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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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Non-pressuring. Hmm. By 1 January. I can commit to that. (bad CVS joke)

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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.

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Based on the above, I've made a new list, which is prioritised (can't do fancy tables, but this gives you the idea):

Very, very high:

• CVS repository

Quite high:

• ENUF filter
• Searching user list by e-mail address
• Ability to label bookmarks
• Tag closer
• Option not to show taglines

High:

• Display list of user names and e-mail addresses (would the 'search profile by e-mail address or for e-mail address' feature cover this? They seem similar)
• Shorten long URLs
• Search by thread
• Threadsuck

Low/other:

• Quickedits for tiny text,

t BR , and links

• More tags:

t BLOCKQUOTE t TT t SUB t SUP t CENTER

• User set style: font, colour, etc (covers for visually impaired, dislike of fonts, size, and several others)
• Threads arranged by type (NAFDA, spoiler, etc.)
• Highlight threads with new posts a different colour
• Add First Book and heifer.org to Links page as preferred charities

Force Beep Me and Press to the top of Message Center

• Ability to search profiles (for e-mail addresses)
• Reverse chronological sort for Search
• Full-screen, large font compose box for impaired vision.
• Programmatic interface for submitting to Quote Generator
• work-friendly (distinctive logo/graphics only on the front page, not when reading posts)
• message system, by which private posts can be left for other member, of limited length and retained for limited duration
• Pictures, either with every post or just in the profiles
• tagline archival
• (optional) birthdates in user profiles, with automatic "Happy Birthday to []" displays
• Jump to date in thread
• Events -- give users the ability to enter an event (JM playing guitar, ASH on Leno) which will be displayed up to the relevant date

I've counted 'declare ita appreciation year' done, because 2003 seemed to be well agreed on. And it was nice to have something I could mark 'done'.

I'd forgotten how much I like making lists. I can e-mail you copies if you want them, and make changes whenever.

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