Most definitely. I have alot of faith in you, Anime-loo. :)


Certainly, an option for admins to choose store integration with a custom journal wouldn't be that bad of a feature. The more I think about it, the more it sounds pretty groovy.


What I was meaning to mention earlier to FleaBag about the cursing and filtering and whatnot, that'd be a pretty nice admin edit menu, too.


Humm humm. I might have to work on something like that.

Hi There. I remember a few:

1. I think the biggest single issue is the journal display beyond 10 entries is very poor. You can look at either all entries or the last ten, and if you have lots of entries (or even a few embedded graphics) you could be looking at a very long load time.

2. A couple of other people were very anxious to get the capability for buddies to view private entries. Personally I don't have a need, but it was a big deal for them.

3. There was also some issue with journal management. I wasn't clear if it was having admin capability to delete a user journal (I've had a few people create one accidentally and never put anything in it). I suspect they can be culled in phpMyadmin in a pinch, but somebody had a database error, so maybe it's not that easy.

4. There were some posts about having journal entries increment the user post counter. No big deal for me either way.

5. Somebody(s) wanted to be able to use attachments with journals.

6. Option to limit journal entries to one per day.

7. Someone was concerned about spamming the journal (bumping their own view counter). I posted a fix for that in the original vBJournal thread.

8. There is a minor bug in the way the journal invokes BB code that can prevent IMG tags from displaying properly. I posted a fix for that in the original vBjournal thread.

9. URLs don't autolink. I never got to the bottom of that one, because it was small potatoes compared with the other stuff.

10. Someone had the idea that journals could be subscribed to and you'd get notification of new entries in that journal. I don't know if it needs to be that complex, but maybe if the postbit MY JOURNAL button were red if there were posts since the reader's last login, that would be enough to flag new events without full fledged subscription.

11. Some wanted the standard vB editor with smilies and stuff to appear. Makes sense to me.

I'm sure there were other ideas, but those stuck out in my mind. In my opinion #1 is the immediate need, affecting usability for everyone who has a vBJournal.

Regards,

Matt

All of those are absolutely great suggestions.

To add to that, I was thinking of adding a 'buddy' capability, including the private journal entry view only option that would allow other people to 'buddy' their friends. [Yet again, hellooo LiveJournal.]

I need to wait on seeing what Anime-loo's finished product is going to be though before I try anything. I don't want to rehash old work if he's going to blow me out of the water [which he certainly can.]

That's considerate, but it may be unnecessary. He must have bigger fish to fry, which is completely understandable. It was going to be a 2-3 week project nearly six months ago, then a before summer thing, then it dropped off the radar entirely.

I understand we all have shifting priorities. The birth of my daughter recently made that crystal clear.

Regards,

Matt

Anime-loo and I have been talking thoroughly about this project for the past two weeks now. It's been given new blood by the addition of this addon and I have faith he'll pull through on whatever he thinks will work.


I look forward to his product. ;)

However, curiosity killed the cat and last night I began working on a few tidbits.

One of those is the ability to delete an entry if you're an admin -- that was really no sweat.

The second one is a bit tougher for me but it's coming along okay methinks. I'm integrating vBJournal's buddy list with a LiveJournal-type journal "friend" system.

I been trying to take a break from the net this year because I spend 1/2 of the last 4 years on it :). Ive been on most of the time the last month and have alot to catach up on, mostly opening two sites, one of which will hopfully bring in some profit. So that explains the delays, I apologize for everyone thats been waiting :).

Im going to complie a feture list tonight so people can add to it and post it in a new thread over in general hacking so we can stop hi-jacking this one ;). It is going to take a total re-write of the code to do it correctly and make sure it is secure.

That sounds absolutely wonderful, but have no fear -- I've been on the net ever since I was 9 and haven't bothered taking a break at all. No, I don't have a telephone jack sticking out of my ear -yet-, but I look forward to having one pretty soon. ;)



Certainly I'll add to this feature list when I can. ;)

I think I found something this morning that just makes sense -- having the vBJournal "buddy" feature that I was adding read from the original vBulletin group of "buddies" and if so and so has a recent journal entry, display it.

I think I was somewhere in that vacinity with my stab at coding it last night. :P



I hope to work with you in the future on this -- if you need any templates or anything if I can't help you out on code, please let me know and I won't hesitate to try.

hopefully we could get the store integration before work starts on all this, as much as i'd love it all, i'd love to get to this stage atleast first https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2003/10/8.gif

I'm sure store integration would be cool for those who use it, but simply managing the display of journal entries is essential for everyone, unless you like reading 100 at a time.

Regards,

Matt