[Darth-Apple]

Status Updates - Advanced Status Feed

Update May 2, 2020: I'm currently in finals week at university. Development will be resuming within about a week. Please check back soon!

We're working on a brand new plugin for MyBB to allow profile comments, status updates, and more. And firstly, it's actually mostly written! It's installed here in its full form. A little buggy, don't worry, we will be fixing that.

What makes this plugin very unique is that it is the ONLY MyBB status/profile comment plugin that supports replies. Yaldaram had one many years back. It is now gone, and no longer available or supported. 

We also have statuses show up on the postbit, and have a special "community wall" with all status updates. It's going to be a fully featured plugin by the time that we are finished developing it. 

What's already implemented:

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• Replies! In addition to writing statuses on your own profiles (or other user's profiles), you can reply to them. It's a unique feature to our plugin here. No other plugin (that I am aware of) supports this. 
  
• Built in alerts. (They are fully featured and actively being improved) 
  
• Support for user profiles, index page, portal page, and a standalone page. 
  
• Built in Jquery and ajax. (Will be expanded upon significantly.)
  
• Highly configurable. 17 settings already, even in the dev version. 
  
• Similar features to Profile Comments/MyProfile. Write a status on your own profile, or on another user's profile.
  

To be Completed:

• Add a like button. (Done) 
  
• Provide proper myalerts integration (and expand native alerts as well). 
  
• Moderator CP report functionality. 
  
• More ajax. Remove the redirect when you add or edit a new status. Make it appear instantly.  (Done)
  
• Style the postbit (under the avatar) statuses much better. (Done) 
  
• Make the "Community Wall" page much nicer. Add sorting by user, date, most liked, etc. into the mix. 
  
• Add a "buddy list only" sorting functionality so that you can either get notified when a buddy posts, or only see those posts on a special page. 
  
• Twitter-like hashtags?
  

The tentative release date for this new plugin is June of this year. BAM was ahead of its release schedule during development and ended up being released early. There is a possibility we will release the status feed early as well. We shall see, we will release it when it's ready.

What I need for contributions are: 

• Feedback and ideas. I can't know what features are needed (or how they are used) unless real forums share some insight on what they need! (Really can't stress this one enough. Trust me, it helps me as a developer quite a bit. )
  
• 3-4 people who will commit to helping test the beta version when it's released. (I currently have one comitted tester already. If you would like to join the testing team in the next few months, please reach out! )
  
• Some styling help. If you can come up with a few CSS or template edits on what we have here that will make them look awesome, please reach out! Design is not necessarily my strongest area, so I'm open to any contributions of any kind.  
  

Screenshots (so far):






Please stay tuned for more details. We are looking at around a 4 month development frame for this. And it will be an exciting release when it's time to push it forward! It might not be quite as polished as the profile comments plugin (or some other plugins that have been released that are similar), but I hope that we can still pull together and have a nice plugin to release soon.