Features wanted thread

Okay, I was thinking of starting a thread like this anyway, so I'll go with this one. In response to your points:




1. With phpBB, there's an option to warn users. Warnings last a specific number of days and come with reduced privileges. They expire automatically.
   
2. Most bans are to spambots, which I don't think anyone wants to unban. I think it would be good if moderators used bans very sparingly and instead used the warning system more, on users who were clearly real people that just violated some rule by accident.
   
3. We don't necessarily want very long titles, since you should be able to make your titles concise. However, I do believe titles can be longer with the setup I've been working with.
   
4. With the new phpBB setup, a bunch of different themes have been installed. We can add as many as we feel like, then you can choose one that meets your criteria for this. Or you can make a new theme, and we can make that an option.
   
5. Why? What benefit does this add? How about just having restricted forums that attachments can be posted in?
   
6. That just incentivizes people to game the system with low-quality content, so probably not.
   
7. I think this is already possible in phpBB.
   

Okay, now for new features that I want to add!

Chemdoodle embedded WebGL canvases!

Automatically downloading linked images and storing them locally. This way, no more broken links to images in the future.

FTP server that members can use to upload larger files. Protocol will probably have to be SFTP, in case you have an older client that defaults to unencrypted FTP. Users would have to be added to the FTP usergroup manually by admins. It'd use cloud storage, so there would be no hard limit on disk space. There would probably be no hard limit, but it'd be really obvious from the control panel if someone was abusing their privilege, like posting gigabytes of .mp4 files that have nothing to do with chemistry.

Preserve sessions between the forums and the wiki. This will allow much easier wiki contributions, since there would be no need to log into the wiki separately.

I'm debating whether to allow embedded youtube videos. Chemistry youtube videos do seem to be popular though. I guess it couldn't hurt.

Also, a "Patent Pending" forum, where you have to sign a legally-binding NDA with your full real name on it, to be allowed in. You wouldn't have to disclose your full name to everyone, just to the admins, and you can always use a separate login for access to that forum. Reason being, discussing an idea with patent potential in a public forum, essentially makes that idea impossible to patent. But if the forum is private, and everyone has signed a legally-binding NDA, then we should be able to freely discuss ideas that could potentially be patented, and members here who have gone through that process in the past can provide advice. It'd probably have to cover North America, the EU, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand at least, just because those countries are pretty good about respecting each other's patents. Possibly others as well, but I haven't looked into it much.

[Edited on 10/3/18 by Melgar]