The Wish List NewOrderOnline v5.0

El Jarvo wrote: Get rid of all the gayspace stuff like 'friends' and PM's. I really don't see the point.

Also, delete posts longer than, say, a year. I really don't understand how anyone's age-old thoughts on the subjects of New Order, or otherwise, can be of benefit to anyone long-term. In fact, I find it rather creepy.

The PM is for people cloaking their email address.... but the next version should have email notifications.

I admit the friend thing is very bad... slow day that way :(

Not like NOOL is facebook :p

Ok I have read most of the things posted here and did a small list.

I understand the privacy issue, but there is a simple way to "block" google to access the forum... but obviously when I do that, it stops us from using Google to SEARCH NOOL itself... which is the big point behind that.

I know for sure *I* do searches myself to find old information from time to time, I gave up on the internal search function a long time ago due to that.

Personally I don't mind old threads, I kind of hate the idea of losing all of them due to the fact that it's, well, some kind of "history"...

But then again, I will check on Google if I can make sure no thread older than x days get indexed.

Here are a few things I noted:

• I want to make the profile page looking like a myspace/facebook profile... by that I mean it will have your "history", where all the threads you have started are visible (well, last ones obviously) and eventually gig you were, and other interestings things. I will try to make it customizable, and obviously it can be cloaked for privacy.
• Search in forum... will try to do one that works and doesn't take forever to load
• Filter to see only the thread you participated into
• Gig Indicator... as I said, in profile you'll have your gig count... (if you want to, obviously)
• Ignore function - obviously not a rush, but I've been asked this for ages
• Better member browsing system...
• A purge of the old members with a reminder that their account will be deleted (though to be honest, I hate this because it's my newsletter database, but I can deactivate their account so they don't appear in the member browser though)
• Online/Offline indicator
• Enhance the forum with a few feature people wrote... I heard you.
• Allow member photos submissions

Due to the lack of upcoming events, I might add some kind of "community events", so people wanting to advertise get togethers, or re order gigs, stuff like that, can... mostly it's simply allow people to enter "upcoming events" with some kind of validation system.

And obviously, I want to give some people more "power" over the content of this website..

v5 will be a major upgrade since we're moving from .NET 1.1 to 2.0 (and even possibly 3.5), so don't expect to see everything moved at first... so many features might not be back for a while once we do the switch... obviously the news/forum system are the "must be there" items.

Since many people seem to be using the chatroom (which is totally independant from nool, so I have no control over it), maybe it would be a good idea to take a bit of the money the ads are getting us to buy the commercial version... I will look into that.

But that's something else... NOOL *might* suffer from less ad revenues due to the lack of New Order activity, hopefuly this won't cause any problem, but we'll see how it goes... I'm happy the site is self-sufficient, but we will need to reopen the shop at some point.