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my wishlist

Authored by: dreamscape on Wednesday, January 23 2002 @ 05:36 am EST

So for some stuff I'd like to see hit a version near us?

no supervision required
Some users, or groups, should be able to post news without waiting for moderation. If you're just using this for yourself (geeklog as a home page) you might not want to be bothered by having to approve your own posts everyt time.

I'll take the little guy
Different user account options. Some people might not want to allow users to sign up on their geeklog site (really, they might not). Some might want them to sign up as they do now, automatically being approved, getting a random password via email. Some might want to manually approve membership (a little more admin, but if it's a site for family and friends, or of very specific purpose, you might want to be able to say who comes and who goes). These three options are relatively tame, and could be implemented pretty easily. A fourth option, important to me, would be 'custom approval'. Say I had a few extra columns in my database for subscription_expire_date, subscription_rate, subscription_paid. I'd handle all the code to fill in the columns, but I want to assign a user approval method that lets me specify a sql query, and a 'valid' response.

middle blocks
I'm convinced that there will be times when the side blocks are too small to do what I want. What if I want to do 'featured screenshot' on my 'screenshot' section, but i want it to show up at 640x480 in a box, or a little less in a box, but not an iconified 100x75 image. Only one example there are probably a lot more, but I want middle blocks. No sweat to find the latest screenshot in a directory and have my function return the marked up image tags, for a php block... Or to pull a random image from a directory (wallpaper of the day, free pr0n of the day, whatever)

Organization
infinitely nested parent child relationship of "cateogries" or "sections" or "pages", whatever you want to call them. The flexibility to move whole branches from point A to point B and have it still be a tree. To be able to move a root node to be a child of one of it's children. To be able to have 20 categories named foo, and them all to be distinct.

This is essentially the whole heirarchical category stuff that has been talked about for a little while. It should be flexible enough to be restructured, and not require unique names. I might want to have:
'Stories', 'Pages', 'Categories' should be assignable to functionality. Maybe they default to all. But I should be able to assign PHP->Tutorials to (stories/links) or PHP->Scripts to (links). I might want to assign Family->Albums to (plugin - gallery) or something to that effect. I should be able to chose what I want to show in the sections block, but the Family -> Albums page would have no stories, no links and no events associated with it, only plugin properties.

can i get a sub-Mit
There have been several occasions when I would have appreciated the form action buttons to be at both the top and bottom of a given dialog, depending on how I work, so that when I've finished my current flow, the next logical step is where the 'save' button is, not all the way back up at the top again. Maybe that's trivial, but make a tool usable and we're getting somewhere.

standards
I think the initial themes, templates, and all geeklog output should be XHTML compliant.

anabolic steroids for links
I think our 'links' section should develop into a full-fledged bookmark management tool, complete with the ability to import netscape bookmarks or ie favorites or opera bookmarks, etc. We should build on the whole heirarchical categories. Maybe add a function for block inclusion like "Newest Links", "Hottest Links" that people can put in left right blocks if they want, but still see full fledged link management.

big name plugins
For a full-fledged 'community' type site I think there has to be all that geeklog is, and, some sort of photo-gallery script, and a forum of some sort, and for people without free bandwidth probably a banner ad system. It seems people have an affinity towards gallery (gallery.sf.net) and John Holmes has worked a way to wrap it in geeklog. Maybe we vote to pick some top app (gallery, phpbb2, and phpads) and get working to fully integrate them into geeklog as plugins (including coming up with layouts to match our current included themes), or build our own or something.

relations
Or more specifically, what's related to me. Another comment from either the mailing list or SF, but the ability to do keywording. So you specify a list of keywords, either for more correct meta searching, or to just drag out a list of related items at the bottom of the story.

wow, aren't you interesting.
I'd like to be able to see someones karma, or maybe more specifically to be able to say "this guy is interesting". Then by clicking on his username I can see all his comments, all his stories, etc. Or, maybe I can subscribe to this guy, and in a side block have something like 'dreamscapes latest comments', or 'dreamscapes latest posts'. or subscriptions: dreamscape(5).

can o worms
Subscriptions in general sound good to me. Maybe I can subscribe to a story and be notified whenever it gets updated, edited or commented on. Maybe I can subscribe to a gallery (plug-in issues) and find out whenever photos get comments or photos get added. I'm sure there are other uses for subscriptions...

Thats starting to stretch my brain a little. I'm agreeing with most (more likely all) of what has been listed so far, and trying to add new ideas, not just repeat the ones made before. That is why I didn't talk a whole lot about permissions, but, a feature request on SF asked to be able to disable 'calendar' and maybe something else for certain groups, i think this could be accomplished and more with build out of the permissions.

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