ChocoJournal: What would you like? (New Edition)
 

I've been out of the loop for a bit so I haven't been able to actively keep up on what the community wants to have on ChocoJournal but I was wondering what you wanted to see added or changed?

I have heard a bit of demand for an "exclusively private" journal entry feature, where you just write for yourself. Something to the effect of Xanga's "Public, Protected, Private" options. I can see this potentially coming in handy.

Just thinking about it, it'd be kind of nice to have a WYSIWYG editor (like if you were making a post) and proper link parsing.

Increased character limit for what we rename our comments to. I've wanted to put something in there that's like one or two letters too long so many times. =(

I was going to post the exact same thing.

Posted this in the Bugs/Features thread a few days ago, so I'll just paste it here:

Also, being able to use the mp3 tags in the "now playing" section would be totally rad. (Stolen idea from Enceph)

This is more of a bug that hasn't been fixed yet. Nothing serious but it does bug me a bit each time I see it:

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/jo...iew&userid=297

Links in journal banners.

EDIT: With more thought, the ability to do limited bbcode would be nice. The ability to make your banner image a link, or to do some text effects with your message. Nothing too crazy, but being able to do italics or bold or different fonts.

It would be nice to not only know how many new comments there are, but on what entry. Not all replies come on the latest entry.

What are MP3 Tags?

Get the Flash Player to play this audio file:
http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/te...w-feature.html

I don't think we have this, but then again I haven't looked recently. I think that it would be cool to have a feature that shows you who has been reading your journal over the past day, week, month, total. Is it possible to get the views sorted individually like that?

I would like the "mood" character limit to be higher, as I prefer to put both a descriptive word and a smilie.

I CONCUR.

Seriously, I fucking hate making CJ entries with any vB code whatsoever, because it's such a hassle to type up (or copy from a real post box to CJ).

I was just going to make a CJ entry about this too. Strange. as if anyone would've read it anyway...

I don't use ChocoJournal that much, but I think it would only be reasonable to have the "pretty" URL look from the forums extend to journal entries, so they get indexed better by search engines.

For example, have

http: //www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal.php?action=view&userid=???

become

http: //www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal/(username-id)/(journalentry-id)/

I think this would also be very handy for giving out links to friends and so on. As it happens, the journal.php? query is very cryptic and not very "pretty" to look at.

Then again, I think this might be too complicated to implement (all with the redirection and .htaccess stuff), but some knowledgeable people (sup Blah) might take a look at this and see what they think of the suggestion.

Ideally, it would be a combination of username and ID. But I see how username changes would be problematic with these URLs ...

I still think it would be awesome as it would make journals and entries so much more ... accessible. Especially if www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal/ would also redirect to the ChocoJournal "starting" page.

The last time I asked for this a ton of people threw a shitfit and were just telling me to code it right and not be so lazy.

CAN OPEN! WORMS EVERY-FUCKING-WHERE!

I'd say having a full WYSIWYG editor when you press the preview button would be a good idea. Then again, it already goes to a separate page already when making new entries.

Fuck it, I'd like a full WYSIWYG editor as well. Or at least an option to enable it.


We should have public, private, and personal entry levels as well. Some people would like to use chocojournal as their own personal diary. Why stop them? If they want thoughts from the public or people on their friends list then they'll set it accordingly.

Polls in chocojournals wouldn't be a bad thing either.

Hey guys who's your favorite character?
o Mario
o Sonic
o Kirby
o Spyro
o Boogerman

Why not? Polls would be a fun feature to have.

More like Giant Beans......<3

Love you, Ceph......

Anyway, I agree with the 3 types of journal entries, since some private entires you don't want anyone to see. Or if a choice can be made on the private entry:
Allow Buddies to read?
Yes
No

And, knowing which entries were commented on is a GREAT idea--I forget who mentioned it. Although I don't have many entries, I'm pretty sure someone going to their journal and seeing "5 new comments since your last visit" and finding out they're on entries on page 10 is a drag.

So I just made a public entry after a private entry, and my public entry was merged INTO my private entry because it was made within the same hour. Can we have it sorted out so that we can make an entry of each kind within an hour and NOT have them merge?

Ooh, that is bad. So does it make it a private or a public entry after being merged? I'm guessing it turns into whatever it was set to in the newest entry which could be very bad.

Now that I think about it, why don't we just merge all of LiveJournal's features into the CJ system?

Seriously now, I used to have fun posting at LJ when I had creativity.