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

[Phrost]

Originally Posted by Badshah93

Sneak Peak Of My Review Mod (User Reviews) Page.

vFcoders - vBReviews is as big as vBCMS and it has every feature which is listed in first post of this thread.
Will release free version by end of this month here in vbulletin.org and pro version in vfcoders.


Regards
Aayush

So, how'd this go?

[COBRAws]

I am willing to put in some money.

[SilverBoy]

no news until now !!

all coders which made announcements about their reviews mod, suddenly disappear !!

are all of that mods considered dead?

[FannBlade]

Must be a hard mod to create.
Maybe it will be easier on VB5.

[Alfa1]

I have my eyes set on vb5. If vb5 will be good enough then I will need a reviews full blown content type created. Its currently not known if this can be created for vb5.0 or if we need to wait for the vb5 version that supports the CMS.

I am communicating with senior developers about this. If no one will deliver the needed functionality as commercially available software, then I will have this coded.

It is indeed a big expensive project, but with multiple investors its doable.
Anyone who wants to be part of this by investing in the project, should let me know.

[SilverBoy]

Alfa1, I'm vb customers since v1.1.3 days, and from my experience, even if the vb5 will be good enough we have to wait about a year to get it stable and full supported from the coders to update their products.

So we want product to use it in this year while we testing vb5 and get all our product updated.

[Alfa1]

Well, I can say with certainty that I will not use vb4 on my big board ever. I will either jump straight from vb3 to vb5 or if vb5 will be a let down then I will abandon vbulletin altogether.
As soon as vb5 is solid enough, development will start on rewriting all my addons and producing various functionality I need.

[SilverBoy]

right, but note that not all users can wait until vb5 released and then waiting months to be solid !!
I have a board with about 750k members running on vb3.8.x yet, but I bought the vb4 suite from the first days (when they gave a discount) but never running it yet because the main thing I want in it is the CMS.
But after long researches I decide to hire some one to do what I need, but unfortunately I don't find the right person, and get a bad experience when dealing with fraud coder (one of vb.com support team) and he get the money without give me any thing.
I thought after this to stop searching for coder, and there was no any news about vb5, but I get one and working with him in these days and I don't mind if they release vb5 tomorrow, because I need to launch my news part, and if vb5 was really good and all my favorite mods upgraded I will invest to upgrade my special mods, but sorry I'll not freeze my life waiting vb5.

So if any one of all reviews product that in development stage right now released and was do what I want I will buy it for sure.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by ForumsMods

When all 'in progress' features are finished.
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Text = In Progress
Text = Not Implemented
Text= Not Implemented (Next tasks to be implemented)

• Reviews should have different sections, so you could for example have sections for movie reviews, restaurant reviews and product reviews.
• permissions per section
• The overview of reviews of each section, should allow for different display options, to be set by the admin.
• A review can be in multiple categories/sections.
• Reviews should have:
• Author ratings, with pretty AJAX stars, bars and other pretty rating scales.
• Member ratings
• Combined rating averages.
• Rating value should have an alt text. For example: if you choose to have ratings with 1 - 5 stars, then hovering over a 5 star rating could state 'excellent', while hovering over a 1 star rating could stat
• Admins should be able to define rating questions and custom fields.
• Custom fields should allow:
  1. fields that work like tags. i.e. clicking on the word 'spaghetti' in a custom field would lead to all restaurants that serve spaghetti.
  2. fields with AJAX autofill functions.
  3. single line text fields
  4. multiple line text fields
  5. mandatory fields
  6. tickbox fields
  7. payment methods icons
• Google maps integration.
• Product video playing inline (youtube, vimeo, etc)
• Amazon.com & other major affiliate network integration (automatically pull prices from Clickbank, Commission Junction and Amazon and add affiliateID to purchase link)
• Automatic population of fields from amazon/other affiliate networks by ISBN or productID: image, product title, author, description, product details(up to weight)
• Allow paid listing trough subscriptions and paid expanded listings. When a user pays for an expanded listing more custom fields become visible. For example: url, extended description, products & prices, offers, photos, Google maps, logo, etc.
• A 'featured' widget that shows x companies. Companies can buy a listing in this widget.
• Allow online and offline payments.
• Allow users to claim listings. (for example: a restaurant owner can claim the listing for his restaurant and buy features for it)
• When users claim listings or when listing owners buy expanded listings, first then let them agree to T&C.
• After the user has agreed to it, also send a notification by email that they have agreed to the T&C.
• Setting to moderate all edits & content posted by listing owners. (to avoid spam & unwanted content)
• Allow users to post feedback to reviewed company. (visible in the listing, but separated from normal comments)
• If the listing is claimed, then send this feedback to the owner. (email/pm) This feature can be bought by the listing owner.
• Permission setting to hide comments to listing owner.
• Permission setting to hide listings not owned by user.
• Ability to compare prices of all vendors that sell product X
• Summary charts for all restaurants that serve Y. i.e. a table that lists those restaurant, with the data from custom fields, as the admin defines.
• Search for restaurants that have specific data in custom fields X, Y and Z.
• Use rich snippets so that Google will show reviews & ratings
• Reviews should be loaded with interactive AJAX/jquery functions.
• CkEditor for users and admin side
• Infractions & moderation tools
• Reputation
• CMS widgets
• New entries & comments in 'What's New'
• Searchable with vb search engine / Sphinx
• Subscribe to entry
• Tags
• Usergroup permissions
• Use of vb attachment system
• vb postbit is shown
• vb avatar is shown
• profiles link to vb profile
• design can be integrated
• GARS importer

I'm curious how much of this is completed and in the current release?

[Alfa1]

I think the green is still whats implemented.
Unfortunately I am not seeing any activity on the forumsmods website.