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Originally Posted by Harlequin

About the Journal 2.0, however. That's a substantial develop task for me. :P The real question is, what features would the majority of users like to see in a Journal 2.0?

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