Since I’m probably going to be moving away from Bukkit, this may be my new home.
I was wondering if we could have a friends list thing AND/OR a followers thingy. That would be cool. I’ll probably post more in this thread if I can think of something.
I was also thinking that using this FlatUI design, we could have like badges that indicate what we do or our purpose here. Maybe something like Admin, Moderator, etc. underneath our names or our icons or something. That would be cool.
Maybe even do something like that for the community, if you’re mainly a developer, server owner or something, you could get your own badge as well… And maybe you’d have to prove yourself before you can get it, like… you have to have created ‘x’ amount of plugins/whatever to have a “Developer” tag, and you have to run a server that has a certain amount of hits or something to get the “Server Owner” tag. Just ideas to think about.
Once again good ideas. And it would help with grouping people so it is easier to find people you need to find. I actually applied to be a Dev for Sponge and haven’t heard back yet though.
Another feature I would like to see eventually would be a news post feature like on most forums sites you see today. Somewhere where you can see the news on a front page otherwise it won’t get out to a lot of users as whether we like it or not, a lot of people never make it past the first page of a website/forums.
I would like to see some of these ideas implemented…definitely. I’m not sure why we’re using this forum software (forget the name), and I’m not really sure how compatible new themes, add-ons, etc. are with it. If it were up to me, I would have used a Xenforo software.
EDIT; the name of this forum’s software is Discourse.
I kinda like Discourse. I think the reason that most projects use Xenforo is because they want an all in one site, wheras Sponge will have a website, wiki and separate forums. Discourse isn’t that different from xenforo, and is (in my opinion) better.