Syn-Journal development thread.

[KuraFire]

There's a lot more work to it when you want to properly allow your users to customize the look and feel of their own Journals. As I only intend to deliver real high-quality Hacks for vB2, the look-and-feel customization will probably be part of the Deluxe version of my hack...

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by KuraFire

There's a lot more work to it when you want to properly allow your users to customize the look and feel of their own Journals. As I only intend to deliver real high-quality Hacks for vB2, the look-and-feel customization will probably be part of the Deluxe version of my hack...

I can not wait to see your hack!

[ev0lute]

i would also like to see a converter hopefully from vbjournal lite => synjournal

[Catch-22|BL]

Thank you to people who are working on Journal hacks/integration. The efforts are appreciated by us plus all of our users. Since this is a call for features, I will add a couple comments. Some of it might be redundant; I skimmed thread but might have missed something.

• ability to easily add/remove Journal moderators in admin cp
• ability to disable private entries in admin cp
• a "report" feature for lurkers to notify the moderators
• link from user postbits through to user's jorunal
• some sort of paged organization, either by month or number of entries
• search capabilties (of some kind)
• a "last edited by" forced feature that shows if user edited journal or if moderator took action
• integration with a common user warning system (yes, I know this would be a huge pain)
• ability to list or display journals in order of who is most active/popular in last week or month (not since beginning)

I know these are some crazy requests, but since this is an open call for suggestions I thought I would just put down some ideas. Again, thanks for the work on Journals.

[KuraFire]

Originally Posted by Catch-22|BL

Thank you to people who are working on Journal hacks/integration. The efforts are appreciated by us plus all of our users. Since this is a call for features, I will add a couple comments. Some of it might be redundant; I skimmed thread but might have missed something.

• ability to easily add/remove Journal moderators in admin cp
• ability to disable private entries in admin cp
• a "report" feature for lurkers to notify the moderators
• link from user postbits through to user's jorunal
• some sort of paged organization, either by month or number of entries
• search capabilties (of some kind)
• a "last edited by" forced feature that shows if user edited journal or if moderator took action
• integration with a common user warning system (yes, I know this would be a huge pain)
• ability to list or display journals in order of who is most active/popular in last week or month (not since beginning)

I know these are some crazy requests, but since this is an open call for suggestions I thought I would just put down some ideas. Again, thanks for the work on Journals.

Some of those features are already in my Journal system, the others are good ideas, though I'll not implement them all in the way you portray them. For instance, the User Warning system will just go via a usergroup permissions system in my journal, as you'll be able to limit a variety of aspects on a per-usergroup level, with my JS.

[sabret00the]

i was also thinking of something, was gonna make it but the ability isn't something i possess as of yet

anyway using all this RSS stuff as i understand the ability to import entries from another journal would be great.

[Catch-22|BL]

Here are some more comments:

• create ability of entries and comments to apply towards poster's overall post count
• allow "ignore" function to be active in journal area
• ability for journal moderators to block or de-activate a specific poster's ability to use the journal area (similiar to forum-specific suspensions)
• ability for journal moderators to lock a specific poster's journal (without suspending the actual poster)
• ability for journal writer to decide if they do not want replies to a specific entry
• restrict the length of journal entries to match the number of characters allowed in normal posts (or allow a separate maximum length for journal area)
• ability for people to convert from other journals/blogs and transfer all of their material to the message board's journal area (I know it is crazy request, but people always ask for it)

I just offer these comments, feel free to sort out which (if any) are useful or relevant. Again, thanks for the work with journals.

[KuraFire]

Originally Posted by Catch-22|BL

1. create ability of entries and comments to apply towards poster's overall post count
2. allow "ignore" function to be active in journal area
3. ability for journal moderators to block or de-activate a specific poster's ability to use the journal area (similiar to forum-specific suspensions)
4. ability for journal moderators to lock a specific poster's journal (without suspending the actual poster)
5. ability for journal writer to decide if they do not want replies to a specific entry
6. restrict the length of journal entries to match the number of characters allowed in normal posts (or allow a separate maximum length for journal area)
7. ability for people to convert from other journals/blogs and transfer all of their material to the message board's journal area (I know it is crazy request, but people always ask for it)

I've adjusted the items to be numeric so I could more easily respond to 'm

1) good idea, I've not yet included that
2) already planned for that. Tachy C will apply to my Journal System as well, ignored users will appear the same way as they do in posts;
3) planned in my version: new usergroup permissions:
- Can View Journals;
- Can Have Journal(s);
- Can Comment on Journals;
4) already planned for it 'cept I don't have Journal Moderators, the permissions are just in sync with Admin and Super Moderator permissions. Admin can close (locked but visible) and disable (locked and invisible) journals, delete them, edit them, etc. S-mods can lock and optionally disable, but not delete nor edit.
5) already in my system as well
6) good idea, I'll implement a separate setting (plenty of cases where you don't want posts and journals to be limited to the same amount);
7) this is not just a crazy request, it's also a near-impossible task. The problem is that we can't write an import-script for such things, simply because we won't have access to the database, only to the final output (the html pages). Since virtually Every online journal site allows users to totally customize their display, this can be a completely impossible thing to automate, thus you'd have to do manual copy-pasting after all..

[KuraFire]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

i was also thinking of something, was gonna make it but the ability isn't something i possess as of yet

anyway using all this RSS stuff as i understand the ability to import entries from another journal would be great.

RSS (and XML) feeds are not useful for doing importing of journals from one site to another. You want to generate XML data files for that, and then write an XML parser for this.

However, the idea is good, and as such I shall write an Import/Export Journal Entry function that will work with my own filetype, and not XML files (as that would be way more work).

[sabret00the]

i guess it would be basis for someone else to continue on if they wanted, could lead to the ability to import LiveJournal's and what not