us when we had a new PM. So far I don't think I have missed any...but it's kind of comforting to have a blinking reminder...much like the blinking number on an answering machine to let you know you've got messages.
Clicking sometimes takes you to first post, other times takes you to reply box. NEVER takes you to the new PM. (I might have a solution for this and the request by some to return auto-addition of the prior PM to any new PM. Simply reverse the order PMs are listed on the page to place the most recent PM in a thread on top rather than at the bottom. This was the way it used to be in v-bulletin.)
Would be nice to see if person you are PMing with is on-line.
We need a Preview function for PMs, similar to the "Preview" function for posts. The old software had it, and I always found it useful for reading over a message before I sent it.
Auto addition of the previous PM in a reply.
In the lower right-hand corner of the PM box are two buttons: "Send" on the left and "Clear" on the right. It should be the other way around.
Formatting:
Better use of white space on right-hand side of HTF pages. Be able to expand page under advertising, etc.?
Increased font size for thread titles (as listed on the forum pages, not inside the threads themselves)
Increase vertical size of Reply window. (Honestly, this is very limiting when I am creating each week’s new Weekly RoundUp. An image can fill up the entire box—and then some.) Where did “Advanced Reply” go?
Return of shortcut keys: <alt>S to submit a post (also send a PM) , <alt>X to go to advanced edit mode, <alt>P to preview a post or PM
Return of smilies-on-the-fly. :D, :), :tu:, etc.
Offset the text in clickable links to make it stand out more from regular text.
Quote tool includes blank lines where the quotations would have been in the newly quoted post. These must then be manually deleted. I suggest the Quote tool shouldn't include these extraneous blank lines.
Number of requests for improved post editing/code.
Selectable skins.
New WAP skins.
Multi-Quote:
- Under the old software, whenever you used the multi-quote feature, the final "quote" would always be placed at the TOP of the list of all quotes. This prevented a fair amount of re-ordering when the various quotes would appear in the reply box.
- I wish the multi-quote would automatically arrange the quoted posts from oldest on top to newest on bottom. I can't think of a situation where I'd want to reply differently than the original posted order.
Missing Stuff:
Return of Good Trader functionality. We’ve now been the better part of a year without being able to give credit where credit is due. If this is not coming soon, I would be willing to preside over a GTL 4. Does Feedback info still exist?
Return to old Member’s HT List.
The old software had an option to select "Forum Leaders" and get a list of all the administrators, moderators, owners and to see who was on-line, which areas they moderated, etc.
The old software also had a member search option...which would not only allow you to seek out a particular member but also sort members by way of post count, alphabetical, ascending/descending, etc.
Bring back sticky threads. Not just for administrator use. Members also used to be able to sticky our own threads in a forum.
Unwanted New Stuff:
Eliminate rating of posts.
Subscriptions:
Improve the method of managing subscriptions.
Current usability problems are: 1) The edit interface is slow to load. 2) The list defaults to alphabetical by thread title.
Send thread subscription emails as plain text + links. The current formatting makes them unreadable on the iPhone and unpleasant to read on a computer.
All New Posts: I'd like to see the return of an option to exclude entire forums so they don't show when you click the "all new posts" button.
Odds & Ends:
It looks like wiki articles and threads can be reported to an admin for inappropriateness, but not gear reviews.
A Thread Lock icon is needed.
Hope the Huddler team can get to at least some of these, particularly the bigger issues, in the near future.
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We are trying to tackle a few at a time as other projects are underway. 
