I've updated the forum code base to SMF 2.0.3.
I've restored most of the old functionality, so things should be the same as before.
New things:
- You may now change your "Display Name" to be separate from your login username.
You no longer need to send in a postcard to update your Display Name.
- Various anti-spam features, to be discussed in a different post.
- You have "Buddy List" in your profile, and can follow your forum friends.
Changed things:
The "Ignore User" feature is now part of the Buddy List. It will still block PMs/Posts from people you ignore.
- Quoting a post with an image has a different button.
- Various moderator features.
If you feel there is a feature that you want to add, please visit http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/
If there is a mod that you like, and that will work on this codebase, let me know, and I'll see what happens.
There are some other things I am thinking about:
- Refactoring the individual boards to better reflect the user experience
- Turning on enforcement of people with too large of a signature. (Hint: read the rules for the limits)
- Magically blessing forum accounts of FanimeCon Staff members.
- Purging spam accounts
- Purging inactive accounts
- Auto-locking all topics once they reach 400 days without a reply.
- Auto-deleting all topics once they reach 800 days without a reply.
- Having a convention theme template for the forums
- Making visited links purple again
Here's what I think:
Purging inactive accounts
Maybe you could send an email warning about that. If you get no reply by a deadline you specify, then go ahead and purge as needed.
Auto-locking all topics once they reach 400 days without a reply.
How about 365 days, just for the sake of having a solid year deadline.
Other than those, your ideas sound just fine to me :)
I like the new features and it would be cool if we can have a theme for this forum instead of the SMF default.
Would the creative department be able to do something like that ?
Quote from: Barnes on January 21, 2013, 07:44:38 PM
Purging inactive accounts
Maybe you could send an email warning about that. If you get no reply by a deadline you specify, then go ahead and purge as needed.
Maybe. It depends on the age of the account. If someone hasn't logged in for two years, I don't think it matters to delete.
Quote from: Barnes on January 21, 2013, 07:44:38 PM
Auto-locking all topics once they reach 400 days without a reply.
How about 365 days, just for the sake of having a solid year deadline.
The idea is to round off to 400, so that the cutoff is a little over 1 years. Salient topics posted in May 2012 are often relevant in May 2013, but not necessarily June 2013.
Quote from: lyricaldanichan on January 21, 2013, 08:11:28 PM
I like the new features and it would be cool if we can have a theme for this forum instead of the SMF default.
Would the creative department be able to do something like that ?
This is planned as the eighth bullet point in the list.
re: deletion of 800+ day threads. There have been a few times that I have used the forum for reference. Not saying that everything would fall apart if I didn't have it, but its helpful occasionally. Just a factor in balancing the options. Maybe if the 800+ day deletion only applied to non-fanime/CA posts? Depends on how much of the threads you want to clear out.