Planned Champ Features (March 2020)

As usual, a monthly thread is created to keep our customers informed about what new features are coming up.

Upcoming:

• Improve user-to-user (private) messaging page - March --> April to release
• More moderator controls for users (eg. points) - TBD
• Update Sitemap with user profiles - TBD

Completed:

• Added user description
• Additional countermeasures implemented I cannot elaborate further, but system has been upgraded. :-)
• Layout customizations
• Security fixes
• Allow use of generic avatar image for un-customized user avatar
• Metadata added to Topic model
• Allow querying of metadata on Topic model
• Add target=_blank as part of markdown rendering

Deferred:

• Timestamps for private messages - TBD

Ongoing:

• Improve PageSpeed

Considering:

• Bulk updates to forums
• Push notifications
• Group (public) chatroom
• User level bookmarking
• Better user on-site notifications (eg. Facebook style) - TBD

Last month's thread: https://getchamp.myshopify.com/community/champ/forums/7-support/topics/13533-planned-champ-features-february-2020

If you have any ideas or suggestions, please add it below here. I ask that you create an account and log in if you post so that I can follow up with you directly if I have any questions or need clarification on suggestions.

Hi @champsupport

Could you please explain what the Timestamps for private messages - TBD is about exactly?

Thank you
Brett

Hi @champsupport

Could we add a Description field in the managed preference (profile) page?
I want my users to share a bit more about themselves

A standard textbox will do for me.

Thanks a lot
Brett

@brett The timestamp is to show when messages were sent.

For the other thing you requested, it’ll be added today.

Cheers

Updated -- Added. To enable, go to Settings > Enable user description

Markdown input is accepted. Styling can be handled by adding custom CSS with the class selector of champ-user-description.

Great news thank you

Great addition

What about adding the /users URL profiles in the generated sitemap also?
https://best-trading-indicator.com/community/bti/users/949677

So that the description content will get indexed for SEO

Thanks
Dave

@brett User inclusion into sitemap will be added as an optional setting.

You're a rockstar. Thank you thank you thank you

Additional spam mitigation measures were implemented today. This was an unexpected update to Champ, and so took more time than expected. You should notice less spam. As well, you can mark posts as spam (when you're logged in as a moderator).

Champ - Spammers : 1 - 0 for Champ !!

Thanks @brett :-)

Added layout customization as a feature yesterday. You can read about it here: https://getchamp.myshopify.com/community/champ/forums/7-support/topics/15948-new-feature-layout-customization

As well, today rolled out some security fixes.

Still unfinished is fixing the Recaptcha problem. The latest version of Chrome (browser) and Safari have seemed to broke this. Will post more once I have an update.

Next up -- I'll be working on:

• Allow use of generic avatar image for un-customized user avatar - March

Add custom un-customized user avatar. You can now upload a generic avatar (eg. your brand) for users who didn't upload a custom avatar.

Please have a look. This took a lot longer to release than expected, and required quite a bit of rewrite!

Thanks so much!!
Sorry, it took that long. If I knew, I wouldn't have asked.
Please let me know next time as this isn't a VIP feature :) (while being very cool)

That's being said, I have another one now...

I like to read some forum posts from my users, and then put them back as Unread - so that the dumb me will remember to deal with them later.
This has nothing to do with topic moderation.
It's just for me to have a way to remember what I have to answer to

Is that already possible?
If not, having it at the topic level would be grand!! :)

Thank you
Brett

Edit: it's a very stupid idea
I can do that using the tags... :) letting my comment here for two reasons
1/ reminder that I should think before asking something
2/ if someone come-up with a similar feature request - to be used as reference

@brett -- not a bad idea at all.

I think what you're looking at is having some way of book marking comments (at the individual user level). I think for users, this might be useful too (ie. non-admins who can't modify tags).

I've added it to my list -- and will put some thoughts into implementation.

I'm adding a todo to the list -- this is a personal one. I'd like to see a better way for notifications to show up -- sort of like how Facebook does it.

I understand and that's a good idea indeed

For me, as the forum admin, I've solved my problem adding a todo tag :)
https://best-trading-indicator.com/community/bti/tags?query=todo

Hi there

Can we, with the markdown syntax, open an URL in a new tab? (target=_blank)
I tried a few stuff found on the internet, but couldn't make it work

Source: https://www.mydigitaltoolbox.pro/blog/markdown-kramdown-link-new-tab/

Thank you
Brett

Added target=_blank to list. Cheers!

Link attribute for target is done. Please see release notes for details: https://getchamp.myshopify.com/community/champ/forums/7-support/topics/16096-new-feature-link-target-attribute/page/1#post-41295