Young Composers Roadmap - August 2006 Onwards

Nice new avatar
DO you think there is any way to put a count-down timer on the flood control page? I hate having to stare blankly at the screen and count to 10

bwahahhaha!! I never count and end up getting the warning like 5 times before it posts.

i just keep pressing enter until it goes...

Those previews look fairly sexy. I would say stick with brown, 'umber in aeternum' (that probably means "Umbrellas Forever!" or "Little Eclipse Shadow Thingie For Always!"). I've always thought of old manuscript paper or vellum, when I've come here. Mmmm....vellum. Perhaps that's what the scheme could be called. Beats 'Brown'.

I've actually implemented Hillary's request about the countdown for flood control, but I can't get it to work in one specific circumstance: when you add a reply using Quick Reply and it shows the flood control error message above the quick reply box without refreshing the page (vB's quick reply is AJAX-powered). Might be able to find a workaround for this, but it's more likely that the countdown will simply not exist in this context. It'll exist when you do searches and stuff, though.

Many thanks.


Will the new software have one of those personal notepads in the user CPs? Those things are nifty.
And about PMs, will you still have some form of exporter?

Will the new software have one of those personal notepads in the user CPs? Those things are nifty.

Doesn't seem like it, but there's always Wordpad isn't there?

And about PMs, will you still have some form of exporter?

vB's PM export capabilities are vastly superior to IPB, so yes, there will still be an exporter (several different kinds in fact), but the old pms_html script won't be required anymore.

Doesn't seem like it, but there's always Wordpad isn't there

But I can't access a Wordpad file on my desktop from a school or work computer


Moving on...

Phase 1 complete!

Well, pretty much. There were a few teething problems, as expected, the most significant of which apparently being that virtually all users had their PM system disabled by default. I believe I've now rectified this, and have also enabled PM email notification and popup by default for all users. Note that in order for the popup to work, you may need to alter any popup-blocking functionality in your browser to allow popups from www.youngcomposers.com. Rest assured that doing this is entirely safe as we will never show you popup advertisements.

In addition, all users with 20 or more posts have access to the new pager functionality. Go to a member profile and click "Send a pager message to <user>". Your message will pop up on their screen in quasi real time (doesn't require them to refresh the page).

The software conversion was probably the hardest part of the roadmap, but it's now complete, and apparently a success. Coming next will probably be the social networking software, and a little before that some fancy URLs for the forum.

The friendly URLs are now up and running. These should drastically increase our rankings in search engines, which in turn should increase the number of people who visit YC, which in turn should help the community to grow.

Not a lot else to say, really, apart from mentioning that there probably won't be any scope for anyone saying "I don't like the formatting you chose for this URL", because it'll likely have been finalised. Stuff needs to remain constant in order to keep search engines happy.

"Site-wide authentication - hopefully, one account signup will grant member access to the whole site"

This is accomplished, no?