Planned Champ Features (April 2020)

Hope every one is safe and self-isolating at home right now!

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 - May to release
• More moderator controls for users (eg. points) - TBD
• Update Sitemap with user profiles - TBD

Completed:

• Select your own custom timezone under Settings
• Added a Liquid variable current_page to help with Liquid logic in your custom snippets
• Display user avatars in topics list view
• Security upgrades
• Added post-reply append snippet option
• Moderator badge
• Fixed issue with GDPR data page
• @-mention notifications

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/15474-planned-champ-features-march-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.

Added custom timezone selection! :-)

You can now display which user started a topic (thread). Enable this by going to Settings > Display user avatars in topics list view.

Hey hey!

Excellent work with everything thus far.

My current request is for more options when posting/replying such as:

Images uploads/embeds
Bullet point lists
Italics/Bold/Font stylings
Increased functionality with @user function (users mentioned get notified, etc..)

Thanks for your service and efforts!

Hi @alansanchez

For uploads, please refer to https://getchamp.net/guides/user-uploads: https://getchamp.net/guides/forum-notifications/

For formatting posts, please refer to https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet. Formatting is done via Markdown in order to act as a layer of security (against users from entering bad or malicious input).

I've sent you a more detailed email, let me know if you have any questions :-)

Cheers!

Hi Support

This Formatting posts is very cool
Is it available to us to be added automatically from the Champ app sttings as an info tooltip or should we do it ourselves?

Thank you
Brett

Hi @brett,

Just realized I never explained this feature 🤦‍♂️

I've added a new snippet that you can add to your theme's snippet folder. Just name it as champ-reply-box-append.

For instance, my code looks something like this:

<p>
  <a class="btn btn-primary" data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseExample" role="button" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseExample">
    How to format post
  </a>
</p>
<div class="collapse" id="collapseExample">
  <div class="card card-body">
    // Your instructions here
  </div>
</div>

That should do the trick. Let me know!

It worked perfectly
Thanks a lot

Moderator label has been added whenever a post or topic is created by a moderator.

Fixed issue with GDPR data page in the dashboard.

@-mention notifications are now active. I've had to add this functionality before finishing work on the private messaging area, as it became clear that without email notifications here the private message area wouldn't really make sense.

To activate this, head to Settings (in the app's dashboard) and under notifications you should see an option to enable @-mention notifications and to customize the email template that goes along with this.

Mention notifications are more frequent than the regular notifications. They're sent every 30 minutes (as opposed to every 2 hours for the regular notifications). This is because @-mentions are assumed to be more relevant.

The system for @-mention will (currently) work for posts only (such as the one you're reading right now). Private messages don't yet work -- this will work when I begin to roll out the updates for the private messaging section. Again, this was done in this order to ensure the groundwork was already in place.

As always with any new feature, let me know of any bugs.