Following on from last week, and taking on board some of your ideas, I've put together a roadmap of what is still to come here. Since going live, we've already seen RSS and the basics of the channels system (in that there are some, but you can't yet edit any that you already own), a "logged in as" at the top of each page, plus fixes for comment administration and publishing unsaved posts. Here's the summary of planned updates, in the most likely order they'll appear:
+ Visible RSS links on pages. Right now, browsers can read feed information from the page haders, I'll add links where appropriate on the pages themselves.
+ Persistant logins. This is supposed to remember you, but for whatever reason it doesn't so I'll use a different implementation.
+ CAPTCHA tech on posts and events, to allow for non-member commenting.
+ Better channel administration, allowing for renaming and control over public posting/viewing/feeding.
+ A "while you were away" section, which can be used to show content that was added since you last logged in, and highlight posts with new comments.
+ Managed content for static pages, so we can edit the about page and other static text content without editing the page source each time.
+ Additional fields on member profiles. Pretty much a key-value system, where members define the fields as they go along (eg email, messenger, web site, whatever), with optional obfuscation for easily spammed fields like email addresses.
+ The media gallery. An evolution of the old Mosaik image gallery, and at first just for images, giving members a tool to upload images which can then be resized by the server for displaying in posts, using as your profile pictures, etc. This development will give us the code we need to build some extra toys:
++ Upload your own profile picture from the profile page.
++ Browse images already uploaded, and upload new images, from the post writer, with tools to insert the image into your post text.
++ Random sidebar image linking out to the rest of the media gallery.
+ Basic WYSIWYG editing for bold/italic/underline/colour, and hyperlinking.
+ Visual tweaks, the first suggestion being the login/member bar at the top being a different colour. All suggestions welcome on this one, I can see it being a series of incremental changes over the coming weeks.
I'm not going to put timescales on any of this stuff, but I'd imagine the first few points up to but not including the gallery will be this week, then the gallery might take a couple of weeks, and we're getting into Christmas territory after that so don't expect the last couple of points too soon.
Lastly, if you do have any more stellar ideas (or even ideas for more taglines), let us know.