Planned Champ Features (October 2020)

I guess another thought is we already have a unread post section on the site so it feels somewhat redundant.

Keep it up!
Cheers

Falcon Craft:
@champsupport I Definitely think that a lot of topics people get overwhelmed with so many notification. For example if my forum has 30-40 post in a day that means when someone logs in they have so many missed things they probably would care for but instead it makes them miss any tags they had been mentioned in...
So a solution could be this.
The notification organization could be broken apart into 2 section
First section is any tags you've been mentioned in
Second should be any topics that you opted to follow.
I dont really see the need of being alerted for every topic even if your not interested in that specific topic. Instead it might just overwhelm someone to not use that function and they will continue to miss tags/mentions they were in.
Definitely think its almost there! If we could reserve that section of the notification bell to be just for topics you subscribe to and when you are tagged in a post it will be fantastic.
Thank you for all the hard work! Looking great.

I've temporarily limited the number of notifications to 10 until I can figure out the UI some more. I'll be giving this some thought and planning this week until I code again.

@champsupport Awesome!

Still seems to be a time stamp organization issue

Another glitch I noticed is this.

I had an alert that I was tagged in so I clicked the new notification. Instead of it taking me to page 4 where I was tagged I was taken to page 1.

@falconcraft Just fixed the timestamp ordering thing again. Forgot a small line of code that handled the ordering. 🤦

I'll fix the other thing you mentioned.

Hmm... I think I might add an emoji bar in the editor... Let me know what you think of this idea

Alright, things should be patched up for now. In terms of the @-mentions notifications, it doesn't work yet. The notifications you see aren't for those, but for unread messages.

That part is coming soon.

I like the emoji idea! Maybe a Bold function also?

Another thought I had was the images. Anyway that it can fill the text box automatically? Maybe I input the coding incorrectly but maybe not...

Here's an example. The Video links automatically fill the text box but the images dont.... The video thumbnail looks perfect.

Hi there,

I think for images, go to the dashboard's Design tab, and under custom CSS, enter this:

.post-content img {
  max-width: 100%;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

That should do what you're looking for.

Any chance of a future app?

Anonymous:
Any chance of a future app?

I'm not sure what you mean. Could you elaborate?

New feature release!

You can now export the list of users that Champ has under your account. You'll be able to see in a single CSV file (which you can load into Google Sheets) who has the most posts, created the most topics, has the most points, etc.

Go to the app's dashboard > data > export user data.

A mobile app. Here is an example of Reddit’s mobile app.

With an app a push notification alert would be possible at that point.

Falcon Craft:
A mobile app. Here is an example of Reddit’s mobile app.
With an app a push notification alert would be possible at that point.

Hi @falconcraft,

Surprisingly, I've thought about this recently. For the past several months, actually.

There are a few logistical, legal, and economic issues surrounding this, so I'll lay it all out here. Perhaps anyone who may be interested could chime in with their thoughts.

Technical/Logistical/Legal

Because content on a forum is user generated, there are certain requirements to this. First, each merchant desiring a mobile will need to have their own Apple developer account ($99 / year) or Google Play ($25 / once). I would not be able to have a single app (or even multiple apps) under my own Apple Developer ID or Google Play, as one single infarction would shut down any account that's under my own account -- not to mention any other projects I would be involved in.

In matters of the app itself, there would be a single code base for this. It would plug into your Champ account, and no customizations can be done here. On Champ's part, I'd maintain and update the app as needed when new features are added to the forum.

There is also the issue of user authentication. As user authentication is done primarily through Shopify's system, the app will need to somehow utilize that. Shopify's authentication system doesn't reliability redirect back to Champ (after logging in). Because the app itself would need to detect, through what's called a webview frame within the mobile app, it would be likely be hard to detect this after login state.

In terms of the actual app deployment, because each merchant has their own Developer account, a codebase would be provided directly to you to submit to the app store.

This submission process is known to be quite unpredictable depending on who the app reviewer is.

Certain companies who are set up and optimized for this kind of thing charges several hundreds of dollars to do it for you, which doesn't include the time for the creation of the app's code or maintenance, etc.

Costs

No doubt, such a feature would be an add on. Assuming all technical challenges are solvable, I'm not sure there would be a demand for this at the price point where I could afford to offer this kind of service.

Specifically:

• Helping the merchant liaise with Apple or Google to resolve issues
• Continued code maintenance on three separate platforms (web, iOS, Android)

I would estimate the hours required here is quite large.

Workaround

Given the mobile apps I've worked with in the past and the fact that all installations on here are Shopify stores, a forum specific app wouldn't be the way I would recommend this.

Effectively, you're building a mobile app that should include your Shopify store (so people could shop, etc). If you're looking at such an investment in your product/brand, that would be the direction I would go -- build a custom mobile app for iOS and Android, and having a tabview for the forum.

There's so much boilerplate code that is needed to get an app submitted and maintained that this would be more cost effective.

Feature update -- topics you've upvoted in will show in a different color (for the arrow).

Just got this email. Not sure what happened

Anonymous:
Just got this email. Not sure what happened

We keep an audit of all outbound notifications for scenarios like this so I could debug. Could you send me an email to support@getchamp.net.

Please send me the following:

• Forward the email itself
• Specify (in case it's not clear in the forward) whose email it was received at
• Approximate time of delivery

Thanks