Planned Champ Features (May 2020)

Hope every one is safe and doing well! Fingers crossed life gets back to normal in the next 1-2 months.

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

Completed:

• Added check box support to markdown
• Added editable check box support
• Improve user-to-user (private) messaging page
• More moderator controls for users (eg. points)
• Add colour support to Markdown

Upcoming:

• Update Sitemap with user profiles - TBD
• Add moderator badge to avatar - May
• Add upvote at the Topic level - June

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/16234-planned-champ-features-april-2020

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Hi Support

Would it be possible to add editable task lists (checkbox) in your markdown language?

Expected end result example: https://stripe.com/docs/radar/checklist

Markdown syntax example: https://github.blog/2014-04-28-task-lists-in-all-markdown-documents/

I don't need them to do any action. Just to be checked or unchecked

Thank you
Brett

Do you mean like this?

Example:

Solar System Exploration, 1950s – 1960s

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth (Orbit/Moon)
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Comet Haley

### Solar System Exploration, 1950s – 1960s

- [ ] Mercury
- [x] Venus
- [x] Earth (Orbit/Moon)
- [x] Mars
- [ ] Jupiter
- [ ] Saturn
- [ ] Uranus
- [ ] Neptune
- [ ] Comet Haley

Added check box support to markdown.

Here's the code:

- [x] This adds a checked box
- [ ] This adds an empty box

Result:

• This adds a checked box
• This adds an empty box

That was faster than I could expect :)
Thanks a lot

Hi Support

Could we make those checkboxes editable/checkable for the users.
Not a post creation time, but on the page after.

I made a tutorial with different steps in the forum. And I want my users to check each validated step.
I don't need those checkboxes (checked/unchecked) to be store in a database, just to be checkable

• for instance I can't check this one

2/ another idea

When I:

• update a post
• then realized that I made a mistake and update it a few minutes after

The users will receive 2 notifications. Is there any way to make it to 1 notification
Let's say, we give a 30 minutes window per post edit, and no matter how many times we edit this post within this window, the users will receive only 1 notification

Thank you

@brettpicard

You can make the checkboxes editable by using the curly braces. They won't be persisted to the database.

• This adds a checked box
• This adds an empty box

- {x} This adds a checked box
- { } This adds an empty box

In regards to your other question, notifications should be grouped together already. What happens is that the system periodically checks for pending notifications. If your edits happen to overlap between the times when these periodic checks occur, then yes -- the user will receive two notifications. If not, they should already be grouped.

If this isn't the behaviour you're noticing, do let me know via support@getchamp.net and send me the user email that received the double notifications so I can find it in the audit logs.

1) Thank you so much for the checkboxes, this is now perfect
2) I'll send you an email

Hi Support

Is there a way to color some text with your markdown?
Same as we would do in HTML

Here is a possible syntax
[color=red]My text is red[color] and this one is [color=blue]blue[color]

Thank you

Hey @brettpicard, hope everything is well.

Yes -- I think that's doable. Let me think about the syntax and implementation. I've added it in the list for now and may modify it if my brainstorming comes up with any issue.

There are a few major updates slated for tonight and tomorrow, so I'll take a closer look probably in the next week or so.

I've just pushed out an update to the user-to-user private messaging page.

Here are some screenshots:

Here's what it looks like on desktop --

Here's what it looks like on mobile --

As you can see, you can now search for users to send messages to right on that page. The other way users can initiate conversations between themselves is by clicking on a user profile and a button is there for users to start conversations.

A couple of caveats -- the performance of this functionality isn't where I want it to be -- but I needed to get all the plumbing (ie. backend) in place before I proceed further.

What I ultimately want is to be able to create a widget (sort of like Intercom, if you use that app) where a widget can remain fixed on one of the lower corners of the page and allow users to ping/message each other.

Anyway, I'll leave that with you for now. Do leave your feedback here.

Awesome for the user-to-user message. Thank you !!

Hey Champ team!

Currently we have Forums > Topics > Comments

Topics can’t be upvoted, but Comments within the articles can be (at least the way I’m seeing it).

Is there a way to add voting to topics and allow people to sort by most upvoted?

One other question / request. Is it possible to have admin badges on the avatar for moderators?

@Anonymous (regarding the topic upvoting): Yes, I think this is a good idea. I've added it to my TODOs. I'll need to think about how this might be done. I'm thinking of something like Reddit style kind of thing, and forum admins will have to activate this feature. Look for this to be released in June.

@daverad1 Yes -- it's been put on list of TODOs.

Didn't get a chance to post this last week, but the ability to modify individual user points is added to the app's dashboard. This is useful if you're using Champ's built in user point system.

@champsupport Adding ability to upvote topics in June would be awesome - thank you for being so receptive to feedback and quick to implement!

How do I add the user to user chat to my forum? I can't find the setting in my admin

@champsupport any chance you will be adding support for threaded replies?

@daverad1 To enable user-to-user chat, go to the app's Dashboard. The setting should be called enable private messaging for users.

In terms of threaded replies -- no. The design of the forum is not threaded but has a flat response design. This is intentional in the design of the app and cannot be changed. As this is an early architectural decision of the app, this is not a feature which will ever be added (ie. not possible).