cicero
31 Jul 2006 02:23
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Requests for new features...?
In mid-August the project group running this website is going to have a meeting to discuss what new features we should implement. As input to that meeting, I would like to hear your opinion and suggestions.
Here are a few of my own suggestions (in no particular order):
- RSS/Atom feeds from the forum (do you use newsfeeds?)
- User statistics - most logins, most forum messages, most active countries, etc.
- Better search among user profiles, i.e. search by country, age (if revealed), gender (if revealed), user name and date of signing up.
- List of latest comments on the front page
- A mini-weblog for each user profile.
- Highlighting of newest user gallery images on the front page
For the time being, we are going to make a prioritized list of improvements. When we have some free time, we will then start working on the top priorities.
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cosmosVIII
05 Aug 2006 04:11
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Mmmh, all of those new features you mentioned certainly could not be a bad thing to add of course, but honestly I wouldn`t go as far as request them per se since I find the website already very useful for its purpose. Sorry, I am not helping to find ideas ;)
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bruise
10 Aug 2006 21:40
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I`d suppose a user-map. Might be an interesting feature to actually see, where which user comes from. Maybe there is a possibility to use google.maps for it?
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cicero
13 Aug 2006 17:35
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Thanks for the suggestion. I thought it was interesting enough to spend a few hours on, so please check out the new "Other users" page, where users are now plotted on a map by country.
I could also have plotted users by their city, but that would require more users to fill in that particular field in their profiles. I think it would also clutter the display because of too many markers on the map.
Another map related enhancement: On every user`s profile page there is now a link "find on map" which will bring up a Google Map showing the city or country where the user lives. Pretty cool, I think!
Note that sometimes Google cannot find the city name in which case it just defaults to a map of the US. :-(
Honestly, I was really bored today, so I implemented two more small enhancements:
you can now use wikitext format in your profile description and it guestbook postings! The formatting options are the same as for the forum.
Enjoy!
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e-win
13 Aug 2006 18:31
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The new enhancements with a world map is really cool. Now we can imrpove our Geography knowledge =)
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e-win
13 Aug 2006 18:31
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The new enhancements with a world map is really cool. Now we can imrpove our Geography knowledge =)
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