Awaiting More Details Blog Type: Journal

[Alpha1]

Please add a blog type: Journal.
This Blog Type would allow for logging and sharing personal experiences.
UBS works quite well as a Journal, but there are some things that a Blog Type could add to enhance UBS for Journal use:

The most important thing here, is that we don't need to rename all phrases from Blog to Journal.

I would not need this blog type to have review functionality because rating someones personal experiences can be hurtful. But maybe others need it? @Jim I can just turn it off trough permissions anyway.

It would be nice if the Journal and the Entry displays the avatar clearly, as it gives a personal touch.

it would be nice (not critical) if readers can go to the next or previous Entry in the Journal.

A 'Top commenters on this Journal' sidebar block would be nice to have. (not critical) Because the same members that comment on one Entry of the Journal, are likely to comment on other Entries of the same Journal. And it has special meaning for Journal authors to have a following of members that appreciate their personal Journal Entries.

 

[Bob]

There is no such thing as a "Blog type" in UBS. So in order to add a Blog Type, there first needs to be a Blog Type System developed (which costs an insane amount of money and years (took me 2.5 years to develop the new RMS Item Type system).

Also, it damn near sounds like you also expect Blog Entry Type, which is not the same as Blog Type.

There needs to be a whole hell of a lot of discussion on the TOPIC of "Blog Type" and "Blog Entry Type" before anything can be considered for development.

 

[Alpha1]

What details are important to discuss on the topic of blog type and blog entry type?

 

[Bob]

What details are important to discuss on the topic of blog type and blog entry type?

All of them.

We start with the existing BLOG architecture and System and discus every FEATURE and those would come into play in a new Blog Type architecture (same as we did for months for RMS). We'd need to define what features apply to all blog types and what new features would apply to each specific blog type (again, just like we did for RMS Item Types).

Same process with Blog Entry Types.

It would be A LOT of discussion, just like there was A LOT of discussion about RMS Item Types.

Anyway, there is plenty of time for discussing this as this isn't something that I'd consider anytime soon (probably XF 3.x). I will move this into a brainstorming thread like we've done for all massive feature requests.