Ideas contributions

Vote counts

Posted in Photo competitions on October 3, 2015, 9:04 am

Show the vote counts against the winning photo in the competition page.

Achievements

Posted in General on June 17, 2015, 3:30 pm

Some fun little goals to achieve across the site, such as:

Lonely: post on a Friday night
Selfish: Try to "like" one of your own posts
Lots of free time: x forum posts in y days
Cartographer: x contributions to Locations
Fat controller x contributions to Locos
Blue-sky thinker: x contributions to the Ideas module

Personalised news feed RSS

Posted in News on May 13, 2015, 8:51 am

Where a user has a news feed filter applied, offer that news feed in RSS format for the user (perhaps at /user/[id]/feed.xml). This would be a public feed allowing RSS readers such as Feedly to tap in.

Post reputation

Posted in Forums on January 27, 2015, 1:09 pm

Implement a per-post reputation system, similar to the one used on IPBoard forums such as rmweb.co.uk

Posts could be liked, flagged as informative/funny/friendly/thanks or any other number of fields. This can help build the reputation of a user and help summarise a forum thread.

Personalised news feed

Posted in News on October 13, 2014, 3:40 pm

Provide a personalised news feed to users, with the ability to filter by topic(s) and keyword(s).

API documentation

Posted in API on September 8, 2014, 9:51 pm

Fuller API documentation needs to be created and published, to allow third party use of our data.

Enable users to suggest entries to the Glossary

Posted in Glossary and Help on August 5, 2014, 6:09 pm

Registered users should be able to suggest entries for the glossary, which will be added to a queue for site staff to review.

No ads for donators

Posted in General on August 5, 2014, 12:32 pm

Registered users who've donated to Railpage in the last x months, as a thankyou, have ads turned off.

Confirmation when raising the dead

Posted in Forums on August 5, 2014, 10:01 am

Prompt users to confirm that they wish to submit their reply when the last post in that thread is more than (eg) six months old.

Friend or Foe

Posted in Forums on August 5, 2014, 9:36 am

Ability for users to prevent posts from other users displaying in forum threads, as per their own preferences.