Mahz

image resizing

I recommend http://imgur.com. It's even better. Once you upload an image there, they have an "Edit Image" link that lets you do a lot of stuff to it.

How should the user profile be arranged?

@Jorick:

Good points. That is the approach I'm thinking of taking. It's literal, obvious, and doesn't try to do any backflips.

@Captain Jordan:

I feel the same way about a profile. The first click should give you the vitals.

It's why I like being reminded when I've PMed someone. A future iteration of that concept would be to also show you which roleplays you have in common with them.

I mentioned it above, but this is also where I'd display a generic area that a user can fill out with whatever content they'd like. Like a sig that's only displayed on the profile.

Thanks guys.

How should the user profile be arranged?

Lady Squee said
One thing I would like to see is a bit more customization. I'm not talking about putting a bunch of pictures and layouts. I'm talking about allowing the user to put whatever they want on their profile instead of an About Me with a 30 character limit. Maybe a customization of tabs that they can put up. 'About Me', 'RP Preferences', 'My Characters' just to name a few.

I agree. So far I've added a textarea that's only displayed on your profile. Just like a regular forum post, you can put whatever you want in it.

Characters, public messages to your fanbase, that WerewolfXDisco interest check that you're always down for (DTWxD), etc.

How should the user profile be arranged?

Griever said Was this really such an issue? I can't really think of any way to separate IC posts from other posts without making stuff overly complicated for you.

The idea is that surely I can iterate on the status quo unless it turns out that vBulletin nailed it in 1999.

Blitzkrieg said
I just found the "recent activity" thing with all the person's friends to be unnecessary and annoying.

Yeah, that was the worst.

I would eventually like to have some sort of "Friend" or "Creep" feature for tracking friends/lovers. And it would make sense to have some sort of view that shows you where they post so you can be sure to remind them that you're loving on them.

But that doesn't belong in the profile.

Colour Change ~ Sorry for Inconvenience!

^ Exactly.

It's the color of the soil in which all things grow. How majestic is that?

I'm not doing any avatar changes since I'm about to launch a custom avatar system.

Best way to make your creepypasta look 100% more legit and scary.

How should the user profile be arranged?

So far the profile is how I left it on day one and I'm ready to put some effort into it.

It'd most likely be a tabbed interface kinda like vBulletin's. I'm ignoring Visitor Messages for now.

In particular, I want to focus on how to display a user's post/topic/roleplay history.

Any ideas on how to organize this data in a UI?

- In vBulletin, you were either enumerating over a user's posts or a user's created topics in one big list. And you'd have to apply "Advanced Search" filters to narrow it down.
- At the very least, I'd like to differentiate between Roleplays and Off-topic stuff.
- On top of that, how could I make it easy to skim a user's IC posts? How could that be expressed in a UI?
- What's the simplest, most intuitive v1.0 approach?

Bug Report!

Captain Jordan said
Fix any QQCode code recently?

No, and especially not since OP posted. I can't reproduce the issue.

Captain Jordan said
Also, does this mean you're using a flat file format instead of a database?

I store the raw QQCode/post in the database but cache the rendered html to flat files.

Hi. I just joined.

Welcome.

So, what are you all about in life? What's the juice?

Bug Report!

I haven't touched anything. I just copy and pasted Everblight's code into the textarea and submitted.

A post is rendered and cached to an html file on post creation and update.