New Ideas Contest - Possible 100,000 Taco Bonus

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

The 10000 Islands & Proboards uses something called plugins. Those plugins give special features to the forum. Examples of this would be the recent Slot Machine game or the Urgent PM messages. Since we are a creative lot, what kinds of other proboards/XKI plugins can you think of that would help improve XKI life?

I will deem a winner at some point & the winner will be based off of not only the idea itself, but also the practicality of it as well. The winner will receive 5,000 Tacos. No winner will be selected if there is not an acceptable idea that fits the minimum criteria I set. If the winning idea is chosen & then becomes an actual Proboards plugin, a special 100,000 Tacos bonus will be given!

Grub

[Wordy]

I would love to see a better Calendar put in place. Our current one is in the form of a thread and I liked how the old one put up notification of a calendar event. We miss many days we should be celebrating as I guess we are all reliant on having a notice rather than a thread.

[Shy Guy]

You can change back this smiley back to the taco symbol! I don't think it's worth 100,000 tacos...

[The Candy Lane]

Are you looking for existing plugins? Or are you looking for ideas that would be made into new plugins?

Here's a bunch of plugins that might be handy to have.

I'd like to see plugins that could be used for various forum games, so what about a Tournament Bracket plugin? The catch with that would be other members(the tournament organizer) would have to be able to manage the plugin. link

Poker to go with the slots and black jack?
link

A couple more game plugins like this chess one would be nice - though possibly under used? link


There's also a flash games plugin that allows flash games to be played on our forum link There are many compatible games, this site has a bunch of them link

A clock plugin, set to forum time, would help with coordinating the start of forum or tito events link

A recent post sidebar would allow users to see all of the most recent posts around the forum. link There are also sidebars that allow you to put things like

A plugin for group PMs would be nice. ie. If I want to send a message to all the Co9 members, or all the people playing At-War I can make a group for that and change the members of it. Something like this but with multiple, preferrably customizable, fields. link

A plugin that automatically unannounces threads after X-days. We'd need a way to exclude certain threads from being unannounced.

Two other broad areas that would be nice to have plugins for are RPGing and Gaming. There is a plugin that assigns RPG points based on posts, but maybe something that is a bit more customizeable. Maybe one where I could have my national stats, government type, and population show up. A plugin that can track my WW, Resistance, or At-war stats would also be nice. These could show up in my profile or signature.

On the old forum there was a map that showed where our forum got views from. I always found that a cool feature.

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

The Candy Lane, thank you for the post! I will definitely look into adding some of these, but the contest would be for a potential new plugin that isn't around right now.

As for "A plugin that automatically unannounces threads after X-days. We'd need a way to exclude certain threads from being unannounced." We already have that!

I am going to add that tournament bracket one now.

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

The Candy Lane,

"A couple more game plugins like this chess one would be nice - though possibly under used?" I tried that one in the past, but it was very difficult to use, so I deleted it.


"There's also a flash games plugin that allows flash games to be played on our forum link There are many compatible games, this site has a bunch of them." I tried this one in the past, but never found any good games to use over there. If you can find some good games to use, I can install that plugin again.

[Anime Daisuki]

Sept 28, 2014 19:01:51 GMT -5 The Candy Lane said:

A clock plugin, set to forum time, would help with coordinating the start of forum or tito events link

I would love to see a clock again.

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

Sept 28, 2014 20:34:28 GMT -5 Anime Daisuki said:

Sept 28, 2014 19:01:51 GMT -5 The Candy Lane said:

A clock plugin, set to forum time, would help with coordinating the start of forum or tito events link

I would love to see a clock again.

I would like to see that too. Unfortunately, the clock plugins that currently have are not that great.

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

Sept 28, 2014 19:01:51 GMT -5 The Candy Lane said:

Are you looking for existing plugins? Or are you looking for ideas that would be made into new plugins?

On the old forum there was a map that showed where our forum got views from. I always found that a cool feature.

Thanks again for the great suggestion The Candy Lane! While it's not a map, I have added a feature where it will show flags for the country of forum visitors.

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

Thanks again to an idea from The Candy Lane, we now have a clock at the top of the forum.

[Louisistan]

Sept 29, 2014 2:51:59 GMT -5 Grub (Lenlyvit) said:

Thanks again to an idea from The Candy Lane, we now have a clock at the top of the forum.

Unfortunately, it has replaced the much less aggressive display of forum time that had been there before (or was that just there on the tropical theme?). Also, since then forum time has seemed to have jumped an hour. The old display was 10 hours behind CEST (which is my TZ), now it seems we've switched to 9 hours. So unless daylight savings time for the forum ended today, we need to make sure that the clock time and forum time are in synch.

Also, is there any chance to have it displayed on every page, not just the home page? Thanks.

[Blaat]

Can you make your own plugins?

For example, could you perhaps make a comparison between 10KIers based on NS stats? Or what is the favourite national animal in 10KI plugin, which checks every day what's the most common animal in 10KI?

[The Candy Lane]

How about a plugin that hides announced threads after a member views them? Or one that would rotate the threads? ie. if there are 10 announced threads 5 will show up each time the page is refreshed.