TssCman123 wrote:I think that phpBB 4 should have built in blogs, an image gallery, and custom pages (basically pages that you can insert your own content, and the header and footer will automatically be there). It would also be a good idea for it to have a built-in wiki, and portal (with forum widgets).
Would you like fries with that? [/sarcasm]
Sounds like you'd be better off with IPB or vBulletin (or as I like to call it, vBullcrap, but that's besides the point). Both of those have all those extraneous features that would bloat phpBB beyond recognition.
Keep in mind that phpBB is a
bulletin board software (hence the "BB" in phpBB). It is not meant to be a blog, or a CMS, or a wiki, or an image gallery. It is meant to be a forum. A feature-filled and highly/easily extendable forum, yes, but a forum nonetheless.
But now that I've let your post hijack the thread, let me respond to the OP.
Teekeo wrote:• If one receives a new message, there should be a popup in the bottom right that says "New message from {name}. READ or READ LATER"
Sounds like a good MOD idea, but I'm not sure if it needs to be in the core.
Teekeo wrote:• If an uploaded avatar is too big, it should automatically be resized
This I can agree with. Instead of forcing the user to go through the hassle of either resizing it on their own or finding a new avatar of the appropriate size, it should be done automatically.
Although I think that they should be able to choose to either crop or resize it.
Teekeo wrote:• Buttons like quote, edit, delete, and PM should only appear when hovering over that post
That should be a per-style thing, not necessarily needed by default
Teekeo wrote:• When clicking on the quick reply button, have the box smoothly slide down instead of suddenly appearing
Again, can be done via styles. But since jQuery is going to be native (at least for 3.1, not sure about 4.0) that shouldn't be too difficult to implement.
Teekeo wrote:• Can use rich text editor instead of BBcode (users can select the option from UCP for which to use)
That's a good idea. I know there has been quite a bit of discussion for 3.x, but I don't know of any current working implementation or the verdict of such talks.
Teekeo wrote:• Display descriptions for the categories (not only the forums)
• Minimize categories
• Ability to click the box instead of the name of the forum
All of that can be done per style, not needed by default necessarily
Teekeo wrote:• To separate announcements from stickies, have announcements listed on the index page in each forum box
I don't see how that could look good... it would add to the clutter. But probably wouldn't be too difficult to add as a MOD.
Teekeo wrote:• Can choose whether to display the original post at the top of the page (regardless of what page of a thread youre on)
Better as a MOD instead of core.
Teekeo wrote:• Can choose not to display post count, or to change the name of post count ('Posts', 'Messages', etc.)
Can be changed in templates and language files.
Teekeo wrote:• Respect/kudos system
Also probably better as a MOD, but a good idea.
Teekeo wrote:• Custom CSS in ACP in designs section
Isn't that already possible? But I think they're scrapping that for either 3.1 or 3.2 because of all the issues people were having with losing their changes because they refreshed their styles.
Teekeo wrote:• Easy design builder (can choose colours & images & opacity levels & edges etc.) so people who don't know CSS can build a basic design
They just released a "ColorizeIt" thing on phpbb.com that lets users take any style and change the colors to their own liking. Would that suffice?
Teekeo wrote:• Extra links (allow extra links/navigation to be added at the top of the page so people can make their forum look exactly the same as their website to make the whole thing more fluent)
Again, something style specific. Since not everyone's navigation areas are the same, it would be difficult to find a way to accomplish this for all use cases.
Teekeo wrote:• In the UCP, have change Avatar & Signature on the first page of UCP since that is the most common thing for people to change
Having a "Recent pages" or "Most frequently accessed" link area would be nice. more dynamic, as it would allow quick access to whatever the user accesses the most often.
Teekeo wrote:• Video gallery (people can embed videos in on a different page designed entirely for videos)
Better as a MOD, not in the core.