[uae]

Hey Kirby,

I was just starting building my own Blog system hack for vb, but something came up and I'll be busy with some other projects, and since you are porting an existing one and adding new features to it, which should be better having one official Journal's system for all of us to use.

Here is a list of stuff I got in mind so far:

Journal

• Journal display options (Journal Index Page) - sort by, sort order, from date
• Journal and Entry subscription (Notification on new comment or entry by email optional)
• Active Users viewing Journal / Entry
• Who viewed my Journal / entry
• Journal status icons: New Entry Indicator
• Weekly / Monthly calendar with highlighted days and navigation for Archive
• Journal Sidebar: Stats, favorite links, Polls, Flickr Photo stream, etc
• Printer Friendly versions on Journal Entries
• Admin tools for Journal - edit/delete/lock/Make sticky/ etc
• Email page to a friend option
• Top Journal page: most commented, visited, rated, favorite
• Journal, Entries and Comments Moderation
• Standards Compliant. should supports XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.0, RSS 0.93, 1.0, and 2.0, Atom 0.3. Supports conditional GET for caching RSS feeds on the client-side
• Search Engine
• Rating System
• Lock System
• What's New: Link for recent Journal, Entries and Comments

Entries

• Linear, Threaded, Hybrid display views available
• Links to next/previous entry: Allows viewing the next/previous entry when viewing a single entry
• Supports BB Code in entries (Optional)
• Supports HTML in entries (Optional)
• Smilies
• Avatars
• Moods: Allows members to add their current mood or moods to entries
• Photoblog Entries: Adds a single image to an entry (Optional)
• Define Entries BgColor: Member can specify bgcolor to an entry (Optional)
• Members can choose to post drafts, not publish to the front page
• Optional WYSIWYG or standard editors for entries and comments
• Entry Types (Optional)
• Quick comment box (with optional "forced" click on comment to quote)
• Preview entry option
• Entry rating
• Polls
• Entry Reporting - report entries to moderators
• User post count
• View Single Entry
• Admin tools for Entries and Comments - moderation/edit/delete/ etc
• Quick delete/edit Link: Adds a edit/delete links to the footer of each entry and comment
• IP Logging
• Export entries in TXT or XML format
• Flood System for entries and comments