Ideas for future development / implementation

As I think of things, I’m going to post 'em here. Good ideas. Shit ideas. Doesn’t matter. No “red light” thinking. All “green light” thinking right now.

IDEA DETAILS / RATIONALE / JUSTIFICATION / ETC STATUS LAST UPDATED
3rd party login / authentication easier for people that don’t mind using existing accounts to login on a different platform Implemented: Login with Google, Amazon, Patreon, Passkey/MFA Working on: Facebook login April 24, 2024
acknowledgements for people that wish to contribute resources (money, moderation efforts, etc) this is fairly SOP in the forums world. If someone wishes to contribute, they should be recognized (if they want the public acknowledgement) In Progress: Patreon Donations active, Stripe (Direct) Donations coming soon. Moderators can be updated at any time. April 24, 2024
Ability for users to block/ignore other users less admin/moderation needed when users can ‘self-service’. Also fairly SOP for forums. Implemented: Go to a users profile, click the drop-down under the “Chat” button, then click on MUTE. April 24, 2024
Private section(s) for registered users There may be clubs or vendors that don’t want their internal conversations to be publicly accessible via Google’s indexing. Or any number of other valid reasons why the entire site shouldn’t be visible to search engines and/or the public. Initial testing proved successful. Was able to create security groups that only allowed visibility (& access) to specific private subforums. April 23, 2024
Forum/Subforum for content creators (Podcasters, YouTubers, Vloggers, etc) A potential win/win for both Pyro Nation and the Creators, where they can have another(?) location to interact with their audience. All the respective platforms are somewhat limited in how the engagement works; Very single-threaded. A subforum for each Creator would allow multithreaded engagement with their followers. Just an idea. Need feedback from the Creators themselves. April 24, 2024
Ability to upload files, not just graphics There’s important files such as PDFs or ZIP that can contain documentation, like rulebooks. Implemented. Max graphic size is 20 MB. Max size for general file type is 30MB May 12, 2024
subforums broken down by geographic area Help people identify others within their proximity. Makes it easy for meetups or requests to borrow equipment, request help for a shoot, etc. Started w/ Ohio and Michigan (by request). More can be created as others request it May 13, 2024
Splitting the Vendors from subforums in which their respective product would reside Is there too much overlap having two separate areas? Example: Does it make sense to have PYROBOOM as it’s own subforum under Vendors while at the same time, they are active in the Hardware → Racks & Holders subforum? Needs further public discussion This is already implemented, but is it necessary? May 13, 2024
Theme Update Need to clone the repoo and change the theme to allow actual full screen with the topics. Not yet started. May 13, 2024

There’s going to be a LOT of people that are stuck in FB. I’ll need to continue to use FB as I currently do. However, when something is asked on FB and the answer resides on this site, rather than give the answer in FB, copy the link to the answer in the site and paste it in your FB response.

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I will get SSO working as well

SSO using FB credentials?

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Yeah, I have to jump though some hoops, but yes.

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@Eko
Feel free to update the table at the top of this page as needed. :v:t2:

This made up word is a test to see if Google Spiders are going to crawl this public content.
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Elephino-public

Updated the progress. Also noted how to use a feature.

This is showing up in Google’s search results. The private subforum test is not. :+1:t2:

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