V3

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V3 ETA

Alpha Version: Before Summer, Feb. 30th (estimate only)

Beta Version: Before next school year, April 30th (estimate only)

Public Version: Unknown

User Requests

Add modifications and other things that you would like to see in V3:

Added

• Amailer: Merge posts commands for mods
• Amailer: Tutorial rating system
• Cervantes: Quick Reply box
• Martin: Add an RSS feed option for various forums. (Can you say awesome?) Yes ADDED but buggy
• Martin: Timed bans. Like, so I can ban someone for three days and when they login it'd say You have been banned (by Martin) for whatever reason. There is <x> much time remaining. Then I wouldn't have to feel so guilty.
• Martin: Get rid of the stupid 'You have a message!' sound that plays and makes the page layout go nuts. ADDED in v2 as well
• Rizzix: Allow for moderator feedback: aka tutorial rejection. This will help improve the quality of tutorials available on compsci.
• Amailer: (Maybe) create a system similar to Gallery2 A image system like it has be added but not that.

In Development

• Hacker Dan: Automated security systems
• Martin: Fix firefox glow May not be possible

Then can we just get rid of it, or at least disable the colours for the name that are impossible/difficult to see on real web browsers (such as white)?

--Martin 22:47, 5 February 2006 (PST)

• Tony: wiki like bbcode linking
• Cervantes: Link to Bit Log in profiles (only visible to that user, such as Attachment Control Panel, or mods)
• Cornflake: Tutorial link to wiki Tutorials page
• Gandalf: Time of last log in, on the profile page.
• Hikaru79: Not having edits, count towards your post/minute timer (so you can edit posts right after you made them if you noticed a problem).
• Martin: Registration that registers you both on the wiki and compsci.ca with the same account.
• rizzix: List users by rank, where the rank is the bits/posts ratio.
• rizzix: Support for user projects: Homepage, CVS, Bugtracker, Development timeline graphs, etc. Partly Added, the CVS part, partly

Subversion, not CVS... please.

--Martin 22:47, 5 February 2006 (PST)

Acuatly it is subversion not CVS that i added, my bad =p

--65.39.11.90 11:08, 7 February 2006 (PST)

Considering

• Amailer: Google Integrated Search so that it will take alot less time to search and you'll be able to get better results.

I like it in theory but it could cause the bot problems we had b4 to come back. Hacker Dan--24.109.165.77 14:38, 5 February 2006 (PST)

• Cervantes: Commenting for changing bits

A bits log for sure but i don't know about making a comeeting section for every bits chage, i think that is more for what PMing is for. Hacker Dan--24.109.165.77 14:38, 5 February 2006 (PST)

• rizzix: Support for user project bounties.
• rizzix: Improved award system. Make the awards a little more visible, i.e. not hidden deep within the user's profile.

It would be cool if at the top right of your post (to the left of the edit button) there was a list of clickable 16x16 icons representing the awards. Each award could have a description attached to it, like - 'awarded to so and so for winning this contest on this day.' Probably kind of time consuming to add though.

Martin 00:31, 1 February 2006 (PST)

Cool maybe but it whould make the posts to corwed with infromation and start looking bad, esptaly if some users had many awards

--24.109.165.77 10:19, 4 February 2006 (PST)

In that case, it could be the most recent five awards or whaever.

--Martin 02:50, 5 February 2006 (PST)

In the profile maybe, but right on the persons posts seems a bit much. Tho i could posbliy make a system for the user to put them in there sig. Hacker Dan--24.109.165.77 14:38, 5 February 2006 (PST)

Instead, maybe just a single trophy button with a number beside it showing the number of trophies that the user has. Like: Y(3) (with the Y being a picture of a trophy or something)

--Martin 16:49, 5 February 2006 (PST)

• rizzix: In-place post editing. That is, display the whole page as it would normally show up when viewing posts, but make the post marked for editing, editable. ( hint: AJAX )

AJAX is gr8 and all but can some times overly complicate things. Hacker Dan--24.109.165.77 14:38, 5 February 2006 (PST)

It makes things simpler on the user end. (c'mon stop complaining :p) Of course, no rush here, you can safely move it to V4 :)

--rizzix 19:14, 5 February 2006 (PST)

• rizzix: A WYSIWYG editor, for those who don't like using bbcode or wiki
• rizzix: Improved tutorial writing system: provides the ability to work on tutorials in offline mode, (a publishing system). The ability take a tutorial offline, edit it, improve it, and re-publish it. Force all tutorials to be approved by any moderator before it is displayed online. Not going to happen unless some one whonts to write the offline software and backend script to handel post uploads

That is not what I meant. By offline I mean you take it off display, and put it into a Tutorial box or something. It is basically a publishing system. Do reconsider.

--rizzix 11:39, 5 February 2006 (PST)

I am considering it, tho it may make things more complicated. --24.109.165.77 14:32, 5 February 2006 (PST)

• Gandalf: An easy way of quoting multiple people so that it shows their name above the quote (ie. one solution would be the quote button, except make it show in the "Topic Review" below the "Post a Reply" box).

Rejected

• Amailer: Democracy MOD 0.1.4 (reputation + warnings + reports) Difrent mod being used for same thing
• Martin: Hookers. Added....i mean WTF???
• rizzix: Allow for wiki sytle editing, as an alternative to bbcode. I don't know about that one....
• rizzix: Give the tutorial's author bits/month for x number of years, based on the rating his tutorial has received (since we already have the rating system implemented). This will help improve the number of quality articles we have here on compsci, and will truly reflect the rank of the user.

I am planing on having a bits for rating system but it will be based on some difrent math

Hacker Dan--24.109.165.77 18:12, 8 February 2006 (PST)

• Amailer: Since you guys are removing the edit button because you don't know what the origional content was, how about making a system, similar to wikies which has the edit history? No need for it to be able to un-do it all, but yeah, you would be able to check what has been edited. (you can just put the diffrent versions insted of the + and - thigns)

We are not removing the edit buttion

Hacker Dan--24.109.165.77 18:12, 8 February 2006 (PST)

• Martin: A way for normal users to flag a topic that is spam/abusive/whatever. Just a flag this topic button, and then the administrators could get a list of all flagged topics. Administrators could then deal with the topic and remove the flag afterwards. Also, hookers.

All ready added......other then the hookers....

Hacker Dan --Hacker Dan 08:41, 11 February 2006 (PST)

• Iker: We need more cowbell

We need more what now? Cowbell?

Hacker Dan --24.109.165.77 18:12, 8 February 2006 (PST)

Requested

• Martin: When editing posts, default to silent edit when it's someone else's post, but to a normal (tagged) edit when editing your own posts.
• Iker: An "auto lock" on all topics older then x days. This way, we don't have to worry about new people not reading the rules, and none of us have to bitch at them for doing it :)

You know, um I thought the reason why forums keept the old posts was because people can come back to them; why do we flame people when they post in old topics? Unless the topic has already been solved (or disucssion was over). Suppose it was a help topic, and a person just signed up and knew the answer (the topic didn't get a proper answer when it was made)- so isn't the user allowed to post in it?

--Amailer 14:21, 11 February 2006 (PST)

• Cervantes: Change the character limit in signatures. From what I can tell, it's currently a limit before BBCode tags are applied. Having lots of colour and links may make a single sentance too long. Also, no images in sigs.
• Martin: Buddy list to make finding people easier when you want to PM them.
• Martin: Probably the best idea ever - switch the post boxes to use a fixed width font. Writing code in them as it stands is very difficult.
• Cornflake: Fix the post boxes to fill the entire screen width wise. It's not that hard, and it makes things so much nicer.

Things left to do for V3

Not usefull to any one but Hacker Dan, but just easy to keep track of this way for him:

• Edit private message welcome
• Errors on forum (posting)
• remove aditional info on fourm names (moderator info)
• posbly remove style drop down
• reoreder nav links
• remove "switch to invisible"
• remove download modual
• add shop for item pool
• chage name of knowledge base link
• chage pic of knowledge base Thanks to amailer
• fix knowledge base approval system
• remove lexicon
• make portal pages
• add in wiki and blog nav links
• try to fix time zones
• fix order of smiles
• check spell checker Fix spell checker
• add user controal panale links
• edit user aggremnt Make new rules page
• chage post icon setings
• fix flash bbcode and others fix or remove flash bbcode
• set up anwsered/unawsered system
• edit footer check out backend.php
• edit faq
• add event types
• fix link to use modual
• fix contact us deparments
• reorder moduals
• add knowledge base rankings
• deal with user requests
• chage KB tag
• fix IE errors/warnings
• make footer look nicer
• add wiki bbcode
• fix pm notifaction
• add in compsci.ca bits mod
• add in compsci.ca bits log mod
• add in compsci.ca shop effect sell mod
• get some sleep
• work on KB combaity by making notice go to old tutoral forms
• Play with RSS Feed Add info to tell users how to use RSS
• Test timed bans
• fix up pm message
• KB noftication on rejection and reason
• Test image system
• Look in to and add secuirty systems
• disable glow for non-IE
• bits log link in profile (only visable to staff + user)
• time last login in profile
• Link to wiki tutoral page
• look in to edits spam timer
• dual registeration
• add registeration feilds
• more user listing options in member list
• play with subversion ideas
• look in to google integrated search
• look in to user project bounties system
• look in to increasing visiblity of user awards
• look in to phpbb AJAX (http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=348995) Pushed to V4
• better error pages
• find copy right for compsci.ca
• make it so only user can make wiki edits
• add mods
• look in to blog software and intergation with phpbb
• edit help page for irc
• make watermark for irc

Alpha Verson

Alpha Testers

Aplha users are limited to staff only. If you are staff list your name below to sign up for the v3 alpha test.

• Hacker Dan
• rizzix
• Tony
• Martin!
• Cervantes
• Amailer

Bug Report

Please list your name, the browser you are using, the time and date, the error, the url, what you were doing and the bug below:

Comments and Suggestions

Beta Version

Beta Testers

Any users in good standing may sign up for the beta test. The beta test will begin after all the bugs and chages recommended in the alpha test are made/done. Not all users signed up will get to be a beta tester and order of signing up may or may not matter.

• Hacker Dan
• Cornflake
• El Comandante
• rdrake/cartoon_shark
• Pwned
• Martin!
• Cervantes
• Gandalf
• rizzix
• Hikaru79
• Iker

Bug Report

Please list your name, the brower you are using, the time and date, the error, the url, what you were doing and the bug below:

V3 Preview

The following is rumored to be a pic of the V3 system:

V3?