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I have a more major request of that I would like a BBCode viewer so you can view more advanced things. ik this is a device problem but i cant read spoilers because it crashes my device but i can view replies and bbcode for some reason. anyways, thank you!
 
A way to automatically format time similar to Discord. This would ease timezone troubles when silly billies like me can't do math on timezones consistently. The idea is that you could do /time 9:00PM or something and it would show as whatever time it would be for the opponent as well as yourself. So if it's /time 9:00PM and the person sending the msg is GMT-0 and the recipient is GMT+1 then it'd show as 10:00PM for them when, as well as showing the correct date in case it crosses over midnight. It would also work for whoever else is viewing the msg as sharing the time in their own timezone.
 
A way to automatically format time similar to Discord. This would ease timezone troubles when silly billies like me can't do math on timezones consistently. The idea is that you could do /time 9:00PM or something and it would show as whatever time it would be for the opponent as well as yourself. So if it's /time 9:00PM and the person sending the msg is GMT-0 and the recipient is GMT+1 then it'd show as 10:00PM for them when, as well as showing the correct date in case it crosses over midnight. It would also work for whoever else is viewing the msg as sharing the time in their own timezone.
This exists, it follows Unix Time's timestamps similar to how Discord does it. <t:1775421720:f> = <t:1775421720:f>
 
sometimes, the most recent post shown can be from someone that you've ignored. this can be a bit annoying as obviously, you are ignoring that person and don't really want to be reminded of them. I don't really know if it'd be feasible or not, but it would be cool if it showed the previous user who posted instead of the ignored one when this happens.
 

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Can we please have the prev and next buttons at the top
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* when going through threads its annoying/clumsy to have to either click the box and then type in the number of a page to move one page backwards or forward, with the alternative being scrolling all the way down
* symmetry is good
* please its just comfortable for quickly going through threads
* i had suggested this as while ago in IS and got decent support!
 
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when I add a YouTube link with a timestamp, the timestamp gets removed in the media entry. If this is true, would it be possible to preserve it? Personally, this is especially useful when attaching and referencing YouTube videos in research threads.
 
A way to create your own custom Prefixes in the Sandbox

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This would be extremely useful as just a way to organise and sort miscellaneous threads by colour and an easier time traversing it. My autistic ass has a much better time processing colours + keywords instead of reading each long title individually, so it'd just speed up the process of selecting a thread just a little bit - which does add up when going back-and-forth between multiple pages and posts throughout the site.

Thank you for reading
 
Suggestion: once a circuit record becomes outdated, the circuit badge should display which circuit(s) the user won, and preferably the year where the user won the circuit. It would help preserve that achievement and make the badge more informative.

I know those are in the hall of fame but i still think these should also be on the badge itself since it's a record of the skill of the player who won it in a specific tier
 
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Suggestion: once a circuit record becomes outdated, the circuit badge should display which circuit(s) the user won, and preferably the year where the user won the circuit. It would help preserve that achievement and make the badge more informative.

I know those are in the hall of fame but i still think these should also be on the badge itself since it's a record of the skill of the player who won it in a specific tier
This cannot be realistically done without a quickly ballooning amount of custom usergroups for each possible variant, we can't justify adding a hundred or more additional usergroups to accomplish this and then expanding further as the years continue.
 
Not sure if it should be posted here (feel free to delete if it's not appropriate).

When using the bracketmaker, it is impossible to know exactly how many additional signups are being added. It'd be very useful to have that information, as rounds past round 1 use this feature exclusively and it'd help to know if all users have been added. A line in the likes of "Additional users added: x", counting users both in "Additional users to add" and "Additional free-form entries to pair with" would be the addition
 
another suggestion that just popped up in my head recently is that we should be able to pin/stick direct messages.
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(there's no option so i assuming it doesn't exist, maybe it does? if so you can delete this)

i haven't seen people talk about this one so maybe it's not too necessary, but it would be helpful for people that prefer talking through smogon messages (no access to smogcord due to rules breaking or maybe discord is banned in their country like russia and china [although you can just vpn it], etc).


final suggestion i'll leave here is the ability to run multiple polls on the same thread if xenforo allows it, if it doesn't then that's ok and no need to act upon it, but if it does then like what are we doing, this can be useful for stuff like Fight Nights polls, as well as specific PL/CL format votes if they need multiple for some reason.

EDIT: https://xenforo.com/community/threa...ad-enhancing-how-poll-data-is-displayed.2520/
xenforo doesn't allow multiple polls, sadge.
 
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Given that the PMD Collab isn't planning on doing "proper" dialogue sprites for Calyrex-S and Calyrex-I (beyond :pmd/calyrex-ice:), as well as positive reception in Smogcord, I wonder if these (or some edited variation) could be uploaded as to become sprites to pop up when :pmd/calyrex-shadow: and
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are written in the forum:

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Calyrex-ice PMD final maybe.png


I also made a variant of them with the Reins of Unity (
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) as to be more on-model, but the sprite evidently wasn't meant to be just slapped in there as is (and I'd rather not compromise potential edits further), so this is more of a further proof of concept (with the previous sprites being easier to edit):

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Calyrex-ice PMD final maybe reins of unity.png

Worth noting that these are based on an edited merge of the sprite currently used for PMD's Calyrex-I's sprite (:pmd/calyrex-ice:, which notably differs from base Calyrex-'s (:pmd/calyrex:) by having its big head protuberance glowing, which aligns with how it visually changes when riding a horse) hence the usage of an screenshot of the text in a prior paragraph) and the left-facing variants (mirrored) of
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and
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(as that's the angle used for their sprites (:spectrier::glastrier:)) as pertinent.
 
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