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A few suggestions...

Postby Team Blast » Sun Jun 13, 2010 2:52 pm

I have a few suggestions for features I would love to see in phpBB4 when released.
  • A "Theme Center" in the ACP, where you can browse through skins and download them onto your forum.
  • The ability to fuse Groups with Ranks. I used to use Zetaboards, and found their system was useful. (No offense.)
  • A threaded view option.
  • A shoutbox or chatbox.
  • A "live view" for phpBB style creators.
  • A possible reputation system.

I hope for some of my suggestions to possibly be expanded on. :)
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Re: A few suggestions...

Postby ameeck » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:57 pm

It would be great if you would expand on them yourself and think them through a bit more. There isn't much to discuss right now.

  • A theme or MOD center is certainly a great idea, already being discussed (probably for phpBB4 I think though)
  • The current system allows both usages - separately or together, you'd have to be more specific what's problematic with the current workflow
  • phpBB was actually create as an alternative to threaded boards - this will not be implemented AFAIK
  • Shoutboxes or Chatboxes should IMHO be available as MODs - only a minority of boards uses them
  • Expand on the idea :)
  • I think there is already some discussion going on about a karma system
Please think before you post.
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Re: A few suggestions...

Postby callumacrae » Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:47 pm

Yup, I agree with ameeck totally on most of the points :)

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Re: A few suggestions...

Postby Team Blast » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:02 pm

ameeck wrote:It would be great if you would expand on them yourself and think them through a bit more. There isn't much to discuss right now.

  • The current system allows both usages - separately or together, you'd have to be more specific what's problematic with the current workflow
  • Shoutboxes or Chatboxes should IMHO be available as MODs - only a minority of boards uses them
  • Expand on the idea :)

Well, it would be nice to have a special rank and a post-based rank at the same time.
I've tried installing shoutbox and chatbox mods and apparently they didn't work, even when successful. I would think it would be nice to have included, but the option to disable it would be nice.
Also, the "live view" could be a preview in an iframe over the editor, constantly updating to show your changes.

I've also hoping for an integration friendly option or code generator. I have to use iframes for my current website's forum and it gets annoying when you have 2 scrollbars, variating and confusing you. :(
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Re: A few suggestions...

Postby $username » Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:47 pm

I like the ideas of Team Blast. I don't need a shoutbox, but I see many forums with a shoutbox. So it would be a great feature :)
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