The ivorytower.com from travisspomer

Combine the unread threads pager and subforum visuals

Seems strange that they're so similar yet don't share anything.

New shared component: LargeNavLink?
Style options: "previous" (back home), "next" (next unread thread), and "list" (forums index)—controls height, placement of the arrow, which text goes on top, and the colors

Draft posts

Save drafts of posts, edits, etc. that aren't used before navigating away.

Editor: add a draftKey property that you set to any unique string like "/threads/12345#Post123" (doesn't have to be an URL), and if a new Editor is instantiated with that same key, use that saved draft instead of the default
Add a discardDraft() method that would be used by callers after getHtml()
Garbage collect drafts (a second after each load)

Polls

Totally new, not shackled by the constraints of yesterday!

Page to let people make their own polls
Edit existing polls, including renaming choices and adding new ones
Include the poll inline in a forum post if the user references it in a link: <a href="/polls/123"></a>
Poll listing page

Alternating post background colors

Do it for everyone at first, not an option
Add --background-alt between light4 and white on light theme, and full black on dark theme
Add an option if necessary

Delete thread

Add a way to delete a thread on the new site.

Edit thread (title / post 1)

Add the ability to edit the thread title on the new site.

Email and password change

Password reset page
Password reset API
Email reset page
Email reset API
Persistent storage for pending resets (can't just do it all in-memory)
Links in emails to go new site

Vote component visuals

Consider: When a vote is set, and the control isn't hovered or focused, hide the other icon entirely
Consider: Hide the buttons when disabled, instead of just making them really faint
Animate on hover like regular buttons
- Can you add another option to Button that lets it render as a <div> instead of a <button> or <a> like today? Then you could reuse those visuals pretty easily.

Add a link to thread headers to scroll to the new post divider or reply box

"Post reply" should be the first tab stop after the textarea, not image uploads

Put the upload image button before the <textarea>, in the upper-right.

Login page

New centered design for the Login component (/login)
Full-screen overlay hosted by the core layout, not the Login component
Overlay visible whenever no logged-in user OR route starts with "/login" but NOT when it starts with "/test"
Respect prefers-reduced-motion

Unread post tracking by index

Switch unread post tracking to be based on index, not counts: better performance and scalability, simpler to work with, etc.

WYSIWYG editor

After adding Markdown support (#38), add an editor to make it convenient to write and look at it, like how HTML used to be in the golden era.

Free WYSIWYG editor with first-class Markdown and Svelte support: TipTap, which itself is built on top of ProseMirror. (Additional Svelte wrapper that lets you host Svelte components in the editor)

There's also Editor.js, which produces JSON, and would be paired with a Markdown importer/exporter.

SimpleMDE is a Markdown-first editor, basically just syntax highlighting for Markdown.

Lexical is the editor framework from Meta.

Do you need to build some kind of HTTP handler to implement verb tunneling, where requests that aren't GET or POST are submitted as POST requests with an "X-HTTP-Method: […]" header? I guess people will let you know if things are broken after starting to use more obscure HTTP methods from the new API. Probably won't need this though.

Less verbose Terms and Conditions

Support duplicate image filenames

When uploading an image with the same filename as an existing one, and the user's time has expired so they can't replace the old image, generate a new unique name for it instead of throwing an error.

Hover popups for User component

Why should forum links get all the fun?

Cohort information
Special privileges and awards

Unread thread count in all page titles

Get the unread thread count in all page titles, not just thread pages and the home page
Change the favicon to a "badged" version too

API response compression

Currently, API responses are getting compressed on transitional API—make sure that remains the case with the real one.

Service worker

Include a service worker so the PWA can be recommended as an app. There's a Vite plugin to do it with specific SvelteKit instructions.

Touch interactions for posts

Can you build a better way to surface the Edit and Reply actions for a post on phones? How about a touch-first interaction like iMessage and Messenger? (But remember that touch is not the same thing as "narrow window," so you'd still need the narrow window mouse version!)

Reverse post order

UI to change reverse post order setting
API to change the setting

Error pages

Better 404/error responses for thread pages
If the URL ends in ".aspx", redirect to the appropriate page on the new site, or the old site if there's no new equivalent

Post pages say "getting X unread posts" when using pager

Post pages say "getting X unread posts" when using the unread threads pager to get to a different thread.

You need to reset all state when changing ThreadView's thread property.

Debugging in VS Code

Debugging support for the project is fairly nonexistent. Probably should get that working.

Integration with the VS Code extension for Azure SWA
Debugging browser TypeScript (breakpoints and stepping and such)
Running the Azure Static Web Apps swa reverse proxy locally

Editor: drag and drop images by link

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTML_Drag_and_Drop_API/Recommended_drag_types#image

Reimagined profiles

Essential information like name, cohort, and so on
Minimal fixed fields, but definitely a big freeform textbox
List of links
Deprecate all of the old contact info stuff?
Deprecate birthdays?

Different messages and art for the "nothing left to read" display

Deleted post visuals

Fade out the post and superimpose an X or slash.

(What visuals would you want for moderators who can see deleted posts?)

Edit timers

Why can't editing a post be as exciting as defusing a bomb?

Maybe the not-yet-existing edit timer shouldn't appear at all until there are less than 5 minutes remaining.

Thread is un-clipped after posting

Forums search

Show search results in the new site (without redirecting)
Do what you can to make the results UX better without changing the (totally awesome) functionality

Vote tooltips

For now they can just all be in the JavaScript. No real need to make that service-driven.

Upvote and downvote counts

Track and return upvote and downvote counts, not just the score
Fix the very minor bug where Vote goes to 0 instead of / after cancelling the only vote
Show the individual upvote and downvote counts on hover

Reprocess old posts

Back up first
- Make sure you can restore that backup
Convert all emoticon images to emoji (using the same rules as the new site)
Convert all forum links to new URLs

Current emoji rules

Emoticons are converted to images using this template:

<img src="Bitmaps/Emo/{0}.png" width="12" height="12" class="emo" alt="{1}" title="" />

Supported emoji:

Sequence	Filename	Equivalent emoji
`:) :-)`	Smiley	🙂
`:( :-(`	Frown	🙁
`:P :p :-P :-p :oP`	Silly	😝
`:O :o :-O :-o :-0`	Gasp	😮
`:-D :D`	Grin	😁
`:-/ :-\| :-\ :\|`	Unsure	😕
`:-[ >.<`	Wince	😣
`;) ;-)`	Wink	😉
`-_-`	Glare	😑
`^_^`	Pleased	😊
`<3`	Heart	♥
`</3`	HeartBroken	💔
`(hqf)`	Harlequin	🤡
`(cy)`	Cylon	🤖
`(tymk)`	TMYK	🌈🌟
`(nyan)`	Nyan	🌈
`(usa)`	USA	🇺🇸
`:-J`	Jmote	😇
`E(`	Emo	😞