(Sorry, I just said that in a conversation regarding alliances and my past experiences with them, and I wanted to write it down so I didn't forget saying it…)
First of all, I have completed yesterday's image update, adding another nearly 700 images to the site, including a lot of cool stuff… BME, especially BME/HARD has been what I'd consider a “guy's magazine” (in that it was mostly pictures of guys), and when it came to multi-person play, a gay magazine. To my surprise, it's starting to swing the other way — an incredible number of heterosexual submissions as well as submissions from women are starting to come in. I'm going to write some bots when I get a chance to track how many submissions of what type are coming in… sort of a “bodmod trendtracker” for lack of a better term. I'm sure it will be interesting…
Anyway, we've been talking about “dream features” all day in the forum, so I thought now would be a good time to show you my current to-do list for IAM features (this is just partial, and leaves out the little housecleaning type stuff). Those of you who recommended the following, you know who you are — thank you:
- Add (#) in IAM.alive when you have more than one message from that user — ie. glider (3) or something like that
- Add nesting to iam.code (ie. {function {function}} etc.)
- If color is set to +, then make it transparent (allowing one to underlay backgrounds across multiple page elements)
- Add complaints / TOS violation reporter to forum delete dialog and to IM viewer and main page
- Add “more…” button to pages so people can quick-add to buddy list, etc. (optional; via user settings)
- Undelete forum messages by the person who deleted it and/or forum owner
- Bring back invisible mode
- Solidify fget/fset in iam.code
- Make it so (aborted) message doesn't happen when you visit a buddy's page
- Make sure FORUMS OVERVIEW list can't access banned forums
- IM icon is not affected by Events Broadcasting (needs to increment counter)
- Top forums list (hmmm….)
- Buddy list renaming and sorting
- Delete confirmation for iam.alive buddies
- IM Buddy list should show when page was last updated
- IM Buddy list should show when offline members were last online
- Forum index buttons at top AND bottom
- View forum posts in reverse order (user settings)
- Turn on custom layout
- PIXFULL should work for more than one picture
- Increase size of ban lists (forms must be fixed)
- Ability to add comment forums later
- Edit names of sections in Mod-Tracker
- Integrate MPEG support
- Integrate BME submissions engine
- Show favorite forums as drop-down menu
- Include forum owner name in favorite forums list, and/or give the option of renaming them (management menu perhaps)
- IM broadcast to everyone in your buddy list
- IM broadcast via comma'd list
- Email submission of diary entries (from PDAs, cell phones, etc.)
- Do something a little better than xxxxxxx for deleted users
- Clear IM buddy list on add so people don't get dummy lists
- Add flags to Person type (so personals-esque searching is fast and easy)
- Reset button on layout options
- Ability to embed polls into diary entries
- Create TOS panel option
- Bring back option of non-archiving forums
- Allow users to look at their own log files (logins, postings, etc.)
- Search engines of all sorts (hmmm…)
The above has some obvious omissions… I'm trying to get IAM to the point where I'm happy with it as a “version 1.0″ level product. When that's done, I'm going to start making it so I can compile variations on it for potential licensing, as well as writing real documentation for it… After all, if I can do some sales on the IAM software (although I'd likely force them to let me host it for simplification of tech support), then this place can stay as free as possible.
As a few of you know, the new BMEshop software is a part of the IAM engine as well, so expect unbelievably creepygood service that only a Big Brother-esque entity could offer you. That said, you know my policy on “full disclosure” — as I am developing the BMEshop software, I'm setting it up so you can always look at your own log files, and know exactly what we know about you. In addition, you'll be able to delete anything you'd like from OUR logs, with the exception of the minimum amount of data we need for tax filing of course (how many companies let you do that?)… So… Yes, it will know a lot and will do a lot with it, but it will be with your consent (and it will stay in-house — no selling your data or anyhting like that). I'll talk more about that in detail in about a week.
Now… For tonight at least, as they say in the movies… “I'm done, stick a fork in me, it's been grand. This is Happy Harry Hard-on saying sayonara, over and out.”
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