Hi! I've been poking around at ForumSpark's features, and I've been really impressed so far. There are a few features that I haven't seen, though, that I think could help FS cater to the rpc and get more traffic from that direction.
One is enabling CSS and HTML in posts. The rpc is big on using in-thread templates for a lot of things. Making their posts look like phones when characters are texting each other, for example, or tabbed templates for threads where multiple characters are being listed as part of a group. These templates are freely available in roleplay hubs, but do require the on-site coding to work. Guests usually don't use templates, so restricting this feature to logged-in members would work.
Profile apps are also super popular. Basically, a character's information is put into custom profile fields that are then displayed on the main profile (and sometimes repeated on the miniprofile as well). They require multiparagraph input for things like a character's personality and history. Allowing long text boxes, and easy paragraph breaks, would be a huge boon. The main catch for this, I think, is that custom profile fields are currently set up to only display on the miniprofile instead of the main profile (if I understand the documentation correctly). Obviously, Jcink runs on different software, but they have a pretty straightforward way of doing it: a custom profile field can be displayed anywhere on the site where "<!-- |field_1| -->" is inserted, with the number 1 changing to match the field's sort order in the admin panel.
The last is webpage length. Currently it's capped at 60,000 characters. Which, to be fair, is a lot! However, that's too short for character rosters that involve multiple lines of information and HTML. I tested a code I'd like to use on my site, and it only fit 28 characters. A larger roleplay site could have two or three times as many. Some of these rosters are designed with Javascript filters or effects, so I think it might be easier to allow longer webpages, than allow JS in posts?
Even if these aren't things you want to add, ForumSpark has been a lot of fun to play with and I look forward to seeing where it goes!
