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Here's a page for all your Blognomic TECHNICAL suggestions and gripes. Feel free to reorganize this list as it grows.
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1 Big new functionality
1.1 Automatic Dynasty tracking
I've always wanted to write an extension to EE to allow us to designate ranges of posts as dynasties, assign them names, associate them with their emperors, and do all the cool stuff that would allow. That's a pretty huge job, and I probably can't do it alone.
1.2 Automatic member statuses / lists
We could perhaps have idle/active players determined automatically by when they post. We could have the Status field of the member profiles toggled automatically, and the player lists in the sidebar generated by EE instead of updated by hand. We'd need to be careful not to let this be scammable, however.
2 Improvements on existing stuff
2.1 MediaWiki upgrade
We're using a positively ancient version of MediaWiki. Upgrades from this old a version are not straightforward. May need technical assistance.
2.2 Collapsible sidebar panels
Stuff like Idle Members should be collapsed away with Javascript by default. Low priority, I think, but also low difficulty. --Completed 8/25/09 by Wakukee and Yuri.
2.3 EE upgrade
Been a few point releases since the last upgrade.
2.4 Make "Notify me upon Ascension?" actually do something.
2.5 Stop the spammers
For what it's worth, I'm deleting about one user and one "Chinese mining stone crusher" spam post a day, as of mid-January 2010. I don't know if it's as easy as just fixing the captcha, or if we're up against determined humans. (I haven't checked EE, but it's presumably possible to make it so that new users can't post until they've been approved - which would mean changing the signup process for players, but we can do that.)
