Feature request thread

sunitknandi · November 2013

Finally the forum setup is complete and all required features have been implemented.

We have chosen Vanilla to run our forum.

I'll give a list of extra features added:

Quotes
Polls
File upload
Flagging / reporting
Sidebar links
Gravatar support
Signatures
Split/merge
Thank you
Rich text editor
Tapatalk
Who's online
CloudFlare load balancing
Webchat
Code highlighting
Facebook integration

Other features like popup notification and mentions are included by default in the forum software.

If you want any other features that you wish, please drop a comment, and we'll see if we can consider it.

Cheers!

tripathiakshit · November 2013

To be honest, the colors used could be better. No offence. How about setting the RGB of the menu bar at (27,54,163) ? Also, why not find something to auto-post questions on Facebook?

sunitknandi · November 2013

Its theme dependent actually. And most people have liked this theme, so I kept it as it is.

challapradyumna · November 2013

Isn't is possible to install multiple themes and make the users select what they want , similar to vBulliten or mybb .

sunitknandi · November 2013

Possible.. but maintaining one theme is best.
Reason? You need to maintain different sets of widgets for each theme, waste hours troubleshooting each and every little problem every time you put a widget on the sidebar.

I'm open for feature requests, but please, why is everyone asking for cosmetics?

DoomKookie · November 2013

Remove the "Who's Online" side panel maybe ._. It isn't much use and doesn't seem to get updated. "In this Discussion" isn't really needed either. I like how the forum stands at the moment: simple and content-focused. +1 for Gravatar. I friggin' hate uploading new profile pics >.<

Look-wise, a simple texture background isn't too bad ye know

Also, when you quote someone's post, deleting the first character of your reply under the quote takes your cursor to the blue marked quote area. Could be a vanilla feature/bug, so you might wanna check that. Also, italicize quotes maybe

Lastly....

WHERE IS MY CODE HIGHLIGHT SUPPORT?

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sunitknandi · November 2013

Who's online updates every 5 minutes as I've set it.

EDIT: Update interval set to 2 minutes now. Hope that helps.

In this discussion will soon prove to be helpful when threads become multi-pages and you need to PM someone desperately that you want to look back and forth.

Code highlight? Umm IDK.

tripathiakshit · November 2013

Who's online updates every 5 minutes as I've set it.

EDIT: Update interval set to 2 minutes now. Hope that helps.

In this discussion will soon prove to be helpful when threads become multi-pages and you need to PM someone desperately that you want to look back and forth.

Code highlight? Umm IDK.

Code highlights aren't hard to do, are they? Because I was looking to use this forum as a StackExchange alternative :P

sunitknandi · November 2013

Not sure about highlights, but yeah, you can make Vanilla work like StackExchange. There is an option for tags instead of categories.

challapradyumna · November 2013

Why isn't there a line between user profile and post content .better yet set a background color to user profile in each post .

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sunitknandi · November 2013

User profile? @challapradyumna? What?

challapradyumna · November 2013

challapradyumna · November 2013

I'm asking for something like this

sunitknandi · November 2013

EDIT:

Went through the theme code, but unfortunately cannot do anything about the shading. The theme has the entire comment area as a single block and not two blocks.

Update:

I'll not be taking any more feature requests for now, as Vanilla 2.1 is nearing release and we'll soon need to upgrade. At this point of time, new and updated plugins have set their minimum requirement to Vanilla 2.1 beta. In short, those plugins need to be modified to work with the current stable release. I have backported a few plugins, but I cannot continue to do so for ever. So please bear with it until 2.1 releases

sunitknandi · November 2013

Update: Webchat has been added: http://forum.technofaq.org/irc

DoomKookie · December 2013

Can we haz sub-forums as tabs? Like instead of having ALL the subforums and threads listed in one page, we can just tab things out, like each sub-forum under a different tab. Kinda makes things look a lot cleaner. Not to mention that we won't need to scroll all the way down to get to a particular sub-forum.

sunitknandi · December 2013

Can we haz sub-forums as tabs? Like instead of having ALL the subforums and threads listed in one page, we can just tab things out, like each sub-forum under a different tab. Kinda makes things look a lot cleaner. Not to mention that we won't need to scroll all the way down to get to a particular sub-forum.

There would be just too many tabs. And no space to accommodate them on the top bar (its 960px max).
There is a categories list on the left side if you have seen.

sunitknandi · December 2013

Update:

Vanilla forum updated to 2.0.18.9.

Enjoy!

Edit: Tapatalk works fine. Upgrade is successful.

Skywalker · December 2013

The quoted response and the new response don't stand out from each other.

Can something be done about that?

sunitknandi · December 2013

The quoted response and the new response don't stand out from each other.

Can something be done about that?

Vanilla forums quoting system is like that.

Bibhuranjan · December 2013

Should we approach souvik again??

sunitknandi · December 2013

Should we approach souvik again??

Again for what?

Bibhuranjan · December 2013

I wish there were settings to edit profile info from the mobile layout..

sunitknandi · December 2013

I wish there were settings to edit profile info from the mobile layout..

Just use a proper smartphone and hit "full site". I don't think any mobile interface or theme is going to help because they all lack that feature. Yet, I'm going to test another theme and see if it helps.

sunitknandi · March 2014

Social integration added.

sunitknandi · May 2014

Forum updated to Vanilla 2.1 stable release.

Tapatalk has been forward ported to Vanilla 2.1
Thank you has been forward ported to Vanilla 2.1
New theme based on FlatUI
Twitter social integration removed as it is buggy
Everything else as it is

sunitknandi · October 2014

Forum now runs exclusively over SSL.

sunitknandi · June 2015

Vanilla version has been updated to 2.2.100.2
New syntax highlighting.
New quotes system.
New text editor.

Have fun!

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