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Community Like, or not?

in the "what we need!" post i read somewhere about a more 21st century like userprofile and community like behaviour of the user part of cotonti.

since in the old forums and here a lot of ppl are asking about more reliable and complex functions for the users i was wondering why nobody made a whole solution out of this.
so iam re-doing the usergal, with more community and share features, i was thinking why not doing the user thing and contribute a byte more to cotonti. ;)

so why this post.
since iam not in every community around the web active i wanted to ask you folks what would be the prefered functions or possibilities i could programm into such a community plugin?


iam open to ANY suggestion. first we collect and later we sort out!


some ideas i was playing in my mind with :

- comments
- ratings
- email & pm functions
- buddy lists
- usergal - slideshow
- usergal - last images
- usergal - mp3player solution (with single and multiple files support)
- usergal - videoplayer solution ( " )
- badges (or more like a point system to do something, or a award system)
- user can change content of his/hers userprofile
- user can skin his profile with css (maybe not a good idea but worth thinking 'bout it)
- traking of buddys (buddy wrote something in forums/pages -> you see it first)
- creating usergroups (public/membership/invite function)
- layout of profile is user selectable ( 3 rows | 2 rows | tabs | etc. )

i would do mine as well as i want to have some functions implemented for the usergal.
as you may know it already supports most flickr, myspace etc things like slideshows, user mp3player and such.

i simply wanted to make it more "fitting" as afterwards inserted in something existing different...

nice idea, already had this code on my desk the last days...

is the social groups different from normal groups?
i mean normal groups with things like invite users, request invitations, public, with password etc...
and with combination with usergal it could be handled like a user that can create own gallerys slideshows mp3player etc...

wont fix anything in the current releases.
will final the current on-work version and air it in the next days.

then i'll do most likly a half/half recode of the core of the usergal and explement a few things like the bbcode functions and rebuild the slideshow. this should do the trick.

not sure when i have a version ready for release but i think it could be done until august.
have some weeks holiday there.

about the gather/friendster/etc... as i said i don't have all everywhere accounts and i prefer not to register on every site. so i wanted to know which functions that comunitys offers that may be easy integrated. so maybe a more descriptive suggestion?

yeah seems like the right thing.
i wanted to make it a bit more complex ;)

around august i think

currently wokring on the plugin.

trying to have different parts that can be disabled/enabled like a small plugin framework.