We are finalizing the requirements list for the next version of Dream.In.Code and want to give everyone one last opportunity to vote for your favorite ideas and add your own ideas.

The next version of DIC will be heavily focused on usability. This includes a much better experience for those contributing articles, snippets, and tutorials. Better notifications, approval status tracking, etc. It will also include many more features for viewing topics you've replied to, started, etc.

We will also be focusing on helping users cut through the noise and get straight to the right answers. This will be an extension/variation of the "Thanks" system to help flag helpful posts.

So, with all that said, share your ideas, and vote for your "must haves":

http://dreamincode.uservoice.com

It wont let you make more than 1 suggestion?

I have been thinking about actually posting a code snippet or two, but I don't know what has already been done. Maybe a search bar on the snippets section?

Edit: Sorry Didn't see the link.

This post has been edited by runfaster: 17 Feb, 2009 - 06:06 PM

is there going to be any recruiting as far as volunteers to help the site? being somewhat good with GFX i am willing to help

i like how my ideas are suspiciously just removed from the list.

that being said. i'm gonna miss the old dreamincode.

I'd have to second the search bar on the snippets section, so i can tell what has and hasn't been written if i get an idea

How about something to deal with repeat questions? We get a lot of the same questions all the time, and a way to search for a similar question before a post is completed would be great. I think that would cut down on the clutter and get more meaningful information onto the site.

How about a this post was not helpful button with a reason why

Usability hey, done a whole module on that. Whatever you do, dont follow nielsen's hauristics. Apparantly, his the master of usability, and then you go too his website here, need i say more?

And i just thought of a great idea!!! Seeing that this site is problably bringing you cash by the bucket loads, why not start a shop where "thanks" can be traded in for gifts like that memory stick i am desperate to get my hands on! This will encourage better post and more interactivity by members. Pokerstars do somthing simular with great effect.

This post has been edited by nick2price: 23 Feb, 2009 - 02:46 PM

I think we need a general forum or a thread for requesting a tutorial. I know we have them randomly per language - but a forum in General would be nice.

This post has been edited by Nykc: 24 Feb, 2009 - 02:16 PM

I love the statistics on this site, perhaps a posts per day/per forum, members who joined today, most posts/thanks/kudos ever board, total posts, etc.

I agree with Bodom, as search bars would be helpful pretty much anywhere. Maybe some for the find member's posts/topics. There are probably several other places they might come in handy. Possible sorting forums by views and replies as well.

and this last one is just an idea, but we could separate the C and C++ forums to better help our posters as according what kind of solution they wanted to a problem. I posted a topic in C/C++ about it, just had the thought and wanted some more input!

This post has been edited by crazyjugglerdrummer: 1 Mar, 2009 - 02:37 PM

We need the option to report users who are spamming the boards. Like the user "budgetmailboxes" who just used the Intro boards to post about his online business. I have seen dozens of postings like that by spammers but there is no option for us to report them anywhere that I can see.

@crummydo: do you mean this?

I think a autosearch plugin would be very cool for new posts, however implementing it would be tricky. Anyway... i agree that there needs to be a "report this post" button (or, as stayscrisp so eloquently put it, "this post was not helpful"). Also, i've noticed that sometimes when i try to post i'll get a 403 forbidden message. Maybe that's a problem with cookies on my end.

DIC is the best! I've never gotten a quicker response then when i post here.

Oh, and i just noticed that I've been "promoted" to author (thanks to he who did this ). Now i feel bad, i haven't written a tutorial in ages I'm working on a "Intro to C++" tutorial, but i'm only about 1/4 way through. Better get back to notepad

This post has been edited by polymath: 25 Feb, 2009 - 01:51 PM

Maybee a solved button on the forums relating to questions that way you can see at a glance who has had their problems delt with. It always anoys me that lol

The D.I.C. school ideal on the uservoice site gave me another idea. It reminded me of a program my brothers schoold used, basicaly a more interactive chat room with a board everyone can write on/paste pics, talk with each other, ect. I'm not sure sure how practical it would be to set up something like that here, but I think theres quite a few good things it could be be used for. On the lines of a D.I.C. school, you could have one -or a few- set time slots each week were some one volunteers to go over a certain concept or an important part of a broader subject. I'm not talking full classes that take weeks for each subject, just individual topics that last maybe two or three sessions each at most. Nothing anyone has to commit to for very long. This way instead of just reading tutorials and the standar questions on the boards, people would have 'mini classes' they could sit in on to learn a variety of things. Because the person teaching the concept could do a bit more to show people everything then they could just writing a tutorial, and because people would be able to stop that person and ask them about whatever they don't understand has they come to it, I think some people would apreciate having this kind of thing available.

Also, when its not being used for scheduled 'lessons' people could use it if they need something better then the forums to help some one who posts a question. Like I said, not sure what all setting this up would involve, I don't know what exact program my brothers school was using or much more about it. I think something simular would be a good adition though, something more then the basic forums and text setup.

1) read the site feedback forum
2) give feedback to the users that are trying to contribute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with Asscotte


I think it would be good if each language that there is a forum on has a 'solved threads' area. There could be a link to it in the 'important topics' perhaps.

Because D.I.C contains so many threads it's feasible that each languages 'solved threads' section is broken down into categories.

I'm not sure how this would work perhaps a string search on ''problem solved''.

''Problem solved'' being a phrase that is only ever written in a thread when the person who started the thread feels this is the case.....

This post has been edited by cms247: 15 Mar, 2009 - 05:38 PM

(If this isn't in existance yet):

Users who have only had between 1-10 posts and have not been active within 2 months should automatically deleted along with their posts/topics to save on space and make it easier to find real posts.

Ummmm. That would leave about 500 topics at any given time which would mean nobody would be here as nobody would find us through google. So I don't think that's going to happen, but thanks for the suggestion.