Photoblogs.org Roadmap

From PhotoblogsWiki

Recently Completed

The 5 most recently completed items. Older items are lower and eventually drop off the list.

1. Hall of Fame
2. Photobloggers.org Website Checklist
3. Making Your Photoblog Play Well with Others
4. Photoblog Host Comparison Chart
5. Feed Autodiscovery documentation... Linked from Photoblogs.org

Short Term

These are the highest-priority items in our development queue. When items are completed here, new ones are added from the Medium Term list below. We try to complete these in order, but that's not always the case.

1. upgrade wiki software
2. ability to change email address
3. ability to change password
4. ability to link username with photoblog(s)
5. improved search
6. feed diagnostic page
7. Set up donation system.
8. update navigation bar (fix CSS hovers, tools section: bookmarklets, link buttons)
9. bring back http://www.photoblogs.org/random-site/
10. Add contributor profiles to blog.photoblogs.org.
11. fix templating structure, so each page acts individually (not forced 3 column everywhere)
12. RSS feed for Hall of Fame
13. bring back ability to claim photoblogs
14. bring back ability to request removal of site
15. improve speed of homepage
16. Feeds showing thumbs
17. Hot Photoblogs options(ability to filter out HOF and only show newer sites)
18. fix problem with underscores in domain names example

Medium Term

Items from this list get promoted to the list above. Lower-numbered items are more likely to be promoted sooner.

1. Ability to specify a different URL via your profile settings. (Auto-url-change is too confusing for most people.)
2. update structure of user pages (allow for output:feed, output:map, etc. in tabs)
   • http://www.photoblogs.org/user/lbstone/bookmarks/tag
3. editors' choice
4. clean up design of blog.photoblogs.org (dropdowns for archives, wider right-hand column)
5. combined feeds for any tags
6. ajax auto-ping (show titles of posts in sidebar)
7. clean up Photoblogs.org homepage (more user friendly for non-tech-nerds)
8. remove "one blog per domain" limitation (allow any RSS/Atom feed to be added)
   • http://www.photoblogs.org/site/www.example.com
   • http://www.photoblogs.org/site/bookmarks/www.example.com
   • http://www.photoblogs.org/site/bookmarks/page:2/www.example.com
   • http://www.photoblogs.org/site/notes/page:2/www.example.com
9. Photoblog Software Comparison Chart
10. Fix AOL problem where they sometimes block Photoblogs.org email.
11. friendly 404 error page

Long Term

This is what we hope to eventually accomplish with Photoblogs.org. Items here are promoted up to the above lists when space becomes available. This list isn't really in any particular order.

• Automated bot to clean out sites that return 404, etc.
• Fix alpha title caching: http://www.photoblogs.org/user/lbstone/sort:alpha
• Ability to change the title of the photoblog based on your own bookmarks (must handle alpha title, too.)
• advanced "blog buttons" page... real time wizard-type-thing.
  • type: simple, icon, wide
  • color: color, mono
  • orientation: single, dual vertical, dual horizontal
• graceful fail when DB goes down
• list of recently updated sites
• desktop backgrounds
• print shop
• book
• calendars
• exhibitions
• ability to create groups (mini blogrings)
• report: list of most popular CMS software
• report: list of most popular web hosts (IP block hash)
• report: list of most popular photoblog hosts
• report: photoblogger demographics... country/age/sex?/income?/industry?
• report: most popular photoblogger cameras
• photoblogger google maps
• random/daily mosaic of images
• collection of photo competitions/awards... sorted by deadline date ("call for entries" database)
• interview questions (ala yayhooray)
• colophon
• travel plans / already visited registry
• google maps of photoblog locations
• an "I'm looking for critiques" setting... tied to critiques discussion group somehow
• tutorials / online courses
• integration with the Camerapedia
• equipment reviews from photobloggers, themselves
• dropdown bookmarklet for tagging/comments, similar sites
• global "remember me" option for comments
• includable visitor stats
• geo visitors map
• photoblogs.org compatibility checklist for photoblog software/hosts
• l10n and i18n... aka localization and internationalization... (ability for people to view Photoblogs.org in their native language as well as easily find people who speak their language and/or live in the same region of the world.)