New Signature Pic feature [FEEDBACK]
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:31 am
also refer to: http://wiki.anidb.info/w/SigServer_DEV
well,
i guess most ppl got a general idea from the main page and some other talks by now. we've also gotten some pretty interesting hosting offers so it'll probably only be a matter of time till we have secured a host for this feature, but... that means we have to find someone to code it soon :P
this thread is meant as a place for brainstorming on features this new system should have.
here a short outline of the way it is supposed to work:
(Let's call the new server "sig server" for now)
* The sig server has it's own user database
* Users can configure the signature pics via a webinterface of the sig server
* The sig server provides an url which returns the sig pic
* When the url is requested the sig server will look for a locally cached pic or cached anidb status information for the user and will either return the cached pic, a new pic created with the cached information or will issue an http request to retrieve the needed stats via as XML and then create the pic.
It is important to underline at this point that the sig server does never directly interact with the anidb database. It does not have SQL access, it does not store the users anidb password (only their anidb username) and it never modifies any information on anidb.
On suggestion for how things could look like (feel free to suggest other ways):
* AniDB will link to the sig server
* A first time user will visit the sig server and register a new account (username and password can be different from anidb)
* Once registered the user gets to a configuration page where he has to enter his anidb username (without the anidb password!) and there will be a help text explaining the required profile settings on anidb for this to work (the anidb XML interface will only provide the information if the user selected certain permissions for the guest user)
* the user can then either select an image from a selection of publicly available pictures stored on the server or can upload is own picture (for each own picture the user can specify whether it should be made public or not (needs mod review)).
* once a picture is selected the user can select the type of data shown and the formatting from predefined profiles or can define his own profile (profile can be made public)
* a profile should be very configurable, allowing selections like:
** information to display
** font/size/color/location/... for each part
** maybe some kind of basic scripting
* one user should be able to specify upto N signature picture+profile combinations which can all be active at the same time (maybe 5 ?)
* some nice statistics and a modding interface would be good
...
there are probably tons of areas where such a service could be improved :o)
so just post your ideas!
BYe!
EXP
PS: hell, feels kinda good to write feature requests, when you know that you don't have to implement any of it }:o)
well,
i guess most ppl got a general idea from the main page and some other talks by now. we've also gotten some pretty interesting hosting offers so it'll probably only be a matter of time till we have secured a host for this feature, but... that means we have to find someone to code it soon :P
this thread is meant as a place for brainstorming on features this new system should have.
here a short outline of the way it is supposed to work:
(Let's call the new server "sig server" for now)
* The sig server has it's own user database
* Users can configure the signature pics via a webinterface of the sig server
* The sig server provides an url which returns the sig pic
* When the url is requested the sig server will look for a locally cached pic or cached anidb status information for the user and will either return the cached pic, a new pic created with the cached information or will issue an http request to retrieve the needed stats via as XML and then create the pic.
It is important to underline at this point that the sig server does never directly interact with the anidb database. It does not have SQL access, it does not store the users anidb password (only their anidb username) and it never modifies any information on anidb.
On suggestion for how things could look like (feel free to suggest other ways):
* AniDB will link to the sig server
* A first time user will visit the sig server and register a new account (username and password can be different from anidb)
* Once registered the user gets to a configuration page where he has to enter his anidb username (without the anidb password!) and there will be a help text explaining the required profile settings on anidb for this to work (the anidb XML interface will only provide the information if the user selected certain permissions for the guest user)
* the user can then either select an image from a selection of publicly available pictures stored on the server or can upload is own picture (for each own picture the user can specify whether it should be made public or not (needs mod review)).
* once a picture is selected the user can select the type of data shown and the formatting from predefined profiles or can define his own profile (profile can be made public)
* a profile should be very configurable, allowing selections like:
** information to display
** font/size/color/location/... for each part
** maybe some kind of basic scripting
* one user should be able to specify upto N signature picture+profile combinations which can all be active at the same time (maybe 5 ?)
* some nice statistics and a modding interface would be good
...
there are probably tons of areas where such a service could be improved :o)
so just post your ideas!
BYe!
EXP
PS: hell, feels kinda good to write feature requests, when you know that you don't have to implement any of it }:o)