What extensions would you like to see?

As someone who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript I'm interested in developing some extensions for ForumSpark. The question is, what types of extensions would you like to see?

That's a good question. In your case, you could look into what you've built already and convert it to FS.

I'd also like to see a shop and credit system since that's very popular to have.

Cedric said:

I'd also like to see a shop and credit system since that's very popular to have.

As far as I'm aware, that can only be done with an immense amount of AJAX using JavaScript alone unless there's some way the API allows you to store information for the user that I'm overlooking. If not, it will require server-side expertise.

Cory said:

Cedric said:

I'd also like to see a shop and credit system since that's very popular to have.

As far as I'm aware, that can only be done with an immense amount of AJAX using JavaScript alone unless there's some way the API allows you to store information for the user that I'm overlooking. If not, it will require server-side expertise.

Pretty sure @Jamie can answer this.

I can indeed answer this :)

Ultimately you need somewhere secure to store the shop related user data. If you did this frontend only, a user with enough knowledge would be able to manipulate their data.

I'd expect somebody implementing this to work with the Admin API and probably host the service externally. This way you can use webhooks to track activity. User's shop data is stored externally with no way for the user to give themselves credits. Even shop items could be automatic -> name changes, special icons in the name, custom user titles, access to particular groups etc.

All that to say, you can probably implement something on the frontend only but realistically a solution with a 'backend' would be better in my opinion.

I would like to see an extension that adds user agent icons (for browser and OS) in front of the person's username when viewing the Online User list, like what Jcink has.

That makes sense, Jamie and I figured it would require server-side expertise.

Bryn said:

I would like to see an extension that adds user agent icons (for browser and OS) in front of the person's username when viewing the Online User list, like what Jcink has.

I'm pretty sure this can only be done server-side because other users cannot know what browser and OS a user is using with client-side scripting.

Sorry to bump this topic, but does anyone have any ideas anymore?

Just a couple I think could be useful for RPGs that I've seen on other platforms:

• Dice roll system

• Random Events - You can pre-make events to randomly pop up in select forums. Maybe it comes up in a pop up screen so members can accept/reject. If accepted it could apply to the post the member was creating in its own box or it could create a new post in the thread the member was posting in. It would be cool to customize the percentage of each event happening so they're not too frequent.

A dice-rolling system is possible with JavaScript, but it's easy to cheat the system.

I don't fully comprehend your second idea.