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Site Status: America Edition!

Happy birthday Americans! As development ramps up near the end of the 0.3.0 changes I thought it would be nice to review where we are on our roadmap.

About the Site
GD Forums hopes to be a site for the community by the community. A central place where you can connect with the community. It currently offers forums and a crowd-sourced level database featuring special metadata.

Site Core
So our site is developed from scratch using Laravel. There is a lot of stuff behind the scenes that goes into development that you might take for granted had we used some off-the-shelf forum software like MyBB, XenForo, or IP.B. Getting a steady workflow for quick and reliable site updates. We make use of database migrations that lets us define our database schema in code. Meilisearch powers the live search bar. And VueJS + Tailwind powers the front end. We have established a good foundation to build features on top of and iterate quickly

Site Core TODO:

• Social media account linking

• GD account connection (for sister project GD Profiles)

• Better mobile responsiveness
  

Feature: Forums
Forums have gone through significant updates to make them easier to use. We use a custom rich text editor using TipTap which is built on ProseMirror. Recent changes include proper notifications and additions to our editor.

TODO:

• Optional Reddit-style reply mode

• More forums and better moderation tools

• In-context direct perma-linking for posts (instead of showing a single post)

• More post reactions

• Enhance rich text editor component

  • Mention users with notifications

  • Upload attachments

Feature: Level DB
The level database is one of the site's most ambitious projects. It provides a system for rating and reviewing levels and adding special metadata such as tags or videos. A rudimentary API is available for levels. View Nine Circles

Level DB TODO:

• Image submission

• Replays

General TODO:

• Mod and Texture Pack DB - This is a non-trivial matter and I'd like this to be done right. It requires talking to Mod and Texture Pack authors to determine a system that works best for everyone and maybe even creation of mods or a client to integrate with these themselves.

• Bulk video import

• GDenius IQ - Mystery...

• Level Viewer

• Review rating statistics

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