I’m going to attempt to keep this blog up-to-date, even if I only publish changelists. Unfortunately, I don’t do the banners. That’s Reid’s thing.
If you notice, the forum now has much awesome searching. Much love to Sphinx, our search engine, and Chronic, the natural language date parser. Since a search query isn’t required, you can easily look at all of reidman’s posts in the past week. I’m not 100% happy with the search interface. I can’t decide if I want to have a complicated search page like normal a forum that has a heavy page weight, a variable attribute selector like on Leopard’s Finder search or Mail.app’s Mail Rule’s screen, or having a Google style single bar that pro-users can type what meta-data to search by.
I still have a huge laundry list of big ticket items before I start work on the main site or do minor forum bugs: (View them after the jump.)
- Email notifications. I have subscribed topics and PMs on the list, did you want anything else?
- Attachments. I realize you can’t delete them, the whole system needs a rewrite. Allow attachments in PMs.
- Complete PM overhaul. Right now it’s just a simple message displayer. It doesn’t even have folders. D:
- A real forum spy.
- The ability to hide and re-order forums on the front page to one’s liking. (Admins see all 151 forums and it’s annoying.)
- Putting page numbers next to topics. I have an awesome plan to keep the page weight and have them hidden, you’ll see soon I hope.
- Ignore Lists.
- Member List (it’s been intentionally forgotten out far too long).
- Timezones for those that want exact time.
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