Hi everyone,

For those of you that don't know already I'm part of the team that will be maintaining (and hopefully improving upon) InsanelyMac.

We're eager to hear what suggestions you have for improving things around here, both on the forums and the homepage/news front. So if there's something that's been annoying you, or you can think of a really cool feature that you'd love to see, now is the time to let us know!

Any suggestions (unless completely ridiculous) are welcome!


-CF

This has been bugging me for a while. When replying to a post:

Safari:



Firefox:



As you can see, it works fine in Firefox, however, in Safari it doesn't look too good...

i agree SABR

and ColdFusion's avatar scares me

Yea that has looked like it could use some tweaking.

I think it would be cool to have an arcade, would it be possible to add the IPB Arcade mod? It would give members a place to blow off some steam.

http://mods.invisionize.com/db/index.php/f/7026

Hey ColdFusion , could you make more user friendly the "My controls part " thats one of the thing of the site that has never been change from the core.For new user sometimes can be confusing , in the last year i saw at least a hundred topics opened just to ask things like "how do i put a sign in there" or "how do i put a personal statement " .I hope you guys can work on this .Thanks.

Find a way to improve search

hack google and take their algorithm

Better search and put the important info from the forum to the wiki! This forum has became seriously bloated with info (and misinfo). Yes and i vote for a new avatar as well

-New Avatar
-Better Search
-On Site Games
-Better Wiki


Yup, this should make the forum better.

Do you guys really think having games on InsanelyMac would make it better? Don't get me wrong, I mean, each to his own opinion, etc... but, games?

Surely you could go to http://www.teagames.com if you want to play games. InsanelyMac/The OSx86 Project should stick to what it does best in my opinion.

i got nuthin

A few unique games might be fun. Like...

"Grand Theft Auto: Cupertino Edition"
"Maxxuss: The Awakening"
"Hardware Compatibility List Connect-the-dots"
"Where's Lisa?" (Instead of Waldo)
"The Sims: Jeans and Black Mock Turtleneck"

I'd play them.

ha, start working on them!

But you forgot one more:
9-11 was an Inside Job (Leopard for iHacks)

Maxxuss: The Awakening



Cant wait for this one to be out.

How about a 'last poster' tag on the bottom of messages in My last 10 posts. Then you can see if anyone has posted since you did ie

Forum: OSx86 Installation · Post Preview: #338425 · Replies: 1 · Views: 20 · Last post: A.N.Other

I mentioned this a long time ago:

Consider changing both. Does it in Firefox and Safari.


I second that

I'd like to see the following:

1) Being able to find all posts by each user, in chronological order (just like in most other forums).
2) Obvious Microsoft shills should be banned. Why should we tolerate them? This is a Mac forum.

Another theme, perhaps (not to replace the current, but to be able to choose in the bottom left corner)?

yeah and it would be nice if it was black

cause black themes save energy, and in some cases (not here) let you think different at the same time

OK...to be honest I am tired of the whole battle here. I just suggested another theme. I never said anything about NM, but you guys seem to keep bringing it up. I love both of the websites, but just because one of them allows you to put ANYTHING in your sig and one doesn't allow offensive material (which makes sense), doesn't mean one is a freer site than the other.



This happens to be a lie. Has anyone mentioned anything about not having free speech?



Is either one of these sites Congress? No. They can make whatever rules they please.

I am sorry for going off topic but I am entirely fed up with this.

Although another light colored, maybe red theme would be nice.

2 things I'd like to see here @ insanelymac;

1) Rammjet respond to my pms

2) Forums/Threads organized by hardware type for installation/support issues

1 forum for: SOUND, VIDEO, LAN, WIFI, etc.

Then 1 thread inside each forum based on type. Ultimately there are not much more than about 50 types of any of these that can run ANY osx86 installations.

I saw some improvements to organization here lately that were top notch. Nice job.

Also about black themes here @ insanleymac...i think they cost more just because...kinda like mbps...hehe...

Rammjet hasn't been active here for quite a while.

I have to agree with the hardware suggestion. Asking questions on this site has become a hit and miss situation. This is mainly because the categorising isn't detailed enough and so finding anything or getting anything answered is difficult.

What we need is something like:
OSx86 Installation: Upgrade, Clean install, Dual Booting, Kernal update, EBIOS Error, Kernal Error, ..
Post-Installation Discussion: - not sure here
Hardware: Audio, Graphics, Ethernet, Wifi, I/O,...

My actual ideas are pretty rubbish but I can't think right now and so just wanted to give a general idea.

I just think if we had more sub categories (but not too many) then it would be easier to find answers as you're now searching in a narrower area and so you're less likely to continue to feed this already bloated forum even more. If you do however need to ask questions, people who actually know are more likely to answer it as they are already in those categories.

By categorising further it also enables us to create more stickies overall without any one category looking overcrowded with stickies (which never looks great). Also we only need useful stickies with useful comments. None of this "great thread" and stupid questions posts because it's really just useless mess and all it does is make the sticky lose value and become meaningless (as no one wanted to go through 6 pages to end up reading just using 3 posts). If you want to ask a question it should be done on a related topic. Stickies ideally should just be for information. And so here the moderators need to be firm.

This site is great but it can be a lot better and I just would like to see it get there.

Maybe I overlooked but I can't find where you can see how much replies you must have written to get a specific rating. I mean the blue squares.

That first sentence is a bit wierd, isn't it?

Thanks

I want to see the ghetto, (you know what i mean). And the invite threads removed

so we should bann linux users too ...
c`mon we should shere our little knowledge to bring more and more people from win to x



R

I would like to see a few things changed:

1. Cleaner topics - now all the topics are full of obsolete posts of people asking silly questions like "when is this going to be complete", "how long", "what about my hackintosh" and so on.
2. Well organized topics - when a topic grows to a fourty pages somebody to take the efforts to summarize the useful information into the first post and remove the other pages so that people won't need to dig hundreds of pages for a simple answer. This will reduce spam as well because people won't need to ask something again and again in one topic just because they can't read it all.
3. Some action towards lazy users. Right now I saw a man in the "Post installation discussion" section asking why his Hackintosh can't sleep. What are those people thinking? That flooding the forum with sh!t is going to help them solve their problems???
4. Better forum structure - there's a lot that can be done about this.

I hope my suggestion is going to be useful.

The problem with most of those, Dellius, is that it depends on the users, and not the admins/moderators. The users cannot do all that, especially the malicious ones. I think the forum structure is fine, by the way.

I'm interested in your opinion on this. Besides the iPhone forum (which I am considering making a seperate forum, instead of a sub-forum), what else could be done to improve it?

- Sabr.

I know this may be a bit too much but I would have though we should have a new member class who are knowledgeable on OS X Installation and maybe Post-Installation who hang around those categories helping people out. I know a lot of the community do this already but it may help actually having designated helpers too. Speeds up replies to questions.

And Sabr the iPhone should have it's own category. Especially now that it's come out.

• Add a "View My Posts" link. (Beside "View New Posts" link.)
• Maybe also add a "View Unanswered Posts" link also.

i have one suggestion,to change group color of Donators ...
the red color of donators and admins are to similar ... [ex.] <---->

maybe to change it in some yellow/dark yellow or orange to be like their badge color ...


my 2 cents .



~R

I have just read this post.

I never said we should ban Windows users, I said we should ban Microsoft shills, which is very different

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shill

sorry,my mistake


welcome back



~R

Thanks

Love is in the air....

hello,
tnx for making such a useful forum. i have been lots of forums. i thought i was used to them.but,

this forum is the most confusing forum ever (for a non-english person) tutorials and help requests must be in sections i guess. or there are people asks questions in tut section and posting tuts in question section =P

anyways,

tnx for making this site. really

well,the is Tutorials (The Genius Bar) ,if you think on that ....





~R

i noticed a lot "Leopard leaked" threads ,at least 5-6 of them all over the Front Page and News forums .
can someone collect them and make one,or something like that .

sorry about double post .




~R

The Creativity thread/forum or whatever it is called is hidden by the Wallpapers and Icons thread/forum.

I always can't find it. I suggest putting Creativity first.

As a note, I overall do not like the new layout. Nothing seems to make logical sense. But that is just me.

Ok, well, tell me what doesn't make sense. We might be able to make it better with your help.

- Sabr.

What do you mean by it's hidden? There it is, right between Wallpapers and Thunderdome:



EDIT: Ok, well I'm glad I took that screenshot because it's been rearranged now. Personally I don't see the reason but makes no difference either way.

Not any more. I moved it up one.

You sly one

Well, first off. It looks a lot better and is way easier to find the Creativity Forum now. It was just shorter in length (the name) and hard to see browsing through.

I just do not understand how the Real Life and Laugh forums can be in separate heading or topics. They just seem they should be together.

Also, I do not see how the X Labs belong in the Insanely Mac Lounge topic. Isn't the X Labs were people go to find information and collaborate about drivers, fixes, and utilities.

Buying, Thoughts, Reviews, and Recommendations and then The Marketplace seem like they should be under the same topic.

If I was going to reorganize the Insanely Mac Forum it would be as follows (not particularly in order though):

Insanely Mac Lounge
Front Page News and Rumors
Reader News and Reviews
New Releases and Updates
Buying Thoughts, Reviews and Recommendations
The Marketplace
Website Invitation Exchange

OSX86 Project
Tutorials (The Genius Bar)
OSx86 Installation
Post-Installation Discussion
Hardware and Drivers
MultiBooting and Virtualization
The X Labs

Apple World (Do not like the name, but whatever)
(keep the same)

Other World (needs good name though)
Creativity
Wallpaper, Icons, Themes, and Skins
Mods and Overclocking
Internet, Networks, and Servers

Community Discussion (kind of like discuss and learn, except more general)
The Great Debates
Apple Opinions and Discussion
Windows Discussion
*nix

Fun
Laughs
Thunderdome
The Big Issues (Real Life)

Your Langauge (topic because it seems like a lot of people are from overseas)
Deutsch
Espanol
Francais
Italianio
Japanese
Pyccko
Portugues
Chinese

Now In My Honest Opinion, I think all of these topics could be separated into completely different pages of forums. You know like link tabs across the top of the page. Then you could reduce a number of subforums and have them on the main topic page, therefore, reducing the layers of pages to go through in order to find what you are looking for.

Now remember, that after saying all this, that I am an extremely organized, anal retentive, obsessive compulsive, could be on the border of crazy person. For example, I am going to reinstall every OS on every computer I own and then reorganize the entire network to be optimized for organization and productivity (according to me) this summer. My wife thinks I am nuts...

This all ^ is just merely my opinion and should be taken with a grain of salt...

I agree

I agree

I see where you're coming from but I think it's better where it is.

Not bad.

Like and dislike at the same time. This would most likely make the forum even longer which doesn't look good.

I agree

I want to see a decent search function on this site. Soon! I am not lame. Please don't treat me like I am with your useless site search function.