Sitting-Duc Posted July 1, 2017 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 84 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5334 Content Per Day: 1.01 Reputation: 4610 Achievement Points: 41339 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 08:25 PM Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Share Posted July 1, 2017 Hi all! In the next major update of the website that will be coming this summer the platform developers are introducing a feature called 'clubs'. I think this is going to be an exciting and fascinating feature for us to adopt as it looks to help support a wider variety of games and sub-communities. The idea behind it will be that we create a 'club' for each of the game types we support with servers and also the games that we don't.The core parts to the community would stay as is such as general discussion/clan members/admin forums. These clubs will be available for anyone to join and are essentially micro communities within the site. Each micro community will have it's own 'homepage', 'forums'. 'downloads', 'events' and 'gallery'. The hope will be that with this organisational structure there will be more freedom for the games to have an identity of there own and also for users to have more choice in the content they are shown on the website. The events is something I am really looking forward to using as each game club can have a proper events system for tourneys etc. So that's about it with the update from me, I would love it if you would read the following update from the platform the developers and gave your feedback of what we could do with it: Quote This entry is about our IPS Community Suite 4.2 release. We are happy to introduce the next major feature that will be available in IPS Community Suite 4.2 - Clubs. Clubs are a brand new way of supporting sub-communities within your site. Many people have requested social group functionality in the past and Clubs are our implementation of this concept. Let's take a look at a few screenshots, and then go over what they are capable of doing. The Club directory A Club homepage Club member listing Example of content within a club (topics, in this case) There's a lot to digest there! Let's go over the basic functionality. Club Types Four types of club are available: Public clubs Clubs that anyone can see and participate in without joining. Open club Clubs that anyone can see and join. Closed club Clubs that anyone can see in the directory, but joining must be approved by a Club Leader or Club Moderator. Non-club-members who view the club will only see the member list - not the recent activity or content areas. Private club Clubs that do not show in public, and users must be invited by a Club Leader or Club Moderator As the site admin, you can of course configure which club types can be created and by whom. You could, for example, allow members to create public and open clubs, but allow a "VIP" group to also create Closed and Private clubs. Admin configuration option for Club creations Club Users Each club has three levels of user: Leader A leader has all of the permissions of a moderator, and can add other moderators. They can also add content areas (see below). The club owner is automatically a leader. Moderators Moderators, as the name implies, have the ability to moderate content posted within the club. As the site administrator, you can define which moderator tools can be used. You could, for example, prevent any content being deleted from clubs, but allow it to be hidden. Moderators can also remove members from a club. Users Anyone else that joins the club. Defining the moderator permissions available to club moderators Your site administrator and moderators, with the appropriate permissions, are able to moderator content in any Club regardless of whether they are a member of it. Clubs can be created by any user who has permission. As you would expect, this is controlled by our regular permission settings. For closed clubs, there's an approval process. Users can request to join and the request must be approved by a leader. Leaders get a notification when a user requests to join; the user gets a notification when their request is approved or denied. Approving and declining join requests Club Content Club Leaders can add a variety of content areas to their club - forums, calendars, blogs and so on. It's important to note that these content areas are fully functional just as if they existed as a top-level admin created area. They will appear in search results, activity streams, users can follow them, embed links to them, and so on. If a user has permission to see a forum (for example) within a club it will behave exactly like other forums they see - and the same for all other kinds of content. Each content area a leader adds can have a custom title, and will appear in the club navigation. This means, for example, that you can have multiple forums within a club, and give each a different name. Adding content areas to a club Club Custom Fields Clubs also support custom fields. Custom fields are defined by the site administrator and can be filled in by Club Owners. The values they enter are shown (along with the club description) on the club homepage. Custom fields in a club On the Club Directory page, users can filter by the custom club fields. Filtering clubs Club Locations Clubs have built-in support for Google Maps, allowing users to specify a physical location for their club. Let's say you run a community for car enthusiasts; each club might be tied to a particular region's meetup. The Club Owner specifies the location when setting up the club, and clubs are then shown on map on the directory page: Club locations And within a club, the location is shown too: Club Display We offer two ways to display club headers within the club - the standard way, shown in the screenshots you've seen up to this point, but we also have a sidebar option. This is something the admin sets globally for the site, rather than per-club. This is useful where your site design doesn't facilitate another horizontal banner taking up valuable screen real-estate; moving the club banner to the sidebar alleviates this pressure on vertical space. Sidebar club style Using Clubs in Other Ways There's a lot of scope for using clubs beyond allowing users to create their own groups. You do not even have to call them "clubs" if that does not suit your use case. For example, on a company intranet you could rename Clubs to "Departments", and create a private group for each of your main roles. This would allow each department to have its own community, with its own forums, gallery, file sharing and so on, private and separate from other departments. Similarly, they'd also work well in situations where you as the site admin want to create entire micro-communities. Take for example a video game publisher. Using Clubs, they could create a micro-community for each of their games, complete with forums, galleries and so forth, and then set the Clubs directory as their overall community homepage. Immediately, they have a setup that hasn't until now been possible out-of-the-box with IPS Community Suite. We expect our clients will come up with some really innovative uses for the new Club functionality, and we can't wait to see what you do. We'd love to hear your feedback - let us know what you think in the comments. Icequeen, EDD THE DUCK, ANGU5 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TobyDeDrone Posted July 1, 2017 Member ID: 25297 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 82 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 83 Achievement Points: 835 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/26/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 6, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2017 What an awesome idea forward ever, backward never. AyaqGuyaq, JohnnyDos and WookieSM 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Icequeen Posted July 1, 2017 Member ID: 9264 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 89 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 6093 Content Per Day: 1.52 Reputation: 7989 Achievement Points: 51431 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 54 Joined: 05/13/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: 44 minutes ago Birthday: 07/13/1981 Device: Android Share Posted July 1, 2017 This looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Barron Posted July 1, 2017 Member ID: 20987 Group: +++ Insurgency Head Admin Followers: 21 Topic Count: 190 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1794 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 1775 Achievement Points: 14304 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/21/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 12 Birthday: 01/09/1996 Device: Windows Share Posted July 1, 2017 I quite like the idea and could be very beneficial for game communities How does it work in terms of registration? New people would still have to register on the main XI homepage I presume and then apply to join the a particular club or can they just join any club as a member? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sitting-Duc Posted July 1, 2017 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 84 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5334 Content Per Day: 1.01 Reputation: 4610 Achievement Points: 41339 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 08:25 PM Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Author Share Posted July 1, 2017 17 minutes ago, Barron3000 said: I quite like the idea and could be very beneficial for game communities How does it work in terms of registration? New people would still have to register on the main XI homepage I presume and then apply to join the a particular club or can they just join any club as a member? So nothing is changing with accounts etc. The homepage will change a bit to promote the clubs and once someone joins the club then the they will be able to follow and see that games content. At the beginning I would only be looking at the open clubs for the games where non-club members can view the content but need to join to contribute: We could then expand the clubs with closed ones for member groups such as breakfast clubs and tourney clubs etc. Still in the ideas stage so I welcome any suggestions for how we could use this.. BlackRose, Mule, Barron and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sitting-Duc Posted July 1, 2017 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 84 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5334 Content Per Day: 1.01 Reputation: 4610 Achievement Points: 41339 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 08:25 PM Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Author Share Posted July 1, 2017 So ignore the broken images but this is something like it might look... Homepage: Forums: Mule, Barron, Labob and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
WookieSM Posted July 1, 2017 Member ID: 22558 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 774 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 529 Achievement Points: 6230 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/07/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 09:18 PM Birthday: 05/16/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted July 1, 2017 That sounds like a smashing idea big thumbs up from me TobyDeDrone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Barron Posted July 1, 2017 Member ID: 20987 Group: +++ Insurgency Head Admin Followers: 21 Topic Count: 190 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1794 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 1775 Achievement Points: 14304 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/21/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 12 Birthday: 01/09/1996 Device: Windows Share Posted July 1, 2017 I quite like the idea altogether, looking forward to it Stringer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
JohnnyDos Posted July 2, 2017 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.41 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2017 JUST DO IT! DUC. Mule 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unchileno Posted July 2, 2017 Member ID: 101 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 109 Topic Count: 764 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 8133 Content Per Day: 1.52 Reputation: 6747 Achievement Points: 61498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 15 Birthday: 01/23/1974 Device: iPhone Share Posted July 2, 2017 15 hours ago, Sitting-Duc said: Hi all! In the next major update of the website that will be coming this summer the platform developers are introducing a feature called 'clubs'. I think this is going to be an exciting and fascinating feature for us to adopt as it looks to help support a wider variety of games and sub-communities. The idea behind it will be that we create a 'club' for each of the game types we support with servers and also the games that we don't.The core parts to the community would stay as is such as general discussion/clan members/admin forums. These clubs will be available for anyone to join and are essentially micro communities within the site. Each micro community will have it's own 'homepage', 'forums'. 'downloads', 'events' and 'gallery'. The hope will be that with this organisational structure there will be more freedom for the games to have an identity of there own and also for users to have more choice in the content they are shown on the website. The events is something I am really looking forward to using as each game club can have a proper events system for tourneys etc. So that's about it with the update from me, I would love it if you would read the following update from the platform the developers and gave your feedback of what we could do with it: @Sitting-Duc BlackRose, JAYsus_NL, WldPenguin and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
KillerKitty Posted July 2, 2017 Member ID: 2905 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 72 Topic Count: 54 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2190 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 2545 Achievement Points: 18662 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 10/17/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 11, 2018 Birthday: 02/26/1977 Share Posted July 2, 2017 on the one hand i like the idea, curious to try that on the other hand i need to go to more clubs to see whats new which will confuse me even more and i just got used to this forum update....lol seriously, looking forward to it, hope i dont miss any exciting news then Unchileno, Mule and BlackRose 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Mule Posted July 2, 2017 Member ID: 390 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 410 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 4251 Content Per Day: 0.80 Reputation: 3050 Achievement Points: 35625 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 12:46 AM Birthday: 05/08/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted July 2, 2017 Just now, Unchileno said: @Sitting-Duc HORNY IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaW! Unchileno 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Mule Posted July 2, 2017 Member ID: 390 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 410 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 4251 Content Per Day: 0.80 Reputation: 3050 Achievement Points: 35625 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 12:46 AM Birthday: 05/08/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted July 2, 2017 Just now, KillerKitty said: on the one hand i like the idea, curious to try that on the other hand i need to go to more clubs to see whats new which will confuse me even more and i just got used to this forum update....lol seriously, looking forward to it, hope i dont miss any exciting news then Don't worry @ Unchileno wont let you miss anything! Unchileno 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sourtap Posted July 2, 2017 Member ID: 24842 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 12 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1413 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2205 Achievement Points: 14731 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 9 Joined: 07/31/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 09:09 AM Birthday: 09/12/1989 Device: Windows Share Posted July 2, 2017 Looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unchileno Posted July 2, 2017 Member ID: 101 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 109 Topic Count: 764 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 8133 Content Per Day: 1.52 Reputation: 6747 Achievement Points: 61498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 15 Birthday: 01/23/1974 Device: iPhone Share Posted July 2, 2017 37 minutes ago, Mule said: Don't worry @ Unchileno wont let you miss anything! Nope I wont.... Mule 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
EDD THE DUCK Posted July 2, 2017 Member ID: 375 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 92 Topic Count: 385 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 4065 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 7844 Achievement Points: 37160 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 45 Joined: 09/13/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 08:11 AM Birthday: 06/01/1970 Device: iPhone Share Posted July 2, 2017 I like orange clubs Unchileno, WookieSM and Mule 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Poseidon Posted July 2, 2017 Member ID: 1132 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 36 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 495 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 563 Achievement Points: 3863 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 02/14/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 11:42 AM Birthday: 07/24/1980 Device: Windows Share Posted July 2, 2017 That sounds awesome and looks cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
WookieSM Posted July 2, 2017 Member ID: 22558 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 774 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 529 Achievement Points: 6230 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/07/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 09:18 PM Birthday: 05/16/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted July 2, 2017 7 hours ago, EDD THE DUCK said: I like orange clubs Owww man i love these to want some right now i said now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
KicknDatAzz Posted July 7, 2017 Member ID: 833 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 41 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 765 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 591 Achievement Points: 5688 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 01:26 AM Device: Windows Share Posted July 7, 2017 On 7/2/2017 at 11:32 AM, EDD THE DUCK said: I like orange clubs is that orange chocolate??? if soo..... ewwwwww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
KicknDatAzz Posted July 7, 2017 Member ID: 833 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 41 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 765 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 591 Achievement Points: 5688 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 01:26 AM Device: Windows Share Posted July 7, 2017 this looks cool, I can see the benefit from it. I know you guys are working on this integration, but I am curious how the website themes will or wont be affected by this. There is a LOT of white in your test images.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
iboomboom Posted July 7, 2017 Member ID: 20343 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 89 Topic Count: 203 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 3381 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 3019 Achievement Points: 30033 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/11/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 08:14 PM Birthday: 07/01/1983 Device: Windows Share Posted July 7, 2017 I vote for a gentlemen's club. You know the one where men come in well dressed, socialize, drink tea, play polo, enjoy a club sandwich, and smack a french maid's booty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Bogleg Posted July 7, 2017 Member ID: 907 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 96 Topic Count: 126 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2731 Content Per Day: 0.52 Reputation: 3928 Achievement Points: 26177 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 19 Birthday: 02/10/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted July 7, 2017 We just need to make sure we keep that test club - the Special Club. Rugger definitely would fit well in any club about special people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
AyaqGuyaq Posted July 8, 2017 Member ID: 3773 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 39 Topic Count: 30 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3138 Content Per Day: 0.74 Reputation: 2983 Achievement Points: 24456 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 10/06/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 29, 2022 Birthday: 11/03/1966 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Way to keep it new and exciting, @Sitting-Duc. As always, we appreciate you and the programmers' hard work on behalf of the community. I think someone just "jismed," and it wasn't me!! "She said I saw you on the counter--wasn't me!! She said I saw you on the sofa--wasn't me!!" Sorry, too tired and excited to be home to sleep after my gold-mining experiences. Yes, plural. Ayaq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sitting-Duc Posted September 26, 2017 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 84 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5334 Content Per Day: 1.01 Reputation: 4610 Achievement Points: 41339 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 08:25 PM Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Author Share Posted September 26, 2017 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
iboomboom Posted September 26, 2017 Member ID: 20343 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 89 Topic Count: 203 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 3381 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 3019 Achievement Points: 30033 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/11/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 08:14 PM Birthday: 07/01/1983 Device: Windows Share Posted September 26, 2017 " identity of there own" their* You're welcome. Sincerely, Grammar Nazi. Gatorgirl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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