What other features does Question2Answer need?

Question

Please post your suggestions in answers to this question, or vote on other people's suggestions.

Comments

1. Poll
2. If neccessary to enable reCAPTCHA on login page, comment pages after confirm, feedback page
3 . Subcategories
4 . Tag cloud in footer
5 . Facebook "I Like" plugin with some functions for position in site

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I think that it needs a twitter auto-share feature

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Is this the oldest post of this forum?
I suspect for some reason the pagination is not working correctly!
I mean I want to reach out to older posts, however this is the oldest page I could get to

Answer 1

One of the significant features planned for 1.0 beta 2 is the ability to comment on questions or answers, to enable a richer conversation than just questions and answers.

Comments

Just a comment on this - you can now see comments working on this Q&A site for Question2Answer. There are also now follow-on questions.

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Very nice. Works like a charm.

Answer 2

How about a WYSWYG Editor like http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor

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Great idea. Won't make it into version 1.0, but definitely on the roadmap.

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WYSIWYG gets quite messy in some browsers, then your users wind up focusing more on formatting than posting. Why not use a simple bbcode parser or other types of markdown?

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i agree with Cyclone.

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I'm inclined to suggest splitting the baby on this - WYSIWYG but simple, restricted to bold, italics, a few block formats (code, quote, heading styles, etc.), inline images and links. A simple markup format would do, but WYSIWYG is more friendly to the non-technical user.

Answer 3

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/71/will-you-be-taking-feature-requests

Those are what I think it needs.

Comments

Very nice ideas

Answer 4

rss feed support

Answer 5

Initially, I really would like to thank you of providing this opportunity to us to get connected with you and send  you our feeds. And I am so happy to be one of the first users in this support site.
Also, I would also like to thank you for this wonderful script, which I think that came in it's exact time.
Then I have some Suggestions which I think you want to take a look at, most important at the moment is that to provide most of a control panel features which comes in the Admin forums panel (like for exapmle, vb or phpbb forums) to the q2a Admin panel. But aside from that, I will try to transmit it in its time.
With best wishes for this project that it will gain great success always.

Answer 6

Categories categories categories!

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OK, see: http://www.question2answer.org/qa/57/will-you-add-categories

Answer 7

1. E-mail validation for new users (prevent spam)
2. Captcha on the user registration form (prevent spam again).
3. Ability to disable a user (to stop him/her from posting) and also an option to delete all their posts/questions.
4. When an user asks a question, the system can display related questions and make the user decide if his question is a duplicate.
5.Ability to vote on  comments.
7. View last X comments & questions.
8. It's a great piece of software, but, I would hope that one day you will open-source it (preferably with a BSD style license) and host on something like GitHub.

Thank you for making  available this great software.

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Thanks for your great suggestions. FYI number 4 is already available, as an option to be switched on by admins. Number 7 is also available for questions (by clicking 'Questions' at the top), but not yet for comments. As for the license, this has been discussed a few times, and it might change in future. Thanks again!

Answer 8

1. An template system
2. The abillity to delete question/answer/comment for the super administrator
3. Number of question views
4. Profile picture or avatar

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all those are great ideas except im not quite sure were you would put the avatar?

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A Template system would allow more flexibility for an integration in an existant site

Answer 9

Hello!
Sitemap for Google and Bing ....
RSS Feed - for communication  and building Widgets

Answer 10

1. Blocking and unblocking users.

2. Listing user's hidden question (mayby in separate tab) and enabling to reshow them.

Answer 11

All of the ideas above are good ideas in my opinion.

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/243/moderation-and-usability

Also a system to block users would be nice. (as previously stated)

Edit: a question database would be a pretty cool feature too

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1. http://www.question2answer.org/qa/1/what-other-features-does-question2answer-need
2. http://www.question2answer.org/qa/71/will-you-be-taking-feature-requests

(but the name of the question as link of course)

Answer 12

Just to put more weight on some suggestions above:
1- Captcha on user registration
2- email validation
3- RSS feed
4- Unanswered question tab