View Poll Results: What are the most important ways we can improve FT? (choose as many as apply)

Add a "Like" button

117

39.39%

Make Wikiposts available on mobile

31.65%

Make it easier to post photos

113

38.05%

Better search function

188

63.30%

Better mobile experience

115

38.72%

Fix the ads/make pages load faster

29.97%

Fix technical issues more quickly

9.43%

Keyword alerts (when username/keyword is mentioned in a post, you get an alert)

17.51%

OTHER (respond in suggestions thread below)

9.76%

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Aug 11, 2016, 7:57 pm

IBobi

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Poll: What are the most important ways we can improve FT? (choose as many as apply)

Hi all,

A short time ago we opened a "If I ran FT..." thread and asked for your answers.

This poll is the result. The choices represent the most-mentioned suggestions, and you're encouraged to select whichever ones are most important to you.

Note that comments from that thread regarding moderation are not present here, as this is meant to guide our technical staff. If you choose "other," please do not comment on moderation, as this exercise does not concern that aspect of the site.

Thank you,

-The IB FlyerTalk Team

Aug 11, 2016, 8:29 pm

segacs

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Maybe automatic glossary tooltips for the most commonly used acronyms? Would make it more newbie-friendly to get through all the jargon.

I've been on other forums where this happens automatically anytime someone posts a recognized acronym. I know the feature exists in many forum software packages. Could it be done here?

Aug 11, 2016, 8:59 pm

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Can I vote against the "like" button?

Aug 12, 2016, 3:21 am

milesracer

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Please get rid of all the commercial ads. Extremely annoying for all the serious members of this community. I do not want to be confronted with stupid ads on this specialized site too. It's bad enough ads are all over the internet already.

Aug 12, 2016, 4:37 am

RTW1

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mahasamatman

Can I vote against the "like" button?

Same here....

Aug 12, 2016, 5:02 am

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So....are the suggestions from that thread that did deal with non-technical issues being addressed elsewhere/later? ignored? something else? IB asked for our inputs and it seems like a courteous thing to tell us the disposition of those inputs. If not, I'm not sure why I'd bother responding to future requests for inputs and suggestions.

Last edited by 84fiero; Aug 12, 2016 at 12:01 pm Reason: generalized question

Aug 12, 2016, 7:18 am

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Make it possible to load an entire thread, so you can read it without having to go from page to page.

Aug 12, 2016, 7:20 am

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Originally Posted by milesracer

Pays for the site.

Would however pay a small annual charge to be add free.

Aug 12, 2016, 7:23 am

GentleGiant

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Get rid of VBulletin and get a better forum product like maybe InvisionPower Power or Xenforo

Far better for mobile view / security / Google listing / user experience etc.

Aug 12, 2016, 8:55 am

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joe.sixer

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If you insist on having a like button, add a dislike button as well.

Aug 12, 2016, 10:14 am

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Seby12

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I would love to have an app. (again)

Aug 12, 2016, 10:22 am

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chris1979

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mahasamatman

Can I vote against the "like" button?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seby12

I would love to have an app. (again)

+1.

App was very good and don't know why it wasn't maintained / a new one wasn't developed.

Aug 12, 2016, 11:42 am

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Folks, pls note the comments in the first post that request that moderation not be discussed in this thread. We will be deleting those posts that do not adhere to this condition.
Thanks for your cooperation.

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Cholula
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Aug 12, 2016, 11:50 am

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SkiAdcock

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Re: the like button. This was discussed in Talkboard previously. While the poll itself got a lot of likes (pun intended!), if you look at the actual discussion (785 posts) there were strong feelings against it (as well as for it) & it wasn't the slam dunk that the poll suggested/which is why it was tabled. It might be of interest to IBobi/IB.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/talkb...ghlight=Button

My guess is if it came to like vs. better mobile or better search function, like would not be in the top 2