(10-14-2016 10:56 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  This is the thread you can suggest new features on.



Already planned for new features:


Moderation:
- Full featured forum bans. Including length of time, automatic un-banning after that time has passed, and explanation messages to the user who is banned.
- Ignore also removes quoted posts
- Moderator force ignore between two members
- In depth automated vetting for new registrations (alias check, country of origin, etc)
- Easy alias checking
- Moderation notes include a timestamp and who added what
- Warning levels that are forum specific, while keeping a global warning %
--- Automated warnings and explanations as a user's warning level climbs



Posting:
- Vine embeds
- Twitter embeds
- Instagram embeds
- Upload to imgur and then embed in post
- Thread prefixes based on sport. This will be optional on a per-forum basis. If you want to keep sports separated via different forums ... that's fine. If you want it all in one board ... this will make that way easier to sort through.




Misc:
- Mobile app eliminated, replaced with mobile friendly web alternative layout with themes, and ability to tie in to browser based mobile notifications
- Traditional emailed notifications and emailed forum/thread subscriptions eliminated. I stopped operating our own mail server because it's too hard to stay off spam lists, especially if you're in a smaller datacenter. But Google has daily volume limits, and you have to have a REALLY good reason and cash to go higher than those limits. And we have so many people subscribed to forums with crazy huge activity, we blow through that tens of thousands of emails limit in just a few hours. That's why notification emails and password reset emails have been spotty and unreliable. Only mods/admins/donors/ad free premium can still get emails, and even they will only get a daily digest.
- Fully automated ad free premium (it's automatic subscribe now, but I have to remove myself)
- (For me but indirectly for everyone) Team skin generator (feed it a few colors and background tile ... BAM ... out pops a new team skin)
- Better cooler stat pages (like Vitality but better)
- Integration with latest MySQL branch which, for a number of very boring reasons you don't care about, allow us to have near real time searching of posts again, whereas right now the search cache updates once a day overnight.
- Favorites ... the ability to favorite forum(s) you like and then have a feed of posts from just those forum(s).

As a developer myself who's interested in natural language processing, I'd love to see a developer API for this board to obtain publically-available data through an established interface to assist with research and/or allow others (such as myself) to layer third-party services on the forum that could expand the user experience (for example, combine sentiment analysis and topic modeling to automatically take the "pulse" of a particular fan base on a per-topic basis and visualize how the mood changes over time, and make it available to share for all users. The possibilities are endless).