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Which of the following would be our best approach in your opinion?

Move the entire forums over to another platform
Leave DDF functionality & platform as is, but refresh the design
Leave DDF as is besides for product deals etc
Leave DDF functionality & platform as is

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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #140 on: July 09, 2020, 10:14:00 AM »
200 different Steve Jobses with all different requests :D
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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #141 on: July 09, 2020, 10:17:12 AM »
I think having polls on top yields a higher voter turnout rate vs mixed in to random posts.
But why can't that be an option of the poster?

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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #142 on: July 09, 2020, 10:18:35 AM »
But why can't that be an option of the poster?
Or show it in both
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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #143 on: July 09, 2020, 10:21:14 AM »
Or show it in both
Very cool if that could be done automatically
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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #144 on: July 09, 2020, 10:21:48 AM »
Very cool if that could be done automatically
Sure Mr. Jobs.

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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #145 on: July 09, 2020, 10:24:19 AM »
Sure Mr. Jobs.

"Siri, make it happen automatically."
Nu it needs to look pretty too
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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #146 on: July 09, 2020, 04:11:04 PM »
I love the add image function! Awesome!!!

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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #147 on: July 10, 2020, 03:58:16 AM »

Theoretically, how many of you would be OK with having 2 different sites (as is now) & 2 different personas?
Say we moved the deal section to DDMS, would you be OK not getting stats & credits for posts that you published on DDMS (meaning it would not sync with your DDF account)?

https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=72249.0

Apparently you've tried this before ...

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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #148 on: July 10, 2020, 04:09:35 AM »
https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=72249.0

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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #149 on: July 10, 2020, 10:01:29 AM »
I don't care about post count, but if we lose our 'join date', I'm out.

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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #150 on: July 21, 2020, 11:15:32 AM »
I love the current platform. Less is more.

Here's what I see can use a little fix.

Often times, side chatter opens up in a given topic which is clearly off topic. There should be a way to somehow indent those side conversations, so that it doesnt detract from the flow of the forum. Perhaps by indenting , or having a different background.

Take for instance this thread. Forum Game: Where have you been that none of the rest of us have?
There is a nice conversation going back and forth discussing places where people have/have not been to. Then somebody chime in about descriptive usernames. then I reply, and we can go off on a whole discussion about passwords. Dont get me wrong, i have no problem with that, but i think that if these side conversations would be set-off in a different way, it would make DDF more readable. I imagine that this shouldn't be too hard to accomplish even with the current format.
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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #151 on: July 21, 2020, 11:53:04 AM »
Here's what I see can use a little fix.

Often times, side chatter opens up in a given topic which is clearly off topic. There should be a way to somehow indent those side conversations, so that it doesnt detract from the flow of the forum. Perhaps by indenting , or having a different background.

Take for instance this thread. Forum Game: Where have you been that none of the rest of us have?
There is a nice conversation going back and forth discussing places where people have/have not been to. Then somebody chime in about descriptive usernames. then I reply, and we can go off on a whole discussion about passwords. Dont get me wrong, i have no problem with that, but i think that if these side conversations would be set-off in a different way, it would make DDF more readable. I imagine that this shouldn't be too hard to accomplish even with the current format.

What you're essentially proposing is just a full DDF redesign, while keeping the 0.0002% of on-topic posts as they are.
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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #152 on: July 21, 2020, 12:05:44 PM »
A system to only see the posts that are well liked/up voted in a thread, so that you can filter out the helpful posts would be good.

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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #153 on: July 21, 2020, 12:34:21 PM »
A system to only see the posts that are well liked/up voted in a thread, so that you can filter out the helpful posts would be good.
Although it's hard to see how the thread maintains the "context" when reading only those posts.

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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #155 on: September 09, 2020, 12:14:56 AM »
While we're at it, why don't we build a system that tracks Amazon and automatically posts deals that drop a certain percentage? (I'm 92 percent joking, 8 percent serious)
I've already started working on that but it looked like there wouldn't be much interest.

How many of y'all want this feature?
i have a sneaking suspicion that there will be 1000's, if not 10's of 1000's, of deals posted every day with such a algorithm. of course most of them overpriced items becoming less overpriced.

though i still would love to see such a feature as i think it would be cool to see the results. (and it would be helpfull to somone with time on their hands.... :-X :P)

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Re: New DDF Forums
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« Reply #157 on: September 25, 2020, 01:33:27 AM »
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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #158 on: September 25, 2020, 08:42:07 AM »
https://www.xda-developers.com/big-changes-to-xda-forums-are-coming-soon/

Some insightful comments as well.
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Re: New DDF Forums
« Reply #159 on: September 29, 2020, 09:34:36 AM »
Thanks, still reading the comments :-)
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