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Which leads me to another issue. If we must enter our Control Panel to see whether our friends are online, wouldn't it be just as easy to eliminate the "Who's Online" link from the main displays and put it in the Control Panel? Same with the User List.

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I'm not sure that's a good idea. What if we don't have ALL of our friends in our "favorites", or we may be looking for "new" friends, etc. If you're saying put the "Who's Online" in the control panel, doesn't that make the control panel even more crowed?

I think I'd like to leave that as is.

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What if we don't have ALL of our friends in our "favorites", or we may be looking for "new" friends, etc. If you're saying put the "Who's Online" in the control panel, doesn't that make the control panel even more crowed?

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I am simply suggesting that the links could be moved from the main display panels into the Control Panel. Only the links, the behavior would not change at all. Since you are going to go into the control panel to see which of your friends is online, you might as well put the links to "Who's Online" and "User List" in there as-well.

The User List is quite unwieldy anyway. In a board that has say, 25,000 users, it is virtually useless in its current form. Here on W3T, it took me 2 minutes just to move through the pages to search for a specific user name that started with E. I don't think that it is a prime feature of W3T, and thus can be moved into the Control Panel without upsetting too many people.

As it is, "Edit Profile", "Send Private" and "Check Private" have all been moved into the Control Panel, and these are all features that probably get far more use than the "User List." Moving "Who's Online" and "User List" into the Control Panel merely rounds out the process.

BTW, the page brought up by the "User List" really needs an option to "Find User," And may be a better location for the "Find User" feature that I am suggesting. Without the ability to search for users, the "User List" is really just one big paperweight.

What I would then do is move "View Recent Messages" to the menu line and attach a selection box to it to accomodate "Past 24 Hours," "Past 48 Hours," and "Past 7 days." Finally I would create a new link called "Latest Threads," which would allow a user to see what the latest threads are rather than the latest posts.

Hence my navigation bar might look like this (some links not live):

[:blue]Admin | [:blue]Latest Threads | Latest Posts | Main Index | Control Panel | FAQ | Logout

I might even put "Self-Search" on the main menu, since it probably will be used quite a bit once it is available.

Here's what that navigation bar might look like:

[:blue]Admin | [:blue]Latest Threads | Latest Posts | [:blue]Self-Search | Main Index | Control Panel | FAQ | Logout


Derek