What do you want to see in TP?

[Bill.Ramby]

It needs a check box that when checked the post appears on  the front page no matter what section of the forum it's in.

[garou]

As a freelance part time programmer myself I know exactly what you guys are going through and don't let all the negativity get you down.

Some of these spoiled brats on the internet want what they want, yesterday, and if you cant provide that then you must be the incompetent. To them I say "bulltish". If you can find something better, then go use it or program it yourself and shut the hell up. There's a big difference between a request or constructive criticism and outright berating and degrading the people that are trying to help you.

Most of the time they end up wasting their precious time that they could be putting to towards writing code, trying to defend themselves against your sophomoric diatribes.  

Then there's just some of the outrageous requests some people have. Even large mods like Tiny Portal are just one of many tools you have to help make your version of SMF better. Its not the only or end all be all mod for SMF and to quote a friend of mine, that also happens to work on one of the other portals, "There is a limit to what you can/should do with general modifications". Don't cry because you didn't get the sun but be grateful that you were at least given the moon.

Tiny Portal is a great tool as is and while sure there are some bugs that could be fixed and some new features that could be added but how much of it is really necessary? There are other mods that already do some of this stuff well without having to complicate this one further by making more code that bloats or at the least creates more chances for errors.

Personally I would like to see the gallery finished. What we have seen of it on here in the past looks so much better then some of the other gallery tools Ive seen out there. I don't know what the back end is for you guys but the front end has been amazing.

I too prefer the old shoutbox module but Ive never really been a fan of them anyway. so I can live with or without it.

Lastly Id like to see this ported to SMF 2.x I love many of the changes that have been made in 2.x but as Ive stated here before TP is worth waiting for and Ill stick with the 1.1x series of SMF till TP is ready to use it.

[Gargoyle]

Hmmm....

TP works fine for me... And has been working fine for some time.. Errr... Almost 4 years to be exact...

Anyway... A gallery would be sweet....  :laugh:

[ZarPrime]

garou,

Appreciate the kind words.  IMHO, many of the changes being done in the current version and the reason for Bloc asking users what they would like to see in the future are being applied to the Alpha version of TP for 2.0 that is currently under development in parallel to 1.x.  As we move forward, it is the goal to make the migration to TP 2.x as painless as possible once it is ready for a stable release.

ZarPrime

[bloc]

I splitted out the posts that are about bugs and development cycles, I feel we should separate the two. They are both important issues on improving TP, but its not fair to people wanting to discuss feature ideas primary.

http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php/topic,29143.0.html

[Bec]

Well said garou. The people that complain are the ones that don't realise just how much hard work it is to create something like this and who want everything handed to them on a silver platter. There are so many other people out there that would charge a fortune for something like TP and would not offer any support for it!! When you look at this website and the people on it, its a huge credit to TP.

Now I am slowly but surely getting into coding myself I can understand and appreciate exactly how much goes into it and it kinda blows my mind. But its a great inspiration for the rest of us to get into it and start doing things ourselves!

Ill get off my high horse now!

[Lafemme]

Well...   TP is awsome  But if  you ask....

*  more flexibility about how the order of the blocks.. see  this topic

* More features of styling a block. So the block background color or image.
The titel color and linking the titel URL  Now.. everytime i want that i have to download the tp-style.css doc and alter it...

* There are many blockcodes that are submitted by users. Some users who submits them, alters every time the first post as soon as something is changed at the code. Some however don't. Sometimes a topic is 40+ pages long... and for a user who want to  use the code.. it takes a lot of time to read all those posts... So is it possible to have a rule that all the changes made at the code, that it has to be put in the openingpost?
Also sometimes members make several editions of a code... Is it possible for them to open a nother topic or something, putting in there the altered code? But... explaining that the first setup (the copyright) was from someone else with a link to the original code?

* Have more ways how a prefixed block is shown. Like the userblock.. i liked the version of 0.9.8 better. But now.. i have to "deal" with it.. since i do not know how to alter that...

* Now you can set a prefixed hight for a panel group.. i would like to have that per block.

* As mentioned..  when i want a set hight.. a different background color ect. I always have to alter the TP-style.css... Is it possible to have a textfield / codefield (like in the Ultimate Profile mod, where you can put in css to alter the layouts looks)  where you edit the block... There you can put in css code, so that that overwrites the normal codes. In this way i do not have to alter the tp-style.css

* oke.. maybe i am going over the top here But i have blocks for different membergroups.. guest see different blocks then members.. However.. i as an admin.. i see all. Now i can ofcourse shrink a block.. but i see it always... Can a option be added to show a certain block not to a admin? So i do not see all the blocks?

This was it

[bbTURK]

i want rssbox to be more compatible with other language sets and article dates should be editable. dates and rss block is big issue for international sites .

and rssbox can be more customizable like as shoutbox.

moreover article can be download as a pdf version.

[Inny]

article dates should be editable

They are unless you mean something else

moreover article can be download as a pdf version.

Good Idea

[TaskMaster]

I would like to see much better documentation for developers.

Including:
All of the functions documented with what files to be included for each one.

What global variables are available with their contents.

The CSS classes documented.

Some examples on how to do some pretty common tasks.  Like make a tutorial on making a mod that includes an install/uninstall file, read/write to the DB, add an admin page etc.  So that all mods did it correctly and the same way.

I have written 4 or 5 mods for TP and I always end up just digging through the source trying to figure out how to do stuff.  Then I end up wondering if the way I am doing it is the best choice.  In fact, I have done things on one mod, then while making another mod I stumble across a function or variable that makes something I did in the past tons easier.  Wishing I had known about it before.