I apologize to any of the phalcon team if I'm overstepping my bounds. But I thought It would be beneficial to start an official discussion on improving the phalconphp forum. I've started on a long-term project in phalconphp and consequently am invested in the success of the framework -- part of which hinges on community participation. First, I'd like to ask why use a custom built forum in the first place? Adding all the functionality to phosphorum that already exists in phpbb, vbulletin, etc.. would be quite the undertaking. That being said, if the PPHP team wants to stick with phosphorum, I think It would be beneficial to have a discussion here on what features we would like to see implemented in phosphorum. Then we can move to [NFR]s. I've seen a couple of posts with unproductive jabs at the simplicity of the current forum. Please limit comments here to constructive ones only! I'll start:
- Moderators (maybe exists already, i dont know)
- Subforums and Topics (better categorized and split like traditional forums)
- Stickies (posts that stay at the top of their forum/subforum)
- Private Messages
- More WYSIWYG in discussion form. (bold, italics, lists, etc...)
Thoughts?
Tagging random people to include: @phalcon @niden @WooDzu @sjinks
