ChiefsPlanet Bugs/Features Discussion
 

Many of you know that I've been one of the biggest proponents of getting other people involved in making improvements to ChiefsPlanet. The server and software upgrade has been a HUGE improvement, but I'm sure there are many more things that can be done. Now that I've actually got a little bit of power, I'd like to see what types of things people are still looking for in terms of improvements to the Planet.

Important caveats:

• This thread is just to get ideas about the types of things people want. However, there's no guarantee that ANY of this will actually get done because...
• We can't just go adding in everything under the sun to the software. Everything we add puts more of a load on the server, and the whole reason for upgrading was to get away from that.
• Anything too "customized" becomes a real pain when trying to upgrade the software. We survived on an ancient version of vBulletin for years - let's not do that again.
• I'm pretty new to this admin stuff, so who knows if I (or any of the other admins) will be able to figure any of this stuff out without risking breaking something.

Also, if you've got a specific type of technical expertise, feel free to post that in the thread as well. Again, no guarantees that it'll mean anything, but it'll at least help if we're looking for an expert with one thing or another down the line.

Make a virtual ChiefsPlanet, kinda like Second Life. :D

That way, we can play football while we're chatting. Yay!

Okay, I know, that would like wreak havoc on the server. :(

At the risk of being redundant with the "Server Issues" thread, here are a few things I've been tossing around.

• Fix the search feature. We basically know what has to be done for that, but we're not sure how to do it without breaking the Planet. Plus, it could require up to a couple days of downtime.
• Add in a chat room for game days. I hate game threads...they're too slow. So I want a chat room, dammit!
• Even though I like chat rooms, I have (what I think) is a pretty good idea for game threads. Essentially, I'd like to put a link below the last post (to the right of "post reply") that will refresh the thread, then jump to the first unread post. Essentially, it's the same as the link from the forum, but in a convenient location so you can quickly refresh the game thread and get to the new posts.
• Fix the tables/colors in the user profile page. They seem to be all screwy right now, and I'm not sure why.

Make me a genie!

Oh, and fix the "mobile user" style. It got broken when Kyle upgraded us from 3.6.8 to 3.7 beta 5.

Make blackjack stop stealing my hard-earned money.

For the record, that wasn't my doing. I haven't figured out what my first mod abuse will be, but I'm saving it up for something good.

When did you become a mod?

wtf?...post 24,000 LMAO

I made him one two days ago, I'm sure it is the biggest mistake ever on the BB.

Nah, he'll be a good one.

lol! I may have to question my thinking now :D

Or is it that when we both agree on something then it must be right?

He was always posting help threads, making good backup BB's when this one went to crap, and is level headed. Really, he earned it, IMO.

what about the features that simplex put in cppiggy regarding the ignore features?

not seeing quotes of ignored users...


not seeing any rep or pm sent by ignored users...


that would work for me... :D :D :D

That's going to be tough from the server side. However, a lot of them are taken care of by the firefox extension I mentioned here:

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=182835

However, I'll keep looking into it.

I'd like more monkey threads. The lack of such threads has always made this place somehow "less" for me.

I don't know if you can swing that, however.

Could you make me a little more arrogant, Frazod and Brock think I am not arrogant enough.

Oh and more cow bell, there is never enough cow bell.

Rival fans don't even think enough of the Chiefs
to come around to laugh at us
fix that

Nah. That was you. o:-)

I've got my "refresh" link added to the right of the "post reply" button. It's not going to seem all that useful for most threads, but when there's a fast-moving thread, that button should refresh the page and take you directly to the first new post all in one click. Hopefully it'll work right. :D

I've always liked the thread tags (books, games, movies) on this forum:

http://www.forumopolis.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2

They have it set up so you can ignore certain tags. In fact, if we used tags, we could move DC back to the Lounge. If people didn't like DC, they could just block threads with the "politics" tag.

Of course that would require people actually using tags.

Oh, and we could have a poop tag!

Oooohhhh....I like that idea. Definitely one to look into.

Can you make it less cold outside?

For my own purposes:

showgroups.php give a white page