General What are your top 3 best and worst (forum features)?

[Shawn Gossman]

Based on the forum software that you use...

What top 3 features are your favorite? Why are they your favorite?

What top 3 features are your least favorite or features you think are useless? Why do you think that about them?

I'm very interested in seeing what you all have to say here.

 

[CTS]

On first development, I canned tags and prefixes. To me it just adds clutter but I understand it has purpose in forums. Just not mine, yet. I also reduced the sidebar on forum home. I don't want every last link possible on the home page. I want it to be lighter weight and less cluttered. Yes, I hate clutter lol.

 

[Cloaked]

My favorite feature is new posts. I set my bookmarks to new posts for all the forums I visit frequently. Don't really have any others.

 

[Cory]

The features I admire on the Jcink forum software are webpages, the shop, and probably custom profile fields.

I don't believe I have any particular features I think are the "worse" or necessarily bad. I think most forum niches can find a use for some features that not everyone may use.

 

[Arantor]

Hmm. StoryBB is weird in that the features I admire most are so niche that you’d never see them elsewhere.

Most useful/valued: ability to create sub accounts with a bunch of avatars per sub account, ability to group a collection of threads together to form a timeline, ability to export that timeline as an e-book, and the automated “topics I need to reply to” list, Discord notifications

Least useful: unread posts (this is just not how people interact with content, there’s a lot of browsing by timeline, and a lot of revisiting timelines), email notifications and digests, alerts in general (we use Discord notifications infinitely more)

But we are hugely an outlier as a roleplay/collaborative writing group.