| 1. | This is the sort of thing we have to consider when we're doing things. |
Well, I originally wanted to remove it and make it a plugin but others disagreed with me, haha. My view on such things is that things being made plugins means I can work on them and develop them individually without having to worry about waiting for another main-line release date. I already removed SMF's calendar and made it a plugin.
Well, I originally wanted to remove it and make it a plugin but others disagreed with me, haha. My view on such things is that things being made plugins means I can work on them and develop them individually without having to worry about waiting for another main-line release date. I already removed SMF's calendar and made it a plugin.
1) Thread Prefixes
I am not sure if this was suggested but it would be good to see this as an feature build in the software so that no mod installation is requested. Thread prefixes are used more and more those days and I consider this as very important thing to have.
2) Point system
A point system is used for every promotion forum there is, a lot of gaming forums use it to giveaway games for a certain amount of points and other forum niches started using them for the same reasons. So i guess this has been suggested by now but well had to say it again :D
3)Chat Room
This is more of a not really important suggestion but I think a chat room would be good a simple one not to complicated that can be turned on or off depending on the admins desire.
4)Better profile homepage
I dont like the dull look of the profile, I think you should consider and make a profile homepage that looks really amazing i know this is probably hard work and i think my suggestions can be a bit to specific but this could be a positive thing as the looks are important in the web industry.
5)Posting Template Mod
This is one more specific for the promotion niche but it can do good for any other niche as well
6)The timer
Is it really needed for the thing that lets you stay logged in for an amount of time (120 min or how much it is defoult) instead of just letting the user loggout himself ?
7) A popup
Or something to announce that you recived a new message.
8)Easy board icons changer
This one of the things i never seen on a software a build-in option that allows you to change the board icons.
9)Member List
A member list with avatars who show if the user is online or not (transparent avatars offline not transparent online) instead of the standard online image.
10)The Inbox
I think a conversation looking pm system would do good with the awesome look of the rest :D
Except that you don't say what thread prefixes are supposed to do... It's not a feature, it's a concept.
What is that?
Maybe just a warning at the top of the page when you have less than 5mn left...
If it were just up to me, I'd remove board icons the way they're done now, and replace them with an 'avatar' or something, and show only a "NEW" icon next to the board name, just like sub-boards do. (Well, first we'll have to fix the bug that makes it show only on a handful of sub-boards...)
Final Wedge will show avatars, like Noisen does, but in a reduced height (probably like the Wireless skin here.) I don't want to break too much of it... Also, I'm hoping to do it in a tableless way, but it warrants for a longer and more complicated rewrite and I don't really have the time.
Actually, what he's thinking of is not the same thing you were - in his (and my) view, thread prefixes are a way of selecting a prefix from a dropdown, e.g. what I did on whatsthatgame.co.uk in particular in http://whatsthatgame.co.uk/index.php?forums/aralander-discussion/
A posting template system can take two forms, either it can be for having one or more predefined blocks of content that can be easily inserted into posts, or it can take the form of being an outright form that users have to fill in to generate a post out of it, e.g. for application forms for certain things.
That's half way towards what he's talking about, incidentally.
Then it needs to have less content in it if it's going to be done without tables; right now a table is the correct semantic item for it because it's tabular data.
Hmm... That's... Pretty much a tag system, isn't it...?
Anyway, it's online here, what do you think? Do you like it or not?
Also, all permalinks to posts are rewritten to have the prefixes before the link, and have the "Re: " positioned at the beginning of the link.
Which leads me to ask -- what is it with that slightly fucked up $txt['response_prefix'] system...
It would make a LOT more sense to have a meta prefix like {re} at the beginning, and have Wedge automatically convert it to $txt['response_prefix'] at runtime... What do you think?
Oh, I see... tumblr-like, right? Or the latest WP... (Which was inspired by tumblr, IIRC.)
Well, it's easy enough to have the NEW icon, but I'm not so sure about how best to implement board icons... For instance, Noisen.com does it by going through a special folder and looking for "123.jpg" or "123.png" for board #123. Which makes a lot of sense when you create the boards yourself, but not when you don't have FTP access at all...
Although we could simply use AeMe for that. I say "simply", but it'd probably be simpler to use attachments for that...
I was thinking more about doing something like the item lists in the media area. i.e. you'd get just the thumbnail and user name, and have to hover the name to get more details, but OTOH one could argue that you may want to be able to see the additional details immediately. Maybe with a click of a button somewhere...
Different kind of meta information, but yes, I suppose. Compared to general tags, we're talking about (probably) one tag applicable per topic from a set list, and it will be displayed in the message index, where tags would not normally be listed.
Which brings me back to the answer I originally gave; that is one very good reason why none of the major forums have implemented this feature in the core. I'm not entirely sure we actually *need* it, I was far happier implementing this as a plugin personally, but we could probably make it a core feature - yes it would have to be handled through the attachments system because that's the only way I'm remotely happy of allowing it at this stage.
who want very little.
We can have tag types. Tags that are created by admins, tags that are created by users. Etc. No problem...
Why not AeMe?
Which is why it should be an option at runtime.
Would you be displaying that tag everywhere the title would normally be? That's really what we're getting at: tags that are as prominent as the topic's title.
I still consider AeMe and attachments to be the same thing, really. Yes, that's doable, provided that it's done like avatars and not actually served through action=media or action=dlattach.
There is such a thing as having too many choices in the core ;)
Hmm... I don't know, I had in mind the idea that these topic tags could 'simply' be put into the topic title as a regular prefix... i.e. the admin decides whether new prefixes can be added manually (with brackets), or whether people are forced to use the valid ones.
I said that because AeMe already has 'album icons', which, come to think of it, could be used exactly the same way with boards... Since an album is a board now, we (okay, I) could "simply" move the album icon code to a more general board icon code block.
The problem with doing that is our old friend performance. Doing tags like that implies that we have to do querying every message-index, as opposed to making prefixes an explicit plugin.
*nods*
Hmm... I don't know what you mean by querying on message index. Surely we can simply be happy with showing the prefixes as they are, right now...?
Or did you mean actually showing it in the weird way you pointed to on that other forum, with badge-like styling...?
If it's stored as text in the subject, you're fucked if you ever hope to efficiently filter on it (something that you can actually do with prefixes). I mean, take the example in the private board that has [WIP] and [Plugin] as effective prefixes. Now do a filter on just WIP, or just Plugin - you either can't do it, or you end up doing WHERE subject LIKE '%[WIP]%' which is nice and efficient.
There are two points to doing it outside the title; partly you get the ability to define new titles and remove existing ones without touching any of the actual subject data, and mostly that you get to filter on it efficiently.