If anyone has anything else to add to these suggestion let me know in this thread and I will add your suggestion to the bottom of this post and give credit in the form of a link to your post.

As of 5th December 2015, I have added (IMPLEMENTED) next to all implemented suggestions. Any suggestions that have implemented pretty much exactly as suggested will be in green, any features that have been partially implemented (as in part of what the person wanted is there) will be shown in yellow. All fully implemented suggestions (green) will be removed from this post after a while to keep it clean. Any individual parts of suggestions will also be colour-coded on partially implemented to show what's missing if applicable.

So I've been on the forum and I've noticed it's missing a few things.

My suggestions:

• Add image button
• More text formatting options (colour, glow.etc)
• Add videos to posts with a button
• Emoticons (IN PROGRESS)
• User statistics (e.g. date they joined the site, post count, online/offline.etc) (SOME FEATURES IMPLEMENTED VIA FORUM PROFILES)
  • These stats could also be incorporated into profile pages somehow.
• Who's Online list at the bottom of the forum's "home" page. (Also suggested by SolarLune)
• Friend list
• Private messaging feature. (Also suggested by HAL 9001)

I know they can all be done with HTML code (I was able to add some text colour to my intro thread post via HTML) but not everyone knows HTML. Practically all forums have ways to add content such as images and videos via a button and I'm actually surprised that this feature isn't present here.

Here are some other suggestions suggested by people who replied to this:

• Format visited links in a different colour. (Suggested by NotExplosive) (IMPLEMENTED)
• Image gallery system. (Suggested by Virtually Competent)
• Add link somewhere to notifications. (Suggested by SnoutUP)
• Add inline reply forms. (Suggested by SnoutUP)
• Forum signatures. (Suggested by Virtually Competent)
• Add markdown support. (Suggested by nounoursheureux)
• Add a reply with quote button. (Suggested by nounoursheureux)
• Add page numbers to each thread page rather than displaying pages by the number of posts. (Suggested by eggboycolor)
• Forum search to search for threads/posts (Suggested by Taro)
• Remove edit count and/or allow "invisible" edits within first two minutes of the post being posted. (Suggested by ninjadodo)
• Option to view all posts by a certain user and show new replies to your posts. (Suggested by ninjadodo)
• Show number of active members/posters. (Suggested by SolarLune)
• Boards on forum designed for player-to-developer interaction. (Suggested by Sun-Studios)
• Allow people to tag others via the @ symbol (e.g. @archangelatom) and notify those who've been tagged. (Suggested by SolarLune)
• Project progress icons for devlog threads. (Suggested by ninjadodo)
• Make email notifications less confusing in terms of post links within the email. (Suggested by Guard13007)
• Add a reply button under the first post in a thread. (Suggested by Cookaie)
• Make topics bold if there are new posts there, regardless of whether the thread has been visited before. (Suggested by Jeasonfire)
• Mark all threads as read. (Suggested by Jeasonfire)
• Rearrange page links to first/previous/next/last. (Suggested by Jeasonfire)
• Add inline code syntax (Suggested by Elisée)
• Reverse post order (Suggested by slimefriend)
• Let users annotate that analytics graphs. (Suggested by anderssonkev)
• Give access to Steam keys once a game that someone has bought makes it onto the Steam store. (Suggested by dibdob1)
• Scrap the current reply system and replace it with a more conventional quote system. (Suggested by Rotato Studio)
• Add an itch.io help forum for help with various features of itch.io. (Suggested by chicmonster)
• Forum search feature. (Suggested by SolarLune)

"Purple links" would also be nice. Some way to indicate if you have or have not already clicked on a thread. It's hard to look at a wall of pink threads trying to see if any of them are new to you or not.

The pixel thread in the 2d art section it already getting huge with giant, gorgeous pixels. Some sort of embedded gallery system might be really cool. This may be something we could use from an outside source. I'm not sure if you can embed imgur albums or anything? But if it was built in with the "add image" button, that'd be great :D

-CuddlyColin

The suggestions in the above two posts have now been added.

I have added everyone's suggestions to the original post now.

Also thanks for stickying this thread! Much appreciated.

Fixed a handful of these in the latest update, thanks!

Added (IMPLEMENTED) next to all suggestions that were added in the above update. I'll be clearing implemented suggestions from the list every now and again but I'll leave them up there for a while to let everyone know what's been added and if any of their suggestions were added.

Guys sorry for the late replies. I've been in town centre all morning so I wasn't able to reply to your posts here.

@Sun-Studios: I've added your suggestion to the list.

@SolarLune: Both of your suggestions were already on there under my personal list of suggestions I've added your name anyway.

Added implemented next to the audio forum suggestion.

And now I have a profile image I can add add implemented next to the suggestion of me getting an icon lol.

All fully implemented suggestions have been removed from the first post to clean things up.

I would really like:

1. A mouse sensitivity option available in the controls section please, right now its very slow.

2. An option to toggle the "auto darkness" when looking at bright things, like the forge, in the graphics section. This effect basically makes my whole screen go pitch black besides the bright object I look at.

3. A way to key bind in the controls section.

Other then that I love the game!

This is a reply made during Alpha_02, if someone is wondering.

I would like to have a history page of downloads.

Hi, the "forum search" suggestion is listed twice (but it probably deserves to be as it’s sorely missing! :p).

Is there any Mac Games on this site?

I would really like Bitcoin payouts, instead of just PayPal

Not sure if this has been suggested yet, but it'd be awesome to access the list of game jams under the Browse tab for us developers.

hey there! 

suggestions:

- add the option to hide the download-buttons on the website (we don't want the users to download our app without the itch.io-app, instead we use our own links)

- allow users to use the launcher without an account (works only on free games)

- add an app store link for the mac store

- maybe add app store links for the itch-links (one for windows, one for mac, one for linux,...) or do it the other way around: make app store links look like the download buttons

reasoning:

we have an interactive experience which our customers download and install. i really like the itch.io-app but we've got feedback that it's too hard to install. users basically want a button for windows which installs the launcher and opens the game-page in the launcher. 

the app-links are also really distracting. the user sees a windows logo and lands in the windows store even though we want them to use the itch.io-app (windows has just more power then windows universal and the mac app store is just terrible to update the app).

you can see our workaround here: https://raumgleiter.itch.io/archviewe (the windows-version even uses a instruction page instead of the store: http://app.raumgleiter.com/R0012_AR_App/Download/windows.html)

Being able to easily search the forum instead of the whole conglomerate of superpowers. I always receive lists of games instead of helpful information from the community ;)

hi i feel like there should be a button for games that are finished, what i mean is like its annoying to search for games and then all are in development. there should be a button that allows you to see games that are developing, on hold, ext

Hi there! 
I'm sure you get this request a lot but I find that sharing a project between multiple developers still needs some work. Even though I get admin priveleges on projects that I've developed that were uploaded by a team member, there are still jams like salvagejam that I cannot submit to because I didn't upload the project to my profile. Someone please correct me if there is some sort of setting I'm missing but I find this doesn't really make sense and is a bit frustrating because I tend to work on teams. Anyways thanks for listening!
Cheers

Being left-handed, I would wish for configurable controls.

Hello everyone, I'm here! I am new and I want to know them ejejejeje

Allow free games to be" claimed" so they stay in my library.

Should be an android/IOS game.

Allow tab characters as-is -- at least in code blocks -- instead of auto-expanding them into spaces. This would make it easier to post and discuss code fragments in languages where tabs matter (Python, GDScript, Haskell, Makefile, etc.). Optionally, add a toggle somewhere to switch between new (preserve) and current (expand) behaviour.

I would like to see a fish net added to Raft. This would be a great tool for getting fish.

This forum really needs something like a flair in Reddit where when you click on it, you get the desired threads and also needs something like "Recently updated, most viewed" etc so that I don't have to click "Next page" to get where I want to. Also is the search bar for itch.io in here also searches forum threads or it is just for games and creators only? 

Please add the ability to edit and remove key groups.

I don't know if this is something that would be considered, or if this is the right part of the forums for it, but seeing as how there is a low distraction text editor (Left) that I believe is downloadable through itch.io, maybe there could be a small portion of the forums for writers and aspiring writers to exchange info on things that may help members of such a group. Just for instance I have a couple of short stories that I would have already submitted to some magazine for possible publication, but so far the requirements for all electronic submissions that I've seen require a cover sheet along with the work being offered. Exchanging info about such things would be great. Also it would be nice to have a place to share advice about writing (creative and other types) among people with like interests.

dont allow people to self promote themselves by posting  video links in the comments, so that area can be filled with genuine criticizm instead

Allow complex tag search like e.g. on Pixiv:
3d (rpg OR adventure)

Hi guys! Nice to meet you! Need help. I'm a new Pixel Art student and need 150 views on my page (https://cezard.itch.io/)  for a class challenge. Can you help me? Just click on my page and the system will compute your view! You're welcome to comment on my job, but remember: I'm beginning in this! :) Thanks a lot!

Is it possible to devide the games into pages and if not why not mage it so

I just realized that the (+X) next to the first line of each forum post is basically a counter of likes.

Would it be possible to make it clickable and to show who liked a post when you click it?

hey how'd you do that colored text?

Suggestion: Don't allow link text that's a URL different to the link target:

https://www.google.com

https://itch.io

This has come up in the current Ukraine bundle thread.

Forums should be used as a source of troubleshooting. I have seen users post technical questions or report bugs for games and a moderator tells them they should address the devs of the game directly. Devs should be encouraged to monitor these forums and answer questions here. The result would be a searchable database of knowledge specific to the itch platform. I have a problem with Minit and another guy seems to have the same problem https://itch.io/t/528364/itch-minit-and-linux and the thread has been archived. I cant even ask if he found a solution for his problem. For example, steams's discussion boards are very helpful for that. Lots of bug reported and fixes are discussed and can be found there.

Here's mine: No offsite links for accounts younger than 90 days.

When you reach the bottom of the page, besides the first page/next page links, we should have a link that lead us back to the corresponding sub forum OR a button to jump back to top. It's annoying having to scroll back to the top of the page if we want to return to see another thread on the sub forum.

in Feed tab, add made using ? game engine ? , x64, and optional timezone now gmt/utc+1 img, and add a gif only imagesofgame on hover shows the info, show state of game release update add invite collaborate team wishes: grphics, gameplay, sound, lang, style that could be customized loadung bundle or level scene, weekscores

Projects to collaborate topic, make team based games and let itch users to share game sources and than build latest version of games, but once a project topic post (inside sub forum: grapics, programming, sounds, concept design - with notify updated partial source and complete build). 

I write very long tutorials in the 2D Art forum section and sometimes I wish I can save a post as a draft to continue writing later, so having a way to save posts as drafts would be nice. That's my little suggestion! 👍

https://itch.io/t/2919128/metadata-encouragement

Looks like Taro’s Search in forum feature was implemented since (remember to add IMPLEMENTED in front of it in the list).

I’d like to add an improvement: make “All words” the default search mode, instead of “Exact Phrase”. “Exact Phrase” made me miss many threads as I expected it to search individual words by default, as in most search engines. User could switch to Exact Phrase, or use the classic approach of surrounding words with double quotes to force exact match.

Suggestion : A tutorials thread would be so helpful for finding and organizing tutorial posts easily.