[Feedback] ThinkDigit.com Web site

We're working on a better Web site! Any suggestions? Other than the obvious ones of course!

Post feedback here about functionalities that you want in ThinkDigit.com, and also the Forum. It will take some time to implement the changes we already have planned, so please be patient.

wow, digit oct cover already updated and that too on oct 1st! Goodwork atlast!

I think the site needs renovation, repairs and tweaks..

Update it frequently...make it lively...
If needed, appoint seperate team for web development..
I guess, you guys got enough capital to afford that

If you guys can't get enough time to do the stuff...
The forum members can surely help....

Just make the site
* Bug free...
* Update if frequently...

A new color-scheme for th forum, please and maybe u cud make th pages a bit lighter.

One thing that could make the forum pages lighter is to stop pics as signatures

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chat chat chat for digit geeks

more stuff on the main page such as A-List n bazaar ........ other up to date hardware reviews n pricing .....
Tech news updated daily

sections for gamers, programmers ....n more ideas will be up from others too in this thread....
.

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Well, frequent updates may be an obvious suggestion, so how about a hardware pricing table, and you can upload older articles in HTML form, many more guides (the linux ISO one was good) etc...

Maybe a section for latest hardware prices, updated every week or even a fortnight ? Also a section on forthcoming software releases.

a sleek and streamlined interface...
appealing colors...
nice icons...
quick to load...
simple and less bling bling...
submenus like Windows Start Menu... or Windows Homepage...

take a look at Macromedia Contribute 3 Templates... they're icandy templates...

S

as far articles goes many digit forum members can contribute to it also

D

Well the main website looks good no doubt..but it's a little heavy on bandwidth (my poor 56K connection :cry:

) though it's better than b4. Some streamlining wld help.

Hardware prices would be uber-cool!! thinkdigit.com wld bcome my home-page then!! :razz:

(Yea the prices vary from place2place, but such a page wld help us get a general idea. 500-1K off isn't 2 much.)

About the Forum...well a lot of things have already been said abt it...about reducing the clutter and all that. It's just a matter of listening with a more open mind (no offense to Team Digit).

make sure that the new design looks good in browsers other than internet explorer...
coz i think more ppl are using alternate browsers now...
it must be compatible with firefox and opera atleast..

H

I think its time to clean up general discussion too!

The main site www.thinkdigit.com is one the slowest site I have ever visited. It takes ages to load.....

some of the suggestions for our new site

1) Change the font of the site it looks bad.

2) Do we need two buttons as playware/mindware on the site when both show the same thing....a single DVD ???
*img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/cooljeba/altoo/dvd.gif

3) The interface problem... I placed the cursor at the red spot but the menu appears on top

*img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/cooljeba/altoo/interface.gif

4) Those animated banners take's up the max bandwidth...
let's do some math

Top banner 21.54 KB
side 1 39.03 KB
side 2 28.19 KB
samsungad 13.1 KB
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total 101.86 KB ( pity on dial-up users )

and the months issue animated one is around 65.68 KB

5) The more interface should lead to a sub menu that would save some time as people can select there topic directly rather than a link at the more>>

6) Search . look at the size of the search box??? Do u like us to search couple of numbers there

. ( i know that we can enter longer text there ) but let it look long

*img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/cooljeba/altoo/search.gif

7) The opinion poll looks like it is not part of the site

. It is pushed down

.

8 ) Let the site look more sleek ...... and a new colour combination....

9) UPDATE UPDATE and UPDATE it!! regularly....

well that's all i can see of now... if i see more i will sure post it.. let's see a new site that matches the sleekness of the magzine

..:: peace ::..
Jeba

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sorry if im being too harsh but the current main page (www.thinkdigit.com) is rubbish. its slow,interface is bad,not much info available...

i would really love to see the current hardware prices on the site as someone already suggested

First off, "apart from the obvious" stuff like the Mindware/Playware and By Demand foul-ups, it has some SERIOUS, way too serious UI issues. I seriously suggest a complete overhaul, not just a perfunctory code rerun and moving stuff into different places. Get a UI design expert to work this one out, preferably someone who knows HTML also coz the page takes forever to load (Check out jeba's posts before a "comprehensive" listing. Good one there, buddy) Not everyone has OFC connections to our ISPs

And the sidebar. God, whatever you do, please don't use such navigation again on the next website. Plain nightmare. Not to mention that the text sizes are next to unreadable without the magnifier utility at 1280x1024.

Did you guys know there are reviews for WinME and 2000 Pro in the Special section? :shock:

Someone would think (why think when you can state for a fact) that you never update the website. And please, for God's sake, DO NOT move older articles as Web Specials. That's just real lousy and unprofessional. I don't know how long those four articles have been sitting on the homepage. I guess from Sep'03. Coz the Digit Linux DVD was in Aug'03.
The best thing to do is to use the website as a "companion" to the mag, with web-exclusive content, instead of a "older article archive." I wouldn't mind seeing RSS feeds on the latest in computing. Imagine how cool it would be if you could immediately stream to the Digit people when HL2 goes gold, or something like that. That would be really cool too.
BTW, the forum needs somewhat of an overhaul too. Maybe you can post prizes (gag ones, real ones or simple ones like games, etc) for people with corniest, lousiest, most helpful, most funny, etc. posts. Nothing works like rewards for making more people come together on the forum and participate more.
So, get a UI expert, get someone who's done more than one personal website and at least one corporate one, gather the people on the forum (we DO want to help) and give the site a complete makeover.

D

Abt the forum...more smileys

Apart from that:

The best thing to do is to use the website as a "companion" to the mag, with web-exclusive content, instead of a "older article archive." I wouldn't mind seeing RSS feeds on the latest in computing. Imagine how cool it would be if you could immediately stream to the Digit people when HL2 goes gold, or something like that. That would be really cool too.
BTW, the forum needs somewhat of an overhaul too. Maybe you can post prizes (gag ones, real ones or simple ones like games, etc) for people with corniest, lousiest, most helpful, most funny, etc. posts. Nothing works like rewards for making more people come together on the forum and participate more.

I love Ctrl+V

Nice suggestions enoonmai..and a freaking cool avatar and location :lol:

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Holy 5h!t....

i didn't even knew that there was a search bar too!!!!

I only like the forum of thinkdigit.

the frontpage of thinkdigit.com is not so good, same always.

I have few suggestions for forum pages

-> why not to use a separate (.css file) to reduce size of page.
-> not showing personalized www, email, icq etc buttons (by default)

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Back After Education Abroad

First of all let me wish everyone here a Good Day.

Let me introduce myself.My Name is Ashok.I am 24 years old and am a native of Hyderabad.I was an avid reader of CHIP,which was what the magazine was called when i used to read it.I left for Higher studies to New Zealand four years ago.When i was in India,your Magazine was called CHIP if i am not Wrong.The Editor was Gourav and i tremendously liked his witty editorial.It was a mainly a Computing magazine which gave a free cd everymonth,for which there were violent struggles between me n my brother.Even though we did'nt own a pc then,the struggle was to who'll run that CD at a neighbor's pc and play the Latest Game they gave.There were wallpapers n skins galore.

I also remember the team behind Chip.Gourav,Ai Chin Liu,Gulnar,Mohan,Veer........... Some of them are still there with you i suppose......... Mahesh,Marco,Sumod,Ashwin,Mexy,Jiten...............
The head of Multimedia was .............Sridhar...or was it Venkat.....Curiously,I don't recall his name now. Sumod's articles were very good and so was the Testing part.Marco and Hatim were the testers if i remember right.And there was also Aliasgar i suppose.Though i did'nt get to read your magazine in NZ i was kept updated by my Bro'.Gaurav's departure was a rude shocker.You guys also had a Gaming mag Rt??? I remember reading in one issue when the Office was moved to Nerul,Navi Mumbai and Gourav commented on occupying the Gaming Rig of the CGW's Editor(Sorry,Can't remember his name too)

Now I have find that you have moved with the times and have progressed from a 'Computing' magazine to a "Technology" Magazine. Applause to you for that.Technology today is a far more broader concept which is not just restricted to Computing.And by including a DVD you guys have proved that you are the Best.I remeember My Bro' squealing with delight over the phone when he got 5 cd's with one of your your (Anniversary???) issues.My,How fast have the times Changed!!!!
Here i must admit that my bro' is a far more tech-savvy than I am.He currently buys not less than 4 Magazines every month and spends atleast an hour on the net rummaging thru tech sites.It is with his initiative that i have joined this forums.Acc to him,forums are for those 'Nerds' who have nothing to do more than post n read messages.So he is an avid Forum-Hater i can say.

I happened to notice that CHIP has been relauched.It is now controlled by other people i suppose.Nevertheless it means Double-Bonanza for the Readers atleast!!!!
Now for some Suggestions: Please reduce the Packaging Size of the Magazine.The humongous Cardboard is totally unnecessary.If you want the CD's to stay protected,keep it within the Mag.DVD has its own cover.This will make the mag easy to carry.

Till the next post...................Wishing a good Day to All......

K

kurious . why is this forum's look and functioning , so similar to the pcq forum . almost identical buttons and commands . is phpbb the best bb in the business or something ?

the number of posts viewed per page should be increased and a way to make the newer posts seen first made permanent . i have to manually choose new first from drop down . is there a way to make this change permanent i my profile

yes phpbb is cool but what u se here is a prpular phpb theme called as SilverSub

..:: peace ::..
Jeba

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Hey CoolJeba.I noticed you've changed ur Avatar??? Why??? The old one was good.I was gonna ask u how can i make a similar avatar for myself.But can't host it anywhere i suppose???

read ur pm m8

..:: peace ::..
Jeba

Improve the search button and also make the pages load faster on dial up also!

damn i am really sorry to see digit site so bad.the site has one of the best forum and lacks in everything else.no new articles,papers,reviews,upto date information..boo..hopeso 2005 jan will bring thinkdigit.com to a new life...y r u people still sleeping?

i am a member of digit forum only and btwn i have seen many other forum, this one is better laid out and i like it and with open source too, it is good...

wht about adding a section for only off topics alone???

S

Update your Website

The contents of the digit website are the same for the past one year.

i do not know when you will udate your website.

H

navneeth_snr said:
wow, digit oct cover already updated and that too on oct 1st! Goodwork atlast!

Since its already 3rd of nevember ...digit ppl should start working on the december site and leave the nov site as it is (that is if they have done anything about Nov site)...maybe Dec site will be on time....

Hitesh

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The site is not really good.
You should try to keep it simple and pleasing all the same.

Please try to make sure the site is updated every month 1st!!
Provide more information on what the current issue is dealing with (and also DVD) and also you can mention as to what Digit is working at for future issues (atleast next issue), just to keep it interesting.

Too many things has not changed at all!!
The entire content need to updated or improved quite regularly or else surfers loose interest :!:

Site should be more in depth.

K

thinkdigit designers , could u make a small icon which rests on top of pages u visit , next to name of the site , in the browser ? . i use opera and have tabbed browsing and have windows button . most of the other sites have an icon which i can easily click on in windows button . if this site had one it would be easy to browse too .

X

Hi,
For a tech site, your site is really lousy. Nothing useful except the Bazaar forum. Others like PCQ and Chip have far better sites. Jasubhai Media's sites have always been of very poor quality.

You should have atleast:
a) Updated articles from the current isssue of the mag. (NOV cover not yet updated, articles have not been updated for what seems like a year). The there can be a free area and a paid area accessible to online subscribers or magazine subscribers. The only new thing in over a year has been online subscription.

b) The website gives no indication that DIGIT is supposed to be a digital electronics magazine instead of a PC magazine.

c) Better DVDs/CDs. We do not 4.7GB stuff. We need good quality stuff. 80% of the stuff on Cds is crap. 1 good game, 1 good software and updates like service packs, antivirus updates etc.

Pankaj

lotsa things to say but hey the website shud be a medium thru which the ppl could get an insight of what to expect next but here its vice-versa we get the mag then we know what to expect on da website. This thing should change. Also employ some forum members they really do some gud work so u dont need to go and search frm them. U ppl publish much info abt online trading and getting work done time to implement it and set an exampls. What do u say ppl??

Make the page to load as fast in dialup!

S

In November, I see the same voting option for 'By Demand' section and the same 'Opinion Poll' that was posted perhaps on September! This website definitely needs upgradation and the pages should load very fast. Remember Google and Gmail.

U

Still your web site is not updated!! very much surprising!!

May be Digit does have a dedicated content management afterall!!
cost saving measures ? :?:

S

I feel the "Jump To" dropdown should also be at the top of the page rather than just at the bottom of the page!

U

Still site not completely updated. The mindware/playware link shows old information and not what is contained in this month CD/DVD !?!

K

is it possible to customise the number of headings of topics viewed per page for individuals . if u jus t go under qanda section u got to go through 20+ pages . could u make another view of the sub pages with just topic and other important stuff which might show like a 100 or so topics below .

could u make sub topics within the main topics like , OS , Installation , Troubleshooting , Tips , News under software and similar sub topics for others which would make it easy to post the proper questions / queries in the right topic . and a reminder for the digit icon on top of the pages , like i get a Y when i visit a yahoo page and easy to navigate in opera . A small d for digit would help .

add a search field in all the pages viewed instead of having to go to another page . u can have a seperate page search option for advanced options alone .

i think we should update the forum too look at it's version it's phpBB 2.0.6 I have heard it has lotta exploits. I think the currently available is 2.0.10 it has many added fuctionalities too.

..:: peace ::..
Jeba

emmm.. yes i think this forum is in updation right now!

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Heard abt the new Avatar Rulezz???

S

Please remove - ByDemand option from the main page

no....... what was that anything SPECIAL????? :?:

D

Current Issue

:idea:

u Must start One column for CURRENT ISSUE in ur DIGIT FORM

Its the need of todays reader :lol:

N

make yr website more friendley, and make available yr magazine on website so that one can find its needs,if its not possible to make latest version put 6 months older version so that it will be usful to others

A

Re: Current Issue

dadhwalprince said:
u Must start One column for CURRENT ISSUE in ur DIGIT FORM

Its the need of todays reader

There is already a thread called Feedback for November issue....What more do u want???

H

Grear : Site Updated

Great

I have seen this first time.
Website is updated with Magzine Cover and CD contents B4 1st of teh Month.
I think they R doing :roll: for website.

Hope they will Continue this

U

Digit is reading the messages and doing some action!!
Good work Digit!!

Hopefully you do the same for all issues: esp DVD drive offer

U

Please check the menus for ease of use.
Still clumsy.
Esp try to move the mouse pointer over "passport" menu

The submenu is shown somewhere above, its very difficult to catch and click the sub options!! :lol:

R

In the Opinion Poll section, after submitting my choice, I see this popup window:

*img132.exs.cx/img132/7443/opinionpoll.th.gif

Notice the Warning at the top of the window. I had already sent a feedback mail to Digit regarding this.
Enables me to vote more than once :!:

do away with all quick reply option, and let it be like this as now.
this is good now.

G

Its nice to see the site updated before December 1st.

btw the image quality of the dvd/cd content is not nice...

K

Grace said:
Its nice to see the site updated before December 1st.
btw the image quality of the dvd/cd content is not nice...

try saving the page or images alone and open it up in acdsee . seems the images are shrunk in the webpages . plus they are split into 4 files , not sure y .

digit could have the listing of cd/dvd in text format too . it would be easier .

G

klinux said:
Grace said:

Its nice to see the site updated before December 1st.
btw the image quality of the dvd/cd content is not nice...

Click to expand...

try saving the page or images alone and open it up in acdsee . seems the images are shrunk in the webpages . plus they are split into 4 files , not sure y .

digit could have the listing of cd/dvd in text format too . it would be easier .

Thanks for the info. Will try to implement it.

H

Grace said:
Its nice to see the site updated before December 1st.
btw the image quality of the dvd/cd content is not nice...

I created a page to solve the problem...
on geocities though..
Click Here

want the "quick reply" back

S

well

Sorry i later relaised that i was in wrong zone so i edited it

No digit Contest link

I lost the mag in which the ad for digit contest was there...
so i logged on to the site to check,.....i cudnt find it anywhere......i guess it should be out in the front???
i also think that the site is drab....a little colour wont hurt.......
mabey the animations are heavy but the font and colour should be more lively......

U

The tool tip for "Digit survey" shows "Buy Online" :!:

And where is the link to buy online :?:

H

What is this user-groups... i mean i am in waiting for membership of these for a number of days...is it not for me (us)?

Hitesh

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the links shown in first page still covers the older stories.. as i m now not subscribing to digit.. i wud like some overview of wat u cud find in book. just as u send the email to me..

the reviews cud be given in site too as an overview.. the top performers etc..

also a help desk cud be started in forum itself.. instead of mailing to help@jasubhai.com this makes easier for u and me to get the answers.

U

bluediamond said:
help desk cud be started in forum itself.. instead of mailing to help@jasubhai.com this makes easier for u and me to get the answers.

I agree, helpdesk should be a part of forum not private mail messages

Hey the website wasn't updated for the January issue till the 5th January. Then it got updated, just the pic of the new issue. Then the next day still the same old stories. Nothing changed apart from the cover of Jan issue. Click on the cover to get some more info about the new issue and it shows the last issue's cover. Then the next day, that is yesterday this issue was fixed. After clicking at the Jan issue pic on the homepage you got the Jan issue's info. But still rest of the homepage is still the same. Please update the website at least by the 1st of every month so that we can see how's the new issue of our favorite mag!

G

well, the content on ur site honestly...sucks, you should definetly definetly put more tech stuff there,
put in the latest previews as they happen! being a mag im sure digit has its print deadlines etc, but technology has no such thing, so you can basically put the latest releases from around the world on your website, will need constant updating sure but hey ur a tech mag!

obviously the color scheme and font!
and please NO FLASH!! and if you DO use flash, make sure u incorporate a right click >open in new window kinda thing otherwise it gets irritating as hell!

daily updated hardware price list would be simply AWESOME!

what would also be cool is if you could put ur back issues online and let readers access the articles with a simple search

make ur prime focus content and ease of navigation and ppl wont crib too much about a slick design or the lack of it!!! but hey if ur re designing it, might as well go all out and make i snazzy!

another thing u shud add is let readers put in their own articles and make the site interactive! would b quite a job for scanning the articles to avoid an avnish baja like incident for Mr Jasubhai!

P

This part of the forum i.e the digit section looks cluttered why dont u delete
all the previous month's feedbacks instead of locking them- it will look neat and more ppl will feel like giving suggestions.
8)

T

report button
quick reply
stricter implementation of avatar and siggie rules or removal of html/bbcode from siggies as suggested earlier by u
( sorry techno, jeba etc

)

suggestions : make the monthly "tips and tricks" contributions as stickys in respective sections
for eg. the jan 05 tips and tricks contributions
more mods

encourage casemodding/reviews/guides by dedicated sections
there have been request for separate sections before so i wont stress this too much

[EDIT] plz do somethign abt the digitise spammer/spambot ranks as grudge suggested ..
its creating a rucus in the forums ...
ppl misunderstand and begin to flame !

* The report button
* more mods
* more sections and expand the forums
* sections like reviews, tutorials, mobiles, chit-chat or entertainment or off-beat topics
* siggies need to be smaller in size and hence a new rule, like the ones in avatar.
* quick reply
* remove the ranks as spammer/bots and make us choose our ranks or let the mods do them
* a dean like member who oversees the activity and conduct of the members here.

this page loads very slow....

S

worst site i has seen

digit is one of the worst sitei has ever seen in online bussiness.

Site is never updated . links are dead.
I don't think digit has any staff to manage this site .

Digit instead on posting the contents of dvd on this forun they should try to post them o site .

idon't think more than 5% users will ever visit a discussion forum.
please hire some staff to mantain the site

Raaabo and digitadmin, good to see the quick reply back!!!

This post was composed in quick reply only..

S

i think digit team don't even look at this forum .

Quailty of Digit Web site tell all the story.

this discussion forum use phpbb.

which is a fully automated and maintenance free discusion forum .

so digit team don't has to do any thing.

and even in this they are using it with all default options.

and site they don't touch.

really poor digit web team.

You haven`t updated the vote poll since 2 months.You update the issyes details (mag cover & cd contents)very late.

K

Ok its really weird . either someone doesnt like me visiting this site

, or there is a seriously problem on the site , making it inaccessible to most users . I thought this was koz of the high traffic at night , But not even during the day time . i think there are a few threads running around on this topic too . Personnally i feel the forum is the best part of digit , so i hope someone is able ti fix it quick

H

there seems to be some serious problem with the digit site... the site is going out too quickly...i.e. there is no response as if the server has been shut down...what is going on..

Hitesh Gupta

The forum rocks, but the site sucks. Big time. Please please please update some of the content. And delete all those old articles that you have got stacked out there...Its a shame.

Also, give it a better colour and a new look.

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*www.rollaword.com/firefoxsig.jpg
Rollaword.com

T

Yup. And would u please update the scorecard. Lot of us need the data about the February processor and motherboard shootouts.

Yes, the site sucks and dont open at times. Plz see about this issue. And add more sections (again and again members tell this)

See about the site issue, it's serious, it doesnt opens at night or early morning.

D

Methinx there's gonna be an update soon. The site looks too dead and too forgotten..kinda like a castle haunted by the ghosts of several dial-up connexions!

I hope this is the lull b4 the storm.

B

Hope So otherwise team digits ganna be in a big mess

The following shud be considered :-

1. Color

2. Live Chat

3. Slowing in loading time

4. Improper terming of categories

5. Redirect after posting

6. More Emoticons

7. Uploading of files

8. Spell Checker

9. extra space removal

10. perhaps we could apply some css here? like make a 'nicer' mouseover, more 'techie' colours and maybe change the scrollbar colours and all that?

R

Update the menu!

your menu/navigation is way too old! it seems that it hasnt been updated for 2-3 years now........

please take measures to rectify this

K

something fishy . why am i getting logged out of the forum ???????? i had chosen the always stay logged or whatever option and it has only asked for password , when i clear cache and cookies in opera . but now i automatically got logged out , just prior to posting . i think tech&Me also had a similar problem . guys fix this , if there is an issue as it might cause chaos , by not knowing who posted what . atleast put a confirm msg b4 someone posts , stating that they arent logged and msg might be posted as guest . will save mods a lot of headaches too

Hmm probably a session timeout problem from your browser. I never have to login coz with opera and cookies, the forum remembers me

K

yup , i chose that option and only have 2 log in whenever i change my password and i use wand passwords too for opera . but logging out today was odd . anyways , hope u can do something abt the guest warning msg . btw , how come all the changes and improvements ?? are they having a "best forums of india " contest , i am not aware off ?

plus : while viewing all posts of user from profile , with descriptions , only 15 are displayed as opposed to view post since last time where 50 are displayed . Could u increase the listings under viewing all posts of user from profile to say 30 or even 50 . enables better search and lesser number of pages to browse through .

I have a complian against the Search Option...
I tried sesrchiing for "P2p Softwares" and i gave me pretty much useless results?ne1 else experiencing such probs??

amanwannalearn said:
I have a complian against the Search Option...
I tried sesrchiing for "P2p Softwares" and i gave me pretty much useless results?ne1 else experiencing such probs??

Yea, Totally Agree, The Search Sucks :evil:

I have so many times had to post a repeated topic and all the replies come back"SEARCh!" ...How dya search wen the search tool is soooo bad...

S

hey gus what is the problem what th login. i lost my account.i got my new registration.it sucks i did not recieve any password change ot my listed account. it sucks :evil:

santosh, Although I have no clue what you are talking about, I will try to help if you send me a carefully worded and detailed e-mail to robert_smith@jasubhai.com.

New forum users

Come on people this is the digit community. please do not keep your new user reg. open for all.
Should be only for subscribers, readers and invites only...

Will help keep the junk out of our house!

Preserve the theme

B

Re: New forum users

Rollercoaster said:
Come on people this is the digit community. please do not keep your new user reg. open for all.
Should be only for subscribers, readers and invites only...

Will help keep the junk out of our house!

Preserve the theme

No way. No invites way fr thinkdigit forum.
This is an open community and let it be like this.

I am not a monthly reader of digit. If i like the issue & an able to get permission frm parents then only buy it.

Well to control junk we have got mods that are doing an excellent job

What about the Search??

S

Hey, I am here and the site says USERS BROWSING THIS FORUM: NONE!!!. :evil:

.What am I HOLLOW MAN ? 8)

B

Santosh Halemani said:
Hey, I am here and the site says USERS BROWSING THIS FORUM: NONE!!!. .What am I HOLLOW MAN ? 8)

Well its phpBBs forums way of users activity over last 5 minutes and if u open up a topic from the respective forum, let it load completly and then refresh the forum page, now u must be able to see ur name :lol:

Y

The march Issue of DIGIT had an ad Proclaiming:

The all NEW www.thinkdigit.com
Coming Soon This March!!!!

Well,20 days are over in MArch & no sign of the new site yet!!!

Guess Digit people are not good at meeting deadlines :roll:

Ran into some security problems and seamless integration of forum logins with rest of the site (we plan to have one login for the whole site, and we don't want to inconvenience all you forum members making you sign up again!

Apologies for the delay, but we want to make sure it's good when it finally gets here...

Y

Raaabo said:
Ran into some security problems and seamless integration of forum logins with rest of the site (we plan to have one login for the whole site, and we don't want to inconvenience all you forum members making you sign up again!

Apologies for the delay, but we want to make sure it's good when it finally gets here...

Itz Ok Raaabo,pleased that u atleast replied (Even after Some Delay Though :wink:

)

Eagerly waiting for the NEW Website. 8)

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18%

3%

56%

3%

8%

E-mail Downloading Software Downloading Movies & Music Adult Content Idle Surfing Research and Education

I am surprised that 56% using internet for adult content because all you see there is most vulgar forms of sex and highly derogatory for women besides being illegal, immoral and in bad taste. How many of us approve sex with animals or children or unnatural sex?

Ummm iget a feeling thet PPl are seemingly getting Lazy.....no many replies to my posts and i dunno mab.......

Digit WebSite

WebSite need to be updated at some regular interval, at present it is not updated at all except cover zoom (picture of current issue).
Last but not least as per standard thumb rule please visit the home page of other IT related magazines, though they are not up to the mark of DIGIT but their websites really looking good-updated & interactive.

We all including other people also keen to see the home page exact like number one magazine DIGIT the market trend setter.

D

Please try to remove old things like By Demand, Mindware, Playware etc....

Please fix the miniscule search bar... Which doesn't work.. And there is nothing left in the site to search either...

You guys should post the great tutorials and posts our members have made on the main site..

And the latest topics is not that latest either...

We expect a perfect website from a leading technology magazine man!

A

Heartly thanks to DIGIT FORUM!!!!

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18633

Hey Raaabo thanks yaar for starting this forum and keeping this General Section For community. See the thread i hve found my BICHDA HUA DOST

Thanks Thanks A loads of thanks.

E

Ho Hum!!!! The website www.thinkdigit.com should be renamed as www.thoughtdigit.com

Contrary to what has been said in the forum as well as the mag,the site's
as old as the hills.Only the current issue Photo Changes every month.
And Now even the Contents are missing.Only "Interactive Contents"
and "Detailed Test Scores" are there a/w the "Forum" link.

Even is the website were half as informative as the mag,it wud have been nice.

Why don't u giveup the domain name to someone who can find more poductive use for it???

Y

Acerbic Comments there^^^^^^^

Anywayz,I'd like to bring to the notice of the Digit People the Website with the somewhat similar name as yours.Agreed that it IS a Competetor magazine but it ain't Indian So no probs I guess.

*www.digitmag.co.uk/

The Website Layout is Good and all the articles are well-written.I am not in any way telling you to copy that layout but am Jus' showing what a Good Website will convey to the readers.

Also You've somwhere told about a Unified Login for the Site & the Forums,it is nicely integrated there also.
If you Don' mind,I shall be more than Glad to Dig out More 'Digit' Websites :wink:

Mobile

Hie,
I think Digit forum needs a mobile section too.You can't ask symbian related questions in software reviews or community talks.I think Symbian and Windows pocket PC editions are growing fast and they do need some coverage,both, on the mag as well as on the website.
So please create a new section for mobile talk if possible.

Hoping for the best.
Thanx :lol:

D

The website's updated, finally! No need for a name change now.

But links to the Patron and Contest pages would be useful.

I'm not too sure about this ... but... let's see.

I've seen a lot of threads in here, stickied or unstickied, go into a large number of post counts.

I'm a member of few message boards and I think they've a policy there of closing a thread when 200 posts are in. They then start a new thread on the same topic... example: Fifa World Cup Discussion #2

Hey this might be an idiotic suggestion too, I guess, for every thread in this site needs to be read from the start... but I dunno how many people actually go about doing it.

contents interactive is given as jpeg image so not clearly visible . please give plain text.

G

The contest site does not work guys

As per the May 2005 digit there was to be a contest at zdnetindia. however, there is only the announcement of winners.

Where have all the contests gone

g

A Digit chat link here, would be nice.

Job links at Digit, if any.

effyouseakay said:
Ho Hum!!!! The website www.thinkdigit.com should be renamed as www.thoughtdigit.com

Nope its always the present not the past..

BTW I like the name thinkdigit.com

E

achacko@dataone.in said:
effyouseakay said:

Ho Hum!!!! The website www.thinkdigit.com should be renamed as www.thoughtdigit.com

Click to expand...

Nope its always the present not the past..

But Mate,the site's Still rooted in the Past......No updates (There's the Posts Update,But Who wants that!!),No News,No Articles...Nothin.....
Just CD Contents & Test Results......

effyouseakay said:
But Mate,the site's Still rooted in the Past......No updates (There's the Posts Update,But Who wants that!!),No News,No Articles...Nothin.....
Just CD Contents & Test Results......

Dude u've gotta check out the other forum topics, they are updated and they have lots of new articles & stuff as that.......

The digit site needs to be changed soon. It has nothing interactive in it so to speak. Ok at the end of the day i look forward to the magazine and not go to the website to look for news but i have a suggestion (maybe it has already been given)
Include old reviews, products, articles etc. So to speak make it an archive of old digit magazines. Maybe this can be done for magazines 3 months and older. Im not one to keep stacks of old Digits lying about and sometimes i want to get back to an article and find that i cannot remember which Digit it was from and where the heck did i keep the Hard copy.
Administrators see if it is a viable and workable idea. A technology magazine should have a better website than this!!!

Regular Updates

Update the site regularly......Update the site with the new issue details 2 days before the month starts

change the forum theme plzzzzzzzzzz

Yes do it.................it seems digit wants a min of 300 votes i counted 133 some time back this way it's gonna take another few months ................nooooooo!!!

R

An INTERNET section included in the forum would be cool

Patron points?

Digit patron site will not display the current,total points,unless we enter the patron code for the
current month :evil:

.Why is it so?

Yes good point, maybe they are forcing you to do this!!
anyways at the end of the day you'll be the one who benefits right!!

Honsetly CH!P's site is faaaaaaar better.
Your new site is still not attractive.

C

SWEET SNEHA said:
Honsetly CH!P's site is faaaaaaar better.
Your new site is still not attractive.

you shld go thru chip's site again, it's agood design but the forum is plauged. Anyway, i agree that the homepage here really needs a revamp

C

wait a minute, isn't disussing this against the rules, and that leads me to say one more thing, the forum rules and moderation are wayyyyy to restrictive and strict

cyberia.in said:
you shld go thru chip's site again, it's agood design but the forum is plauged. Anyway, i agree that the homepage here really needs a revamp

Yeah the forum looks DULL , no AVATARs allowed!!!

But the point system is very good.
One will be ranked according to his knowledge not by post counts

M

^^^ Its more geeky

C

which, chip ???

chip's a good forum, but once you move from the townsqare, to knowhow and lure ppl with points, it suddenly goes from dumb ppl to hyper-smart ppl.

Guess ppl will do anything for points

C

One more thing, you guys better take time out and upgrade ur phpbb coz 2.0.6 is old and vunerable (no, this is not a threat)

it's .15 just not upgraded the version in sql

C

good then. has anything with the themes thread been decided. i'm still sad hat solaris was'nt there. it looks ultra cool and isn't an eye-strainer either

T

the homepage sucks especially in firefox in ie also not good

do something

the feature of having new posts of forum on homepage was good why did u remove it??

???

SWEET SNEHA said:
Honsetly CH!P's site is faaaaaaar better.
Your new site is still not attractive.

Chip's site is only attracting traffic because of their awesome points system. Their forum (townsquare) is extremely dull and it's turning duller by the day. Mainly because they are concentrating on improving Know-How and not Townsquare. Believe me, I'm a very active member there.

digit's forum is waaay better. New posts every second. Enough to keep anyone hooked.

The readers option poll hasnt been updated for June on thinkdigit.com

A technology quiz and similar interactive contents will be great.

G

Remap Website

Hi all

Digit main website should have
1.new look & feel
2.Apply new color combination
3.Enter site should in CSS
4.User should get the information on singleclick

-Grafix Guru

Re: Remap Website

grafixguru said:
4.User should get the information on singleclick

-Grafix Guru

It was the same before and even now.

G

Re: Remap Website

achacko@dataone.in said:
grafixguru said:

4.User should get the information on singleclick

-Grafix Guru

Click to expand...

It was the same before and even now.

If i want to change mailing addres, i need to click 2 times. Instead of that they can provide dropdown menu & keep single click.

-Guru

stupid search bar

hi team digit,

i just now see this post and i am sorry for the late post.

i think you had to improve the website a lot. because when i searched for "Firefox" in the search box it doesnot show any results!!.

why?

Is the search bar really useful, if so then for why? just for realoding the page

*www.thinkdigit.com/currentissue.html

hey guys check this page on digit's website The cover is of july issue and content is of jume issue

looks digit ppl are a bit bored of typing..

He He he :lol:

~

Main site should be in CSS!
Change the forum software to vB or MyBB.

R

please update the CDS & DVDS CONTAINS

HELLO,

I SEE EVERY MONTH THAT THE MAIN FOLDER MEANS THE PICTURE OF THE BOOK IS UPDATED BUT NOT THE CONTIANS AND SOFTWARE OR THE DIGIT OF EVERY MONTH IN ONLINE IS NOT USUALLY UPDATED.... WELL IT WAS UPDATED IN PAST TIME BUT NOW NO ONE CARES ABOUT THAT.....

PLZ CONSIDER AND CLEAR THE TOTAL UPDATE IS NEEDED...

THANKS...

mARKETING mANAGER
sNUDAR..

forums need a new theme, how about jazzy silver-platinum color?

N

digit mag n website sucks

E

plz plz plz change the theme of the forum.
i have got bored of this now.
but don't select a very dark theme.
Rest is Best.

A

change the theme to a techno one

I'm facing some problems...

1.) There is no button for View unread posts.
Yah! There is one button View posts since last visit.
But it shows the posts since our last visit. i.e. If I click on it, it shows all the posts that were posted after my last visit. FINE. but when i click on Mark all forums read, and again click on View posts since last visit it again shows all the posts that hv been read. Its irritating. In this condition I hv to see the icon of posts so that i can know which posts i hv read and which not.

There should be one button View New posts (as its in IPB) to see only new posts.

2.) The button Mark all forums read should be present in the Search page also. Its only in forum index page. So whenever we want to mark all posts as read, we hv to go to forum index then click on this button.

3.) The View posts since last visit button creates one more problem,as I faced today.
When i clicked on it, it showed 3 pages of unread posts, I was opening posts in other tabs and when i reached on 2nd page, my net connected and i was logged off automatically. When i reconnected the net and click on the link to open other posts in tabs. For my surprise it asked to login although I didnt click on logoff button and didnt closed the browser.
Thats why all my unread posts were lost.
When I filled my username & password and again logged in , it showed no posts in View posts since last visit.
Very sad.

So pls do something for it.

N

Is somebody reading this also or are we alone posting and reading this thread?

Now I'm also feeling the same what navjotsingh posted.
Pls give the solution of my problem.
Is there neother method to see only unread posts, which i don't kno.

PS: Mods & admin, pls make this topic sticky. So that next time if a member wants to posts his problem or suggestions, he'll not need to search for this topic. It should be sticky.

N

There seems no end in bugs on their site. Here look at this:

*img164.imageshack.us/img164/2312/f2vz.th.jpg

Where are the bars?

i think they have sold the site to somebody and kept the forum with them....LOL...........

Seems nobody here wants to solve or give his comments on some1's problem or suggestions.
Yah! all r ready at once if some1 do some mistake or post something wrong or in wrong thread.
All will be there to tell u that Please search before posting or Wrong Section, etc.

Pls mods & admin!
come on and tell me the solution.
Can't we upgrade to IPB board.
I know its tough but will be very nice for our gr8 forum...

N

According to me vBulletin is much better than IPB.

But it lakes many features as they r present in IPB.

I think this thread is not visible to mods & admin

Thats why none of them is replying here...

This thread is only for sharing problems among members only. This thread is useless & should be Closed, if no mod or admin reads or replies here.

Very SAD...

Sad Sad Sad

Digit's help seeker is always sad...

They read no posts,
They need no help posts,
All they need is complimentary posts...

Sad, really sad indeed....

:roll: :roll: :roll:

When will they open the bazzar i wonder....

I really wonder!
No mod or admin replied after so many posts here.

T

I got a suggestion for Bazaar forum-

if you can re-open it, this time make is moderated forum where the posts would be moderated 1st then after mod approval posted!! So, everything would be censored and under control. New ppl. could be appointed for this!

U r right,
And Digit can give chat as well, if not in php, then in something else diffrently...

What the heck, i cant pm others any time but they can pm me, isnt this forced spamming, i cant even reply to any mail i get !
what is this nonsense ???? :evil:

When I click on Report button to report any post to moderators, the browser shows some progress but after that nothing happens?
I hv some queries regarding it:

Is it normal?
Does the post reported to the moderators?
Do the moderators know which member has reported that post?
It doesnt show ne confirmation screen, like "Thanks for reporting" or "Your post has been reported", etc.

Pls mods & admin answer my queries.
thnx in advance...

That happens for me too...
I guess tis normal as SILENT REPORTING 8)

One thing is now clear!

If u hv ne problem with the forum, don't post here.
U'll never get the answer from mods or admin.
Don't know why they don't give reply here?

thnx QwertyManiac,
U always clear the thing and answer here...

@ Vishal Gupta .. There must be some problem at your side .. When you report a post you get the confirmation :

Code:

Report submitted. Thank you for helping the ThinkDigit forum team.

And the reported posts' icon gets changed ..

Thats what I was thinking..
I'm not getting ne confirmation after clicking on the Report button.
It means The posts were not reported, for which I clicked on the report button.

I think it must be a Firefox issue?

Now its working fine!
I tried to report previous post of it_waaznt_me.
And it was successfully reported.
I just clear the cache and cookies of my firefox browser.
May be that was the reason that Report button was not working for me.
But now its working.

And SORRY for reporting that post, I was just checking that its working or not.

Vishal Gupta said:
Now its working fine!
I tried to report previous post of it_waaznt_me.
And it was successfully reported.
I just clear the cache and cookies of my firefox browser.
May be that was the reason that Report button was not working for me.
But now its working.

And SORRY for reporting that post, I was just checking that its working or not.

wah! reporting Moderator's post to himself, now tat's something you really don't see every day :lol:

Guys!
That was only a testing...
And I hv removed it from reported list.

I wanted to know one more thing, when we report ne post, is it reported to all moderators or some of them?

Hmm.. All the moderators of the section get the report list .. If email notification is enabled, everyone will get a notification .. if its not then whichever mod is online that time or come online earliest will get the report ..

Btw .. You can delete your reported by again clicking on Report button if you accidently reported a valid post .. The post above is still under reported status .. ^^

thnx for ur reply...

But I hv removed the post from Reported list.
It now shows the normal ! icon to report it.

Mods!
Pls take a look at this topic:

*thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=232490

I can't see Report and Fast Reply buttons here!

And when i clicked on Post Reply button, it returned to Forum Index page.

So I can't reply in this topic!
Whats the problem?

PS: Pls make this thread Sticky, This thread should be sticky so that all members can post their comments and suggestions here without wasting their time in finding this topic...

Hehe .. Try this .. It will work I persume .. The point is your cookies are stored as -*www.thinkdigit... format and you are accesing it as -*thinkdigit.... so its not working ..

.. I use it quite frequently to find topic of interests without logging on ..

thnx...
It worked!!!
Actually this link was posted in some post and when i clicked on it, it didnt show Fast Reply button and Report button.
So I aksed here.
ne way thnx again...

OMG!!!
I logged in the forum and click on View posts since last visit button, It showed me 3 pages of posts.
I opened all posts of first page in other tabs and clicked on the 2nd page, but while processing, my net connection was disconnected and I lost all my unread posts...

Its very irritating and sad...
Pls do something for it...
Now after loggin in again its not displaying those posts, althought it should show them cauz I didnt read them...

S

BEST BUY...

Now a days,with a hell lot of stuffs in the market,it becomes a tedious job to chose between the budget and the quality in getting a new computer.

In the DIGIT magazine,U people are doing a good job on analysing a product and are bringing us the available brands and hell lot of information.Those stuffs are only for people who already own a computer and who would like to upgrade or change,as per their requirement.

But what about people who want to get a new PC as a bundle.

So,what u can do is...
analyse a list of stuffs required for a PC,budget and quality wise,every month and can display it in the website,where anyone could blindly select the stuffs and get them...
how about this idea,guys????

a complete overhaul, more links (actually all the links), a nice look, fast loading.

T

Well.... right now, the subscription form is giving tomcat error.

I think the colours and design of thinkdigit.com is really dull it must be improved drastically

I noticed one problem today!
When I post ne reply, the next page, which always showed Click here to view your message OR click here to return forum index, is not displaying these two links... (sometimes displaying and sometimes not)
Only blank message box, no link...

And one more thing!
Now i can see the Report button in my posts too.
Thats new and funny too.
Why i'll want to report my own post?

So pls take a look...

Vishal Gupta said:
And one more thing!
Now i can see the Report button in my posts too.
Thats new and funny too.
Why i'll want to report my own post?

So pls take a look...

See this thread:
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27703

I didnt understand!
What u wanted to show me?
I even can't understand the use of Report button in member's own post?
And it was not there recently.
I noticed it only today!!!

S

HEY!!!....i just refreshed the page and the new theme got loaded....!!!.....i think it will take some time to get used to it.....

A

GOOD THEME
EXCEPT AT SOME PLACES THERE IS WHITE FONT USED ON CREAM BACKGROUND (E.G.- QUICK REPLY AT THE END OF PAGE)

S

New Themes

I think the new themes are quite attractive. Let us know...

The new is superb and really attractive.

New theme of the forum is cool
Good Work Digit ppl

A

Nice new forum but change the main website also..l make iit attractive and interactive

Today I logged in and again I see only the old theme.I tried refreshing.If logout I again see the new theme.

S

vignesh said:
Today I logged in and again I see only the old theme.I tried refreshing.If logout I again see the new theme.

SAME HERE!!

N

Till the time you change the theme in your profile how will the forum know what you want? Go to Profiles and change the theme from there.

Thanks it works now.

The ThinkDigit Really needs to Improve CUZ its representing Out Nation!

Vishal Gupta said:
I even can't understand the use of Report button in member's own post?

Well, supose u have said a wrong statement and u unfortunately have had many people quoted u before editing it, then u can report urs and maybe mod will edit all the qotes too

Yes, but its strange enough...

Maybe also if u want to delete ur thread u created accidentally before searching...(and if somebody ahs already postted on it..) u can help it by reportin ur thread itself !

T

The entire design of the site needs a face lift.

It would be great if the site features the following

1. Better navigation

2. Attractive home page with modern css

3. Better accesibility for fire fox

4. A decent professional colours such as black, white or a simple yet attractive integrated colours

Provide a direct and more prominent link for digitpatron the ad on the right needs to go

S

Hi guys, can anyone tell me how do i install doskey in Windows XP proffessional without service pack.

wrong place for askin it

N

hmmm..

The forum is DOWN most of the time....
You keep telling that there is going to be a NEW Digit site!

I don't understand How LOOOOOONG U will take to become organised completely!

Most of my posts in the forum are not being answered..
well if no one knows the answer please say no idea..at least i know sum1's alive!!!

This topic has been unfairly locked
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30796
I request it to be reopened

It wasnt unfairly locked. Infact its deleted now.

Forums rules dont allow you to discuss anything about pornography and your post tried to run a good for nothing survey related with it. No need for any more explanation on the same. Dont make it an issue in the other forum sections. If you have anything against that decision, PM forum admins.

i have done that

and guess what...................they haven't updated their website still

its 3rd of nov

they are lazy 4 sure

R

SWEET SNEHA said:
and guess what...................they haven't updated their website still

its 3rd of nov

they are lazy 4 sure

Totally agree man! and the guy at digit are not alone in this lazyness competetion, the chaps at Chip are a bit more lazy. Don't beleive me? Check out there web site chip-india.com

Well, it basically relates to the thinkdigit patron program. Why don't u introduce more games of previous years & other softwares pop. in the exchange gifts section? I'm tired of seeing the same things again-again & i'm waiting to invest my points in a good bargain.

so finally digit forum gets its own ad!!!

congrats !!

BYE!!

-MOJOJOJO-

S

The Signatures must be allowed. If it is disallowed because people use images on signatures then, why not restrict images in signatures using a mod and allow it to be back. If it is for some other reason then not complaining.

V

how about having an downloadable archieve all previous posts of the forum

i am sure it will go long way in most of the lay problems

and avoids repetition !!!!!!!!!!

If it wud be there it wud be biiiiiiigggggg and i guess the search button is much more handy

good idea btw...

What is this?????????????

*img518.imageshack.us/img518/874/untitled0zp.th.jpg

When I clicked on "View New Posts" button, It showed all the posts with last post by "Ã?xB".

But when i clicked on the posts, no last post was posted by this member "Ã?xB"......

All posts were posted by some other members!

Is this a BUG???

I never faced such problem!!!

@ Vishal Gupta - looks like a pHp BB bug to me

not sure...

A doubt, how do u get that image nos and time taken statuses a.k.a Opera style in FF below on ur status bar ?? wich extension is it ?

V

why is the server down from 10:30 to 12:30 in the morning ????

mebbe Raaabo is taking backups or modding the board or cleaning it...

QwertyManiac said:
looks like a pHp BB bug to me

If its a BUG then its a gr8 BUG. I never saw such BUG in ne other forum... :shock:

QwertyManiac said:
A doubt, how do u get that image nos and time taken statuses a.k.a Opera style in FF below on ur status bar ?? wich extension is it ?

Its an extension for firefox, named "Extended Statusbar"

U can d/l it from here.

V

ok finally today

the forum is was not down

did some one here meee ...

thank u folks !!!

D

i think you should allow signatures and that too not big than 600 X 75.
cause there are some members who want to show their skills in imagery through their signstures!

and i think you should change the theme of this forum like it should have some interactive buttons or other things and good color scheme, present one is good but make it the best!

guys take a look at my own forum - GrapphiX
you guys can make the forum look like tabbed theme like in my Forum!
and your banner is too small make it little bit large!

guys you can add a forum based just on graphics
as i have made a discussion board (link given above)

X

i think you should make it more navigational. more links on the home page would do. it looks quite bare now.add something like latest technology news.

D

guys you can add a forum based just on graphics
as i have made a discussion board (link given above)

G

Surely a new and brighter colour scheme. Something which involves Black. How about something like gamespot.com

S

WHERE ARE THE DIGIT CD/DVD ARCHIVES?? HOW DOES ONE SEARCH FOR A PARTICULAR SOFTWARE?? ANYONE PLEASE!!!

C

Yea i also want cd/dvd archives. Now i wanted to know where digit had given gta:vc mods or not. Man it was so difficult. I went thru 12-15 cds and dvds. Still i didn't find it.

H

Hi

Hi

L

"The Greatest Tech Magazine's Need"

Hi editor i have been a what to say a fan of your tech magzine since the very first day my father handed me a copy of tis subscription to me.

I am very fortunate to be a reader of this tech magazine as it si faithful in alomst every aspect in anathiing its reader with the swarming world of technology.

It is complete and competent with others in all respects except one which i have eagerly wanted to suggest you to include in your editorial.
The magazine has a highly glorifying knowledge on hardware components of machine and all its related facts and measures. But the one thing that most of its part does not seems in lcuding is anout softwares and programming which is with the main rythm of India and so need to be told and explained with every criss crossing time.Many of other countries tech magzines that i have read have large disusions points and related convelgence of sftwares and programming but digit lacks spirit in this area.

So i would earnestly like to suggest you to hold graded reviews such as top ten softwares reviews for particular field in wich the software gas its application. Discussions of what Users say after use of such softwares, newly launched and exciting softwares etc.
And also on programming side you should implement new dimensions of discussion with the latest Criteria of creation of program,use of platform langusges to devlop the satisfactory programming,Insights of programmer how they do so,also details of newly launched or available books that can help reader understand the new and use old parallels of programming simultaneously and efficiently,and also how to use logics and reasoning in programming and all relevant data and facts about prgramming is what needed to cope up the fullfillment.

But it should not be misunderstand be with my dislikes for digit as these are mere suggestions that i as a reader feel to suggest. But Imust trully say that digit has always been like a tech guru to me and a friend to help me frighten and astonish my friend with my tech knowledge that Ivirtually inherit from Digit.
Thanks to all who are behind this great convergence of knowledge.

I

Online order for dec 05 extra items

Hallo Rabbo
I feel disappointed by not seeing any link to order extra items in dec issue viz.game and movie dvd on thinkdigit.com. It is very unconvenient to order the things by old offline method. Also can you make arrangemets for online direct banking transaction.
Thank you

Want More Stuff..

I think that apart from digit articles and forum there shd be more stuff availaible.Most imp--Update frequently.

Few shortcomming in this months magzine(CD/DVD)...

1)It reached me way to late...
2)Loads of ADs...It was like reading Cosmo or sumtin..!
3)Pathetic presentation of the Zero1 awards..not at all user-friendly!!the tennis players on the sides occupied too much of space..(not required)
3)The CD/DVD did not contain very good s/w(u provided better ones about a yr ago..)

M

hey ppl, can we start hacking challenges,online puzzles in this web site.
this seems amazing

W

Digit Booklet.

Digit has been doing excellently for the last one year. The inclusion of booklet was the master stroke. I have liked all the booklets. I would like Digit to give a Booklet on ' Photoshop for Dummies' or something like that where in photo editing is dealt with exclusively in user friendly language. The help menus in the softwares for photo editing take too much for granted.

Another thing I would like to say is that I am a regular subscriber and would have liked to renew for more than one year, had the Digit decided to give discount instead of giving some cheap trinkets alongwith the subscription. 128 MB is too less a capacity for pendrive when 512 MB/1GB is the norm. And whoever heard of a 640*480 pixel camera being called a digital camera. Gimme a break Digit! Even regular webcams are doing better these days. All in all, it is the least attractive subscription offer till date for Digit. So this year I have renewed my subscription for only one year, hoping that next time I will get a smarter subscription offer.

For the rest , Digit is doing great.

B

Here i would like to bring my bad experiances with DIGIT websites

1. In the magazene link for DIGIT PATRON is printed as

Code:

www.thinkdigit.com/digitpatron

. but actually the link has been changed to

Code:

www.thinkdigit.com/dpnew

. this has happened long time back and still they have not updated in the magazene.

2. when i visited

Code:

*www.thinkdigit.com/subscribe/

and clicked at the link SUBSCRIBE which is at the bottom most row, it points to

Code:

*www.thinkdigit.com/subscribe/encyclopedia.html

. but actually a page with

Code:

*www.thinkdigit.com/subscribe/offersubscribe.html

opens and gives a link to download subscription form as

Code:

*www.thinkdigit.com/RenewalOrderFormforWEB.pdf

which says valid till sept 2005. Is this the way to keep the website with latest info. Is this the way they develope and maintain the site. So don't claim that you are uptodate.

A new Forum

Don't we have form discussing topics on security purely on Network security PC security like White Hats hacking preventions

a forum discussing career oportunity

think about it and only think digit

V

Have a little competition : Let the members have a crack at designing the new web site of ThinkDigit.com

As far as content goes, YOU'll are the numero uno as far computer/tech related magazines goes in India and I think you'll should show that in your web site too. Also maybe some of the digit staff could write blogs (even M$ and Sun employees are doing it...).

Also let selected members of the forum to maybe contribute articles/reviews on the site and publish the best every month in the magazine

A

awesome idea!!
white hat competitions
programmer resources
downloads section plzzzzzz
cd/dvd archive search
digit team blogs
member articles
digit chat

old issues for download (plzzzzzzz )
and please suggesttion for digit mag.........ads kam karo yaar.........femina aur cosmo mein usse kam ads hoti hain

and please include some real tech articles like the one on lord of the code........
some articles on linux...........their content is miniscule

and/or u can post articles on linux on the website and

post detailed test reviews on the website

Ok now this is something I have been seeing for 3-6 days on the forum. After any user logs on to the forum then the username appears on the left hand side upper corner. So then this means that a certain user is browsing the site. But then still we can see the log in box under the banner advertisement. Raaabo or whoever else is responsible for the forum pls look into this matter might be a case of overlooked settings but just thought that as a member I must bring it to your attention thats all. Thanks.

1

Advertisement banners

Dated the 26th of December,2005.
Umm..........the Skoar gaming contest advertisement banners still appear inspite of that event having ended

Please look into the same.
Yours faithfully,

Whenever I login the forum, the username & password boxes r still there in Forum index page!

Its very strange!!!

I'm attaching a screenshot:

*img431.imageshack.us/img431/3994/untitled3ri.th.jpg

So u r back vishal.

@vishal - a fella started a thread regardin that and Deep said the bug will be ironed out.. also some ppl are unable to log-out also...

Ohhh k

Hope they will solve the problem very soon

The Homepage looks so ordinary, first thing bring some life in the homepage. It looks so cheap

To be basically thinkdigit means thinkdigit.com/forum... about the website... its pretty crap... and that too i am saying the least..... i have not visited it for months...... and visit directly to the forums.... i wonder soo many geeks are here to run such a wonderful forum but the team at digit are not working about their website.....

Frankly, its a shame to call urself the fore runners of technology magzine with such apoor website.. which is called the FACE to the digital world..... And are these reasons is enough to have a few of ur geeks who drool over modded gaming rigs and still to release products spare a quick gaming session on regular basis and opt for improving it.....

Its like indian goverment... india striving economic growth on IT and services and hardly their is any web presence about their goverment... similarly is the case with DIGIT....

Please update the site.. it really needs a face lift.... we are here to help you people... and dont mind if my words were very harsh....

P

i dont know whether this is the right place to post, well my suggestion is on digt patron.
Almost all the prizes in the dgit patron program are not that usefull for many of the readers.
so, if there is some offer like "free subscriptions to digit" it will be helpfull for many news stand readers like me.
Infact i have 300 points with me and i dont know what to do?

V

why is the site down all of last nite

anyways,
i think its high time we get the Bazaar section back
i know the risks involved, but i guess we can take them
how abt putting a warning, or a disclaimer ,

but please get it back,
all the rival forums have it tooo

jay4u said:
To be basically thinkdigit means thinkdigit.com/forum... about the website... its pretty ****... and that too i am saying the least..... i have not visited it for months...... and visit directly to the forums.... i wonder soo many geeks are here to run such a wonderful forum but the team at digit are not working about their website.....

Frankly, its a shame to call urself the fore runners of technology magzine with such apoor website.. which is called the FACE to the digital world..... And are these reasons is enough to have a few of ur geeks who drool over modded gaming rigs and still to release products spare a quick gaming session on regular basis and opt for improving it.....

Its like indian goverment... india striving economic growth on IT and services and hardly their is any web presence about their goverment... similarly is the case with DIGIT....

Please update the site.. it really needs a face lift.... we are here to help you people... and dont mind if my words were very harsh....

Ditto. The site is c_r_a_p. The previous site was better looking than the current one. Atleast, it had links to some useful, but outdated articles.
The new site is s_h_i_t.

pratheesh_prakash said:
i dont know whether this is the right place to post, well my suggestion is on digt patron.
Almost all the prizes in the dgit patron program are not that usefull for many of the readers.
so, if there is some offer like "free subscriptions to digit" it will be helpfull for many news stand readers like me.
Infact i have 300 points with me and i dont know what to do?

I have got 380 points with no good gifts to redeem them with.
All the privided gifts are old & have been given previously as part of magazine, CD/DVD.

C

the site SUCKS
i dunno wat is the problem in making a good site by such a big company.

As 4 the gifts.well they r throw aways.
only Encyclopedia is worth taking

L

A DIGIT BLUFF?

:evil:

Guys ,
The "home companion" article in the jan 2006.seems to be a bluffed up one.

Under the value pc the digit award went to HCL Ezeebee 4981 priced @ Rs24,990 with P42.6Ghz,512MB DDR,17inch CRT monitor.,combo drive

I had been to the HCl website recently and had a check on the same PC Ezeebee 4981 what i found was two pC`s with the same name.but none of them matched with the digit config.

Did digit cheet us all?

Or an error from part of digit?
you can see the file in the following link

"*www.hclstore.com/img/Ezeebee pentium.pdf"

COPY THE LINK IN YOUR BROWSER TO VIEW THE FILE

Change the design completely. The present design SUX. Really. That manu is horrible. Plz do something.

rana_punjabi_sardar said:
SWEET SNEHA said:

and guess what...................they haven't updated their website still

its 3rd of nov

they are lazy 4 sure

Click to expand...

Totally agree man! and the guy at digit are not alone in this lazyness competetion, the chaps at Chip are a bit more lazy. Don't beleive me? Check out there web site chip-india.com

Atleast chip-india.com is filled with links & other stuff.
thinkdigit.com is lame as a lama.
The site is nothing but a page with few useless links.
Even I could have done better than that.
I know...

I just designed 2 sites - one for my semester project & the other for my assignment. And they both contained more links than thinkdigit.com & were more attractive.

1

My suggestion

I think that guest posting should be allowed in certain channels of the bulletin boards.
Also,I think that in any message,signatures are needed more than :roll: `Avatars` :roll:
So I guess disabling signatures is not as useful as is disabling `Avatars`.

V

Why waste time giving your valuable suggestions to DIGIT .. when they have vowed not to fulfuil them

C

varun_ag said:
Why waste time giving your valuable suggestions to DIGIT .. when they have vowed not to fulfuil them

right

did they done any "good" changes in their website

the thread is running frm months

and only we readers are reading this thread i think. No digit representatives have read it or replied till now...

V

Why not actually make something instead of ask the forum members what to make ? That way we can offer our views. This thread has been going on for a long time and I have my doubts wether the Digit team is serious about any if not all of the suggestions given here. I think instead of all this nonsense you'll [ the DIGIT team ] should just make a straightforward, clean, site and leave room for expanding the site. And don't say the present thinkdigit.com is CLEAN. The layout is just done rashly and the colours are ugly in my humble opinion.

hmmm atleast they fixed the menu

The website www.thinkdigit.com loads very slowly even
on broadband!! I think it's time to upgrade the Server.
The 'search' option does not give accurate results.
The latest hardware prices listing would also be very
helpful. How about using some eye-candy cool icons?
Overall the website needs some more improvements.
I think you guys have the potential & the resources
to create India's best website.

A

JGuru said:
The website www.thinkdigit.com loads very slowly even on broadband!! I think it's time to upgrade the Server. The 'search' option does not give accurate results. The latest hardware prices listing would also be very helpful. How about using some eye-candy cool icons?
Overall the website needs some more improvements. I think you guys have the potential & the resources to create India's best website.

I agree with JGuru completely.. i'm on a 512+ connection and Digit's site is slow as snail. Its really time to upgrade the server.

I think thier software is fked up or something... sometimes while blowsing even when digit isnt down, I get a critical error and on refresh it goes away...

Hey How come the site never loads in the afternoons
I mean The main site does but the forum does not seem to load at all
And i sometimes get a pHP BB could not connect error
BTW i am on 512 kbps bband

Darthvader said:
Hey How come the site never loads in the afternoons
I mean The main site does but the forum does not seem to load at all
And i sometimes get a pHP BB could not connect error
BTW i am on 512 kbps bband

I agree.
And the site sometime comes down for a whole day.
I mean whether I try in morning, afternoon, evening, night, it's always down. What's the problem??
Are they trying to upgrade to the new phpBB v2 ??

Ok now the site is off da hook. Its nice to see this after what had gone thru with the members and the mods. Wow, man u really pulled it off this time. Could u do a favour for me change the color scheme pls. (Red is bad 4 me)

First congratulations to all members/mods/admins for the new Board

Its really looking nice but Very slow

All sites r opening very fast here but not this forum...

One suggestion also!
The Quick Reply is activated once we click on the "Quick Reply" button in any post. This is very irritating! The Quick Reply option should be activated by default, members should not be forced to click on the quick reply button to activate it!

Vishal Gupta said:
First congratulations to all members/mods/admins for the new Board
Its really looking nice but Very slow
All sites r opening very fast here but not this forum...

One suggestion also!
The Quick Reply is activated once we click on the "Quick Reply" button in any post. This is very irritating! The Quick Reply option should be activated by default, members should not be forced to click on the quick reply button to activate it!

The "click for quick reply" thing is so that you can:
1. Quote the message you're replying to, and
2. Get an RE: Subject line so that you know which post you're replying to even if you don't quote it.

We like the idea, but will consider changing it if too many people cry about it.

1) Please use diffrent color rather than red.it looks cheap ! !
2) Reduce Page size to save brandwith of bb users & time of dial-up users

First of all,

A Hearty Congratulations to the Digit Team for a new and improved look of the Digit Forums.

I would like to add that the Links and content (newly added) are a treat to see but regarding the colour that is being used for the Forum is a bit bright, rich and strain to the eyes. Please try to reduce the brightness of the color used.

The relaunch of the siggy section (signatures) in the posts are a welcome treat, but please make sure that users do not advertise and/or post images/flash icons/links in their siggies. It will spoil the look of each thread and will often distract the users from the original topic and there is no continuity in the threads. Siggies look good only with the text which adds a tinge of humour and defines a unique identity to every user.

Overall, the forum is really promising. Happy posting in the Forums.

Cheers n e-peace.....

S

As Vishal pointed out, requiring quick reply to click first on a post slightly defeats the purpose of a quick reply... Perhaps the quick reply button on each post can be changed to "Quote in Quick Reply" - ie, the quick reply form will be available directly for editing, and by clicking the Quote in Quick Reply button, one can automatically add the quote code in the post...

Secondly, I too feel that the color is too bright... The previous forum layout with bluish tones is much more easier on the eye...

Thirdly, out of curiosity, what is the status of reinstating the old mods and admins? Any talks going on within team digit and also between the mods and team digit?...

Other than that, I think things look good so far... Wishing team digit good luck with the new forum interface....

Arun

thanx to roobo for color change
it a lot more better ! !

Cool Wow, New Digit Improved Forum

Its good to see the forum has some changes. But what is mean by Rep Power?

@ Raboo

Thanx for the soothing Aqua color bro

its much more pleasant to browse the forum...

Cheers n e-peace....

Wow ..!! Nice to see Digit forums back .. Its responding so slow here

..

H

Well
finally got a new look.

I'll take some time before I get hang of this new look.

BTW I can't get Quick Reply to work.

hey the new forum is absolutely rocking yaar. Cool interface...

. Anyway, congratulations to the new administrators and moderators. And the site loads fast too, and there are a lot of new features. Now that's what I call a forum of a leading technological magazine in India.

First of all, congrats to Digit for the new forum.

But..... why vBulletin yaar?? It consumes more bandwidth. I will run out of my BW before the month is half over. I prefer PHPBB

Hats up!!! -digit guys

User interface looks good than ever! the site is also fast compared to before

hey guys from on..
there is no need to click quick reply to ativate Quick reply but what about our avataars?

nithinks said:
User interface looks good than ever! the site is also fast compared to before

after all it is vBulletin and costs bucks lol

A theme would surely make it look much better!!
..:: peace ::..
Jeba

been waiting for this transformation for ages.
finally it has happened!
vBulletin is the way too go even if it consumes more bandwidth.
thanx for increasing the avtar size.
i suggest some more themes be introduced though this aqua colour is good.
BTW wat is rep power.well one thing i cud find tht it has nuthin to do wid post count.
and ya have the resident techie,digizited etc status tags been completely removed for senior members and junior members??

K

finally... u guys have done it again... now it looks really wonderful and the color is a blessing

much faster more easier to user...... u guys have done your homework!

R

The website needs to reflect the Digit magazine. It should have more content. At present we have only four sections. Plus the homepage must be updated and the format should be completely changed. You won't notice any change in website if you are seeing it even after a week.

The colour scheme needs to be more vibrant. The forum colour pattern can have a nicer shade of blue like the one used by Windows XP.

N

Try to publish more articles from previous issues specially those from Case Study.

Disbling HTML code was understandable in the SIGNATURES but Why vBCodes hv been disabled in SIGNATURES?

Pls enable vBCode in signatures...

If u click on ur username, u'll get the option "Find All Posts by xxx"

ul have to make it better........a more sophisticated look.............its too outdated.........more urban colors........3D buttons........better organized

amp said:
& we dont get any alerts when ppl reply 2 ur post or any other post where u have replied ...

alerts as in email in ur inbox ...

You need to set this in the User CP under Edit Options

Go to the Default Thread Subscription Mode section and select Instant email Notification.

ur uid changed as teh forum got upgraded to vBull.... :))

...........holy crap.....go shoot the guy who did it...... :))

Great !

add more themes...

Were is the memberlist dropdown box with stuff like arrange by date,posts etc ?

A

first of all the sites like yours lacks a professional touch seriously and having to place google adsense advertisement on a professsional magazines website is seriously wrong news that u r indirectly sending. another rhing is that as most forum sites on the internet follow a general rule of following the address like this ::: *forums.websitename.com ::: (here in this case the website name is thinkdigit hence the complete address wuld b *forums.thinkdigit.com

hey guys i did post before if we could use our digit ids to recieve mail and send mail to y! and hotmail.

Move the whole forum structure to IPB instead of vBulliten
Just look at IPB forums, they look awesome
And all the changes that have ever been mentioned will come automatically with IPB.
Or you could use phpBB.

vBuletin is fast but IPB is awesome

Here is the link to IPB
*www.invisionboard.com/

Also here is the list of features
*www.invisionpower.com/ip.dynamic/products/board/features.html

I also request all users to go to this site and see if it is better or not

New colour theme....

And this one error I get most of the time

"The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 30 characters. "

Ya the Thirty character Roadblock shud Be certainly cleared
After all a smile can be worth a thousand words
ANd the theme is getting dull

Well u guys could include a option in the DIGIT site (thinkdigit.com), where the subscriber could login check their account info, when their copy is being dispatched and also see the courier info who would be delivering the copy.
As u see, I am not getting the mail regarding the dispatch of my subscriber copy and everytime have to mail Digit for the info. I know that ur customer care is there but during holidays they are not available.
And moreover you will have direct contact with the subscriber and could improve ur service for better (like say if the courier service does not deliver the copy in time, a customer can inform u immediately).
Look into my request and see if its viable. Thanks.

Couldn't find a link to request RSS feeds from ur site

Please take my suggestion to provide RSS feeds if not already provided.

I miss the "Unanswered threads" option in PHPBB. Anyways here is a mod/hack for vB (official...)

*www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=63008

Yeah with heavy images instead of <can be put> text

Yes, yes, we know. I'm hoping you took that survey - it'll be an important deciding factor for the massive overhaul Thinkdigit is going to go through.

I don't know whether this is the right place to comment.

One small problem which needs to be attended. That is on Thinkdigit Forum's Search Page not giving proper result when multiple keywords are entered.

Previously it was good as there were options to select

(a) " Find posts that contain all the keywords" &
(b) "Find posts that contain any of the Keywords enterd"

But now these options are not there. Please correct me if I am unable to see these options.

At the first opportunity, remove ad-sense !! It looks pretty cheap on a site that should have corporate looks!! IMHO, in its current state, its derogatory!

Change the looks of the site!! It seems to have been done by someone at home with a computer!

You have so many resources! Run a contest for a template in the magazine or forum and you will have hundreds of options before you! You also havea few in-house visualisers. Assign the task to someone and let him/her work on it for a week!

I have one query... Pl excuse me if it has been asked before..

I visit two forums running on vBulletin...

1) *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/index.php

2) *elsmar.com/Forums/index.php

But the smileys in the above forums are different. Please check the links below.

Think DIGIT
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/misc.php?do=getsmilies&editorid=vB_Editor_001

The ELSMAR COVE
*elsmar.com/Forums/misc.php?do=getsmilies&editorid=vB_Editor_001

The Smiley icons in the second seems to be better,
Now I wanted to know what I / digit needs to do so that we can incorporate the smiles (Elsmar Cove forum smileys) in our postings..

kl_ravi said:
I have one query... Pl excuse me if it has been asked before..

I have two forums running on vBulletin...

1) *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/index.php

2) *elsmar.com/Forums/index.php

But the smileys in the above forums are different. Please check the links below.

Think DIGIT
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/misc.php?do=getsmilies&editorid=vB_Editor_001

The ELSMAR COVE
*elsmar.com/Forums/misc.php?do=getsmilies&editorid=vB_Editor_001

The Smiley icons in the second seems to be better,
Now I wanted to know what I / digit needs to do so that we can incorporate the smiles (Elsmar Cove forum smileys) in our postings..

You run digit vb? (roflz)

Venom said:
You run digit vb? (roflz)

Oops.. I have edited my post

Indyan said:
The digit website is a joke. Looks like a site made by a 10 year old.

lol,this site is good but it needs some improvement.

I think even the no of columns used in a webpage also has a visual impact....

Presently I can see 4 columns being used. If it were 3 columns, It would have been ideal.

My monitor is set to 800 x 600 pixels resolution and still i have to scroll sideways. My suggestion is to make the page resize itself for different browser resolutions like 800 x 600 & 1024 x 768

Also I would like to comment on the "Previously published" box on the thinkdigit.com website ...

If i change my font size from medium to larger or medium to smallest, nothing seems to happen. The font used is also bold and not normal. Even this aspect might be looked into ...

V

FatBeing said:
Yes, yes, we know. I'm hoping you took that survey - it'll be an important deciding factor for the massive overhaul Thinkdigit is going to go through.

We have been hearing of this "MASSIVE OVERHAUL" for over 18 months now. God aonly knows when they would be able to complete their so called massive overhaul. Looks like they are following Vista Timeline and delays

I have seen features like VB-Plaza & vBux ... And different kinds of points & rep systems .... Can digit try out few of these ...??

i recently posted in q and a at about 6:15 pm but it shows 12:48 or something like this.please fix the clock

^^ goto your control panel and choose the right time zone, ie India.

my time settings are absolutely right

If the roll eyes smiley appears next to this sentence, the problem is solved. :roll:

Oops! Looks like it's missing.

The website could be jazzed up a little bit but I'd say the forum is perfect. The settings like 'Remember Me' on login page checked off by default, user email notifications on PM and thread subscription, off means I do not have to deal with junkloads of emails in my inbox daily. Some sites running on default installations of vBulletin 3.0.X +forget to take care of these small details which could have made life a lot easier for users.

bcoz it doesnt increase in some sections, like Chit Chat, Gamerz, etc.

If you digit people havent already noticed things going haywire with your polls, better do. It allows multiple oppurtunities at just the hold of an enter key!

Disclaimer:I don't care if some one already mentioned the point.

1.Your site have no news.
2.It lacks two important media 1.Vedio 2.Audio
>Vedio can be used to compliment the article of your magazine.
>Audio can be used for old people who can't read.
3.It have a dull means of iteraction for the mag.
>I think you can atleast print the hottest forum topic in mag.
4.Site can be used to troubleshoot distinct problems which you guyz can't print in mag.

I think there should be more ways, which my friends can point out.
Thankyou.

K

Say, why isnt the subscription page updated ??? I was going to subscribe until I saw that the declaration "Offer is only valid until Dec 2006" !!

Subscribers could easily get cheated thinking that the offer is still valid and subscribe unless they have read all the fine print carefully !

Please update that asap. I want to know if there are any offers for subscribing now or not.

Blazingfire said:
Disclaimer:I don't care if some one already mentioned the point.

1.Your site have no news.
2.It lacks two important media 1.Vedio 2.Audio
>Vedio can be used to compliment the article of your magazine.
>Audio can be used for old people who can't read.
3.It have a dull means of iteraction for the mag.
>I think you can atleast print the hottest forum topic in mag.
4.Site can be used to troubleshoot distinct problems which you guyz can't print in mag.

I think there should be more ways, which my friends can point out.
Thankyou.

If your post was much more understandable, probably someone would really sit up and take notice

K

Does anybody even look at the feedback posted in this thread ??

i dont think so...

hy admins
i like the interface of jan 2007 digit.
i like it.
i dont like it that when i click todigital passion digital leisure or any
other tab on cd.
than popup window come in which various software avalable.
in the previous version it is easy to know information about particular
sofwareon click and it is imporatant ilike that information and i install software on the basic of that know i am searching for information on the web
try to give that information also

^^Wrong section dude.This is for the website,not mag.Go here for this purpose
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44925

K

k4mik4z3 said:
Does anybody even look at the feedback posted in this thread ??

they specifically dont check this thread .

@krrrish......

,

ok since i know that they dont check....here is what i think the improvements could be with my 4 long years of experience with the forums

1. the reputation system suc*s big time....a forum is meant for bringing people together ....not to differentiate them....want an example...look at "esato" (my first forum) ....any esato members backing me up ?????

....(though i don't post there any more)...u can see that it behaves almost like another home like environment....just what this forum lacks
2. what about breaking up the s/w trouble shooting to multimedia,and windows tools question and answers..??
3.rename q&a to q&a for non s/w and hardware rather than providing lengthy explanation underneath.
4.mods please behave properly.....if you feel that some one is behaving badly PM them..rather than saying i have -ve repped u , stop saying blah blah blah , and so on in the post, learn from other sites....if you cant do that then stop being a MOD.
*****(stay away from fight club or delete that thread all together , rather than posting to behave properly there , u create some and expect people to behave like gentleman is not proper , let them fight, else rename to "casual chat club heavily observed by MODS".)

thats all for now....

, don't think about reading it if u are mild at heart...

p.s : those who repost the posting saying "moved to different section cause of wrong post"....please be sensible to answer that persons question , at least , sorry donno will do...that person expects an answer not a "moved " note. its perfectly fine who do the double posting under two sections....cause
1. they fail to understand the structure of this forum...indicates that u have work to do in site...

2. they are absolutely in need , in very bad need.

stop being cruel to them...also saying "problem reported blah blah blah..."

A

The digit site is so cluttered with ads that it takes ages to load on my poor dial up connection. I am a digit subscriber since 2003 but i have visited the thinkdigit home page only twice or thrice. There is nothing interesting except the forum which i visit by directly typing thinkdigit.com/forum in my browser

S

Although ur site is very gud but we should have some online quiz and exams with ur certificate.

Today i found two Discrepancies in www.thinkdigit.com

1) IN the OPINION POLL i clicked 10-15 times and for each time my click was counted... I Know it's very hard to put constraint like blocking a IP or MAC after one click coz in situations where user access through cafes.. u can't block a IP or MAC after a click.. But to a minimal can be done is Introducing a TIME GAP between successive click say of 15 min to "minimise" the fake polls and getting more nearer to real world scenario....

2) In "Interactive Content" the pdfs were not uploaded properly i guess.. coz when i tried to access those pdf they said error while opening pdf.. not single time i tried it mainer time and the result was same

So please consider my suggestion...

S

Hi,

When you will update your subscription forms. I could not find the new offer at all in the website(cutting edge) which is the banner

PLease improve the front page of the site.. it really looks pre 1998.. thesedays, u can really reduce page load times by encorporating css and tables !! Lets use em..

Can we have an Atom or RSS feed for the forums?

DTD feeds are considered a Security threat and not supported in Internet Explorer 7.

Asfaq said:
PLease improve the front page of the site.. it really looks pre 1998.. thesedays, u can really reduce page load times by encorporating css and tables !! Lets use em..

The front page looks better now, but what is still a concern for me are the ads!

*www.thinkdigit.com/thinkdigit_2007/images/advt1.jpg

This ad has no hyperlink, is static, occupies 25% of vertical screenspace and is just completely useless IMHO.. In hindsight, does JDM realy require ad-revenue?

Sorry for being suche a pessimist but the smilies on the boards are really silly.. am sure there are better smiley packs available for free off the net, if you have no luck in getting them, you can always contact me, I can help.

B

I did not know even "daemons" are admitted here

bipindesai said:
I did not know even "daemons" are admitted here

huh?

btw, welcome to the boards :smile:

The new website interface looks good-- simplistic, yet striking. But there are minor bugs..
like for example, in *www.thinkdigit.com/thinkdigit_2007/index.php?action=digital_categories&head=Digital Passion&cid=116
the "Will Wii Rock" article has been posted twice..
Nevertheless, Its good.

ax3 said:
do add " report 2 mods " as an EXTRA option in Thread Tools .........

wont it b a COOL idea 2 just click & THREAD REPORTED 2 mods ........

u can already report a 'bad post' by clicking onto the *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/images/Blue/buttons/report.gifbutton which is below the poster's avatar..

Hello guy,

This is my first time at this forum. I hope to help anyone to solve problems if I can. :))

R

OK , first of all the links for the May DVD and CD lead to the pdfs for the April DVDs and CDs please change that!!!

D

hi myself deepak,
i am using mozilla firefox2, and every time i open any webpage then it shows the message scripts are currently forbidden and in bracket java, flash, plugin. please help

hi myself deepak,
i am using mozilla firefox2, and every time i open any webpage then it shows the message scripts are currently forbidden and in bracket java, flash, plugin. please help

"it needs more changes."

says who ?
says the 18*20 posts

R

this site is good but we need the REAL DIGIT PPL TO LOOK OVER not users

like we can have agent 001 answer some questions and so too for other questions and just not edit out stuff like our RESIDENT GOD "RAABO"

coz i find this as a gr8 site to discuss but not to get help from none of my problems frm the past year and a half have been answered correctly

ratedrsuperstar said:
this site is good but we need the REAL DIGIT PPL TO LOOK OVER not users

What makes you think the users are any sort of inferior to the "Real Digit people"?

R

i'm not blaming the users but most of them come here only for help and not for much contribution and regular ones just go about posting updates and news

instead ppl like RAABO should be actively involved in sub-forums like QnA,Hardware & Software T.S.

Whenever we click on a thread link, which doesnt exist now (Due to upgrading to vBulletin), we get a broken page. For example, click on following link:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31172&highlight=

and u'll get a broken page. I think it should be changed.

the thinkdigit website is crap...its totally not in accordance to the standards of the digit magazine....plzz change it

the forum is good

the tech2 website looks good...but the website as whole is not good

make a better website....so that we can visit it as we visit tech2 often but dont visit digit website....me just got a direct bookmark to this fourm

Just one suggestion integrate forum login in website

SEARCH function on forum gives WORSE result

A serious problem with thinkdigit website & NOBODY is bothered.

The search feature on the forum doesn't give desired result !!!
Just give a seach for threads giving multiple keywords & watch the meshed up results.

The search feature on forum undoubtably FAILS to deliver !!!.

This problem was already posted in this thread on 29.06.2006. But NO response/correction have been made till now -rather the search feature function got worse than ever.

That problem is --> on Thinkdigit Forum's Search Page not giving proper result when multiple keywords are entered.

Previously (in 2005) it was good and also functioning very perfectly as there were options to select

(a) " Find posts that contain all the keywords" &
(b) "Find posts that contain any of the Keywords enterd"
But now these options are not there.

Why such LOOSE treat with DIGIT's website that claims to be NO-1 ?

Thanking you for your monthly editions,my valuable suggestion is that concentrate on security reasons and networking issues in your regular issues

its releted to our forum...after log in within few minutes i get sign out automatically....is there any cookie set for security purpose by the digiters?

@nikhil ramteke: Strange.. this does not happen wih me here.. i can close this tab and re-open it to find myself logged in automatically.. try deleting your cookies and logging in again. It should work in most cases.. if you still dont have luck, pm me

Vishal Gupta said:
Whenever we click on a thread link, which doesnt exist now (Due to upgrading to vBulletin), we get a broken page. For example, click on following link:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31172&highlight=

and u'll get a broken page. I think it should be changed.

same here earlier i was in view that My I.e has some problem but Now i

understood

Asfaq said:
@nikhil ramteke: Strange.. this does not happen wih me here.. i can close this tab and re-open it to find myself logged in automatically.. try deleting your cookies and logging in again. It should work in most cases.. if you still dont have luck, pm me

where this cookies r set 4m????n this happens on all pc's of my college....

H

When I visit my control panel, I don't see a feature for viewing only my threads and posts. Is this feature even there here or not? I'm not talking about subscribed threads but a separate link for the above said feature.

For eq., I post in a long thread, and I wish to navigate to my post in that thread, how do I do it without going through the entire thread?

Visit your profile to find those links

H

Where? I don't find any. I think you're not understanding me.

Find all posts by hitbox.champion
Find all threads started by hitbox.champion

I think this is what you are looking for right?

H

Ah thank you., there! Wish they had it in the control panel itself where all would be in once place, subscribed, posted and started ones. Feels logical!!

Edit: now can you please remove the above links Ankur? My personal space....

can anyone help me finding the "July Laptop test" article in the thinkdigit.com site. It was there some days before but i cannot find it now

i had missed this issue

V

hey guys, have'nt been in touch with the site for sometime, hence the query.....what happened to Digit Patron ? has it been scrapped ? the concerned thread is locked.

Hey How About Freedom>>>like The Mods Could Be Elected By Us

^ thats a bad idea... admins and existing mods have to select the new good MOD

R

Why Dont you guys redesign the whole site for your aniversary?Also I would really like if you people instead of just providing the link to the forums,show the New Posts posted in the forum !

ur site is a bandwidth hog.plz do something

digit forum and site is already fast enough,

but i can't open neither the forum nor the site from my desk

nobody is helping me.. i'm using opera mini

N

tuxfan said:
One thing that could make the forum pages lighter is to stop pics as signatures

There are no images allowed in signatures anyway, i tried to do that!

Hey.............Is is possible to save a thread....................
Coz.....
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5193
This Thread is 195 pages long.......and I want to see this thread offline........

If not pls Enable this option

Hmmm... save all the pages in a folder and read it whenever u want!

R

why does the "send a message via skype to ----" icon reload frm the forum rather than the cache like all other forum images.i'm using opera 8.24.

it distorts the formatting of the page for a while

Gigacore said:
Hmmm... save all the pages in a folder and read it whenever u want!

Heeeeee..........
It's booring to save 195 pages...............

V

Ron said:
Heeeeee..........
It's booring to save 195 pages...............

really admins pls enable this option.

^^there is no such option in vbulletin to enable saving of a complete thread

The Bug is really bugging me

Visit this thread
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73538
and go to cad/design section on the first page. You see three quoted messages. I added one quote for entire text but the text is automatically divided to three quotes. I tried 100 of times to remove those two extra quote but as soon as i delete them and save the post to my surprise nothing s changed again three quote.

I request admins/mods to plz help me remove it

A

utsav said:
^^there is no such option in vbulletin to enable saving of a complete thread

he is right.But i have one suggestion,use printable version of the thread(click thread tools>Show printable version).Then click show 50 posts from one thread at the top.it can reduce your work to a great degree..

V

@adi007
I tried this it greatly help..
thanks

A

^^welcome

Digit Software Archive & updates Available 4 download. :shock:

Less ads with more tech news.

hey thnks for adding two more option int he forum i.e.
Forum tools
Search the Forum.......

when a member is banned:

1. can u show the time for how long he is banned

2. can u show a message saying that he is banned coz the twice iv been banned and when i try to open the forum, it takes very long to load and sometimes just shows a message server too slow or something like that or sometimes it takes me to the home page of the person who banned me

V

In Edit Avatar Section in User CP at the bottom it is written:-

Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 80 by 80 pixels or 15.6 KB (whichever is smaller).

Can u just increase the size to around 100 X 100 pixcels..!!!

Whenver I try to upload an Animated Image it doesnot animate after uploading in this forum...!!!

My current avatar is a Animation but it is not animating..!!! :-x

Plz fix this problem...!!!

Agree with the suggestion of iMav that There must be the facility that when a user is banned for how days,hours etc etc he is banned must be shown..!!!

Ok the next thing that u can do Raboo.

See this post and the the post below it.

So plz enable Javascipt and HTML in this forum.

Hope will recieve this update ASAP..!!!

^ @ Vaibhav, I don't think its safe to enable HTML and javascript.

And here is my request:
Can we make the tutorial section only for "Procedure oriented" things. There are few threads such as "Windows error messages explained", "Web error codes and meaning", etc.

I agree that the above are not totally non tutorial type so can we have a sub-section for "informational readings" in tutorial section? In such threads there is no procedure involved, only reading is involved.

i'm unable to upload my avatar pls help me!!!!!!

it is giving an error message as "Unable to move/copy file"...what to do?????

what did u guys think you were doing?
man, i saw this coming when digit went under 9.9 media.

There are too many ads on the forum. I understand the need for money (from advertisement) but the forum is a place to discuss important issues and fix problems. It eats up bandwidth, not to mention the sheer irritation it causes. Many veterans here may decline to come now. We will then lose valuable contributors to this forum.

Forum Bachao Yaar!!!

A

Digit "THE NUMBER ONE COPYCAT"

Really shocking to see... the digit's site is a photocopy of very popular CNET or DOWNLOAD.com's website

see it for yourself
*news.cnet.com/

Really very bad on your part "SIMPLY COPIED" the interface of "CNET".

One more thing THE SEARCH BAR AT THE TOP IS N'T VISIBLE.

Great use of common sense... colouring the background of the textbox as black and nearby surroundings are also black...

Headlines are coloured grey on black background...

I guess the web designer was sleeping while he made this new website.

Overall a real shame "INDIA's ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR COMPUTER MAGAZINE's WEBSITE IS A COPY OF CNET".

iMav said:
when a member is banned:

1. can u show the time for how long he is banned

2. can u show a message saying that he is banned coz the twice iv been banned and when i try to open the forum, it takes very long to load and sometimes just shows a message server too slow or something like that or sometimes it takes me to the home page of the person who banned me

If believe that happens when you are put in the Miserable user list and not banned.

Btw, the new black layout looks good

But please change the CSS and make the hyperlinks more distinct (different colour or underlined).

N

Awesome work, Team Digit! Just awesome!

Awesome HORRIBLE WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aura said:
Digit "THE NUMBER ONE COPYCAT"
Really shocking to see... the digit's site is a photocopy of very popular CNET or DOWNLOAD.com's website
see it for yourself
*news.cnet.com/
Really very bad on your part "SIMPLY COPIED" the interface of "CNET".
One more thing THE SEARCH BAR AT THE TOP IS N'T VISIBLE.
Great use of common sense... colouring the background of the textbox as black and nearby surroundings are also black...
Headlines are coloured grey on black background...
I guess the web designer was sleeping while he made this new website.
Overall a real shame "INDIA's ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR COMPUTER MAGAZINE's WEBSITE IS A COPY OF CNET".

Lol... I can't believe you think it's a CNET ripoff... all you're looking at is some colours, which are NOT inspired by Cnet. Long time digit readers know that we have 3 basic colours that say digit... black, white and red, and we used them in our design. There are millions of sites who use crowded footers for popular links.

Ask a web designer if he thinks this is a rip off... Besides, if we had to rip off a site, there are much better designed sites than cnet to rip from.

As for the design, it's subtle... that's the idea... can you see the little magnifying glass? That symbolizes search... do you really need to "see" the "Type your search here" to know where to type your search?

Anyway, I'll count you as a negative vote for the "Do you like the new design" poll I plan on conducting soon.

@raaabo, there is a poll going on the same topic, if u r not aware of.
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118601

Bet the designer or the team used a 1024x768 or more as the default resolution while designing the site. I am have a resolution of 1280x1024 and still feel the forum very cramped.

Just to check out, I tried a low resolution of 800x600 and predictably, a very poor appearance. While the heading has a fixed width of 1024, the forum section has a width of ~850. What the heck is your design specification !!!!. I really expected something better from td.

A

Raaabo said:
We're working on a better Web site! Any suggestions? Other than the obvious ones of course!

Post feedback here about functionalities that you want in ThinkDigit.com, and also the Forum. It will take some time to implement the changes we already have planned, so please be patient.

Where Are the Morderators....

I am not able to Make A new Thread...It shows that ur Account has not been activated...
Its been so long I have registered.
I am Dying to make A New Thread nd it refuses....
It Sucks then..... :-x

Kindly see to the matter....
I Need to It urgently..... :cry:

Post some more in the forum. Try after your post count is 10 or 25. Then you should be able to make a new thread.

A

Hey Thanks ,,,,
will sure get back here after 10-20 posts.

K

The width of the forum is quite small. It should be fluid which can adjust itself to the size of the screen. and if the color can be changed a little, then it will look much better. Right now the color is very dull, otherwise very good forum to have latest news and all.

KYE_Systems said:
The width of the forum is quite small. It should be fluid which can adjust itself to the size of the screen. and if the color can be changed a little, then it will look much better. Right now the color is very dull, otherwise very good forum to have latest news and all.

So ARE THE ADMINS (who always say we oldies are always complaining and don't accept change) LISTENING what the newbies have to say?

rhitwick said:
So ARE THE ADMINS (who always say we oldies are always complaining and don't accept change) LISTENING what the newbies have to say?

One of them did and introduced smileys to the forum. :clap2:

Btw, try the Kirsch theme. Its in my sig.

lol. Funnily enough, I drove KYE_Systems towards this place.

Anorion said:
lol. Funnily enough, I drove KYE_Systems towards this place.

Good thing to do. Hope your superiors see this one. Even I feel that the forum theme should be changed. It is not possible to distinguish between text and links now. Forum width is very less, makes it tough to read content, especially with flash ads distracting. Ads should be for non-registered users. Best if ads disappear when we log in. Majority of users are guests anyway (about 20 log in while about 150 guests). Theme hurts the eyes.

Also, the website takes a lot of time to load now. Many users are ones with a slow Internet connection here in India. Even international technology websites load faster than this one. Please make the website less bandwidth hungry.

The website does remind me of a CNET page. While it isn't a copy, at first glance it is very easy to mistake it for a cnet site. I can't really think of anyway it can be changed though, as the layout is convenient.

Also, the font sizes in the reviews and news items are way too small. I constantly find myself zooming to at least 130% for comfortable reading. It might be because I have a 20.5" monitor with a resolution of 1600x900, but it is a strain nevertheless.

I find the main page very crammed, but the information and links are all there making it convenient to navigate.

E

Hi, I am an ardent fan of Think Digit magazine. I never missed a subscription while I was in India 4 years back. I recently visited India when I got the latest copy of the magazine. I then had the nostalgic feeling of missing my favorite tech book after landing in the USA.

However the ThinkDigit website is a greater relief to me now. Still I think it would be great if there is some way that the magazine could be shipped to the USA. I think there are thousands of Digit lovers in the USA whom I represent who would love to subscribe for a copy of the magazine if it could be shipped here.

Y

Please look once at the support system!! I am not getting any answers!!
Neither from here : *www.thinkdigit.com/contactus.php
nor from help@thinkdigit.com !!

Why cant i post new threads even when my account is activated?? :???:

B

cyber_freak said:
Why cant i post new threads even when my account is activated??

You need to post a certain number of posts before you can create new threads. This is to avoid spammig. Hope you understand...

S

I opened up the ThinkDigit site after a few months now. and it is IRRITATING.
Why do you have a bloody menu appearing on on top of every news article that I am trying to read? There is no way to close it or move it.
That is the most irritating thing I have ever seen.

---------- Post added at 06:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:08 PM ----------

I opened up the ThinkDigit site after a few months now. and it is IRRITATING.
Why do you have a bl00dy menu appearing on on top of every news article that I am trying to read? There is no way to close it or move it.
That is the most irritating thing I have ever seen.
Can't go to any page without this menu popping up.

---------- Post added at 06:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:16 PM ----------

sandeep_g said:
I opened up the ThinkDigit site after a few months now. and it is IRRITATING.
Why do you have a bloody menu appearing on on top of every news article that I am trying to read? There is no way to close it or move it.
That is the most irritating thing I have ever seen.

---------- Post added at 06:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:08 PM ----------

I opened up the ThinkDigit site after a few months now. and it is IRRITATING.
Why do you have a bl00dy menu appearing on on top of every news article that I am trying to read? There is no way to close it or move it.
That is the most irritating thing I have ever seen.
Can't go to any page without this menu popping up.

I am using IE7 as browser. Also, a yellow javascript error icon is being shown at the bottom of the browser.
When I opened this same site in Chrome, the irritating menu, that was showing on top of every article on every page, turned out to be the menu at the bottom of the page.

the best thing in thinkdigit.com is FORUM and the best thing in whole digit is also FORUM......

forum sucks read this thread

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126051

^^No dude. I don't think so. Anorion wanted us to post all feedback/suggestions to this thread rather than opening new threads everyday. Just post your suggestion here.

---------- Post added at 11:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:06 PM ----------

+1 for changing the theme

and +infinity to make the FORUM WIDER. When will the admins get time to do this??

From years they keep saying they are busy. And now maximum of the members left. Forum is full of SPAM. I keep reporting spam 2-3/day in avg.

Do something admins otherwise the forum have no members left in some months.

Don't know why you people can't assign 1/2 posts just to maintain this forum.

Don't you think/care about the forum??

After complaining for 1/2yrs you people changed the interface now again you people got vanished.

Just monitor how many of the members are active now and compare it upto that with 2009.

You people income too from this forum so why this neglegency??

krishnandu.sarkar said:
Do something admins otherwise the forum have no members left in some months.

Just monitor how many of the members are active now and compare it upto that with 2009.

Well said

F

From years they keep saying they are busy. And now maximum of the members left. Forum is full of SPAM. I keep reporting spam 2-3/day in avg.

I'm sure between the Admins, Kalpik and the other Mods you will find that the Spam is relatively small. Or at least the portion you see is negligible compared to the number that usually get through.

forum sucks read this thread

Lol this is probably the worst way to leave feedback.

Originally Posted by krishnandu.sarkar View Post
Do something admins otherwise the forum have no members left in some months.

Just monitor how many of the members are active now and compare it upto that with 2009.

Click to expand...

Well said

This has been discussed quite alot over the forums already. Time has the way of putting demands on ones time. You can't always expect the same folk to be available on the forums throughout the future. That said most of the age old members are still here, they just are lurking and waiting for the proper thread to post in.

FilledVoid said:
I
Lol this is probably the worst way to leave feedback.

Sorry for that, actually i posted that out of frustration.

Here is my feedback

Hi digitians, this is my feedback after going through the Bazaar section. To tell the truth, the bazaar section is just a junk of crappy threads. The members are just dumping their threads just like anything. There is no rules, no systematic posting etc. I saw members started a thread saying that they want to sell their items, without quoting anything about the product like whats its model numbers, warranty information, its price, shipping information, pictures etc. etc. For a buying it is very difficult to take a decision without even seeing the picture of the item or knowing the price. Even some members just post a thread without anything (no price tag, no picture).

So i am just requesting the mods to reviews the rules and to make some new rules especially for the Bazaar section. The following item details must be mandatory, threads without these mandatory fields should be deleted to prevent forum crapping.
1. Full model number and details
2. Pictures (MUST)
3. Date of purchase
4. Reason for sale
5. Warranty details
6. Price
7. Shipping etc.
8. threads with completed trade must be closed

More information can be added by the mods.

Also i feel that the bazaar section must be divided int two sub-sections:
1. For sellers
2. For buyers

Other members may contribute to this feedback and advices and suggestions are always welcome.

Thanks for reading this.

FilledVoid said:
I'm sure between the Admins, Kalpik and the other Mods you will find that the Spam is relatively small. Or at least the portion you see is negligible compared to the number that usually get through.

Well....its right. Dunno about other mods. But each time I've reported post I got a PM from you taking the right action. Hat's off to you. Sorry I forgot to mention that in my post. I should have done that.

This has been discussed quite alot over the forums already. Time has the way of putting demands on ones time. You can't always expect the same folk to be available on the forums throughout the future. That said most of the age old members are still here, they just are lurking and waiting for the proper thread to post in.

Well......You can't ignore many members left this forum for the neglegency of admins/mods. I forgot where the actual thread was created, but some months ago desiibond created a thread regarding moving to TE coz of the all these neglegency of TDF and many members moved to TE. And then admins bothered to change the forum to some extent

Not most of the old members are here.

Some questions got left unanswered like one of them was DIGIT took a gr8 initiative and created an IRC and suddenly that get closed. No one even bothered to answer that. Well thats a minor problem. Leave it.

But we can't ignore this that members are continuously leaving TDF for this neglegency. I hardly see members active here. Threads and posts are cluttered. No one bothers about the rules(do TDF have any???)

And you can't ignore that after saying lot for a year admins changed the interface and introduced some gr8 measures. Now again they are vanish. Are we going to see the next change again in 2011??

F

So i am just requesting the mods to reviews the rules and to make some new rules especially for the Bazaar section. The following item details must be mandatory, threads without these mandatory fields should be deleted to prevent forum crapping.
1. Full model number and details
2. Pictures (MUST)
3. Date of purchase
4. Reason for sale
5. Warranty details
6. Price
7. Shipping etc.
8. threads with completed trade must be closed

This is something that can be easily done I guess. Anything not in the above format could just not be approved. However I'd wait on the Admins opinion on that.

Well....its right. Dunno about other mods. But each time I've reported post I got a PM from you taking the right action. Hat's off to you. Sorry I forgot to mention that in my post. I should have done that.

No worries there.

Well......You can't ignore many members left this forum for the neglegency of admins/mods. I forgot where the actual thread was created, but some months ago desiibond created a thread regarding moving to TE coz of the all these neglegency of TDF and many members moved to TE. And then admins bothered to change the forum to some extent

That is possible I guess. However I was referring to folks who I have seen who we're very active and aren't just that active as they we're back in the day. I could name a few just for names sake but that would never do justice to 99% of the folks I would probably forget to mention.

Some questions got left unanswered like one of them was DIGIT took a gr8 initiative and created an IRC and suddenly that get closed. No one even bothered to answer that. Well thats a minor problem. Leave it.

The IRC Channel is still active (#Digit on irc.raaabo.com) and even if it isn't you can find quite a few of its members on #Grind and #Krow.

But we can't ignore this that members are continuously leaving TDF for this neglegency. I hardly see members active here. Threads and posts are cluttered. No one bothers about the rules(do TDF have any???)

Although I can't help in providing active members I can definitely help in enforcing the rules as per what have been stickied on TDF. If you see anything that goes against it just click that report button and I'm sure someone will come around to take care of it

. However as a fellow member in this community I've been eyeing one of those sections for revival but haven't been able to due to the increased stuff going on at the moment for me. Also if there is any rules that can do well on the forum you should suggest the same as well. I'm sure the Admins would love to implement those suggestions if it is in the best interest of the foruma s well as community.

And you can't ignore that after saying lot for a year admins changed the interface and introduced some gr8 measures. Now again they are vanish. Are we going to see the next change again in 2011??

If you check some of the threads here on the forum right now. You will find alot of active participation by the Admins itself. Submit feedback in this or one of the other feedback threads and I'm 100% sure that at least one if not all of the Admins will notice it

I don't get any idea why don't they give some more permissions to selected mods if they can't make time for us.

Now friends as you have known that i already created a thread in the discussion section related to this forum, and my thread was closed. Before creating that thread i was trying to create a thread here under feedback section, was some errors popped up.

Anorion said that this thread already existed and gave me the link, so as you can see that this main feedback thread of this forum is not sticky, so with time this thread vanished in the junks of other threads. So first of all, i would like to request the mods to make this thread sticky, so that other members can give their valuable feedback.

^^ Stickied the thread.

And yes, we do read your feedback. But in this case, since we (mods) are not able to help you with the site design etc. I personally prefer not to respond.

The thing about the Bazaar, yes, certainly we can help. But as I see, that thread was only created yesterday. So do you guys really expect us to read *every* thread within hours? Its really not fair!

kalpik said:
^^ Stickied the thread.

And yes, we do read your feedback. But in this case, since we (mods) are not able to help you with the site design etc. I personally prefer not to respond.

The thing about the Bazaar, yes, certainly we can help. But as I see, that thread was only created yesterday. So do you guys really expect us to read *every* thread within hours? Its really not fair!

thanks for sticking this thread. You got it wrong mate, actually since you are the mods so you might have already seen that bazaar scenario, no rules no regulation, no administration...

All iz well, create the new bazaar rules now.
Hey got one more suggestion:
Members with post count above 30(or anything you decide), must be allowed to create bazaar thread. This will stop new inexperienced sellers.

Sorry if i made any mistake

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One more suggestion:

is possible change the thread name from "[Feedback] ThinkDigit.com Web site" to "Forum feedback and suggestion", this name will be more meaningful and for ThinkDigit.com Web site there is another sticky thread " New Thinkdigit website. Feedback and suggestions welcome here"

^^+1 Ya right. To deal in TDF he/she must be a member for 1month with 50 post counts minimum.(Well you people decide a better limit). This will improve security.

@CA50 No the name "[Feedback] ThinkDigit.com Web site" is perfectly fine. Coz it's all about thinkdigit.com not only about TDF.

^hows that, there is already another thread for website feedback, so this thread must fully contribute to forum feedback.

Hi admins/mods, this is really you guys have done to appriciate :razz:

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BTW i would like to add few more things. First consider the suggestion given by krishnandu.sarkar and close those thread where trade has been completed. And the last is that in that bazaar rule thread, also mention that any kinds of pirated stuffs will not be entertained in DIGIT WORLD, along with the other condition.

Good Job

guys.

Hey that's gr8. God....!! Thanks a lot FilledVoid. Now please try to ask the admins to get some time for us and for this forum and make it 100% wider.

A suggestion: Just insert that in RULES, make other RULES more strict. And from now on when a new member register's he'll get a PM from admin containing welcome msg as it is along with the link to RULES will be a add saying violating this he/may get ban.

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Hey that's gr8. God....!! Thanks a lot FilledVoid. Now please try to ask the admins to get some time for us and for this forum and make it 100% wider.

Lol all I did was type it . The rules was basically feedback you folks put up and it was considered by all Mod / Admins available to see it.

As for the rest lets take it one step at a time. I know this isnt a fix but there is a couple of Mods/Skins/Themes you could use which probably have fluid width made by Rohan Shenoy, Amitava and a constantly updated one by Tarey etc. Make sure you all have a look at that and see if it can be a temporary fix for you folks.

. I will also link the same here.

Rohan's Modification
Amitava's Modification
Tarey's Modification
If I have missed any be free to link them and Ill edit my post.

BTW i would like to add few more things. First consider the suggestion given by krishnandu.sarkar and close those thread where trade has been completed. And the last is that in that bazaar rule thread, also mention that any kinds of pirated stuffs will not be entertained in DIGIT WORLD, along with the other condition.

As long as the thread poster as mentioned that someone has actually bought an item it will be easy to close. However I'm not sure how easy it will be to close all the ancient threads.

Thanks for the links. But try to fix it soon. I mean try to make the changes in forum itself.

Well.......Why not add all those in to RULES???

And what do you think about the warning and then ban on violating the RULES??

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Ok more more suggestion.

Why is the bazaar forum in Hardware section??

How about creating a section marketting/trade or anything similiar. And making two forums [FS] and [WTB]. Well anyone can trade anything that is legal.

What do you think??

Well......one more thing. There are many subforums which are marked as readonly are just superfluous. Raaboo told us he's busy arranging the threads according to the forums and when it'll get over he'll remove them. I think the work is not over yet. He's busy. He can distribute them to mods.

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Thanks for the links. But try to fix it soon. I mean try to make the changes in forum itself.

This isn't something the Mods can do so I won't comment about it. However I'm sure the Admins know about the issue since I've seen it repeated a couple of times here and there.

Well.......Why not add all those in to RULES???

And what do you think about the warning and then ban on violating the RULES??

Technically, I believe that's what we do or have I misunderstood? We usually give out a warning unless the poster has done something hideously wrong ? Personally I'm not a fan of the banner hammer since I believe we all have made mistakes every now and then

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FilledVoid said:
As long as the thread poster as mentioned that someone has actually bought an item it will be easy to close. However I'm not sure how easy it will be to close all the ancient threads.

This can be done in two ways :
1. Add in the rules section that the seller must notify the mods/admin the trade when the trade finishes and must request the mod/admin to close down the thread.
2. You guys will have to go through the threads and check those thread manually.

PS: I will prefer the previous one.

For the forum development i mentioned some points to Byte, you can discuss those with him. I feel those points are something to ponder about.

Great work, keep going

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FilledVoid said:
Technically, I believe that's what we do or have I misunderstood? We usually give out a warning unless the poster has done something hideously wrong ? Personally I'm not a fan of the banner hammer since I believe we all have made mistakes every now and then .

Mistakes are done by human and human standalone can rectify them, but these doesn't mean that we should forgive each and every one. Instead of warning and Banning, you can try warning->Suspending (for xx days) -> life suspension.

Now the trade section really looks good. And yes you can also sub-divide the trade section in to two sub-division, one for sellers and the other for those who wishes to buy.

CA50 said:
This can be done in two ways :
1. Add in the rules section that the seller must notify the mods/admin the trade when the trade finishes and must request the mod/admin to close down the thread.

Let me add that to the rules

CA50 said:
2. You guys will have to go through the threads and check those thread manually.

This is going to be very difficult, and you guys have to realize that we are volunteering our time over here for everyone's benefit. We are not getting anything out of it apart from some appreciation from you guys here and there

And you do have to also realize that all of us are pretty busy in real life! But that said, we'll try our best.

CA50 said:
Mistakes are done by human and human standalone can rectify them, but these doesn't mean that we should forgive each and every one. Instead of warning and Banning, you can try warning->Suspending (for xx days) -> life suspension.

That's what is done right now

CA50 said:
Now the trade section really looks good. And yes you can also sub-divide the trade section in to two sub-division, one for sellers and the other for those who wishes to buy.

Again, not in our hands.. Only admins can do that.

^^

Let me add that to the rules

Thanks for this

This is going to be very difficult, and you guys have to realize that we are volunteering our time over here for everyone's benefit. We are not getting anything out of it apart from some appreciation from you guys here and there And you do have to also realize that all of us are pretty busy in real life! But that said, we'll try our best.

Thats true. Even i am doing the same thing here. We are just here to prevent the extinct of this forum, which was my first forum and my first E-school with all the E-teacher that have vanished without any traces.

Again, not in our hands.. Only admins can do that.

Ok mate just convey this message to the admins as we have done this to you.

Good luck mate

G

Sir,

I am subscriber of Digit Mag. I sent many email for missing issue of "april 2010". So far no response from Digit. My posting here will resolve and will get my April 2010 Issue. My email id : gcbeldar@gmail.com, & my subscription end on Aug 2011.

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Thats true. Even i am doing the same thing here. We are just here to prevent the extinct of this forum, which was my first forum and my first E-school with all the E-teacher that have vanished without any traces.

Yes and we value the sentiment which is why we try to satisfy any kind of feedback which are within our Modus Operandi. But here you are asking us to go through 52 pages of threads with a average of 30 threads per page and manually close them. That's 1560 threads we are going to have to close, confirm from each buyer/seller if there purchase is done. I don't see any mass close / unapproval scripts for use so I don't see this happening.

Coming to the rest , well that's easy

We simply don't have the powers to do the above mentioned so we will let the Admins know if they haven't seen your request already.

I am subscriber of Digit Mag. I sent many email for missing issue of "april 2010". So far no response from Digit. My posting here will resolve and will get my April 2010 Issue. My email id : gcbeldar@gmail.com, & my subscription end on Aug 2011.

Hello there gcbeldar. Make sure you check this page out first and see if you have exhausted all the methods of contacting ThinkDigit's Customer Service first. Also you could possibly send a message to one of Admins like Anorion or Raaabo and see if they can get the issue sorted out for you.

FilledVoid said:
Yes and we value the sentiment which is why we try to satisfy any kind of feedback which are within our Modus Operandi. But here you are asking us to go through 52 pages of threads with a average of 30 threads per page and manually close them. That's 1560 threads we are going to have to close, confirm from each buyer/seller if there purchase is done. I don't see any mass close / unapproval scripts for use so I don't see this happening.

thats cool mate, actually i personally don't support that . kalpik did the right thing by adding it to the bazaar rules.

You see it is totally unfair for the forum, buyers get their products, seller gets their cash and they leave from the scene. It is the responsibility of the members who starts the thread to make it closed to avoid spammers or archaeologist who delight themselves in digging up age old prehistoric threads.

Examples or such prehistoric dig out are here:
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57386
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83609

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Examples or such prehistoric dig out are here:
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57386
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83609

Just use the Report button and age old threads will get closed or taken care of.

Examples or such prehistoric dig out are here:
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57386
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83609

lol that was epic

Considering the situation of this forum a few months back, it has been a good improvement over the last few months. Keep up the good work guys

I feel it is a bit late since many of the senior members left the forum in that period

Tell me onething whenever i click on the buttons except "FORUM" in this webpage a window is popping up(arrow marked) and always remains on top overlapping important info.

How to remove that junk?

S

hey can any1 tell me how to get started with these forums ????

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hey can any1 tell me how to get started with these forums ???

Welcome to the forums. Check out the Rules which are in any Section on the Forum . Once you done that you could probably check out the forums for topics you like or post a question you have

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avichandana20000 said:
tell me onething whenever i click on the buttons except "forum" in this webpage a window is popping up(arrow marked) and always remains on top overlapping important info.

How to remove that junk?

no one there to answer me ? ?

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no one there to answer me ? ?

I cant replicate using Firefox or Chrome . Is it something pertaining to a certain browser or plugin/script you use?

Hey what's this??

*img683.imageshack.us/img683/1865/forumac.th.jpg

How did the forum look became like this??

I hope.....admins are working.

^some bug, will send a mail, even im seeing it like that, probably someone working on the web site somewhere

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How did the forum look became like this??

I hope.....admins are working.

ROFL. Someone made an epic boo boo. For now install Stylish, Greasemonkey or use one of the methods I have listed before and it should be ok

. I'm on Amitava's Kirsch script and everything seems OK.

Seems as if someone has whitewash TDF, hence the colour has gone for a ride.

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Refer here for a temporary fix for the font issues on the site at the moment.

Grey on grey, who's that color blind???

@tarey_g, please give a fix for ur extension immediate, I'm forced to work in IE, TDF is not at all showing in FF.

^^ Yeah, I'll look at it asap.

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Download the 2.69 version with the quick fix for the problem here (select the 2.9 ver and install)

*addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/11096

Auto update will take time, as the addon will take time to get approved.
Header with AD is still visible , working on it .

Users will get weird errors even with this updated version, Currently in office and very busy

, hopefully will work on it in night.

sorry for the inconvenience

Thanks Anorion and FilledVoid for a quick reply.

Try to fix it soon.

Installed Tarey_g's fix...let me very honest. The font color is very painful for eye...I'm already having headache...

I have gone through the bazar section a lot. I was just think about this.

A seller must mention his tdf nickname and date while taking the picture of the item he wants to sell. The name and date must be done manually and not just by editing the taken picture. The best way for this is to write the name and date on paper and to hold / place it with the item before taking the picture.

Now whats the use of this?

This method will force a seller to send the actual pics of the item, it will also prove that the item is his and it really exist. Else a seller may post a pic of his friends iten showing it to be new or might post a good looking and shinny pic of the product which was taken when the product was new.
This will also enable the buyer to view the real iten that he is going to buy. Also it will neutralise any chance of fake pics.

Lastly i would like to thank kniwor for his activeness in the bazar section. I can see that now a days he is really active and is really helping TDF.
Thanks kniwor.

^+1 for the avobe suggestion

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i can't "go to last post"......................

May be sumthing wrong in your side. Working fine 4 me

@himadri_sm
Yeah i am on opera mini, its working here fine. Try a different browser

D

yup...it was a problem with my firefox...chrome opens it fine....i reinstalled firefox & everything is back to normal...sorry for wrong accusations...

^^good job

Awesome

At last the forum width got fixed. Can't believe ;-)

Grt tdf is colourful again.

500 Internal Server Error

*www.imgx.org/pthumbs/small/24572/DIGIT.png

^^didn`t face any such error.

well....I was facing that in morning :-(

yo
I've put up 2 hardware reviews here so far (880gma ud2h and 890gpa-ud3h...more to come in coming weeks) but the problem is it is restricted to 15 pics per post. I was wondering if you could remove that- atleast on the reviews section.

J

Please note this ,

* I understand it's really difficult to include DVDs of all linux distros with the magazine. But probably we could buy it from you individually

iI'm sure you can distribute it. For me it's easier to trust something I buy from digit rather than the Bazaar.

* Your digit store only sells subscriptions, probably you should start selling different free distros/softwares in DVD or CD that you cannot include with magazine or which are really large.

I really can't download those large files, but getting those files on cd/dvd is much easier compared to getting them thru my 'cheap broadband'.. (I donno why they call these less than 1 MBPS speed connections as broadband)

* I'm not having any good time using the thinkdigit shopping site either. Range of products are so dull. No feedback option either..

This was only forum I thought was closer to the topic so posting here..

for a spammerjushiliu, this fellow is spamming in the bazzar section.

Check these threads
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1246154&postcount=5
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1246152&postcount=8
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126393
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1246150&postcount=10
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1246149&postcount=2
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1246148&postcount=8

I simply request the admin/mod to BAN this moron.

^^ Done.. Its better to report such posts though.. They are usually taken care of swiftly!

Thanks and welldone

TDF is getting worse day by day, please take some positive steps, now a days the number of spam thread/post are increasing at an alarming rate. Ckeck this out

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/open-source-software/131787-mac-88-color-eyeshadow-future-generations.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/reviews/131786-ed-hardy-men-shorts-after-all.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/131785-rosetta-stone-german.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/131744-mac-foundation-fact.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/131743-rosetta-stone-spanish-spain-you.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/reviews/131742-wholesale-mac-cosmetics-modest-payable-succeed.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/reviews/131686-miumiu-handbags-regardless-when-where.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/reviews/131685-rosetta-stone-french.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/reviews/131684-p90x-workout-dvds-i-think.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/open-source-software/131654-ed-hardy-women.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/open-source-software/131653-gucci-purses-lost-night.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/open-source-software/131652-ghd-hair-growth.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/reviews/131621-cheap-rosetta-stone-p90x-turbo-fire-bai-zhi-may-no.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/reviews/131620-ed-hardy-clothes-p90x-turbo-fire-secondp90x-tu.html

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/reviews/131619-ed-hardy-scarves-p90x-turbo-fire-i-happy-p90x.html

WHAT ARE THESE AND WHAT SHOULD WE DO???

PLEASE REPLY

Please use the report post button, and we'll find and delete them

The new bazzar section is good. The [for sale and [want to buy] tags are good and highly helpful for the user due to its colour coding.
Well done guys

Sometimes i get some database error, when i refresh pages, any idea :S

I cant go through all the post to verify if this feature has been requested before ?

Can you add tapatalk plugin ? I mostly browse through tapatalk, and this is the ONLY forum, which is not tapatalk native.

Re: The TDF bug reporting page

I was wondering, if the threads can be "Marked as Solved", to a thread which addresses a query, or problem.
Since it would be easier, for others, to spot the solved one, from the ones, which needs attention.

And now I would wait for a reply, for which I am not so positive about, watching the response of last suggestion to this list, about 1 month before.

A

Re: The TDF bug reporting page

vineet369 said:
I was wondering, if the threads can be "Marked as Solved", to a thread which addresses a query, or problem.
Since it would be easier, for others, to spot the solved one, from the ones, which needs attention.

This might even help those having similar problems as sometimes it happens when one looks a thread for solution he has to go through entire discussion just to know whether the problem has been solved or not.

I was wondering if we could have a "show Smilies" button in the quick reply box ?

JojoTheDragon said:
I was wondering if we could have a "show Smilies" button in the quick reply box ?

Thats a wonderful idea. Since many times I have to go advanced, just to put that obscure smiley!

Regarding [Solved], I'll see if I can make the provision of the OP himself marking the thread as [Solved]. This shouldn't really be a moderator's job.

Regarding Smilies in Quick Reply, it would require the installation of an old unsupported modification. Which I don't want to.

ico said:
Regarding [Solved], I'll see if I can make the provision of the OP himself marking the thread as [Solved]. This shouldn't really be a moderator's job.

Great! Thanks. Looking forward to see this provision soon.

Well, I think ICO or some other Admins have renamed the "Software And Application" to "Software" under "Software" section.

This had led to a bug, I guess.

*img35.imageshack.us/img35/3677/tdfsoftware.jpg

So the path is Forum > Section > Sub Forum. Which I used to navigate through. Now clicking on Software doesn't go to "Software" section, instead goes to "Software" subforum.

It used to go the whole Software Section before. I checked it even today morning. Just now it got changed.

So please look into it.

fixed...!!

Re: From the Editor's Desk

Where do I demand that I want hyperlinks in different color?

Re: From the Editor's Desk

rhitwick said:
Where do I demand that I want hyperlinks in different color?

Hyperlinks are in a different colour. You need to fix your monitor's brightness/contrast/colour.

But still I'll have a look at it.

See, now I've changed and it looks weird on my monitor screen.

Back up:

#13395E

#13302E

Switching back as the colour of links changes everywhere.

anyways, you might like this better.

^^Thanks

Re: From the Editor's Desk

ICO, if I post a link directly it does not change its color. Check the posts in "must watch movies" thread...

Many IMDB links have not changed its color.

Re: From the Editor's Desk

rhitwick said:
ICO, if I post a link directly it does not change its color. Check the posts in "must watch movies" thread...

Many IMDB links have not changed its color.

Technically for you it is a "visited" link. It was a darker shade (almost close to black), I agree.

I've set both links and visited links colour to something new. Is this okay?

@ico

Can u change the color of the links. It's not looking good with this theme.

furious_gamer said:
@ico

Can u change the color of the links. It's not looking good with this theme.

He's already working on it. Check it here *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/feedback/123086-editors-desk-13.html

Re: From the Editor's Desk

^^Yup this looks fine

ico said:
Technically for you it is a "visited" link. It was a darker shade (almost close to black), I agree.

I've set both links and visited links colour to something new. Is this okay?

If possible merge all these to *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/feedback/1656-feedback-thinkdigit-com-web-site-17.html#post1392592

Many guys are having problem. So I think that thread should be used as Official Bug Reporting Page.

Re: From the Editor's Desk

The forum has turned blue now, matches my mood

Let me check movies thread and provide feedback.

The theme color sucks previous one was much better. Please change to black again. Blue kinda hurts eyes.

^^ As per @krishnandu.sarkar, ico's working on it. So wait for some time....

I think blue is much better. Now I can easily differentiate b/w read and unread threads or modified threads etc. Previously it was troublesome.

^^ Even previously the unread threads were bold so was having no problem at all. The problem is that Blue is kind of light color and I would appreciate a dark color for normal reading.

3 things.

1) Difference between unread and read threads = plain text and bold. Not related to colour.

2) Unvisited "normal" link

3) Visited link (which was traditionally darker)

Now both visited and unvisited links are #1D5790.

Earlier they were #13395E and #13302E (darker) respectively.

Guess what, #13395E looked fine to me as far as differentiating between text and links was concerned. Why? because I had my monitor configured rightly.

and now I am switching back to the old colour. It was fine. But this time differently. Both normal links and visited links will be #13395E.

^^ Thanks a lot. Feels like home again.

Are we moving to updated vBulletin anytime soon??

AFAIK, nope. It's in Raaabo's hand, IINW

Please make a new section "Introduction" where users can start their very first threads explaining about themselves. I have seen this in a lot of forums and many users feel themselves home after a lot of users welcome the user to the site.

^^ Are you talking about this? *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/community-discussions/115442-introduce-yourselves.html

But I think, you already knew about it

Please admin, we want atleast a colour theme change.
Starting to be bored with this combination :sad:

Thanks.

vineet369 said:
^^ Are you talking about this? *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/community-discussions/115442-introduce-yourselves.html

But I think, you already knew about it

No I mean a separate section for it.

J

unnecessary and not required. that thread is enough.

^^I have seen that in many forums where most of the users start their very first thread in. How do you expect for someone (non-admin) to keep track of new active users in the forum.

We can redirect new users to that thread, or send them an automated PM for going there. A new section is not required.

^^This idea is nice. When ever someone joins an automated PM can be sent to give his/her(I doubt) intro

Few Suggestions:
1. I think FS and WTB should be divided among subforums.
2. And as discussed with ico, an market feedback subforum under Market section would be a great idea. Where peoples can carry out those "For how much should I sell these??", "Courier Feedback" etc. threads along with if someone wants to complain he/she can carry out there.

I just thought a separate section would be better as it will be more visually accessible, instead of everyone trying to search a single thread for every new user..

Whenever i get into your site, i wanna enter my login details each time if i want to get into my account! Please make it simple like other sites to save our login details so that we can see our threads in one single click!

^ Not sure what are you talking about. I don't have to re-enter my login details each time! The browser does save the login ID and pass, if you let it do!
And I have bookmarked the UserCP page, so that whenever I click that, the list of subscribed thread is the first thing I see. Which works even after a computer restart, the same day, or even many days after!

Why does TDF spams my inbox with hundreds of subscribtion alerts each weekend? I know I can disable it but it is there by default (which it shouldn't be). Can't you guys just push it all into one email?

This was a BIG problem for me too, but until i resolved it a month ago.
Turns out, there isn't any setting to just turn off the email notifications for already subscribed threads. So this is what I did, to resolve it:

Goto, UserCP -> Edit Options. And then, select, No Email notification under, Default Thread Subscription Mode.
This step would prevent you to send mails, for any thread that you later join. But wouldn't stop mailing you for the threads which are already subscribed.
Then, I went on to every thread subscribed, and Re-Subscribed through, Thread Tools. (Resubscribed = Unsubscribe and then Again subscribe)

Mod knows, if there was an easy solution to this, but I had tried to find that in vain, earlier on.

SyGeek said:
Why does TDF spams my inbox with hundreds of subscribtion alerts each weekend? I know I can disable it but it is there by default (which it shouldn't be). Can't you guys just push it all into one email?

There are many who prefer this. Default is 'weekly notification' which is perfectly alright. If you don't like it then you can disable it for yourself.

ico said:
There are many who prefer this. Default is 'weekly notification' which is perfectly alright. If you don't like it then you can disable it for yourself.

Dunno if most of the users prefer it but I'm not one of them

.

Just got an idea, made a new label for it on gmail and skipped it from inbox.
@vineet369: You can try that ^

Yes dude! There is a 'Remember Me' option but i didn't notice it. my mistake

vineet369 said:
^ Not sure what are you talking about. I don't have to re-enter my login details each time! The browser does save the login ID and pass, if you let it do!
And I have bookmarked the UserCP page, so that whenever I click that, the list of subscribed thread is the first thing I see. Which works even after a computer restart, the same day, or even many days after!

SyGeek said:
Just got an idea, made a new label for it on gmail and skipped it from inbox.
@vineet369: You can try that ^

Moved the discussion to Offtopic discussion... since we are going that way...
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/community...fftopic-discussion-thread-27.html#post1394427

Wow.. Shadow effects to TDF. Looks good

Can we expect some more cosmetic looks in future?

Is it not possible to have a feature to see which section or max posts are?

It's there in phpBB. not possible in vBulletin?

Hey, there is something wrong with the Login System.

When I'm trying to view a thread, it appears like I'm not logged in, whereas I'm logged in. Same for when I click my Username to go to my profile.

Whereas UserCP and other thing is working.

UPDATE : I posted this reply by clicking Post reply button. I thought it wont work, but amazingly it worked. Now after posting the reply I'm again logged out. Though I'm still logged in on other tabs and can browse around the Forum.

One more thing, when I try to view some thread, it appears like I'm not logged in, which is what I said above, but the stange thing is, when I give my credentials, it accepts but again goes back to logged out state.

I think something is going on, or wrong with the forum.

Amazingly threads vanished from new posts, I mean it doesn't appears as it seems like all read posts.

If possible I request all Mods and Super Mods to come at #krow. So that we can discuss the matter.

^^ Yeah, you are right. Quick Reply box is vanished. And it interface looks logged out mode, when in fact, we are logged in!

Update: Can't edit post!

Yup, EDIT wont work, as EDIT button appears only when logged in. So basically the threads are appearing as logged out mode. So EDIT button wont be there generally.

Same problem as krishnendu said, someone fix this asap, this is bugging me.

Main forum and usercp is in logged in mode, threads are not, also clicking last link of thread from anywhere goes to random pages, after posting reply random page is being opened.

Ok, notified ico. I think he's sleeping. SMS'ed him.

Oh... I think, we should let ico sleep. Atleast we would see, what people "Actually" writes, when they have no facility to edit it

Lots of spelling mistakes(me) and then some.

Members would have to be extra careful, before they click Submit Reply! :-D

Don't troll here guys. Stay in topic.

Hey, so anyone find the bug yet?

R

tkin said:
Hey, so anyone find the bug yet?

ico said:
yea, I'm sorry I can't fix it at the moment. Before I slept it was fine.

I've informed Raaabo about this.

chk this thread

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/feedback/130640-tdf-bug-reporting-page-11.html

Please keep your discussion in the thread which is meant for bug reporting. Thanks.

Do you think we must shift to MyBB ...its far better than VBulliten

Tejas.Gupta said:
Do you think we must shift to MyBB ...its far better than VBulliten

It isn't. From a user's point of view, it might be. Still it is the best free BB out there alongwith SMF.

Either it's IP.B for us, or VB 4.1.x when the admins feel the need.

M

Hi all

I just joined the forum. I'm unable to post in the bazaar section.
Is there some kind of restriction there?

-m0h1t

m0h1t said:
Hi all

I just joined the forum. I'm unable to post in the bazaar section.
Is there some kind of restriction there?

-m0h1t

First thing what you should do when you join a forum is, read the rules.

M

ico said:
First thing what you should do when you join a forum is, read the rules.

I did read them, but that one line got skipped somehow..

No problem.

1)Well, this forum seems to have got a performance improvement after the recent updates. Atleast I feel improvement in speed of loading page

2)Can't we have a separate Sub Forum in Gamerz section dedicated to Online/Mobile gaming. I think it would be good.

3) The Mobile Monsters section is a lot better now with that new Sub Forum.
Why not a similar thing with laptops?

thetechfreak said:
2)Can't we have a separate Sub Forum in Gamerz section dedicated to Online/Mobile gaming. I think it would be good.

we had it earlier, no one used to post. Currently, I don't see the need.

F

suggestion :
There should be mobile version(wml) of TDF .... like the one nokia forum has ..

well..I can't give you the WML version because it won't work with the way we force styles.

What I have done is, disabled the top banner for people with a post count of 75. The top banner used to make the site unreadable in Opera Mini. This is not the case now.

Earlier members above 50 posts used to get two advertisements on top and bottom with members below 50 posts getting full advertisements. Now the criteria is, members above 75 posts get rid of every advert except the bottom one and below 75 posts get full advertisements.

I hope people are fine with this.

Try on Opera mini and tell me whether the experience is better or not. I think the pages should be full width on your phone now.

Well ico, I donot know why or how but ThinkDigit Forum feels its old self and is just same like it was a week back. Posting this via Opera Mini.
Does it have anything to do with pictures enabled or disabled on Opera Mini?

thetechfreak said:
Well ico, I donot know why or how but ThinkDigit Forum feels its old self and is just same like it was a week back. Posting this via Opera Mini.
Does it have anything to do with pictures enabled or disabled on Opera Mini?

It is same. You won't see the difference until you are using it on a 3.3" screen mobile.

ico said:
It is same. You won't see the difference until you are using it on a 3.3" screen mobile.

OK thanks. So I am feeling the same in my N73

So in my iPod Touch with 3.5 inch screen I should notice difference right? Will use whenever I find a Open Wi-Fi Hot spot and report back here

yea..you should notice a difference. Forum will be from edge to edge on your iPod touch. Earlier it used to be on 66% of the screen.

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The new lg add really sucks , please remove it.
I can't read the article because of it.

@ico

Can we have a place where we enter our Steam id so that it pops up like a icon(like we can enter Yahoo, ICQ, Skype, etc)
Dont you think it would be good :?:

thetechfreak said:
@ico

Can we have a place where we enter our Steam id so that it pops up like a icon(like we can enter Yahoo, ICQ, Skype, etc)
Dont you think it would be good

sadly, it's not possible.

iamp4prathamesh said:
The new lg add really sucks , please remove it.
I can't read the article because of it.

Post a bit more, advertisements will get disabled.

ico said:
sadly, it's not possible.

Can we know why?

Most gaming sites have the option to add our steam ids so that are show below our avatars.

^^ Lol.. you can just set your Steam ID as the title, below your userID!
Your's is empty anyway!

JojoTheDragon said:
Most gaming sites have the option to add our steam ids so that are show below our avatars.

Because they have edited the Templates.

I won't edit templates straightaway in Digit. Need a firsthand experience before.

Anyways, there is a difference.

IM field = you see an icon below. That is not possible in a straightforward way.

Info field = like you see Location. That might be possible. I'd look at the possibility next week. Anyhow, makes sense to simply put in your signature.

"Location: New Delhi"

vineet369 said:
^^ Lol.. you can just set your Steam ID as the title, below your userID!
Your's is empty anyway!

Err..you didn't get what I meant.

I was talking about something like this:
*i.imgur.com/PYXwF.jpg

ico said:
Because they have edited the Templates.

I won't edit templates straightaway in Digit. Need a firsthand experience before.

Anyways, there is a difference.

IM field = you see an icon below. That is not possible in a straightforward way.

Info field = like you see Location. That might be possible. I'd look at the possibility next week. Anyhow, makes sense to simply put in your signature.

"Location: New Delhi"

That would be much appreciated.

I meant like the way we have Yahoo! icons in this forum or say Skype icons that get activated after one enter their repective id that takes us directly to their page.

thetechfreak said:
I meant like the way we have Yahoo! icons in this forum or say Skype icons that get activated after one enter their repective id that takes us directly to their page.

That isn't possible without uploading a plugin or modding.

JojoTheDragon said:
I was talking about something like this:
*i.imgur.com/PYXwF.jpg

That would be much appreciated.

What you have shown is possible. But how different it is from putting a line in your signature?

ico said:
That isn't possible without uploading a plugin or modding.

Too hard to do?. Or one has to pay Steam to get the plugin? Might affect stability of forum?

thetechfreak said:
Too hard to do?. Or one has to pay Steam to get the plugin? Might affect stability of forum?

The plugin I found doesn't work properly.

I think the "rep" and "report" buttons need to be bigger

ico said:
What you have shown is possible. But how different it is from putting a line in your signature?

Well, its not much different, but it would look cooler.We can always test it out and see how it goes.

Make modification which will enable thread starter to close his/her thread. Option will some in thread tools drop-down list, which is presently available to only >mods. It will help OP's to close their own thread when they feel it is necessary & also help to prevent unnecessary resurrection/long time bumps in the old threads.

A counter argument may be, it is better to post in an existing thread if you have the exact same issue/problem. Now if OP closes his thread, you can't do that. I think the present way is fine.

Ok, no problem. It was just a suggestion which I'd seen in some torrent forums.

P

I am having a big doubt.
I just subscribed for Digit for 1 year.
I got the txt message from the bank as the amount being debitted from the account but after i hit the pay button, i got the follwing msg -

Image - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting

Pls see this and reply me about what it is.
Thank you

pkanhe said:
I am having a big doubt.
I just subscribed for Digit for 1 year.
I got the txt message from the bank as the amount being debitted from the account but after i hit the pay button, i got the follwing msg -

Image - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting

Pls see this and reply me about what it is.
Thank you

Check your email with which you registered, to see if you have got any email from help@thinkdigit.com. Which would confirm if you have been subscribed or not.

If you haven't got any mail, then you have not been subscribed, and the money will be refunded in a few days in your bank account.

PS: I am not a digit official, and you should contact at following for any issue:

Nine Dot Nine Interactive Pvt.Ltd
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Opposite R K Studio
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Tel-+91 22 6789 9666
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Customer Care: help@thinkdigit.com
Technology SoS: sos@thinkdigit.com

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Just received some 20+ mails because of email notifications of new linkbacks on all the threads/posts I am subscribed to.

Please disable email notifications for Linkbacks as its a more of an annoyance rather than being useful for all those who are subscribed to the thread.

navjotjsingh said:
Just received some 20+ mails because of email notifications of new linkbacks on all the threads/posts I am subscribed to.

Please disable email notifications for Linkbacks as its a more of an annoyance rather than being useful for all those who are subscribed to the thread.

That is something you should disable from your end - from your User CP. You are getting what you have/had chosen.

Go to your User CP - List Subscriptions and unsubscribe to every thread.

Best solution would have been you selecting "No email notification" as your default subscription mode when you used to post in the forums long time back. I had done this on day one when I joined the forum and I get no e-mails.

I'm not talking about Digit newsletters though. Only the forum.

Yeah, I am glad I too made the "No email notification" as default long time back. Although I did have to unsubscribe to at least 20 threads and then subscribe again just so to stop the mails from the threads.

I think an option to toggle between email notifications for each thread is long due, and should be looked upon if possible. Would save a LOT of trouble, for who realize it late!

Reporting a bug in Subscribe page of thinkdigit.com

URL: *www.thinkdigit.com/subscribe.php
Bug: In You Save column, each category of subscription is just 1%.

Continue here: *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/feedback/...ded-2012-requesting-feedback-new-website.html

Closing this one.