Profile Feeds function like Twitter + VB 5.x redesign Feeback

[katie hunter]

Profiles Feeds Discover like Twitter (A new Vision, not just a feature)

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-12337



Hi~ I know VB 5.x still has a lot to do in term of adding back vb 4.x core features and the stuff that are missing in Vb 5.x but has this been proposed before and discussed among VB team web developers and Web designer ?

The way I look at Vbulletin is that i want to see it bring a new vision with a deep user experience, something unique and new in the forum market relative to making sharing and communicating between your friends and members deeper.

So what i mean by this, if you look at Twitter "Discover" feature, it helps you find new friends, followers, pictures, news, and so on and they make good use of hashtags # and @ feature . We as forum owners, chooses a certain niche and what our forum would be about, but how can you deepen the experience of sharing relative to this niche.

What i really love to see is for VB to provide a feature like this, we all know Vbulletin is a forum and a forum is about discussion, discovery, and making friends but why not deepen this experience by providing a "Discover" feature which displays your friends and/or followers feeds + based on your likes and posts, it can provide you with new feeds. So a mock up of something i am personally working on my site would be this, this is just a draft to get the idea

http://i.imgur.com/HesyR1M.jpg

Redesigning Vb 5.x

The other thing is that i see VB 5.x design isn't very pretty and appealing, I would really love to see VB 5.x make good use of interactive design. Have you taken a look at Behance and the innovative web designers on it? https://www.behance.net/

For instance, sleek designs now days have an auto scroll under the header like IGN http://www.ign.com/ , make good use of interactive design

Profile redesign

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/member/868-wayne-luke

The way i see Vb 5.x profile looks, is not very appealing at all, it looks really bad and i would have to say Vb 4.x profile looks much more appealing but for the sake of adding new and enhanced future features, why not renovate the profile design to something like this below, and making the background gray, today's modern style is a mix of light background with the use of black, gray and blue colors.

http://i.imgur.com/Y35g860.jpg

Designs like these would look very appealing and providing room for features such as a timeline. See the video, i don't agree with everything on this design but you get the idea.

http://vimeo.com/56488043

Another thing that i didn't like is if i went to a user profile ex http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/member/868-wayne-luke and tried to look up an image on the media tab, i find the design is really bad with these weird popping up images when hovering on them.

Something like Google+ is more appealing https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Phistars/photos see when you click on an image you can comment on it, I also have that on my homepage which works with both animated images and non animated ones , ex image tab and when you click on an image, you can comment on it and tag your friends

Have these ideas been brought up for VB 5.x ?
Are they considered for future features ?