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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 2030295" data-attributes="member: 87">That's next weekend's product.  Here's a full list of things to do / fix.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fix the navbar breadcrumbs so that they can be used to navigate back up the line.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Open product, productline, and publisher posting as well as the associated editting features</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Set the 500 min word lock on reviews.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Paginate large publisher entries</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Paginate large product line entries</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Automate notices of reviews postings in main news body (though that goes hand in hand with a revision of the news pages)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alter user profiles to list recent and all reviews of a poster - not just the staff posters.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Display user review counts in addition to post counts.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Write an admin tool to associate old reviews with a new account.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Write an admin tool to recalculate all review scores (actually, I have one - but it needs to be more fully integrated).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Write an admin tool to locate and delete orphan posts in the reviews system - mostly comments without reviews, reviews without products (unlikely since products are threads and vbulletin will prevent that problem on its own), products without publishers and productlines without publishers.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Allow publisher access to their interface panels.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Integrate product links with the links system so that links associated with products are displayed under both setups.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Allow publishers to upload company logos, product logos, product line logos, and up to 10 product images.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Configure reviews system to display product images within the body of any review to break up the large blocks of text.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Display ENnies award medals beside their winners within the product postbit as appropriate.</li> </ul>Longer term plans. (Subject to change)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Custom Ad System<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Publishers would access their ads from the same interface used for their reviews profile.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Publishers would purchase ad exposures from the same interface and could assign those exposures to specific products or reassign them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Publishers would be able to set limits to how often an ad is exposed to a user overall, or per session.  Such limits wouldn't apply to staff, but exposures to ENWorld staff would not be counted towards the purchased exposures.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Community supporters would be able to weight the ads they see towards their interests. This wouldn't stop them from seeing ads irrelevant to their interests, but it would help it along.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Reviews would link over to preview downloads available in the upload section.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Publishers would be able to upload preview items and, if desired, limit them to community supporters.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The noticing of new reviews would be automated on the news page.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I want (don't know if Russ will let me) make some significant changes to the news page to make it more fluid and centralized.</li> </ul>Oh, and Gamers seeking Gamers will get a major upgrade.</blockquote>

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