It'd be great if Applevis had the following:

Filtering Results bye date of last comment. This was also there and was removed sometime ago.

https://www.applevis.com/apps/search-ios

I think it would be nice if we could know the specific forum to which a forum topic is posted prior to opening the post. For instance, I am only an IOS user and may want to skip posts on other forum. More often than not, the posters do not specify the device in their subject line. So, along with other info like the time of the post etc., could we also have the forum name of the post?

In fact in the non applevis section we do have the specific forum topic below the heading and I'd be glad to have it on the applevis posts as well.
Plus some more obscure threads like braille on apple products are often overshadowed and hidden by the more active forums, so maybe each forum could display as many posts as a user want? Like ios and ipados, braille on apple products, app dev and prog, all displaying the most recent conversations?
Thanks for the team who's working on this website, dev and mod, you are doing an incredible work guys.

I, too, would very much like to have the forum name listed on the main page. Thanks.

Hi all,

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to share feedback in this thread.

• As Pilgrim Pete pointed out (thank you for finding this--I too thought this functionality was no longer available for whatever reason), it is possible to filter apps in the directory by cost and usability rating; as well as category. This is found on the 'Advanced Search' page at https://www.applevis.com/apps/search-ios.
• I will continue to investigate adding the names of the forums to forum topics under the "Latest Apple Posts and Updates" section of the site. If this isn't something that I am able to do myself, it will require development resources from the Be My Eyes Technical Team. If BME resources are required, there are unfortunately other things with the site that need to take priority before we would be able to allocate time to this.
• Adding the capability to filter out certain keywords from search results is something we can consider, but it would definitely require development resources and, as mentioned previously, there are other things on the roadmap well ahead of this.
• For App entries and reordering fields, what do you have in mind? The layout of our app entries has not changed significantly since the site opened, but all ideas are welcome.

Thanks,

Michael

Hi all,

Circling back to let everyone know that as of today, the name of the forum is now displayed below each forum topic on the home page. Thank you to all for your ideas and continued feedback.

From what I've read in the suggestions in the thread title, I think a lot of things can be done with Views, which is already the core of Drupal.

However, for those who are new to Drupal, it might take some time to learn, as Drupal's Views are quite complex, despite its many capabilities. As for the features that have been removed, I'm guessing that the website was previously using Drupal 7, which is a fairly old version of the CMS (currently D11). When it was updated to Drupal 10, some modules that were used to enable certain features might not be ready in Drupal 10, so the maintainers removed them.

Thanks to all involved in adding the forum name to the entries on the home page! This will be very helpful to me.

Many thanks to the team and thanks Michael for the update.

I think it would be really useful if AppleVis offered a way to create opinion polls. I realize there’s a risk that quick, low-effort responses could take away from deeper discussions, but polls could also provide a clear picture of what matters most to the community.

One idea might be to keep polls in a separate menu or section, so they don’t get mixed in with regular discussion threads.