Were we abandoned by the Vgchartz staff?

[happydolphin]

Kantor said:

I've been discussing this with some of the other mods on AIM, and we came up with this:

• Improved PM system. Make it clearer who sent the message, maybe even add a profile picture. Remove that bubble system.
• Give us the ability to edit the forum rules. We'll be needing that.
• Mod chat on VGC itself so we don't need to use external chat clients.
• Ability to remove things from VGC mod history.
• The ability to change text colour and size in all posts.
• The ability to post videos in the OP of a thread.
• Wall to Wall (seeing a full wall conversation between two people). [low priority since we have comments now]
• Mobile version of the website.
• Visible moderation history from the moderation window.
• Links in a user's "My Posts" section actually going to the post rather than the thread.
• The return of VGC IM.
• Edit, Quote and Report buttons on the View Post screen.

Probably more than that, but those are the important things.

Crossed out the unimportant stuff. Bolded the high-priority stuff.

@ioi, Items to add to this list. (I added a few since my convo with Jay)

 

Tools (Graphs)

• Cummulative HW Chart in Tools -> HW by Date.
• More games to display at once in Tools -> Game Comparison. Also, the bubble lookup system is kind of slow.
• Ability to combine multiplats in Charts -> Game Totals and in Tools -> Game Comparison.

Data:

• The PC numbers are always off it seems.
• Digital sales needed.

Polls

• Poll listings get truncated after vote is made.
• Polls can be voted on multiple times by the same user (can be a pain when switching machines and you only want to see the results).

In general:

• Bubble tool for Add Game in Thread OP doesn't work well if there are too many items that match the text written and there is no other way to differentiate it. (Eg. The Legend of Zelda I NES)

PM'ing

• The addressee field in PMs is full of glitches. Sometimes it erases the last two entries, other times it doesn't find the match.
• PMs with special characters in the title fail to load.

Posting:

• An image resizing tool within the Insert/Edit image popup (I have to manually calculate the ratios myself every time, and it's time consuming)
• Getting an image directly from the generated graph (See Tools) for inserting into an OP or post (links aren't practical and even e.g. for hw_date.php a link doesn't work as the page doesn't remember the trends (un)selected)
• Advanced table editing tools (we work alot with numbers), the ability to perform column operations like setting all values in a column to bold, or changing the number type, managing table widths, etc.
• The ability to drag and drop images onto the post from an image editor or from a local file without having to use photobucket (HTML5 technique?).

Thread Making:

• Private member (exclusive) threads.

Admin:

• The ability to sticky a thread.
• The ability to exclude a topic from the hot topics list and make it private (for everyone).
• A 2nd hot topics list that is fully customizable (which posters you want, which forums, which you want to exclude,...)

Viewing:

• Under Forums, there should be an item called "My threads" in which you can go over the threads you made to see if there were any updates.
• The ability to exclude a topic from the hot topics list (for yourself, system keeps track of an exclude list per user).
• The ability to mute a poster in a specific thread (local only, not global).
• The ability to select the user(s) who's posts you want displayed on the page. See forum.mafiascum.net.

More:

• Vgchartz dollars to be used in predictions.

*Notice the spacing under Admin title above wasn't intentional and I'd have to edit the html to fix it, but leaving it there so you can see.

*Notice how the bullet points are truncated to the left.