Profile Features (Comments, Visitors)

[Stinky666]

I'm sure I have suggested one of these before, but using the search and typing "profile" brings up no results. Not sure if that's because there are no results, or if the search is being buggy again. However, here we go.


Total Profile Views
- See how many people (an overall count, not members) visit your profile (100 total visitors).
Last 5 - 10 visitors to your profile..
- This would just show the micro profile and name (or just name depending how you set it?) of a certain amount of people who last visited your profile.
Comments tab/section
- set it so either guests AND members can view your comments, or they have to be members. Same for making comments.


It's the comments one I think I have suggested before, but if so I know it would have been ages ago and that's why I am uncertain if I actually did or not.

[Ryan Roos]

Total Profile Views - No. Extra data to load and calculate for no real gain. Maybe do this with a plugin. It sounds like just a counter.

Last 5-10 Visitors - No. For both tracking and privacy reasons.

Comments Section - No. This isn't Facebook (and we get compared enough). Conversations are meant to happen on the forum itself, not in people profiles. If this were a site of nothing but profiles then you might have an argument. But on a forum we want to keep the discussion on the boards. Same reason we don't have a shoutbox that has multiple rooms with archived history and other features. Discussion should be happening in the boards.

[Stinky666]

Mar 14, 2013 7:34:02 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Total Profile Views - No. Extra data to load and calculate for no real gain. Maybe do this with a plugin. It sounds like just a counter.

Last 5-10 Visitors - No. For both tracking and privacy reasons.

Comments Section - No. This isn't Facebook (and we get compared enough). Conversations are meant to happen on the forum itself, not in people profiles. If this were a site of nothing but profiles then you might have an argument. But on a forum we want to keep the discussion on the boards. Same reason we don't have a shoutbox that has multiple rooms with archived history and other features. Discussion should be happening in the boards.

Is a comments option doable via a plugin? Just wondering so I know if to bother requesting or not.

[Ryan Roos]

Mar 14, 2013 8:05:53 GMT -8 Stinky666 said:

Mar 14, 2013 7:34:02 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Total Profile Views - No. Extra data to load and calculate for no real gain. Maybe do this with a plugin. It sounds like just a counter.

Last 5-10 Visitors - No. For both tracking and privacy reasons.

Comments Section - No. This isn't Facebook (and we get compared enough). Conversations are meant to happen on the forum itself, not in people profiles. If this were a site of nothing but profiles then you might have an argument. But on a forum we want to keep the discussion on the boards. Same reason we don't have a shoutbox that has multiple rooms with archived history and other features. Discussion should be happening in the boards.

Is a comments option doable via a plugin? Just wondering so I know if to bother requesting or not.

I have no idea. You could ask in the plugins board. Someone like Wormo or Chris might be clever enough to do something like that. But it might just not be an option.

[Wormopolis]

Mar 14, 2013 7:34:02 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Total Profile Views - No. Extra data to load and calculate for no real gain. Maybe do this with a plugin. It sounds like just a counter.

according to VS Admin we wouldnt be able to do this as a plugin since all ajax calls would have to be user-initiated.  a counter that hits on a pageload would be considered prohibidabido.

as for comments on a profile, Eton made a facebook API version in v4.5 that worked, but required a facebook account in order to leave comments on the profile (which would also been seen on your facebook page).  If you used a plugin, you would have to use a super-user key, and then it would only allow up to 4000 characters.  so lets say an average profile comment was 100 characters long, you would only be able to store 40 comments.  definitely not unlimited, and therefore it would have to be written to dump the oldest comment in favor of the new one.  it would also probably need a cap for characters in each comment, or someone could come along and type out a 4000 character comment and dump all other comments in order to store it.  so its still plausible, but there are sacrifices that would need to be made.