What features would you like in MyBB?

[leefish]

I have been thinking about what would be an enhancement to myBB and I think there are different "wishes" depending on a persons role in a forum. As an Admin, I want to make my site as accessible as possible and make browsing the forum easy. For me, the best way to encourage browsing is via the portal page. The current portal page is not very exciting - but with a bit of styling it can look good. However, I think that visuals (images) are important, and that is my big wish (as an admin) - to be able to add links on the portal to areas of the forum using the images/data in the threads....more and more of my forum areas are becoming X threads based though.

I have a couple of plug ins on my portal page now (both made by RateU) which are perfect for my needs, they link to existing attachments from the myBB attachments.php and display them on the home page. Unfortunately, at the moment, this means that I have to have double images on my server and try and communicate to my users that THIS pic is visible on this part of the forum and THAT pic is visible on that part of the forum. They just get lost and confused. Which is not surprising

Which brings me to the other Role on a forum - the user. Nowadays, any person with an internet connection can go get a free blog and make a space of their own on the internet. In order to get users to come and use the forum and get involved with our sites I think users need to feel that they have a space of their own. The profile page is perfect for that (imo). Rather than having the wall of text and info pages I would like to see more links to how users have participated in the forum - so by using the forum they get to prettify their page.

An example is the latest threads / latest posts link on the profile page. It woud be truly awesome if that connection could be used to display activities per forum. On my forum for example I have a picture gallery, a download page and a finds page. All of these are picture intensive and being able to display the latest threads created by a user on a profile page in an attractive way would increase profile visits and hopefully participation. If you want a pretty profile then you have to post....

I realise that this is just a hopes and dreams thread - but that is what I would like to see in MyBB.

(05-17-2010 09:25 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Not that I'll likely develop it, but I'm just interested to see what people here believe to be a nice feature that would be useful across most forums.