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[Matthew.]

Ok so I'm thinking about creating a small forum this week, just one where people can download it...modify it...whatever they want like most forum scripts but this is going to be dramatically cut down. Bare bones stuff.

So instead of features you want to see, i want features you don't want to see.

Things i am currently leaving out:

• Template Engine (layout will be modifed by stylesheet to keep it simple)
  
• Calender
  
• Smilies (?)
  
• No essential bbcode (only code, quote and standard formatting)
  
• Heavy image based layout (mmm, minimalist simpleness ftw)
  
• Attachments (?)

So what don't you use?

[rc69]

You can't be without smilies. A forum without smilies is like PB&J with out the J.

What i typically don't use are:
- Rating system
- User B-days
- Top X Posters
- BBCode, all but b, i, u, img, url, code, and quote.
- For a PM system, i would just do have in, out, and sent boxs, nothing else.
- Profile wise:
-- All of those MSN/AIM/ICQ name things
-- Your occupation/interests
-- Options to see images in posts (good for 56k'ers though)
- The warning system, thats only good for really large forums (i.e. here)

The question is, how easy are you going to make it for mods/admins to do stuff?

[Matthew.]

rc69, on Dec 17 2006, 09:39 AM, said:

The question is, how easy are you going to make it for mods/admins to do stuff?

This is what i was thinking, i figure i'm going to have to have some way of adding them hethr that be through editing the code or a package manager like SMF.

To be honest i sat down to make a start yesterday and a i...well, i can't tellyou what i thought on this forum but needless to say i discovered i don't really have much interest in coding anymore heh.

We shall see what happens towards the en of the holiday, but this week I'm having a needed break lol.

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Options to see images in posts (good for 56k'ers though)

I'd prefer to keep that since the forum will be as light as possible Can't hurt to have an option to make it lighter lol.

Edited by matthewJ, 18 December 2006 - 01:48 PM.