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We Want Your Input on Vanilla 1.2
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Vanilla 1.2 is going to be a great, significant release. There will be plenty of new features, many of which will be included as new extensions, allowing them to be easily disabled and enabled easily.
Some new features are:
Some will be enabled by default, others won't be. So we want to know, which extensions (if any) do you think add essential functionality to Vanilla 1? There are so many really awesome extensions out there, but we don't want to include most of them, just the ones that add a very commonly used functionality, ones that will be useful for 90% of Vanilla installations.
Some new features are:
Automatic image width reduction by window size (an upcoming update to HTML Formatter), a feature similar to the one on IP.Board, so that images never create horizontal scrollbars on the page; images will either be too small in width to be sized, or the width will be reduced to the perfect size.
Minification, compression, and a bunch of other speed optimizations (an upcoming extension called Minify) to make the forums load faster for users, especially first-time users.
Whisper notifications (the Whisperfi extension) so that users don't miss whispers
Minification, compression, and a bunch of other speed optimizations (an upcoming extension called Minify) to make the forums load faster for users, especially first-time users.
Whisper notifications (the Whisperfi extension) so that users don't miss whispers
Some will be enabled by default, others won't be. So we want to know, which extensions (if any) do you think add essential functionality to Vanilla 1? There are so many really awesome extensions out there, but we don't want to include most of them, just the ones that add a very commonly used functionality, ones that will be useful for 90% of Vanilla installations.
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2. A system of permissions for categories
3. Quoting
4. Comments permalinks
5. Polls
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About extensions for 1.2, I'd say:
Attachments
Quoting
Comments permalinks
Account Pictures
2. Notification that work.
3. Session in database.
4. Poll.
If an extension you want included needs some love, please fork it and fix it.
- Attachments
- Quoting
- Polls
- Calendar/Events (for v1.3?
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I always end up adding some kind of custom header via Mark's Lussumo Banner. And PageMgr custom pages (e.g. "About this forum" info I find better in a tab than requiring some perpetual sticky post; Contact gets its own page and form where there's no anonymous posting; etc.). I don't know how essential those are for anyone else.edit: dang grammar
Also, a robust WYSIWYG editor to work well with HTML Formatter - this doesn't exist yet AFAIK.
Does the Minify extension have anything to do with http://code.google.com/p/minify/ ?
@glow Vanilla 1 and Vanilla 2 are very different, and some people might prefer to continue using Vanilla 1 instead of changing to Vanilla 2. Vanilla 2 isn't a replacement for Vanilla 1, it is just different. They will be developed alongside eachother.
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(goes so naturally with Attachments I forgot to include it
• User Fields + Account Pictures
• TagThis
• Page Manager
In addition I think it would be great if users could carry multiple roles. This I think would be able to grant a lot more flexibility, not really sure how it would slam the database though. As opposed to a hierarchy like unauth, member, mod, admin from least power to most power it's more like a bunch of skill sets. More of a symbiosis, which I think helps drive a community.
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