Donkerrood

On 3 Jan 2016 at 5:27 PM, bradl said:

I've found images are really, really important to folks and they often see them as integral to the conversation  rather than as standalone gallery items per se. It takes some forethought and extra steps to think, "well first I'll post this into to a gallery album so I can reference it and then go back to the chit-chat forum and embed the image that goes with the story I want to tell so we can talk about it."

I suspect the difference may be the subtle difference between a comment and a reply.  You can certainly have a discussion in comments, but forums are set up and people are conditioned to use them as the meeting place, while galleries tend to have more of a museum or portfolio quality.  In the gallery people tend to interact with the image and the poster, while in the forum people interact with everyone else in addition to the image and the poster.

I would like to see increased visibility across image sources, although I don't personally see the need to specifically integrate attachments into the gallery (although that's certainly one way to accomplish it). I would be happy to simply see per-user image results aggregated in a "show content" view from their profile, honoring whatever permissions exist for wherever the content came from. 

I've just installed the gallery app to see how this could work out for my forums. I have a lot of topics that are 'what did you eat today' or 'show your new purchases' in which members post pictures. Asking them to first upload that to a gallery, then go back to the topic and insert it as an image is just too much hassle if you look at it from a user perspective. Of course as admins, we would want them to do that, but reality is that people are used to post image links or just add a photo from their smart phone and dump it in a topic.

I would really like to be able to curate this content (even have a setting that would allow me to download images from external links and add them to my own media database). For instance to be able to display a masonry grid with all images posted in the forum. Showing off this content is a great visual and appealing way to show off forum content, which may then again drive visitors etc.

I am not sure whether the gallery app in its current form is the way to go for me (at least, I do not see the use case), now that the forum topics are really used as the content container.

I think this is a great topic, looking forward to hear your views on gallery / image content curation and the forum software.

Bought it yesterday. I'm not getting images on the frontpage widget, while they are showing in the forum view. What can be wrong here?

Furthermore, I was wondering whether it would be possible to search an entire topic for images, not just the first post. Would that be possible?

Finally, when I want to show only featured topics in the widget, it does just show the latest topics, regardless whether they are featured or not. 

Am I doing something wrong or are these just things that need to be fixed?

Thanks!

Thanks :D

As far I understand the auth_key is always 880ea6a14ea49e853634fbdc5015a024 for guests.

Can someone from IPS confirm this?

You can already give Adsense login credentials for your forum to account for forums that can't be accessed by a guest.

4.0 will also allow you to restrict where ads show, which can be used to disable ads in non-guest forums if you prefer.

I tried it in all possible ways I could think of, but apparently AdSense is not able to crawl those pages (or I'm doing something wrong - most probable). Any how-to would be really appreciated!

Thanks!

Bumping this topic to check whether anything like this will be included in the 4.0 Suite (A)

You might be aware of this already, but it is a request that would be highly appreciated by myself and I think by the rest of the community as well.

On my forums, I have specific forums which are not accessible for guests and also not for the google search crawler, because I prefer this forums not to be searchable through google.

However, it would be great if we could set separate access (f.i. as a separate user group) for the AdSense crawler, because irrespective of whether you can google these private forums, I want the ads on these forums to be as relevant as possible. The login feature of the adsense crawler doesn't work with IPB, as far as I know.

Please IPS, could you include code that recognizes the AdSense crawler and assign it to a specific user group? Thanks!

I have the issue that once you have manually switched skins, the auto-detect doesn't work anymore and there is no way to fix that (or at least I haven't found that way :) )

What I would like as a setting is to show the topics in which a user has posted in the last x hours (on clicking the View New Content tab)
This would boil down to something similar to this (in wwwadminapplicationsforumsextensionssearchPlugin.php)

/* Generate last post times */

if ( ! $this->memberData['bw_vnc_type'] )

{

	$cutoff_time = 48*60*60; // hours x minutes x seconds

	$where[] = "t.last_post > " . time() - $cutoff_time;

}

Would that be possible to include for default (as I do not prefer to have modifications - for upgrading reasons)?

On our forums We have scaled the recently added posts down to a one-line per topic list, based on this
SELECT required_info FROM topics ORDER BY last_post DESC LIMIT 0,10
and a check whether the topic is visible to the user or not.

That's it, we do not include user info, but only the time of the post and the topic title..

File Name: [pieterh] Personal Portal Interests Tab
File Submitter: DDH
File Submitted: 25 Dec 2006
File Category: Components

This component will add an interest tab to your personal portal. It also has the possibility to show bbcode, smilies and html, entered in the interests-field.

Installation instructions are included in a .txt file. With some common sense, it shouldn't be that difficult :)

I hope you like it. If anything :thumbdown: comes up, let me know.

[Edit January 2nd 2007]
Screenshot added.

Click here to download this file

Instead of having a banned usergroup, perhaps just have a menu in the ACP/MCP to ban a user and enter why they are banned. They will then see the message showing why they are banned when they try to visit the board.