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Miles Posts: 128	17/05/2006 16:00 pm
	To aid development of this forum, I'd like to know what people think are the essential features a forum should have and what other features are important. I can then build up some kind of list to work through to add various features. For example, if enough people think sub forums are a good thing, then I can include it as a feature. Obviously, features like user profiles, editing posts and basic things like that don't need to be mentioned. As an example, I'll start off with what I think is important: "Subscribe to this thread" option RSS feeds Security Quick, easy and yet robot-proof registration bbCode with simple text editor Search function Things that other forum systems have that I don't think are necessary: Friends system Complicated registration Who's viewing a specific thread (vBulletin) Thread ratings

Glacial.Phoenix Posts: 1	20/05/2006 05:18 am
	Hmm... I would suggest a private messaging system. It would take hardly no time at all to construct and it would make MonoForum more interactive. Lastly, I'm mentioning user profiles! They need to be completed! Lmao. A complete necessity.

Ryan Posts: 26	20/05/2006 16:40 pm
	Sub forums are good.

Miles Posts: 128	21/05/2006 11:37 am
	Yeah, I think private messaging is pretty essential, so I'll make that a priority! But of course user profiles will be completed first :p

Ryan Posts: 26	21/05/2006 13:28 pm
	Admin, moderators are important.

Miles Posts: 128	21/05/2006 16:49 pm
	Yep, agreed, those need to be standard too.

Ryan Posts: 26	22/05/2006 16:39 pm
	Free shower towels!

Miles Posts: 128	22/05/2006 19:08 pm
	Not sure how I'd go about giving those out! Any idea?

Martin Posts: 5	26/01/2008 22:51 pm
	Hi Miles, I just stumbled across this topic. Is this forum soft done by you? Looks great. My humble suggestion is: make it A REAL ALTERNATIVE to phpBB. Don't try to compete with phpBB! Is it flat files based? If so, great! Keep it lighweight - just the most needed. Do you give it for testing? If so, it will be a pleasure for me to have a detailed look at it and give you my feedback ... :-) Cheers

Miles Posts: 128	27/01/2008 01:01 am
	Thanks for your comments Martin. Yes, it's mine, although very much a work-in-progress which I don't get to work on very much! I do like its simplicity over alternatives and would definitely like to keep it that way. It isn't flat files based because it would probably be too slow if it got a lot of traffic but it is lightweight. I concentrate on code efficiency and core functionality. A forum is for discussion, not for trying to filter out features you don't need/want and having to wait longer for pages to load because of it! I'm sure you must find it fast in using it! I'm sorry I don't have plans to give it for testing just yet, but maybe when the finished set of features is finished -- not many more to go now.

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