SQLServerCentral Wish List
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Things I wish for on this forum :
A) Email addresses get obscured so that robots would not be able to scrape them. Currently they are plain as day in the html source. I was tempted to obscure it myself, but I like to get the newsletter.
B) From a users profile that I would see a link to that users articles, and scripts that they have written. Currently we can only see what they have recently posted on the boards.
C) Optional Public virtual briefcase, so that others can see what I like, and I can see what they like if the user wishes to share.
D) Way to add more than one item at a time to my briefcase. Often when persusing an authors aricles, I find several of their articles I like, yet adding them one at a time is slow.
E) Way to volunteer services. I would like to volunteer to help with ASP / COM / VB. I can sleep when I die.
F) Way to post using HTML. This can get encoded, but it would be nice to be able to post in HTML format as well.
Tim C.
//Will write code for food
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sounds good for me, especially point B.
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Nice suggestions and I'll tackle a few of them.
A. Emails - Good point. In fact, I tend to agree and this probably wouldn't be that hard. We use the free snitz forum code, so I'd have to look into that. We're considering the Snitz Upgrade (when we get time), so I'll look at obscuring the user emails as well.
B. Same, we can probably do this easily, though the authors are also members, which are separate systems. We added to authors part as a side to the Snitz code.
C. Since we did the breifcase, this could probably be done as well.
D. That could be tough. I guess we could add a checkbox to all the links on the authors' pages or maybe a redirect back to the page you were at after adding. Something to think about.
E. If you want to help, I'd appreciate if you picked the things you don't like, get a copy of the Snitz code and suggest some code improvements. We added a lot of code to this site and we've in a quandry about whether the code should be given away or licensed. We're looking at hosting other sites, so it's a debate we have. I'll bring this up to see if we want to give away code for help. We definitely appreciate the offer as we're slammed and are having trouble even getting the server upgraded.
F. Security item in snitz. It whacks all < % % > type code to prevent things from being embedded. That's why the buttons above allow for lists, bold and a few other HTML items. Specific items like are replaced with <b> when the insert occurs in the database.
Steve Jones
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For (A) Steve feel free to use : http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/723.asp if it helps. I would move the javascript into a js, and use it at your leisure. As far as the help, I would sign an NDA, and or anything else to make you guys feel comfortable about my working on your modified version of the snitz code. As far as (F) I am sure that it could be circumvented by HTMLEncoding the users input before handing it off to snitz. That would keep snitz from killing off all the lt's and gt's, I am not suggesting forgoe security, just modify it somewhat so that HTML could be posted. Making sure to protect against Javascript injection attacks. Same idea as SQL injection attacks, and just as dangerous.
Tim C.
//Will write code for food
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One thing I would like is to have a 'Reply to posting'-functionality, so that you can show which individual post in a thread you are replying to. Not a big thing, but if it exists in this upgrade it would be great.
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Chris Hedgate @ Apptus Technologies (http://www.apptus.se)
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On a personalization note, it might be nice to be able to specify which forums you would like to see displayed in the Active Threads section. That way, if I didn't want to participate in the Replication forums, for instance, I could choose to not see active threads for that forum...
Just a thought,
Jay
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Good suggestions. We'll start looking at some of these.
Steve Jones
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