news NamePros November 2021 – A new website and more!

[NamePros]

Welcome to the new NamePros in November!

Today marks the first step toward a lot of positive and exciting changes coming to NamePros. You'll notice that most of what you loved is still here, and we're working hard to bring back even more.

And that's only the beginning! We'll be bringing you regular updates, sometimes weekly, to add the features you've requested (please vote on features you want to see first!) and improve your experience.

Our mission is to build a thriving professional network around the best community – that's you! – where professionals can engage in civil discussions, ask questions, share advice, partner, transact, and succeed, all together.

We hope you'll have a look around, and let us know what you think!


All our best,

The NamePros Team

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Update: Alerts for quick replies have returned!

GIPHY support was also added, among other updates. Many more coming soon.

Please begin using the Suggestions and Feedback section rather than this thread so we can prioritize what you'd like to see next:

• https://www.namepros.com/forums/suggestions-and-feedback.404/

Thanks!

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

@domain friend, @HotKey, and others,

If possible, please let us know specifics about what you miss about the old NamePros theme. For example, the font was smaller. This will allow us to improve the new theme.

We appreciate all of your feedback.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Update: Alerts for quick replies have returned!

This is the great news...it certainly keeps the site more active and makes it more engaging for those that participate in good will.

I agree with above...anonymous down votes are a negative feature. Anything here (or in life) that is hidden, should be given no value.

 

[TCK]

For the keeping of NamePros' preeminence that has really come from many years' devoted efforts and contributions by the NamePros Team and the NamePros Community members, I'd like to say it again regarding the new Namepros theme and the new Namepros site, with the following:

Being a long-time visitor and user on the Namepros.com website and a long-time webmaster, I am very sorry to see the traditional, preeminent Namepros Theme has been gone. It is like my online domain home disappears.

Generally, the traditional, preeminent Namepros Theme is much, much and much better than the new Namepros Theme.

I feel disturbed by the unwise switch of the Namepros themes. Why switch to the Namepros theme that is comparatively much worse than the traditional, preeminent Namepros Theme???

Why bother about changing to the new Namepros theme??? Expecting to keep existing domain business people and attract more people to come??? No, things will not come in this way. Let's be frank, discerning and judging properly as to what are true and right for Namepros in the long run. I'm afraid the Namepros new theme and the Namepros new website will be resulting in starting losing existing domain business people and their activities on the Namepros website, and resulting in attracting less new people to come.

The Traditional, Preeminent Namepros Theme together with the Traditional, Preeminent Namepros Website is the many-years' fine brewed wine that is preeminent.

The New Namepros Theme together with the New Namepros Website is just a newly brewed wine with some mixed debris.

The Traditional, Preeminent Namepros Theme is Unique and Great.

The New Namepros Theme is Not Unique and Not Great. This kind of similar website themes are often seen on the Internet. More and more similar themes are made or reproduced by computer geeks who are not really creative and not really professional, don't care about traditional beauty and just make new, actually low-quality designs that are often similar to some other websites' designs on the Internet. We have seen some companies' websites have suffered from this kind of computer geeks whose work has eventually damaged the traditional beauty and the original high-quality website designs on those companies' websites over the years. We sincerely hope this mistake does not take place here, again.

Why wasting time, human labor and cost for changing to the generally much worse new-theme Namepros new website???

Make no sense at all for changing to the new Namepros theme, especially if the comparatively much worse new Namepros theme is made by a third party.

Sincerely expect the traditional, preeminent Namepros-Theme website, our domain home, will come back soon.

Best wishes to Namepros!

As a webmaster, you are aware that with software upgrades, especially from 3rd parties, themes become deprecated, replaced, or retired due mostly to security measures and framework upgrades. If a framework and server-side interpreter version is outdated and no longer supported, you are forced to upgrade. Otherwise you keep security holes open. The previous theme was made by a 3rd party as well. I can see that the Np team is trying to keep the branding as close as possible and tweaking the upgraded forum software to bring back as many of the old features we enjoyed as possible and adding some new ones.

One thing I would like to see back is the number of views in the thread itself.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Small update to quick replies:

Thanks has been separated from Like and Dislike, which allows for adding both "Thanks" and "Like" to the same post.

This is useful when you like a post and want to express gratitude for it. Similarly, you could dislike the opinion of a post but also be appreciative that it was shared.

Tip: Switch to manual mode () if you only want to give 1 point when adding "Thanks" and "Like" to the same post.

 

[alop]

As a webmaster, you are aware that with software upgrades, especially from 3rd parties, themes become deprecated, replaced, or retired due mostly to security measures and framework upgrades. If a framework and server-side interpreter version is outdated and no longer supported, you are forced to upgrade. Otherwise you keep security holes open. The previous theme was made by a 3rd party as well. I can see that the Np team is trying to keep the branding as close as possible and tweaking the upgraded forum software to bring back as many of the old features we enjoyed as possible and adding some new ones.

One thing I would like to see back is the number of views in the thread itself.

Keep security holes open? Now NamePros can’t be hacked?

 

[TCK]

Keep security holes open? Now NamePros can’t be hacked?

Obviously you can not say that with certainty. But that is very different than keeping known security holes open because of old code that is no longer supported.

 

[redemo]

This is the great news...it certainly keeps the site more active and makes it more engaging for those that participate in good will.

I agree with above...anonymous down votes are a negative feature. Anything here (or in life) that is hidden, should be given no value.

For transparency I up-voted your comment x 4.

 

[redemo]

Let's be honest. Apart from the loss of a traditional chatroom this is pretty damn good forum.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

We've moved the posts about the next/previous page bug to their own thread to improve its visibility:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/no-option-for-next-previous-page.1265691/

An update will be posted in it once resolved.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Where is the fix bug thread? Chat is not displaying in chronological order for me and posts have duplicate post number.

@Bravo Mod Team how do you feel about the invisible upvote or down vote becoming uninvisible ?
I would like to see who down voted car.xyz guy and abstractdomainer.
I am sure some would be thrilled to see who upvoted them

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Where is the fix bug thread?

Which one?

Chat is not displaying in chronological order for me and posts have duplicate post number.

Thanks for reporting it. The tech team saw your report and is already working on it. It's affecting a very small number of posts, and it should be fixed soon.

@Bravo Mod Team how do you feel about the invisible upvote or down vote becoming uninvisible ?

Shortly after releasing the feature, we mentioned that moderators have access to it so that we can monitor and prevent abuse of it. The reason that we would give another member access to it is if they're selected to be part of our community moderation efforts.

We've been discussing community moderation for a while now. The goal is to empower the community to monitor and decide on what's best for it, when possible. It's something we're working toward, but there is still a lot of work and community feedback necessary before we get there.

As part of that plan, the top members of the community (i.e., the most trusted and most respected) will have similar permissions and access, including point assignments, as us (current moderators). That access will allow them to help us monitor and prevent abuse of points on posts.

This is an improvement because you could participate in the decision of who is accessing this information. Currently, the community is not yet involved in the decision of who moderates NamePros (and therefore, who accesses that information).

We hope that helps.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

One thing I would like to see back is the number of views in the thread itself.

Restored: The number of views and the number of replies are shown on the first post of every thread if they're greater than 0.

 

[TCK]

@Bravo Mod Team

Is it possible to make it so you can DM someone right from the profile page?

I don't see an option for that, but I think it would be a cool feature. A prominent DM button in the profile page. Otherwise you can only send a DM from a post in a thread.

 

[mitch007]

@Bravo Mod Team

Is it possible to make it so you can DM someone right from the profile page?

I don't see an option for that, but I think it would be a cool feature. A prominent DM button in the profile page. Otherwise you can only send a DM from a post in a thread.

go to "Start conversation" on profile page

 

[TCK]

go to "Start conversation" on profile page

Thanks. My eyes not working so well.

 

[D Haynes]

Would it be possible to move the up page and down page arrows slightly higher up the page on mobile? It currently clashes with the x (close) on the NamePros Community would like... so I can't get rid of it. Thanks.

 

[Sutruk]

Somebody has given around 100 hidden negatives to my posts in few minutes. Please make this kind of mass downvoting visible, so I can send him/her back the "greetings".

 

[DN Playbook]

Somebody has given around 100 hidden negatives to my posts in few minutes. Please make this kind of mass downvoting visible, so I can send him/her back the "greetings".

This up/down voting system is open to abuse. You should get rid of it or allow to see the usernames of the voters like with likes/dislikes/thanks/agree.

 

[TCK]

This up/down voting system is open to abuse. You should get rid of it or allow to see the usernames of the voters like with likes/dislikes/thanks/agree.

I just noticed you can keep voting up and down as often as you like. This can present a problem.