Topics

Topics is a website that allows people to chat about different topics. Each topic can have its own managers, community helpers and VIP users.

Current abilities

- Topic management
- Post management
- Comments
- Topic, Post, Comments, Users reporting
- User banning
- Polls
- System services
- Dashboard widgets, charts
- Word filtering
- User mentioning
- Images in posts
- Automatic user reporting
    - If users use a banned word in a comment or a post, they will automatically be reported
- Common search indexing
    - Searched terms and their results should be cached, so next users can get the information faster
- Word banning on topic-level
    - Currently words are banned on the application-level

Current version

- v1.6_dev (-)

Future plans

- Videos in posts
- Topic tags grouping
    - When topics are created, their tags are custom written by the topic author. These tags can be misspelled or just similar to other already existing tags - e.g. "tech" and "technology".
    - There problems should be analyzed and available in a management overview

Topic roles description

Currently there are 5 roles in every topic. Also their abilities are written below.

They are:

- Member (all users without higher role)
    - Posts
- VIP (users that have a special status)
    - Post concepts
- Community Helper (users that have been active members of the community)
    - Polls
    - View poll list in the topic
    - Report topics
- Manager (users that are responsible for managing topics)
    - Manage roles
- Owner
    - Delete topics
    - Manage topics privacy