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I have a massive list of new features, bug fixes and upgrades to old features planned out until the heat death of the universe, but I thought I'd start a thread to welcome suggestions you all might have regarding possible new dakka features that you'd like to see. Our software is typically written from scratch, so pretty much anything you can imagine can be created with enough time.

The following things are in the pipeline (albeit often slow / a long way off for various reasons):
Gallery rebuild - making it faster, easier to browse, easier to sort, easier to view and leave comments, inline voting on gallery images elsewhere on dakka, better tagging, image exalting/faves, etc
PM inbox/outbox - make it more useable (sorting, filtering, etc)
Store finder - expand, improve and clean up a bit

The following are not going to happen for reasons outlined in various threads in the nuts and bolts forum:
No tapatalk integration
No 'official' dakka mobile app (sooner spend time on improving normal dakka browsing for all mobile devices), an API is in the works/mostly done for third parties to use for the home page blog feed, app developers PM me if interested.

I wont respond to many of the requests here, but good or feasible ones will be added to the to-do list. Rack your brains for anything you think might be cool, useful or end some minor annoyance you have with dakka!

Thanks all

Something like a screensaver that you can switch on and leave on the computer, that shows gallery images at full monitor sizes and then fades to the next one. It could be tailored to filter the slideshow for 'orks' or 'high ratings' or 'recent' etc.

Auto-moderation.

Give incentive to voting in the gallery. Something maybe to do with the nickname related to post count? I can see how this might come with vote spammers, but maybe something can be implemented to prevent that,

Currently the title of a thread changes yellow if you have viewed it before.

It would be nice if the title changed a different color when it has unread posts since your last read.

Cleaning up the store finder would be cool. All the information felt kinda cluttered and outdated.

I know trading is not the priority here, but a number in parantheses next to a traders name or listed like posts would be awesome. I look forward to any and all improvements, but just wanna say you guys rock and i really enjoy the site.

Auto Ban any GK player?

that sounds like a good one....

For the DCM Gamers Den- Remove "auto append next post" please

Definitely need to find you at Adepticon and thank you in person for all your work on this incredible site!

Eldarain wrote:Currently the title of a thread changes yellow if you have viewed it before.

It would be nice if the title changed a different color when it has unread posts since your last read.

i agree

wpago wrote:

Eldarain wrote:Currently the title of a thread changes yellow if you have viewed it before.

It would be nice if the title changed a different color when it has unread posts since your last read.

i agree

The bullet on the left of the title is yellow if there's unread posts. That's already taken care of.

Show the ages of posters, and be able to set ignore functions based on age?

Put a mini gallery in a users profile page.

Promote voting in the gallery somehow.

Respond to emails people send to the site.

Battle Ready Studios wrote:Show the ages of posters, and be able to set ignore functions based on age?

It's best that people don't post their ages. We don't need one more thing to be elitists about. This is coming from me, who dips into being an elitist far too often and has actually gotten hatemail from people I told to type properly. I wouldn't blanket everyone based on age, as there are some very good posters who have volunteered that they're on the younger side of the spectrum, being around 14-16. I've also seen posters half again my age type like lobotomized chimpanzees.

legoburner wrote:
PM inbox/outbox - make it more useable (sorting, filtering, etc)

This please, I first suggested it 2 years ago, and would still find it just as useful today >.<

If possible, probably will take some work, fixing the list tags so that they are not required for each line but add the bullet to each new line within the text the tags surround.

The Youtube tags, currently they seem pretty fussy and require a very plain url or they'll refuse to work.

Maybe a favorite feature for the gallery, like the exalt feature. Gallery comments updating to show the current vote of the writer at the time of viewing the comment rather than at the time of posting.


Probably a bit of overhead to those, just throwing up stuff off the top of my head. Most of the things I'd think should be implemented are already suggested elsewhere anyway like the integration of voting and threads in the showcase forum. Though for the voting I think it would be nice as a post option, automatically selected for show case, optional for the rest of the painting sections and disabled on the rest.

Friend's Gallery ( notify you when you friend add new pictures )

/win

Maybe have the notification extend by embedding the image in it.

A button you could press next to the forum index which causes a buxom woman to march into your bedroom bearing her breasts and carrying a tray with some pints on?

I have a few serious improvements that could be made:

Encourage better posts. Allow users to vote on 3 posts every month. Whoever has the highest 3 scores is awarded a 'Poster of the Month'. So as well as stating how many posts you've made, it now also gives you how many times you've been voted 'topic of the month or something. Maybe nothing but people will want to submitt worthwhile posts to try to win some kudos.

How about a page which people cannot place comments on that lists out every wargame. E.g., in alphabetical order it lists out all wargames. This would be controlled by a moderator who could be emailed to add another game onto the list. Click on the game listed it gives you a brief description of the game. Then maybe allow a comon set of voting buttons for each game, E.g., ease of playing, value for money, supportability. This prevents long topics on each games system, but allows a breif overview of peoples thoughts. I'd happily volunteer to mod this.

Same as above, but with retailers? Again a simple voting thread followed by a breif description of the retailer. No posts are allowed on this, its just a list of retailers, Dakkaites can vote on.

Spell Check?

That wouldnt work, it'll be DCM voting for DCM all the time.

Some sort of actual title-layout for the Find a Game section, similar to the Swap Shop layout. Eg: [game/country/location/date] would make it so much easier to navigate that section.

I am with Giothulu......................current system is not working and though it is not a priority and this is not a trading site............nonetheless trading does go on here............lets make it the best it can be

mattyrm wrote: A button you could press next to the forum index which causes a buxom woman to march into your bedroom bearing her breasts and carrying a tray with some pints on?

Apart from this one, I would say if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

I came here from other forums because everything is so well presented and easy to use, so I would hate for it to go in another direction!

Battle Ready Studios wrote:Show the ages of posters, and be able to set ignore functions based on age?

You know that would instantly remove most of the people who support your comments though Battle Ready Studios?

Some way of filtering results from the 'Search' function would be greatly appreciated

A title-track for a combination of voting and/or commenting on images would be a way to get more votes in the galleries

Drag and drop // mass-upload for the gallery! I fething hate having to navigate 10+ images.

I would like to see the mods be able to change the color of the threads in the Swap Shop so that transaction reports could be shown in a color different from the norm. This would allow those threads to stand out more and make it easier to find them.

mattyrm wrote: A button you could press next to the forum index which causes a buxom woman to march into your bedroom bearing her breasts and carrying a tray with some pints on?

I'm afraid that would overload the server; it wouldn't be able to handle that kind of traffic.

Eiríkr wrote:Drag and drop // mass-upload for the gallery! I fething hate having to navigate 10+ images.

A mass upload feature would be nice. Also, images don't always upload in the order you uploaded them. Yesterday I uploaded IMG100, IMG101, IMG102, and IMG103 and I ended up with something like IMG101, IMG100, IMG103, IMG102. It makes navigating battle report galleries very difficult, or any sequence of pictures deliberately uploaded for a certain effect.

Maybe we could have something similar to facebook where you get a notification telling you when someone quoted you. This would be especially useful when trawling through long 30-odd page threads. Don't know how possible this is.

Battle Ready Studios wrote:Show the ages of posters, and be able to set ignore functions based on age?

It's best that people don't post their ages. We don't need one more thing to be elitists about. This is coming from me, who dips into being an elitist far too often and has actually gotten hatemail from people I told to type properly. I wouldn't blanket everyone based on age, as there are some very good posters who have volunteered that they're on the younger side of the spectrum, being around 14-16. I've also seen posters half again my age type like lobotomized chimpanzees.

I'm 17

TheSecretSquig wrote:
Spell Check?

This is built into most browsers. Generally people are lazy or using versions of Internet Explorer from like 1998 and that's why a lot of horrid spelling and grammar get through.