Areas to Expand

[joshheinrichs]

Won't have time to implement any of these, but I think they would be valuable features on the website end if the project were to continue:

• Expandability
  • Lazy loading of posts (currently just loads all of them)
  • Channel search queries database (currently just loads all channels and filters)
  • Refactoring to increase local performance
    • Some code could have reductions in complexity if more time was invested O(n^2) -> O(nlog(n))
  • Switch to NoSQL for request speedup? I don't think transactions into the database need to follow ACID
• New Features
  • Routing to allow permalinking of posts
  • Adding view and comment counts to post summaries for sorting feed
  • Some sort of "popularity" algorithm for sorting feed
  • More complicated comment system
    • Replies
    • Votes?
  • User profiles (user icon, friends/following, post history)

  • Use of HTML5 location, camera, audio for posting off of website?

• Improvements
  • Security
    • Proper server side flow for google-login verification
    • Encryption of posts in private channels?
    • Use of prepared statements in all PHP to prevent SQL injection
  • Better error handling
  • High DPI thumbnail support
  • Better time filtering
    • Selected date range for every year
    • Text input for date range
    • Range slider (like the current sliders but start and end dates would be on one bar)
  • Spiderfy for allowing access to overlapping posts
  • Better channel selection UI
    • Communicate "All" and "Subscribed" effects more clearly
    • Make selected channels always show up somewhere (currently selected channels which are not subscribed to only appear in search, and so can be invisible to the user but still selected)
  • Give users ability to delete their own posts and comments
    • Currently this permission is only given to mods, channel owners, and admins
  • Customize moderator's and viewer's available actions (some channels may want posters to be able to delete comments, or disable comments completely) on a channel by channel bases
  • Fix dialog box centering and size issues
  • Restructure database to allow for
    • Channels and fields with spaces in their names
    • Any number of any fields (form-less channels)