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| Posted: 11 May 2005 14:33 Last Edited By: Hristo | ||
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I will be starting to write version 1.1. If you have any suggestions/feature requests, now's the time for them.
here's a list of the main improvements that i've planned: 1. faster template parsing 2. most seo-board_options, smilies and lang vars will be moved to the database. The admin panel will control them now for easier handling. 3. built-in rss support 4. anti-spam user registration protection 5. simple user ranking system 6. lots of small improvements/fixes here and there My preliminary tests show that the new forum gets a 5-10% speed boost on my local machine. __________________ Are you looking for an SEO Consultant?
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| Posted: 13 May 2005 13:31 | ||
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| I think avatars should be added in its always nice and its not too big either. | ||
| Posted: 13 May 2005 17:58 Last Edited By: Hristo | ||
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If I put avatars, I'd have to put other bloat like signatures and then I'll just have to write yet another "full-featured" forum.
My idea for seo-board is to be: 1. very small but to have enough for most sites 2. to be used as a forum template by other people and to be easily modified and combined with other scripts. I think most other boards have a very slow learning curve. Lots of code etc. __________________ Are you looking for an SEO Consultant?
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| Posted: 13 May 2005 22:36 | ||
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| So you intend to allow users to create new forum software off this? | ||
| Posted: 14 May 2005 14:17 | ||
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Quote: The idea is to make the forum as easy to learn and modify as possible. It is NOT meant to be changed and offered as a forum software.So you intend to allow users to create new forum software off this? __________________ Are you looking for an SEO Consultant?
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| Posted: 14 May 2005 15:18 | ||
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| But to help users learn? | ||
| Posted: 16 May 2005 18:35 | ||
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Hello,
If possible, please update the search function. Currently, the search function won't search the title (maybe a bug?) but only the post content, AND, the search function does NOT search asian languages, e.g. Chinese. Please look into it as the search function will be totally useless if it's not compatible with other languages. Thanks. Thank you for developing search a great forum. 
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| Posted: 16 May 2005 18:37 | ||
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Oops, I was meant to say _such_ a great forum. typo 
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| Posted: 16 May 2005 20:17 | ||
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| please tell me how avatars and signatures either together or on there own are 'bloat features'? | ||
| Posted: 16 May 2005 22:25 | ||
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Another feature request:
Please add restrict-forums. Which means, only registered users can see the selected forums. This is especially useful to hide some files to visitors in order to prevent leeching. Thanks.
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| Posted: 17 May 2005 17:05 | ||
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Thank you for your suggestions.
I'll look into the search function. I think that the post text will always contain all words from the title, but I need more real examples. I need a forum with lots of posts and then we can judge how relevant the search is. As far as the Asian language, you sure about that? I think mysql full text search should work for asian langs. Here's a snipper from mysql's documentation Quote:
As of MySQL 4.1.1, full-text searches can be used with most multi-byte character sets. The exception is that for Unicode, the utf8 character set can be used, but not the ucs2 character set. Avatars and sigs are bloat. They add nothing special to the forum except for self-promotion. I've never really seen any usefulness in avatars. If a user wants to put links info about his works he can do that in his profile. There's a huge user information field for that. Member's only forums will be added to 1.1. Still looking for more feedback from you guys. One more question: do you think it would be more convenient to move the templates to the database as I intend to? If someone makes some stupid change to the templates, he may not be able to access the admin panel and he will need to do some stuff to fix it that most non-geeks won't be able to do. __________________ Are you looking for an SEO Consultant?
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| Posted: 17 May 2005 20:46 | ||
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As far as the Asian language, you sure about that? Yes, everytime when I search Chinese characters, it ends up with no result. 
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Avatars and sigs are bloat. Agreed. Quote:
Member's only forums will be added to 1.1. Great! Thanks! Quote:
One more question: do you think it would be more convenient to move the templates to the database as I intend to? If someone makes some stupid change to the templates, he may not be able to access the admin panel and he will need to do some stuff to fix it that most non-geeks won't be able to do. Hmmm, no I don't think that's a good idea. What you can do is to split the admin panel from the template engine, so that people won't stuff 'em up by screwing the templates. Quote:
Still looking for more feedback from you guys. I have just found this great piece of software yesterday, but yeah, I really like it! Will make some more suggestion later.
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| Posted: 17 May 2005 20:53 | ||
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Oh, and I just come up with one more suggestion.
The template system is pretty good so far, excerpt for some tiny things. For example, {$lastpost} shows: Name_Of_Last_Poster<br>Post_Date So, this is actually a combination of logic and layout. What I suggest is to completely seperate logic and layout. Thanks.
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| Posted: 17 May 2005 20:56 | ||
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Another suggestion:
Please add a function to allow only selected members to have HTML privilege. (And this permission setting should have higher priority than the forum HTML privilege.) Thanks. |
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| Posted: 17 May 2005 21:05 | ||
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| But thats the point of avatars i see no point in signatures but avatars add a personal touch to each member. Signature i wouldn't call bloat but unescessary. | ||
| Posted: 17 May 2005 22:26 | ||
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For the mysql full-text search problem, I googled a bit, found that the current versions of mysql (4, 4.1 and even 5) don't support Chinese well.
The mysql query needs to be something like this Code:
SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE FIELDS LIKE BINARY '%FIND%' I know this will reduce the search speed, but... full-text can't search Chinese which is a pity. Hmmm... could you please assist me on how to modify the code? Thanks. |
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| Posted: 17 May 2005 22:39 | ||
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Thanks for all your help guys. Keep'em coming. __________________ Are you looking for an SEO Consultant?
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| Posted: 17 May 2005 22:50 | ||
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http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg& ...
Found this URL on google, thought it might be helpful to you for the full-text thing.
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| Posted: 17 May 2005 22:55 | ||
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Feature suggestion/request:
Please consider to add private messaging system, as it is very useful. Thanks. |
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| Posted: 18 May 2005 23:51 | ||
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Feature suggestion:
The addon_lastpost feature. It now can only display _once_ on the selected page. However, what I (and probably some other folks) want is to display multiple blocks of forum posts on the homepage. For example, I have some forum sections of articles, and other sections of normal forum community. On the hompage I want each article section to display the last 5 posts, and another block for the last 10 community posts. I notice some other forums have such feature enabled by using Javascript. Since I'm a newbie I cannot comment on whether purely PHP is better or not. But hopefully you'll get what I mean. Thanks.
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| Posted: 20 May 2005 17:24 | ||
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| Could do with a Move function to move a Post from one thread/forum to another. | ||
| Posted: 20 May 2005 19:01 | ||
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| Yeah that would be a pretty handy feature. | ||
| Posted: 20 May 2005 21:12 | ||
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Is it possible to add only topics to a forum, and disable replies to those topics as in a guest book feature?
or maybe make replies an admin/moderator post only to topic?? but topic remain as a guest or user post? |
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| Posted: 20 May 2005 22:32 | ||
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Quote: No. You can mod it, but I don't see any usage. I can see a post only forum useful (admin posts articles and users post comments) but I can't see any utility in topic only forums.Is it possible to add only topics to a forum, and disable replies to those topics as in a guest book feature? or maybe make replies an admin/moderator post only to topic?? but topic remain as a guest or user post? __________________ Are you looking for an SEO Consultant?
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| Posted: 21 May 2005 02:35 | ||
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i love this software. have not downloaded it yet, maybe I will wait for your next version.. and try that one out..
one thing i noticed, not sure if this is a bug or not, if I highlight some of the text in my reply box and then lick the bold button, it puts the tags all the way at the end of the whole block of text instead of around the actual highlighted text. Not that this needs to be like wordpress at all, but in wordpress, if you highlight certain text, then click a formatting tag, it puts the tags around the text that was just highlighted and this may be more intuitive for non geeks when they make new postings. I love the 'keep it simple' concept you have here. I like it that way. kind of like a cell phone.. all i want my cell phone to do is to answer and make calls.. i dont need 200 features on it to get a PhD to use it. tom |
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| Posted: 21 May 2005 02:40 | ||
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one other suggestion i just thought of.
on the digitalpoint.com forums on each persons post at the bottom right there is an 'edit' link that lets them quickly edit any mistakes or change what they wrote.. i think that is a very useful feature.. as many times people change their mind or forget to add things.. and can easily edit this way. |
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| Posted: 21 May 2005 02:45 | ||
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as far as avatars for each person... i am somewhat split on this issue..
the best argument for avatars is that people can include a personal photo of themselves in their avatar which makes the forum forum more personable.. if avatars are ever included maybe only make them 32 x 32 icon size... ? |
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| Posted: 21 May 2005 08:54 | ||
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Quote: There is an edit link (to the right) and it expires by default in 20 minutes (when you post you have 20 minutes to make changes). That can be changed via the $usereditposttimeout variable.
on the digitalpoint.com forums on each persons post at the bottom right there is an 'edit' link that lets them quickly edit any mistakes or change what they wrote Thank you for the suggestions. __________________ Are you looking for an SEO Consultant?
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| Posted: 22 May 2005 09:20 | ||
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more module
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| Posted: 23 May 2005 10:45 | ||
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There is an edit link (to the right) and it expires by default in 20 minutes (when you post you have 20 minutes to make changes). That can be changed via the $usereditposttimeout variable. I set that to 9999999999999999999999999.
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