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I think it would be nice to offer a way for you to migrate a users posts [via drop down menu] to some other member before you delete their account.  This would be on the member delete page, in addition to the checkbox where you can choose to leave posts, or delete them when you delete the member.

"I'm only speculatiing here but that is what comes to mind."

Sure, it  didn't matter to me how it was implemented.  Whatever was the best way.

I haven't even found any takers, so I figured this post was dead anyway. 

Note the 'reply off forum?'

Serious inquiries please. The reason I'm asking is I may have other jobs in the future, so I don't mind paying for it.

ack, never mind - found'em

What would be nice, is rather than simply deleting that members posts, is setting up a means to 'move' or migrate those posts to another member.

This way, if you want to delete a member, you can have the ability to select another member and migrate all the posts to that one, prior to deleting the first one.

I've run across the same problem.  I have some members i've culled from our database who had posted a lot of topics.  I don't want to simply delete those posts because they are useful, but on the other hand, if you delete the user, and not the posts, then they show up as a "Guest".

Having the above capability would be nice, and allow you to do everything in one motion.

Over and above all the other above comments [which are dead on IMHO] I feel it is important to mention that PunBB will be a _lot_ more secure.

In a word, the folks at phpbb.com just can't keep with the script kiddies that manage to hack it.

We kept our version of phpbb updated [well, as best as possible] and we still got hacked - three times. [!!!]

Once was enough.  We migrated to PunBB and never looked back.

You may of already mentioned this, but for completeness sake ...

1) PunBB provides a more secure environment for your members. They should thank you for that, not badger you.

2) The fact of the matter is, you just don't have enough time to keep phpbb updated every week.  [looks away]  >:)

Who has the time to continually update phpbb?  It's a pain in the butt, especially when you're a busy webmaster doing other stuff.

3) Support for PunBB is head and shoulders better than support for phpbb.

For example, I posted a problem to phpbb' "issues" forum - I took the time to fill out their silly formated form just so I could get my problem across.  I waited exactly 2 minutes, re-loaded the page and my post had slid down to the bottom just that fast.

The moral of that story is I knew full well they weren't going to answer my post [and they never did].  It wasn't because it was a hard one to answer.  It was only because they just couldn't keep up with the influx of posts streaming in.  No one could, especially in a all volunteer environment.

I'm sure others may disagree with my points, and that is ok.  I'm used to getting beat up around here.

But these issues alone should help 'sell' PunBB to anyone who understands boards of this genre, especially when considering the suggestions mentioned above.

I think this is going to be more than I want to bite off and chew.

After going through the database [in phpmyAdmin], I've discovered several posts that are all Guests.

What I need to do is convert those Guests into a real account.

Would someone be interested in doing this for as a paid gig?

If so, email me off-forum and we'll visit.

TIA

IMHO is was all about options for the members.  If a browser based notepad is made available for them, chances are they would use it. [if it's implemented right]

Yes, I know plugins are for Admins - the plugin itself would only provide the means to manage such a Notepad, if any, or required.  I just hadn't gotten that far in the scope of things yet. 

Regardless, if implemented as a Mod, I can see the value; you would have captured the users id, as well as members cookie, although you might not be able to use it in this instance [the cookies would potentially need to be different]; In the case of the Notepad, you would be using the cookie to check the members id, and number of snippets they had, and where they were stored, and so on.  I'm only speculatiing here but that is what comes to mind.

In the end, it's not a matter of whether a Notepad is useful for you, or not.  It depends on the forum it's suited for. Just because someone built a Mod for uploading images doesn't make it necessary for you to implement it into your own forum - that depends if in your judgement you have a need for it, or your members would find it useful.

In our case, we have a ton of folks who are writing/posting a ton of scripts.  That is why I felt a notepad would be useful for them in the first place.

My original query was first to see if anyone had used a browser based NotePad of any kind [javascript or php or a hybrid], and if they would oblige by pointing me to a good one.  I haven't been able to find anything doing a net search.

Are you questioning the reasoning/significance of the Notepad itself?

Ok, good enough then.  That is not something I had thought of.

Quasy folder is just a way to describe the ability to save more than one snippet.  If there is no such capability, then the user is going to have one long, hugmongus thread of snippets, which would defeat the NotePads purpose/usefulness.

A windoid is a javascript popup window, whose state is such that it will aways stay in front focus of the parent browser, or "floats", until it is physically dismissed wth a close button, or close link of some kind.

Everyone have their own little notes they can write down.  I suspect this would require a cookie to be set for those who made use of it.

It would be nice if they could have multiple notes, similar to quasy folders, or "containers" [links?], which would store individual clippings/snippets.  When a user clicked on the folder/container/link it would give them their particular snippet.

Ideally, in one, compact windoid.

I understand, just wondering if it's possible to make it work as a plugin architecture.

My initial thoughts were to capture the user id, so that only members could make use of the notepad itself.

Assuming a plugin isn't practical, do you have any suggestions for a browser based Notepad as i'm describing?

Thanks for your help.