What's To Come For vBulletin - Part II

محروم.كوم · #1 08-31-2010, 03:50 AM

As promised, here is a follow on to my previous post.

In this post I would like to highlight how we are proceeding with the 4.X series and what we are expecting to introduce as part of the series. Please, note that these are not ordered in terms of priorities, but provided as a target list. And of course, as denoted in my previous post, 4.1 will include the top 4 items in this list.

As previously mentioned, we are also working in a re-factoring. The first element to be re-factored is the editor. There will be a common editor across the product. This will improve usability, as users will have a common experience for posting and editing with the added bonus that it also supports WebKit. As a note, not all of our re-factoring efforts will have a visual component, however, with each release we will let you know what was re-factored.

And also as previously mentioned, we will be also working on issues. The target is that each release will have a good mix of features, enhancements and bugs. It is very important to us that just as we deal with the challenges; we also further the product and what the product offers.

I do want to make a special note on one of the features included in this list as it pertains to some question from the previous post: Custom Content Type Builder. Some of you asked about the “review” content type. The Custom Content Type Builder will have a few primitives from which we all can build new content types. In theory, and as it has been specified, you should be able to build a review content type with the tool.

Without further ado:
Member Profile Customization

Overhauled StyleVars

Improved and integrated upgrade Process

URL Mapping (CMS in root etc.)

Improved CMS editor

Google Auth + Twitter

Mobile Skin (m.vbulletin.com)

Updated style

UTF-8 Further Development

Revised Search

Activity Stream

Custom Content Type Builder

Photo Gallery with Photo Tagging

Sharing Tools

Mobile API

Custom Content Type Builder

Updated CMS Permissions

Improved use of Memcached and File Cache

Member Newsletter Feature (Text + HTML)

Header Menu Manager Customization (completed spec)

Unified Moderation and Notifications System

Unifying widgets and blocks

Enable Community Moderation (vote up/down content)

Additional Login Options (Google, Twitter, OpenID, Email Registration, etc)

Subscription Option: Google Checkout

Improved Asset Manager

Updated email management/ and templates to prevent blacklisting

PostgreSQL support (this will assist and be a part of refactoring our database structure)

CMS Workflow (change author, draft, approved, unpub date)

Inline Style/Theme Customization (Inline UI to edit StyleVars)

Invite Friends Features

Find Friend Features (via Address Book: Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL, etc)

User can self-delete their profile/account

Ad Management for Blogs and CMS (and more advanced Forum integration)

Groups UI/UX

Calendar UI/UX (also integrate with iCal)

Expose Developer Documentation (dev.vbulletin.com)

Official 3rd Party Developer API

Review content type

CMS Widget: Tag Cloud

As always, comments and suggestions are welcomed. __DEFINE_LIKE_SHARE__