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Ute Hub Site Planning

I need somewhere to document future site plans.  This will be it for now.

Current plans/upgrades/changes.

User Experience

  • Eliminate button borders and reduce text footprint at bottom of posts and replies.  Take focus off of them to make it more on the content.
  • Move like buttons to header of each topic/reply, upper right (done 11/1/16)
  • Change date of post from the super long format to a Twitter style, like 3h  (this shortens it, simplifies it, and makes it take up less space on mobile) (done 11/1/16)
  • Make user avatar bigger, because there’s plenty of space for that to happen without increasing the content size.  More like Twitter. (done 11/1/16)
  • Move category and post time from the bottom buttons to the header, and make the text smaller and less obtrusive. The time is, after all, not a button. (done 11/1/16)
  • Move user name to top of post.  Format:  avatar – user – category – time (done 11/1/16)
  • In regular forum pages the header functions of each post/reply overlap
  • Add a padlock icon to the picks button when picks are locked
  • Widen pages on larger computer monitors, or go full screen even

New Feature Ideas

  • Pick the score game (70% done)
  • “Bracketology” game – Yes, this is what you think it is (possible winter project 2016-2017)
  • Ute Hub mobile app (possible winter project 2016-2017)
  • Edit inline: User can edit in place, one of his/her posts without loading a new page.
  • Re-order home page replies to appear in relation to what they are replying to, rather than simply newest to oldest.  Possible to have a user setting to change this?
  • Make clicking of category from home page show the home page threaded view of that category, rather than going to the standard forum view
  • Add admin section to edit/put text inside of pick em areas like about, sponsors, rules etc.
  • Add “reply to” with user hashtag.  Similar to reply with quote perhaps, but inserts user with hashtag, like reply to @admin…
  • Dump wordpress and write the whole damn site in custom code (biiiig project but will allow for total customization and ease of changes, and easier mobile app development)
  • Ignore user on home page
  • Category view in home page format (threaded)
  • Enable user groups.  Why would users want to be in groups? Aren’t we all in the “Ute Fans” group?
  • Add a donate button.
  • Track user donations?
  • Remove ads or go to an ad free option via donation?