'Interactions' Plugin

[inquieta]

Hi!



Hope you all had a good Christmas, and have a happy new year when it comes around!!

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Anyway. Basically, I'm setting up a roleplay forum. A lot of people that want to join it are coming from Tumblr, where it's easy to send 'asks' to respond to roleplay 'memes' to get threads started, and people interacting with each other. However, that's not as easy on proboards forums, and we're concerned that people will be too shy to interact and reach out to others, and so we're looking for a simpler method of doing so. Just a way that people can interact without actually having to drop others messages, as it can be quite daunting for some.



I absolutely adore Todge's 'poke' system, and it's almost perfect, however it leaves for a few things to be desired. I did post over on their original thread for it, but no response, so I'm posting here instead.



This might either be very simple, or extremely difficult/impossible - but I'm terrible at coding so I have absolutely no idea!



So I'm looking for something very similar. Something that would add a new tab to people's profiles, where they can access a list of custom-added 'interactions'. Clicking one would send a notification to the user, and say something like 'so and so has poked you!' and give them the option to either dismiss it, or respond with a private message so that they can start a roleplay thread from the interaction.



When clicking the option to respond, I was thinking that maybe it would take the user to a PM to start with, the title being something like '[Username] poked [username]' or something similar, so people could immediately jump off these interactions? I know that people can simply go to the user's profile and choose to privately message them from there, but I'm trying to make things simpler and more fun on my forum.



Or perhaps even, the interactions don't even have to produce a notification on the forum! Maybe they could just send an automated PM to the user, and they can choose to either respond to the PM or ignore it! I'm not sure which would be easier/simpler.



I just think this would be a nice touch for a lot of RP forums - and not just my own!



Thanks in advance!

[Todge]

Hi inquieta, I'm sorry I missed your post in the Poke System plugin's help thread, but I'll try to answer you here now..

The changes you are asking are possible, but the recoding would be extensive, and it would probably be easier simply to start from scratch... And, if that was the case, why not make it totally PM based? So no keys would be necessary. Links can be added to the mini-profiles that would take you directly to the PM page with options to send pokes. hugs or whatever, then the recipients could simply reply.

PMs can't be sent automatically, so there would be an extra mouse click, but there'd be no need to visit the members' profiles, so you'd be saving navigation time.

[inquieta]

Dec 30, 2018 15:40:27 GMT -8 Todge said:

Hi inquieta , I'm sorry I missed your post in the Poke System plugin's help thread, but I'll try to answer you here now..

The changes you are asking are possible, but the recoding would be extensive, and it would probably be easier simply to start from scratch... And, if that was the case, why not make it totally PM based? So no keys would be necessary. Links can be added to the mini-profiles that would take you directly to the PM page with options to send pokes. hugs or whatever, then the recipients could simply reply.

PMs can't be sent automatically, so there would be an extra mouse click, but there'd be no need to visit the members' profiles, so you'd be saving navigation time.

No worries, Todge, we all miss things from time to time! Also, happy new year!

I'm not 100% sure that I know what you're speaking of. The only issue I'd have with it being in the mini-profile would be that I'd probably like it in some sort of drop-down list, so that the mini-profiles aren't overflowing with options and things like that. Is there any way to be able to do that?

You've gotten me thinking now, actually. So clicking a link would allow a user to send a PM. But would text be able to be automatically applied to that PM before it's sent? I might be asking too much here, but it's a new year and my brain is buzzing with ideas haha!

[Todge]

Jan 1, 2019 3:01:21 GMT -8 inquieta said:

Dec 30, 2018 15:40:27 GMT -8 Todge said:

Hi inquieta , I'm sorry I missed your post in the Poke System plugin's help thread, but I'll try to answer you here now..

The changes you are asking are possible, but the recoding would be extensive, and it would probably be easier simply to start from scratch... And, if that was the case, why not make it totally PM based? So no keys would be necessary. Links can be added to the mini-profiles that would take you directly to the PM page with options to send pokes. hugs or whatever, then the recipients could simply reply.

PMs can't be sent automatically, so there would be an extra mouse click, but there'd be no need to visit the members' profiles, so you'd be saving navigation time.

No worries, Todge, we all miss things from time to time! Also, happy new year!

I'm not 100% sure that I know what you're speaking of. The only issue I'd have with it being in the mini-profile would be that I'd probably like it in some sort of drop-down list, so that the mini-profiles aren't overflowing with options and things like that. Is there any way to be able to do that?

You've gotten me thinking now, actually. So clicking a link would allow a user to send a PM. But would text be able to be automatically applied to that PM before it's sent? I might be asking too much here, but it's a new year and my brain is buzzing with ideas haha!

The link does not need to be in the mini-profile, it could be wherever you want, and yes, text could be applied to the PM automatically, but it can not be sent automatically, so there would have to be a cleverly disguised mouse-click involved to send off the PM.