[vB.org] Remembering The First Hacks Of Our Time

[Freddie Bingham]

For more history here is the first thing I posted inthe developer's loung at vB when I became a developer on 12-07-2000

John I faxed my 'contract' in today.

Now some questions.

Are you expecting us to just fix bugs or are we going to actually code. I can think of a few things that would be really nice to put in, i.e. my hacks

1 - Custom User Titles (Allow users to change their titles based on postcount)

2 - Your avatars are nice but we really need an option to have it scan a directory and pick up images other than a few smilies. I don't think we need to go so far as mine does based on user posts = more images. I prefer to have pages for icons but others prefer to use javascript and a combobox to scroll through images.

3 - Need to put those new message and last post indicators in the search. Are they there? Who knows since it is disabled.

4 - Fix the indexing so search by usernames actually works and replace the space delimiter with a comma. Then my dot hack can slide in nicely since it just reads the userindex of a thread to determine if a user posted, involves no queries.

5 - CALENDAR I need to see what you are doing with that birthday field so that I can adapt it to the calendar. It doesn't look very useable and I suspect it is saved as a string since you don't force a format on the user as I do using 3 comboboxes (1 for day, year and month)

etc..