[Fourgee]

Just thought I'd give you all some insight into what is currently being worked on for the town domains and ask for some feedback at the same time.

General Integration

The member bar that appears in the top right will be available through the entire site not just the community features.

Site Pages

Firstly, the news pages and static pages (Town Info etc.) will be getting a major overhaul and I'll be making it a lot easier to submit new content and also edit existing pages in a similar vein to wikipedia (The site is about collaboration after all). Article comments will work in a very similar way to posting in the forums and post counts will carry across. Also you will be able to rate articles.

The homepage sidebar will be reworked to better present the notifications of latest calendar, gallery, classified entries etc. They are a bit all over the place at the moment. I may even see if I can make it so people can show/hide these widgets on an one-by-one basis.

Classifieds and Business Directory

Both will be getting integration improvements. Classifieds will also be syndicated between the Morpeth and Cramlington domains.

The Business Directory will be getting search, category and mapping support.

Issue Tracker

The issue tracker will also be getting mapping support and private issues e.g. Submit a report to the relevant person without it being publically viewable. I'm debating adding anonymous submissions so they can still be tracked publically but the original poster is kept anonymous.

Galleries

Too many to list but a better slideshow, reputation system carried to comments, Image rotation, Restrict galleries to your friends list and image notes are some of the highlights.

Search

The current search is pap and relies on people knowing advanced search techniques such as enclosing a phrase in "" to match the whole phrase or using -word to exclude words or +word to require them. This will become a lot easier.

That's about all I can think of at the moment but if you've got any suggestions let me know.