Possibility of further hacks?

[Tiger]

Alright lads, just posting this because I was wondefing if there were any possibilities of further hacks?

I'm happy with the current hacks, in particular the ability to know who's birthday's are up and the birthday images under Poster's Names, it makes for an even closer 'community' - but i'm wondeirng if we might see the introduction of things the WP Forums' haven't yet seen, things such as Custom Avatars (I wanna show my Tiger stripes ) and perhaps the answer to your News Writer problems on the front page - vB Artciles Manager..

I may be taking this too far, (i'm a visualist!) but how about linking the Front Page more to the forum - would it be wrong to have the forum as the centrepiece of the Wireplay website - perhaps having news generated by forum posters moderated and then posted on the front page, with comments being added by posters from here using their username/password - i;ve seen it done on sites such as http://www.planetfieldhockey.com !

Just wondering, don't start to bite my head off with commenst like "I DON'T MANT AVATARS ON COS THEY TAKE UP TOO MUCH SPACE" please, i've had a long day

Tigs

[Dash]

I DON'T MANT AVATARS ON COS THEY TAKE UP TOO MUCH SPACE

[breath]

Lets try and answer this in some sort of order (this will be pretty good for a monday morning if it works )

Custom Avatars
Currently only moderators and officals can use custom avatars. However we will be reviewing this and looking at possibly extending the use of pre defined avatars to the rest of the community.

Article Manager
Theres something in the pipeline for this. Thats all im saying on it

Everything else that I cba catagorising cos its monday and ive not had my 5 cups of coffee yet
There is going to be alot more interaction between the Wireplay site and the forums. A good example is the Counter Strike site where you can use your forums login to access interactive parts of the site such as comments posting.

[Muff-Hunter]

whats the point of avatars if thier predefined?

look i can understand that they slow things down but tbh compared to the old days barely anyone looks at these forums, would it really be a bad thing to let ppl have thier own avatars?

I'm not condoning offencive ones but predifined would be pants

[Tiger]

I suppose you could have a special Avatar Reviewer who could upload and add Custom Avatars directly, to avoid offensive ones? I'm sure this wouldn't be too difficult to set up - and i'm sure some of us have enough time

Also, looking forward to this new 'introduction' thats in the pipeline Breath - i hate being the omnly onw round here with grand ideas

[Muff-Hunter]

other forums seem to manage it, dont see why this one cant.

[[COMIX]VaMpIrE]

the main point is we know what they are

[ParaSitius]

Why not put aside some space on a hdd where people can have their avatars stored. All someone needs to do is check that the pic is ok and then they can send a link to the user to add in their profile.

WP gets to censor out the 'nawtee' stuff and the users get to have their own personal avatar.

Everyone is happy and much rejoicing can then commence.


And if I hit that bloody go button one more time instead of the submit reply one, I'm gonna do some damage to somink.

[[COMIX]VaMpIrE]

in the end it will probbly come down to time
who wil have the time to sit and resize all the avatars
to sort them out.

pre-defined avatars are good and i cant see a problem with them
tbh

[ParaSitius]

Only use those avatars sent in by people which are already at the correct size. A pre-defined list would still be needed, but those that make an effort to do their avatar correctly should be allowed to use it.

I've got time on my hands to help out if needed.

[Ronaldo]

Have to agree with Para tbh. Who has the time to sort out 5k pre-defined avatars? Everyone will want a unique one, pre-defined or not.

[Ronaldo]

5k is an exaggerated approxamation before the pedantic police arrive

[FiRe]

5.1k

[[COMIX]VaMpIrE]

too late

[ParaSitius]

Of course, I have time on my hands to sort through Avatars if the need arises.