Info Center Revamp
How's about we change the info center into something useful for the user? I don't have any good idea's for it really, but it occurred to me that most of the info in the info center is pretty useless when I look at it. At least it is for me I guess. Couldn't we make it more of a social area for the user to see more things they are interested in? Recent topics of the user? Buddies? Notifications? etc etc.
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I trim it down anyway. I've never thought it really made sense the way it was, so I just have the basics there (basic stats, link to full, link to memberlist, who's online, etc).
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I must say I like that idea ... the info center tailored to the current user ...
I'm not sure what information we have available at that point that we could add (avoiding any extra db calls) but its sure worth a look at a revamp.
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Hmmm... I do not think I would like it on the side. Things get too crowded for many sites that want things on the sides. Would be fine if people want to make a theme do that though. It's likely going to add some significant amount of queries or resources to pull all the additional info for every page too.
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Yup. That idea could be bloat too. And it can be done via theme or mod.
But why want to add so many info inside it at the first place while knowing queries / resources will increase?
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But can't we try to limit ourselves in the available queries of the relevant page instead of calling the unnecesary one? I can see the menu is already calling somethings like pm notification. In the quicklogin we already have avatar and all the others. Eg. In display/post page, we just need to call relevant queries that relates to display/post page. The same things goes to other pages. IMO that won't be increasing any, if done carefully. It will also give a chance for modders to add up something there if they want it. Really, if managed carefully, how heavy/bloated will that be?
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It might be nice if there were an option to tie the who's online list in the info centre into something else permission-wise so that people who don't want to show that to others don't have to hack code manually.
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Yup. It shouldn't be accessible at all if the site wants it hidden.
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It always seems to be a privacy thing more than anything else, and a lot of people get all twisted up over 'but that's buggy, it says to enable the online list, I unticked it and it's still there' <insert glare angry face meme>