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What should I write next?

A shoutbox/AJAX chat system
3 (15.8%)
An ad manager
7 (36.8%)
Something like vBookie (which will require a points/currency system to be written first)
0 (0%)
Something else (please reply, note I might add it as an option later)
1 (5.3%)
A tournament system
3 (15.8%)
Treasury/donation manager
5 (26.3%)
Total Members Voted: 16

nolsilang

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #15, on March 31st, 2012, 12:59 AM »
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Note, in all the cases I'm talking about, I'm looking at no more than $10 for a *lifetime* subscription. It's not about making money. It is about limiting support and I know I'll be putting at least some of that back towards hosting in the end, too. It is no accident that Wedge supports lifetime subscriptions as a core feature.
About the support, so it will be a private forum for support?

Nao

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #16, on March 31st, 2012, 01:09 AM »
Something else.
Who voted what. I miss that from noisen ;)
Core or plugin doesn't matter actually.

Just an idea if you're bored. It's not too long to implement.

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #17, on March 31st, 2012, 01:11 AM »
Yes, for those plugins it will be a private forum, access only given to those who actually purchase the plugin. Otherwise, what would stop you going elsewhere to less... legal... places, acquiring them, then coming to the forum for support (wherein you might think you're entitled to support for something you haven't paid for)


@Nao: I'd rather it be core. It should also take into account whether the poll starter wishes others to have access to that information, or whether the admin would rather disable it entirely.
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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #18, on March 31st, 2012, 10:53 AM »
Certainly, plenty of permissions are possible, which is probably why I'm not doing it for the moment... :P

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #19, on March 31st, 2012, 11:21 AM »
I don't mind paying for important plugin :) about shoutbox, I think it will be similar to thoughts on wedge homepage? You can use it to chat or it is not the intended function?

Alanthar

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #20, on March 31st, 2012, 11:29 AM »
A tournament system sounds very interesting.
I did write one (tournaments / raids) for SMF. Should be interesting to rewrite it for Wedge. Looking forward to it.

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Arantor

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #21, on March 31st, 2012, 12:42 PM »
Quote from 0x on March 31st, 2012, 11:21 AM
I don't mind paying for important plugin :) about shoutbox, I think it will be similar to thoughts on wedge homepage? You can use it to chat or it is not the intended function?
Of course you can use it to chat, but firstly it's set up for threaded conversations and secondly it's mostly a 1-on-1 conversation  held in public, if that makes sense. It is, essentially, a miniature version of Twitter held on the site.

For at least one site I run myself, it would be far from suitable. I run a site that discusses specific software development, and having something that is essentially a private chatroom is much more effective for me; if thoughts were to reload via AJAX and be continuously updated, I might be persuaded to use that instead, but as it stands, I'd much, much rather make use of a dedicated shoutbox facility where I could chat with other forum members 'live' and have it be 'everyone chats here, posting to the same wall', such as it is. Think IRC, but tied directly to the forum rather than running an IRC server.
Quote from Alanthar on March 31st, 2012, 11:29 AM
A tournament system sounds very interesting.
I did write one (tournaments / raids) for SMF. Should be interesting to rewrite it for Wedge. Looking forward to it.
I wasn't actually aware that anyone had completed one for SMF, at least not to the point of being sufficiently completed so as to be usable, though I saw multiple people attempt to start one.

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #22, on March 31st, 2012, 12:48 PM »Last edited on March 31st, 2012, 02:18 PM
I didn't publish it on sm.org. Reasons for that are similar to your reasons contemplating some plugins being paid.

Arantor

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #23, on March 31st, 2012, 01:04 PM »
Fair enough, I can fully understand that (seeing as how I did actually set up my own free plugins site once and still got people who are too stupid to read what's put in front of them), but I wasn't even aware anyone had done it - let alone shared it. It always seemed to be one of those 'all talk and no trousers' things.
Posted: March 31st, 2012, 12:58 PM

Also, I'm interested to note how the voting is currently split. Makes it hard to pick something to do!

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #24, on March 31st, 2012, 01:46 PM »
I'm fairly sure there has been about 1 or 2 tournament plugins for SMF, one of them was a port of some phpBB add-on. I don't think any ever got finished though.
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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #25, on March 31st, 2012, 02:37 PM »
Quote from Arantor on March 31st, 2012, 01:04 PM
Also, I'm interested to note how the voting is currently split. Makes it hard to pick something to do!
Pick the only one that stands out then...... vBookie :lol:

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #26, on March 31st, 2012, 05:09 PM »
OK, when we get to 20 votes in total, I'll close voting and start working.
Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #27, on April 1st, 2012, 12:57 PM »
Eh, we're at 19 votes and that won't change the result too significantly, so the first thing I'm going to work on is an ad management system.

I'm not sure yet just how powerful I want to make it but we'll see. I have already gone to find the two for SMF, to see if there's anything (experience, usability) that's salvageable (because code won't be), but I'm not exactly that hopeful. We'll soon see :)

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #28, on April 1st, 2012, 01:19 PM »
Good luck. It does make sense to charge for an advertisement system. :-)

I don't really care. I don't use ads on my pages. I feel they deteriorate the quality feeling of the site. Though I can understand why some people might want them.

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Re: Which next? [Poll]
« Reply #29, on April 1st, 2012, 06:48 PM »
Quote from Norodo on April 1st, 2012, 01:19 PM
I don't really care. I don't use ads on my pages. I feel they deteriorate the quality feeling of the site. Though I can understand why some people might want them.
AD management is a 'must have' :cool: I need it on all of my forums to cover hosting expenses..
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