As an admin in a couple of groups, I've noticed several features that are missing that were very useful in the past. I'm hoping that some of these features will return in the future.
[u]Missing Features[/u]:
- Only one level of admin (Preferred options to turn on/off certain rights)
- No ability to lock threads! (This one is a HUGE issue for us.)
- Can't ban straight from the forum; have to go to members and then ban.
- Can't edit members' comments. UPDATE: This has been resolved!
- No search member feature
- Member titles!
- Articles/FAQs/Links pages
[u]Group Issues/Bugs[/u]:
- Missing threads - entire threads seem to have been purged from groups. UPDATE: This issue has been resolved.
- All admins but one demoted.
- Some groups have incorrect founder listed
- Banning members results in kicking them from the group! UPDATE: Only if they belong to more than 10 groups.
[u]Suggestions[/u]:
- Customize layout
-- Turn/on off nested replies
-- Ability to list posts chronologically in ascending order
-- Themes to change background colors, fonts.
- Private group post reporting/ report queue for moderators and admins
- Group forum tags: it's nice that we can tag threads in private groups; however, if those threads are not public, they appear to be useless. I would like to be able to see a list of group-specific tags.
- Ability to search [i]within[/i] groups!
- Badge system for members
- Ability for admins to tag members' threads. (Perhaps will come with ability to edit members' posts?)
- List of followers that are not current members
Other thoughts?
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I would like to remark that pinned topics from the old Bnet seem to be reappearing under the 'about' section for the group. Unfortunately, not having full admin privileges is preventing me from editing my posts there. At least they're somewhere, although the links to other threads don't work anymore, and I can't change them.