Lets combine funds for a Reviews CMS with business/product directory

[Christos Teriakis]

Hello,

I want to keep you informed on some changes in the features and on the date of the release:

1. Release day rescheduled to Tuesday (2 days later) due to the changes that I did.
2. Even if I had integraded vB threads to work as discussions, finally I removed this feature for the following reasons:
   1. I didn't liked the interface. As the view listing page contents tabs, I found it ugly to have 2 tabs for main listing text and for reviews, and for discussions to have a link to the thread.
   2. By using a seperate (not vb forum table) for keeping discussions, is much easier to:
      1. Build a GARS importer
      2. It will be also easy to move these data to another system and not feel prisoner on vB structure (like GARS from vB3 to vB4).
   3. I used for discussion the Facebook commenting interface, something which is very popular on now days. Maybe it has only 1 sublevel for comments, but I think that is enought.
3. I added more usergroup permissions to help you sell subscriptions. eg:
   1. Can show Address details
   2. Can show Contact details
   3. Can use Google Maps
   4. Maximum concurrent listings
   5. Also a nice permission is "Can has business profile". With this option members on this usergroup (if they want to activate it), will have an extra Tab in their profile with their Business data (including Map), and also other usefull statistics.
4. Also, in categories, I added some more fields to make the system more flexible. As example: You can choose per category if the listings there counts towards to the limit of the concurrent listings or not. ...or... if the Author can vote or not on his listing. I believe that this is useful as it has no sense the author to rate his own products, but from the other side is a must if he is reviewing someone's else product.
5. .... rest are still secrets

Chris