Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Random piece of information: alicelizard is the 200th new user we've added since Joss posted.
I'm feeling an odd sort of sisterly pride here.
Me: See, you are user number 568. And I am user number 61. That means I am taller than you.
Her: You are already taller than me.
Me: But now it's official.
One thing I'd like to see, as an admin, is the ability to search the user list by e-mail address, because the folks who e-mail asking us to reset the password always seem to forget to mention their user name. This means they're impossible to track down, unless you happen to recognize the e-mail address.
DX, there's unimplemented code by Jon B that shows every e-mail address. It'll do, but I think we should code a search function, not least of all because I have an allergy to lists of indeterminate length.
I have an allergy to lists of indeterminate length.
I understand the worry from an aesthetic point of view, but from a practical point of view, until we have several thousand registered users, it's not something I'm concerned about.
And yes I realize we could get there in a few months at the rate we're going...
If you give me a screen, I can write the code. The admin section is already ugly enough -- I think we should go with best practices for now.
The SQL is simple enough.
What's the functionality? A text box in which an admin enters an email address? The admin hits the submit button, and the email is displayed?
ita, if you can't host CVS on buffistas.org, e-mail me. I'm working on getting CVS working here, but work and family and egads, I didn't anticipate the need flaring up this quickly.
I really, really want to contribute something to the Buffistas. Grr, argh.
Jon, just a form to enter an e-mail address, and then it displays the profile info with a link to the "edit" page. Or takes you straight to the edit page. Which do you think makes more sense?
Karl, you are contribution. What's a reasonable non-pressuring timeline for you?
Non-pressuring. Hmm. By 1 January. I can commit to that. (bad CVS joke)
Can we prioritise the outstanding requests?
Lowest priority: Formatting of posts or board (more allowed tags, personal style sheets, new links, pictures).
Higher priority: Things that are already coded, but need to be integrated with the board:
Displaying a list of usernames and e-mail addresses
Shortening long URLs
Search by thread
Threadsuck.
Either these are only waiting on the CVS repository, in which case they might as well be added before anything else, or they'll require testing and integration and HTML and can wait till later.
Higher priority: Requests with least satisfying workarounds
ENUF filter and hiding taglines (workaround: skimming)
Ability to label bookmarks (workaround: Wordpad)
Searching user list by e-mail address (workaround: Jon B's unimplemented code)
Highest priority: CVS repository. This seems to be a tool you need to add new tools without grafting ears onto bellybuttons. Be organized. With Karl working on that, someone will have time to think up some code for the MARCIE.