02-22-2018, 03:29 PM
Having just registered for the forum, I have made observations and have suggestions.
On the Register page, under Account Preferences there are tick boxes are for the same thing, with both saying Receive private messages from other users.
Having set these preferences at registration stage, I was unable to find a way of changing them once the account was active and I was logged in. I intuitively went to User CP which is on the drop-down menu available to the top-right of the screen, next to ‘Welcome’ followed by username.
Having looked at this page several times, and scratched my head, I noticed a small cog symbol just off to the left (pictured). On clicking this a list of options appears. Can this be made more obvious please? The reason for going to the page was to make changes, so why is another click needed to do that? Viewing this on a large computer screen, the symbol is tiny. Having the word ‘Settings’ by it would also help to draw attention to it – please make it more obvious.
Within Edit Options it is possible to change the date format. The default is mm-dd-yyyy, which is common in North America, whereas in the UK it is dd-mm-yyyy. One of the issues of reading things on the Internet is that websites don’t make it obvious which format is in use. So is 02-03-2018 meaning 2nd March 2018 or February 3rd 2018? It is obvious that the four digits at the end are the year, but which is month and which is day? Good practice would be to always have the month written, perhaps as three-letter abbreviation, e.g. Feb-02-2018 or 02-Mar-2018.
Can an option for 24 hour time be added, also?
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On the Register page, under Account Preferences there are tick boxes are for the same thing, with both saying Receive private messages from other users.
Having set these preferences at registration stage, I was unable to find a way of changing them once the account was active and I was logged in. I intuitively went to User CP which is on the drop-down menu available to the top-right of the screen, next to ‘Welcome’ followed by username.
Having looked at this page several times, and scratched my head, I noticed a small cog symbol just off to the left (pictured). On clicking this a list of options appears. Can this be made more obvious please? The reason for going to the page was to make changes, so why is another click needed to do that? Viewing this on a large computer screen, the symbol is tiny. Having the word ‘Settings’ by it would also help to draw attention to it – please make it more obvious.
Within Edit Options it is possible to change the date format. The default is mm-dd-yyyy, which is common in North America, whereas in the UK it is dd-mm-yyyy. One of the issues of reading things on the Internet is that websites don’t make it obvious which format is in use. So is 02-03-2018 meaning 2nd March 2018 or February 3rd 2018? It is obvious that the four digits at the end are the year, but which is month and which is day? Good practice would be to always have the month written, perhaps as three-letter abbreviation, e.g. Feb-02-2018 or 02-Mar-2018.
Can an option for 24 hour time be added, also?
Having pressed Preview Post the preview appears, but the subject title previously typed is missing, requiring it to be entered again.