3.0 Road Map

1. 3.0 Road Map

   #1

   3.0b1
   
   Big
   Newbie Friendly
   Task Pages - Pages concentrating on a specific goal - Searching, browsing, writing, etc.
   Submission/Scroll/Codex rewrite
   Improved Challenge/HoH/Golden/etc
   Improved Favorites
   Cache
   Wiki-like submissions
   Citadel Explained start from scratch
   Improved Moderator/Admin
   -Will allow a greater spectrum of rights for people with different access/responsibility
   -Gives more people an opportunity to help out if they so choose
   
   Smaller
   Voting w/o reload (degradeable)
   Subs/Comments have editorAbility to view comments when editing
   Script to convert old style direct links to new ones
   Autoforward old links to new one
   
   3.0b2
   
   Big
   Settings
   Custom User Pages
   
   Smaller
   Adventure in a box
   -Random subs from selected categories (defaults all)
   Global History page
   -Everything recent on one page
   
   
   3.0b3
   
   Big
   Improved Search
   Gallery
   
   Smaller
   Suggest Category Change
   
   
   3.0b4
   
   Big
   Improved Print
   RSS
   "Shopping List" to gather submissions for repost in List or to Print together
   -Similiar to Favorites, but does a bit more
   Forum like identification of new since last visit
   -subs
   -comments
   
   3.0 Release
   
   Maybes
   Questlike adventures
   Newsletter
   Google map of members
   Copyright research (what should we have?)
   Easier linking from forums
   Tag personal favorite subs
   If post is favorited, shown by who? other posts favorited with this one?
   Spell check (still think firefox is better for this)
   Dice Roller
   Guilds
   defined words - autolink some common words to specific submissions (for example: if somebody writes "orc" somewhere in their post, it will autolink to "A New Look at Orcs" or something like that)

2. Re: 3.0 Road Map

   #2

   
   Today was an unlimited trip to the world of geekiness for me. Hooray. :)
   
   
   Firefox is a pretty neat browser, and it's got some pretty neat plugins/add-ons. One of them is Greasemonkey, which basically enables you to rewrite websites on the user end in whatever ways you desire. Go JavaScript!
   
   It's quite easy to make such a script, I made one that enlarges the main posting field on the Add Submission page, and focuses on the submission title field... so one can write straight away, while the idea is hot.
   
   The only downside noticed so far seems to be that loading the page takes longer. Other than that, it is an interesting toy to play with.
   
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   I found Dive Into Accessibility, with many tips on how to make a website more readable even for those with very nonstandard ways of browsing. Since we want to simplify stuff, there is some inspiration here. (As a side note, some of the techniques described are noted to have a positive effect on Google.) I don't think we would need all of it - just a few things, and as a general inspiration.
   
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   And I also happened on Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design. No, we are not all bad according to them. Some points:
   
   - don't include a link to the homepage on the homepage (or other circular links for that matter)
   - use headers
   - cannibalize Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability - it's commercially oriented, and we've got some of that, but has some good poinst
   

3. Re: 3.0 Road Map

   #3

   http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
   
   For near future use so I don't get too carried away. :)

4. Re: 3.0 Road Map

   #4

   Updated roadmap.

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