As I think XOOPS major strength is as a community builder here are my wishes/ideas..

1) Notification system can be filtered for users or groups so on huge sites members can elect to be notified of new posts etc from only a select group or users. Maybe integrated with a buddy list.

2) Profile area upgraded. Members have a sort of control panel for there own ID. Can change font sizes, colours, site images etc. Members can choose which blocks they see. Some blocks mandatory, some they can choose. People love to configure their environment.

3) Some sort of personal content management system - they can store images, docs and other things they might want to share regularly. Keep buddy lists. Store messages.

I'm trying to think of how communities develop and how a site can grow with them. The site I run on XOOPS is fairly quiet (about 3 online at any time). The members like it like this, they know each other. I want to build membership but allow members to keep the feeling of intimacy by allowing them to create their own 'areas'.

I've recently realised that a site should come from the members to me and not me to the members, to be slightly pretentious about it!

Thanks for reading!

xGarb

I just thought this was good stuff... so I'll bump it.

...and i would like to add that i'd really like to see more work done on the member profile page. I am also having a hard time finding a good buddy list mod.

maybe you should read the XOOPS 2.1/2.2 news article, profiles will be customisable in next version..

cool thanx! I will.