We're working on adding new features to LBT over the next few months. If you have any suggestions on features you'd like to see added, please let us know.

Here is a list of what we're working on:

- New LBT forum skin design

- Photo Gallery

- Fix journals

- Clothes exchange

- Our own Tickers geared for Bandsters.

- Surgery dates

- Angel feature

- Allow members to add, rate, review and discuss Insurers, Govt programs, Hospitals, Lap-band Surgeon, Plastic Surgeon, Dietician/Nutritionist, Primary Care Physician, Psychologist, sleep Center Professional and other professionals

- Lap-band Surgeon and Lap-band Professionals Directory

A nice new feature could be the date each response within a thread was posted.

I would like to see specific threads for:

-Pregnancy with the band

-Bandsters attending Overeaters Anonymous or other 12 step support groups.

I'd like a blank space where I could type in one or two words quickly to find something I'm looking for. For example, I could type in the word "motrim and all the threads with "motrim" come up. Maybe you have this already, but I can't find it. This would make searching for things much easier.

Can there be a sticky for resizing pics? A mb limit?

I love to see before and afters of both weightloss and the plastic surgeries.

I am the only one left in the world who has dialup. I know, lame, but it takes forever to load such large files.

Also, it must be eating up your bandwidth>??

Susan

I would like to know how to resize a pic, how to change my name from sfeiner to munch2much (if you can do it for me, that would be great) and how to stop the email notifications of new postings. Thanks much

Maybe this is already in play, but to be able to quote just a portion of what someone says, instead of quoting the entire post, would significantly reduce space... I think you get what I'm trying to say, anyway!

A nice new feature could be the date each response within a thread was posted.

It shows that info already. Look at your post:

Today, 03:03 PM

MollyBrown

Registered User

Join Date: Sep 2007

Age: 45

Posts: 101

Angleface, welcome to LBT--there is a search tab at the top of the page, it allows you to type in key words, and either search threads or posts....

TownDrunk (the name makes me LOL) Once you go advanced with the quote you can delete the unrelated parts, and leave the part you want quoted as well as the OP's name. Thats what I do, I am usually only responding to one section of a post.

And finally Mollybrown....I don't know where you mean, the date is in the tan/orange section above each post. Is there another place?

I love some of the new thread ideas!

I can see where they would benefit several groups of people.

I still miss having the new posts on the top of the main page---I met a lot of people that way, in threads I normally would not have responded to.

And the calendar may have been eliminated in the last redo----after Alexandra responded.

Happy New Year!!!

Kat

I have been on this site for 2 months and still haven't figured out how to get my ticker posted on my profile. I haven't seen any instructions on how to make this happen.

thanks for starting such a great site. i love it. what about buying stock in the lbt?

Photo resizing.

For message boards/forums I have only used photobucket. Their interface has changed since I first tried it but it is all explained in the site.

The site is free. You upload your photos then resize them. you can cut and paste their code and your pitcures appear in your post.

It really is way simpler than i am making it sound.

New Posts:

I always have just clicked New Posts up top there next to FAQ.

Hi Alex - I'm new to the site, thanks for creating it! There is another forum (completely different subjects) that like you guys, used to use email to alert you when new posts came in, but now they have this really great link at the side of your screen that says "Participated Discussions" and when you click, you're taken to a page of the threads you've posted in, and the ones with new posts rise to the top... so you just come to the site and click there, no need for emails (unless you want them) -- it's really great.

if you reply to a thread, it becomes a "subscribed" thread, and will appear under the "quick links" button

To get a ticker, all you have to do is click on someone's ticker.

It should bring you to the spot where they got their ticker. You pick out what you want. Then it will give you the codes.You have to go to the top of the board and their is a place for your signature. Copy and paste the codes into your signature.

If I didn't explain it well enough, go to thread search and type in

ticker. There is somewhere on this board that gives very good instructions.

if you reply to a thread, it becomes a "subscribed" thread, and will appear under the "quick links" button

I did see that -- what I'm talking about is similar, but a bit different... also, the ones with new posts rise to the top --- but thanks miztrniceguy!

I like a lot about the LBT format. The hover-over, New Posts, subscribed threads, the ability to select only the forums I wish to see posts from - very nice job!

I haven't read all the pages of the thread, so I'm sure it's been suggested, but it would be nice to have a forum for BMI Over 50, not just a thread.

Thanks for making it a nice place!

Alyson

I have loved this site. It has been such a great blessing to me and my family (DH, DS and I are all banded.) I love some of the new changes that have been made lately. The changes have made the site much more user friendly. Now for the things that I would like to see:

--Tickers that are LBT specific

--Forums age specific like teens, 20s, 30s, 40s

--Forums weightloss specific:: Dotties has a group for those who need to lose 50 pounds, 100 pounds, etc. Those are great because you get to know people who are in the same boat you are in. LOL

--The ability to revise a post. I hate when I post something then relize that something is wrong.

I think that's about all. Thanks so much for all the hard work that goes into this site.