Talkyard Roadmap 2018-06-24

Here's what's next for Talkyard — the items are not ordered, except for "soon" and "later". Feedback & change suggestions are welcome; add a comment below.

Edit: This roadmap is old. There's a new roadmap here, from 2018-11-26.

Now soon

• Theming. User friendly way to edit colors and make one's Talkyard site look like a part of one's website. 2 weeks?

• Re-implement tags: change to ids, so can be renamed. 4 days?

• Subscribe to categories (and tags?). Then, can listen to conversations / questions related to to one's own team only, if each team = 1 category. 4 days?

• Fix bugs people might report or that I have found, & reduce tech debt, 1 – 3 weeks.

Later

• Rich text WYSIWYG editor. Non-tech people think Markdown+preview is confusing. Use ProseMirror — it can switch between Markdown+preview and rich-text-WYSIWYG. 2 weeks? 2-3 months? (wall clock time, not coding time) The WYSIWYG probably be made available step by step: first a simple version that doesn't support @mentions, for example.

• Export site to JSON + uploaded images etc (so can migrate to one's own server). 2 weeks? Related, if someone else has time: Import Disqus comments? import WordPress comments? (for people who use Talkyard for blog comments)

• Sort by tags in topic list. 1 week?

• Sub categories.

• SSO for embedded comments: 2 weeks? Maybe the hardest thing is finding someone who can review the solution from a security p.o.v.

• SSO for forum: 2 weeks? Not sure how to do this. Look at how Discourse does it? But they incl base-64 personal data in urls, would like to avoid.

• Custom groups & per group moderators. 2 weeks?

• RSS (Atom) feeds

• Fix information overload problem: When a site owner logs in to his/her new site, the first time, there're too many things to look at, they don't know where to start.

• Make Problem type topics flat (not threaded) — that's better for step by step problem solving. Or a "Progress" comments sorted-by-time section that can be enabled in all topics? shown after the best-first replies to the orig post? Maybe shown by default, in Problem type topics.

Even later

• Trust levels: Make the Trusted, Regular and Core Member trust levels work. Make the Unwanted vote have effect (those who post [comments that the staff and core members consider Unwanted] won't become Trusted members).

• Add NSFW image filter, use Google's Vision API? Integrate with Perspective API to detect toxic comments?

• Optionally upvote topics directly in topic list, for those who want Reddit like communities.

• Optionally show text input box directly, more encouraging than having to click Reply.