Personalising GDU - Concept

[Marked 197]

Hi all,

 

I'm going to jot down a few ideas I have but can't work on due to my schedule. This also isn't a commitment by me to continue working on GDU, but I do get bored from time to time.

 

The idea is a tab displayed globally (or maybe just on the forums and homepage) right in the middle of these two boxes

 

The tab basically be a link that will expand and reveal its contents. So it's like a spoiler, only revealing content when you want to see it.

 

Inside will be your GDU, a history of you. This starts with your content: a list of your topics, scripts, tutorials, resource uploads and games, including stats like comments and views and dates. Apart from being really convenient, this doubles as the motivation our members can be found lacking, "why post here, no one sees my stuff". Yeah they do, shut up. It will also allow you to keep track of where all your stuff is so you may want to update it, or whatever.

 

There will also be interactions. So a list of topics (or other content... we can comment everywhere on this site these days) that aren't started by you but you've participated in them or maybe liked a post, participated in discussion.  This may even include a history of your status updates. For me personally that'll be useful, I've made some pearlers. The idea is to be able to quickly find or pick up whatever you've been doing (or done) on GDU. This will particularly useful for returning members, given we're 8 years old, it'll be a good refresher.

 

Two other features I'd consider are first an internal bookmarking system. We're developers right, so we find an interesting tutorial to read later, a game we want to follow, or a script we want to use later. Or maybe even great resources that don't quite fit into our current project but are definitely useful to keep handy. Bookmarking will centralize all the content you want to keep track of.

 

Lastly is a tag idea where you list your interests, say, "rpg maker xp" or "zombies", and you click these whenever you want and it will bring up the latest content involving those keywords.

 

The best thing is that this isn't very hard to code :)

 

Thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

 

EDIT: Here's a mockup of the tab

[FranklinX 37]

I like the idea! It will help me find my content faster. Personally I would like the Games section to get more features. 

[Wyzrd 12]

I think it is a great idea too. Should work on it when you get a chance too. Also think it's awesome I was used in the demonstration ;)

[Marked 197]

I like the idea! It will help me find my content faster. Personally I would like the Games section to get more features. 

So would I. What I'm going to do is work on the customization of the appearance first. Imma have no GDU header to make it more brandable for the developer, and a whole bunch of design features. That's first on the list. Next is the contents which is a bit more complex'

 

I think it is a great idea too. Should work on it when you get a chance too. Also think it's awesome I was used in the demonstration ;)

It's a bit ironic because the username was actually RKO-Franklin because his username is so long that I use it to test stuff. The reason its wyzrd is because I know your ID off by heart and I edited the HTML live and used that to get your avatar in that screenie. Developer stuff. It actually looks like this

[Wyzrd 12]

Well that's oddly disappointing and awesome at the same time! Lol. Is Franklin's Avy not supposed to show in that pic?

[Marked 197]

Nah coz its a random account, i just changed the username to that. Like I said, web dev stuff. It's a random user account so the ID is 20k something, the avatar is set to my own account, and thus missing, and its franklin's username. So its complicated :P

 

EDIT: just had another idea for this... activity graphs :D