Need some suggestions and ideas *** PLEASE READ ***

[CATCH17]

I wish moderators could block people from reading someone elses posts if they felt it was for a valid reason.


Like putting someone on ignore and they cant read your stuff either.

 

[Reality]

I wish moderators could block people from reading someone elses posts if they felt it was for a valid reason.


Like putting someone on ignore and they cant read your stuff either.

I can see the benefit in this but it would be hard to implement at least in a forum system due to people quoting posts by other users. Meaning, you could block someone from reading your posts, but anyone quoting you would expose your posts.

-Reality

 

[YosemiteSam]

I can see the benefit in this but it would be hard to implement at least in a forum system due to people quoting posts by other users. Meaning, you could block someone from reading your posts, but anyone quoting you would expose your posts.

-Reality

I made this point earlier that it should filter quoted text too. Obviously there are issues involved, but normal quoting lists post number and the named user quoted. Thats enough to filter those, though when someone manually quotes someone else, (manually writing the quote tag) that would be harder to catch.

 

[Reality]

Thats enough to filter those, though when someone manually quotes someone else, (manually writing the quote tag) that would be harder to catch.

That's the problem especially as you get into multi-quote situations. Beyond that though, that's one of those features that even if you create a solution, it adds so much additional processing time that it's not feasible on high traffic sites.

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[Reality]

Really could use some more new ideas and suggestions

-Reality

 

[rynochop]

This.

THIS needs to be done around here.

As far as the rating of a thread with a meter system or whatever, i dont know. I used to frequent a site with a star rating system, 1 to 5. And we had a one star bandit who one starred every single post. It turned into a huge deal. lol

 

[YosemiteSam]

That's the problem especially as you get into multi-quote situations. Beyond that though, that's one of those features that even if you create a solution, it adds so much additional processing time that it's not feasible on high traffic sites.

-Reality

Thats what memcached is for!

 

[JustDezIt]

how bout video embedding from many other video sharing sites and not just youtube?

 

[Reality]

Thats what memcached is for!

Already use memcached ..

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[Reality]

THIS needs to be done around here.

As far as the rating of a thread with a meter system or whatever, i dont know. I used to frequent a site with a star rating system, 1 to 5. And we had a one star bandit who one starred every single post. It turned into a huge deal. lol

That's very easy to defend against ...

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[Reality]

Just a reminder ...

.. this thread has nothing to do with CowboysZone and none of the suggestions made here will be considered for CZ. In the near future, I will make a thread for discussing CowboysZone related ideas and suggestions, but the reason I put this thread in the Off-topic Zone is because it has nothing to do with CowboysZone.

I could really use some more ideas though .. there have been a couple that have been great but most posts have been reposted/seconded ideas.

I could really use some help with your favorite features from FaceBook and other forum sites and other sites and services.

There has to be some features on other sites you visit that you really enjoy using .. tell me about them!!

-Reality

 

[YosemiteSam]

Already use memcached ..

-Reality

Our web based financial trading platform averages eight million plus requests a day. I can't imagine filtering quotes especially if using memcached (we don't) can't handle the load. (we use Java though rather than php) Still, it should be a feasible project. Well, it could be an issue if everything (web server, database, and primary processing is all one server) It could easily be done with a single DB and webserver.

Sorry, off-topic.

 

[YosemiteSam]

How about multi-site post aggregations? Read posts from many sites like Facebook walls, twitter, and all those others aggregated into a single widget on the site. Any RSS rendering is good too.

 

[Avaj]

Ive seen a site where posts get rated. Like on the bottom you see how many people agreed, disagreed, thought it was funny, thought it was dumb, informative, etc.

I didnt see that they kept an overall user tally of what theyre getting rated though.

I don't like this idea because it becomes a popularity contest. That is one of the thing I like about this site that it don't have that feature.

 

[Avaj]

Like I how some sites have an app design to browse for phone usage. Easy to read and navigate.

 

[CATCH17]

I can see the benefit in this but it would be hard to implement at least in a forum system due to people quoting posts by other users. Meaning, you could block someone from reading your posts, but anyone quoting you would expose your posts.

-Reality

I think it would be ok as long as you didn't have to communicate with that person directly.

 

[Reality]

Our web based financial trading platform averages eight million plus requests a day. I can't imagine filtering quotes especially if using memcached (we don't) can't handle the load. (we use Java though rather than php) Still, it should be a feasible project. Well, it could be an issue if everything (web server, database, and primary processing is all one server) It could easily be done with a single DB and webserver.

Sorry, off-topic.

memcached is a nice compliment caching system but it can only cache data, it doesn't actually help with processing performance itself. Many netbooks can watch videos, 3D animations, etc. without many issues but try rendering those same videos, 3D animations, etc. on that netbook.

I really did not want to stray off-topic as I have repeated several times now *sigh* however, the problem with filtering posts as you said is that kind of filtering would require on-the-fly filtering .. that has nothing to do with memcached or caching. If it was not user-by-user, it would be feasible because you could process posts, then cache them while only creating processing overhead on the first pass.

To support a user-by-user level filtering of posts that included manual quote checking, it would require on-the-fly processing which means allocating additional CPU/memory resources. Sure you could use memcached to save the processed results but since it would only be seen by one user and unless that one user is going to read not only the same thread but the same page over and over again, any benefits gained would be outweighed considerably by the additional resource usage by memcached itself in storing the data each time.

memcached has its advantages but it's not ground-breaking technology, it's simply a cog or tool among many that compliment other pieces of the puzzle to make things run more smoothly. In many ways, I find memcached extremely limited and in some cases, my own caching systems performed much better than memcached. Still, it can provide a nice performance boost when dealing with previously processed or queried data.

The software I am developing is extremely optimized and I will be avoiding adding features that cannot fit within tight resource requirements. The mistake that most programmers make is assuming just because something can be done, that it should be done. Providing a user-by-user quote filtering system simply because someone cannot take someone else's comments while at the same time increasing processing overhead is a waste of resources especially when there are many ways a user can get around it such as altering the quoted text slightly or using different user accounts.

So .. back to those new ideas!!

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[Reality]

Like I how some sites have an app design to browse for phone usage. Easy to read and navigate.

I plan to create an App for the software at some point but for now, I am focused heavily on keep the themes as smartphone friendly as possible. I think over the next couple of years, we'll see more and more sites on the internet go more simple in design. I've been saying that simple, clean designs are what every site should be focused on but most older established sites are trapped by the "users hate change" society we have become.

A lot of non-gaming/graphic Apps simply use a web design based user interface rather than an app API interface which makes sense really since it makes it easier to not only develop complimentary apps for your site, more importantly it makes it easier to update and maintain the app as your site evolves and changes over time.

I do believe that a mobile friendly layout or mobile support in some manner will become a primary focus in the near future. As we transition more of our online time from desktops and laptops to mobile devices, sites know they either need to go along with us or risk being replaced by other sites that do.

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[Reality]

How about multi-site post aggregations? Read posts from many sites like Facebook walls, twitter, and all those others aggregated into a single widget on the site. Any RSS rendering is good too.

I'm definitely a ran of RSS feeds .. until recently, it's the sites that really handcuffed users in that area because many sites would limit their feeds to one or two sentences per article. In fact, some sites used character length truncation causing sentences to be chopped off mid-sentence.

Fortunately, things are changing for RSS feeds as sites are realizing that users are not using RSS feeds instead of visiting their sites but rather to access their content more often.

I definitely like this suggestion though. Providing an integrated mashup feature especially if done in an organized yet simple/clean manner could be quite popular among users.

-Reality