So, now that the journals are open, I figured this was the best format to use to talk with everyone about them.

I rolled them out kind of quietly to make sure we didn't get inundated at first, but they've been working out great so far. There are a lot of features coming up in them, but if you have any suggestions go ahead and post a reply to this entry and we'll talk more.

Keep in mind that we are also opening up "Upgraded" memberships in around 10 days, and some journal features will open up for those specifically.

Here are some planned features coming in the next few weeks after I finish testing them. Features with a * are upgraded membership features:

• Embed Polls
• Journal Templates (this is a cool one, you can choose a template like "review" and review your favorite anime/games, or a "tutorial" template which will give you the ability to make a tutorial with pages/sections, etc)
• Convention Report Templates
• Receive emails when someone replies
• Multi-page entries
• Journal cuts
• Subscribe to users' journals
• Comment Icons (kinda like livejournal where you can reply with different icons you upload) *
• Wysiwyg editor for posts *
• Embed Youtube videos *
• Embed photos from your gallery *
• Embed thumbnails from your gallery (essentially making your own gallery layouts) *

I'm probably missing some things I already have halfway finished, but since the journals are more for you guys to express yourselves creatively on the site, go ahead and list some things you'd like to see added in the future. Remember that the rules have to be kept in mind for future updates. Also, anything causing a huge jump in bandwidth or a lot of time creating might fall into "upgraded member" status, which isn't too huge a deal cause the upgrades really add a lot of cool features to begin with.

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Admin posted on 05-21-2008 at 01:23 AM: By the way, this comment contains an example of a "comment icon".