Improve EnglischBoard

jama · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 54

What could be better at EnglischBoard? Do you have any ideas how to improve this project?

Go ahead and suggest smile

Thanks alot!

Regards,

Jama

Willothewisp · Gast

Can we underline the links permanently, so they can be figured out easier in a text?

(puzzle: Where's the link in the text above?) Augenzwinkern

jama · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 54

Hey Alex,

you´re right. Thanks for this note Gott

We´ll fix that soon.

Greets,

Jama

Gast

Thomas · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 221

This should be in English? C'mon Augenzwinkern

OK, perhaps I'll try to change it Fröhlich

Ben Sisko · Anmeldungsdatum: 31.07.2004 Beiträge: 11 Wohnort: Ruhrgebiet

When clicking on the list of the 10 most current posts there doesn´t appear the last post of the thread, but the first one.

Kind Regards,
Ben

Thomas · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 221

It was always like that - it is the list of the 10 most current threads, not posts. But perhaps i can change this - is there any other who'd like to go straight to the last / newest post of thread?

Greetings,
Thomas

sommer87 · Ehrenmoderator Anmeldungsdatum: 07.07.2004 Beiträge: 74

I also think it's better to link directly to the last / newest post.

Such like www.matheboad.de Augenzwinkern

Ulli · Ehrenmoderator Anmeldungsdatum: 03.07.2004 Beiträge: 1389

Hi sommer87,

I think you wanted to state www.matheboard.de ? grübelnd

Ulli

Thomas · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 221

Sure he wanted Augenzwinkern

The problem is, that it's not as easy with phpbb as it is with wbb. grübelnd

Lets see what i can do...

Greetings,
Thomas

.seb. · Anmeldungsdatum: 12.08.2004 Beiträge: 2

I would commend you to establish a specific forum section for Vocubalary asks because I - as well as even other people certainly- find difficult to find the right word at the proper moment or otherwise one doesn't glean the word anyway.
In this part of the newsgroups, the users are able to argue about sentences or groups of words and furthermore in this connection they are in the position to translate words or those abstracts. I think this kind of forum to be suitable for improving his englisch capacities - for the mutual advices ( of the user) can probably help to anticipate mistakes in the translation or text production.
I besides imagine this vocabulary forum may poses a preparation of the pupil for a class exercise in order to demand the last necessary parts for example.

Thomas · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 221

Hi,

i like your idea. Let's see what the others say - and then i will configure such a forum for vocabulary asks Augenzwinkern

Greetings,
Thomas

Ulli · Ehrenmoderator Anmeldungsdatum: 03.07.2004 Beiträge: 1389

Great idea, I could support you with lots of word topics Wink

Thomas · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 221

Hi,

the forum is now open for your topics: http://www.englischboard.de/forum,10,-vokabeln.html

Wink

Greetings,
Thomas

Ulli · Ehrenmoderator Anmeldungsdatum: 03.07.2004 Beiträge: 1389

Hi Thomas,

What do you think about a separate forum about literature and authors?
I think it would be very useful to discuss this important part of the English language, wouldn't it? Augenzwinkern

Ulli

Thomas · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 221

Ulli · Ehrenmoderator Anmeldungsdatum: 03.07.2004 Beiträge: 1389

Hi Thomas,

Well, for the beginning I could post some links concerning this topic.
You will find one of them in "Textanalysen und Interpretationen" . "Authors and books" are very close themes but on the other side different to handle, right? Augenzwinkern

Ulli

Thomas · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 221

Hi Ulli,

just post in Textanalysen und Interpretationen. If we have to keep the overview later, we will open another forum for authors and books Augenzwinkern

Nothing is more frightening than an empty forum geschockt

So let's go and fill it Buschmann

Greetings,
Thomas

Ulli · Ehrenmoderator Anmeldungsdatum: 03.07.2004 Beiträge: 1389

Hi Thomas,

Alright. Augenzwinkern

, good idea.

I'll post the links by this evening or tomorrow, okay?

Ulli smile

Thomas · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 221

Ulli · Ehrenmoderator Anmeldungsdatum: 03.07.2004 Beiträge: 1389

Ben Sisko · Anmeldungsdatum: 31.07.2004 Beiträge: 11 Wohnort: Ruhrgebiet

The link "Mathe" on the upper left links to www.mathe-tools.de instead of www.matheboard.de

Thomas · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 221

Hi Ben,

as i told you (look @ your PNs @ Matheboard), we will renew the link on the top soon. Thanks for your feedback! Augenzwinkern

Greetings,
Thomas

Thomas · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 18.06.2004 Beiträge: 221

Hi,

I hope you all feel fine here? smile

If you have any suggestions, please post here.

Greetings,
Thomas

Ukkat · Gast

hi ya.

i didnt want to open a new topic as I knew I had already written something to that.

I just wanted to say that it would be nice to delete some of the spam emails again because they increased again and sometimes I do not know whether its a real topic or just normal spam.

thanks in advance.

ACH · Anmeldungsdatum: 26.01.2006 Beiträge: 117

The spam has been increasing rather a lot - though I can usually tell it's really unhelpful if all the "recent topics" are taken up by random people trying to flog us some sort of magic program and/or porn videos.

Unfortunately I do not have a foolproof idea of how to solve this, apart from using text-filters, which are never ideal.

Also, do you think it's possible to implement a feature that shows you the date the "Letzte Themen" were posted respectively.

So much for my 2 cents.

ACH

sommer87 · Ehrenmoderator Anmeldungsdatum: 07.07.2004 Beiträge: 74

Hi,
I am trying to look up for spam every day and delete those topics.
But if there are still other posts please tell me via PM or ICQ so I will look for it.

The spam problem is discussed by a few mods from the other boards at web-z.net . There we are trying to find a way to solve the problem.

Sorry if we can't do more at time.
If anyone has an idea how we can stop spam feel free to tell us.

Best regards,
Benny

Ukkat · Gast

Is it still possible to be a guest in the board here and write messages?!
because then its easy to create spam.

Lots of other online communities use the "you have to login system" and so you can at least prevent some of the spam.
And you also have to give an email address when you log in and you have to confirm this email address.

might be a way to solve it.

MI · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 22.01.2005 Beiträge: 1140 Wohnort: München

The obligation to register has already been installed http://www.englischboard.de/topic,1338,-spam-undamp%3B-temp-registrierungspflicht.html and this has concluded in a big decrease of automatically generated spam.
However, the bots seem to have found a system to overcome the barriers. I have already proposed to renew the security measures, but this will probably not solve the problem...

So far.
MI

Kaeltor · Anmeldungsdatum: 07.01.2007 Beiträge: 17

How about a spell-check before posting? Most of them don't cover mix-ups between "their" "there" and "they're" but at least we will know whether there is a simple mistake in our text we could correct...

MI · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 22.01.2005 Beiträge: 1140 Wohnort: München

I guess it'd be hard to implement this into the forum. However it would be quite a good idea for those of the writers, who cannot write blind and are therefore not able to see their mistakes, as we would not have to correct the tiny spelling mistakes all the time...

Kaeltor · Anmeldungsdatum: 07.01.2007 Beiträge: 17

sqrt(2) · Anmeldungsdatum: 13.01.2007 Beiträge: 25

That's the dirtiest implementation of a spell checker I have ever seen (although I must admit that I haven't seen too many). It doesn't even work properly with my browser.

Kaeltor · Anmeldungsdatum: 07.01.2007 Beiträge: 17

At least it's simple to implement and works just fine with Firefox (and i think IE6+ has no problems with it either)...

sqrt(2) · Anmeldungsdatum: 13.01.2007 Beiträge: 25

My browser uses the KHTML engine for rendering and the JavaScriptCore engine for the AJAX stuff, both of which implementing the standards extremely well. I don't think my browser's to blame if it doesn't work.

fox99 · Anmeldungsdatum: 18.03.2010 Beiträge: 13 Wohnort: U.K.

How about a section for recommending video clips for English?

Such as an old English sitcom about a class of English language students:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B8qJYcU21I&feature=related

MI · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 22.01.2005 Beiträge: 1140 Wohnort: München

It wouldn't have to be a whole section, would it? Why not start a thread "video recommendations", as long as it's not offending in any way (and sitcoms aren't), it'd be a nice idea.

Greetings
MI

cat · Anmeldungsdatum: 29.04.2011 Beiträge: 10

yes it would be very nice! I want more. We should do this. Tanzen