Archived Forum Suggestions (from The Expert?!)

[Xantam]

Hey guys. Ye' old forum manager here with a few tips, hopefully good tips, for the forums to make them a lot better.

GROUPS:
As you can see from this image below, you can create groups. In the groups, you can as an admin create categories. These categories you can label such as:

• Staff
• Factions
• Other

That is an example list. In factions, anyone can make a faction group, which in essence would replace the faction forum. The groups are player manage-able, I.E. do not need staff input. The groups have their own settings (Invite only, open group etc) , and when the faction disbands, the owner of the groups can decide whether to disband the group.
The group can hold its own thread discussions. This means that IN the group, you can have your own private or non private discussions, there is an option for this when creating/editing your group, so you no longer need to rely on the forums itself.
All of this is inbuilt to the forums groups forum addon. I have tested it, it works immensely/beautifully. It's a perfect replacement and manage-able faction forum solution.
Here is the image in the spoiler

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Suggestion #2:
RESOURCE MANAGER:
The resource manager is a very complexly made addon. The addon itself does have a price, which you'd have to buy from the supplier of the forums (xenforo) for a price of £60. I do however, have the files, which I purchased for my own forum.
The resources addon does;

• Allows anyone with specifically made permissions to create a resource, for download by others
• Allows categories for the up loaders to choose from
• --- For example, the following categories: Media, official admin uploads (texture packs, map files), games, software etc.
• You can make priced and free resources; So if you want to sell your work, it can be sold
• It's an easier way for you to give downloads for the texture packs and whatnot.

As you can see from the image below, you can also rate and give feedback on any resource.
An image of the resource manager, rather empty-lookin', is below:

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Suggestion #3
CODE CHANGE:
There is a simple code modification you really should do, it will alter the "members online now" box to change all the staffs colours to their appropriate one.
Instructions:

• Go to the style you use's templates in Appearance tab (admin cp)
• Use the search function to find this template: sidebar_online_users
• Now find this part of code:

  class="username{xen:if '!{$user.visible}', ' invisible'}{xen:if {$user.followed}, ' followed'}">{$user.username}

• Replace it with this:

  class="username{xen:if '!{$user.visible}', ' invisible'}{xen:if {$user.followed}, ' followed'}">{xen:helper richUserName, $user}

 

[Shawzie]

Wit ???

 

[Zanip]

Did I just see a Hardy?

 

[ulumulu1510]

Hardy my friend, the plans are already made up and are ready to be instated.
We surely will take your ideas into consideration, espicially the colors.

For a general info, we are not trying to centralise everything to the forums, we rather have things like the texturepack on the main website.
We are also working on making these forums ready for the Multiverse standart, so things like user defined groups will not happen. Generally, we'd like to outsource faction forums as you may have seen.

But thank you for the advice.

 

[Xantam]

The resources is not just for the texturepack, it is for everything that can be shared which means uploads/downloads. But fair enough, wish you well

 

[favoured]

jaw drops. "Di-did I just se- no, that's not poss-how is he-" *head explodes*

 

[MonMarty]

Expert Xenforo manager eh?

 

[Xantam]

Since I managed this one, I have done 2 others. Just keep getting better and better

 

[EyebrowsJ]

At least you posted in the right thread...

 

[TheNinjaBottles]

I have seen the groups thing on one of his forums ( will not post url or anything ). I must say it creates a way for people to mass communicate together and limited people from just joining.

 

[Xantam]

Aye, that it does Ninjabottles.

You could also then split the factions up by the universe, create minigames groups and so on. This and you don't need to minor them, when the creator wants to he can just disband his group which he/she can't usually do with forums that they have created for them.

The code modification will look great though if Marty ever gets round to it!