If you could build your own link list, what would you want?

[Verbal]

What's up guys?

I think this is a *great* plan, Jim & Sparky. I am very much in the market for a new LL script. I coded my own several years ago that I still use, but I just don't have the time these days to add all the new features I'd like. It would be great to have you guys develop one, based on the input of everyone here that'll actually use the script. All the other scripts available seem to lack in some crucial areas, so I've been pushing off buying one. The best would be a combination of xpowerlinks, link admin and links sql.

Suggestions/Wish List:

- Partner Accounts! (with an option to turn this feature on/off and also still allow/disallow free submissions too at the same time. Also, different types of Partners - to let the one's you trust most be approved instantly w/o review, etc.)

- Partner Control Panel! (a backend where partners could login and see all the sites they've listed, what's in the review queue, reviewer's comments, how many hits their sites have received, any advertising campaigns they've purchased. Also, it would be cool if partners could queue up to X sites at a time so they don't have to submit sites every damn day.)

- Reviewer Control Panel! (allow for multiple reviewers to be able to have their own accounts, that have stats about how many sites they've reviewed and in what categories, etc. Their own review queues, so like Reviewer X can choose only to review certain categories. Or a way to divide the master queue up evenly amongst reviewers. This will also help the site owner keep tabs on his reviewers.)

- Template based front end! (where you upload your website template w/ tags where all the links and categories should appear. The script could then generate your pages on the fly, or write them out daily/hourly with cron to an include file. Should be very SE friendly and crawlable. Maybe have options for each page to specify page titles, keywords, etc.)

- Multiple link list management! (Imagine running 10 linklists through this one script. This should be as easy as adding an extra MySQL field to specify which linklist the site belongs too, or if the site belongs to multiple linklist. Submitters/Partners could then submit once and be listed on several sites. Reviewers could manage everything from one admin area.)

I have tons of other ideas.. but, I'll stop for now.

Also.. Agree w/ others on other stuff:
HFS importer, better link-checker, improved blacklist, advanced search

Agree w/ Greenguy, you don't need a traffic trade script.. the site owner can use any of the existing ones, by putting that code into their site template.

[Mishi]

Originally Posted by Verbal

I have tons of other ideas.. but, I'll stop for now.

Don't stop, baby!

DragonList v.2.3 has a lot of the features you mentioned. V.3.0 will be a complete overhaul, and the more input I can get (directly or indirectly, bwahahaha) the better.

[Verbal]

Hi Mishi, checking out your script now (looks impressive!).

Couple other ideas:

Sponsors Table:
Basically a table containing each sponsor's name, url and a text box for notes.

Sponsor Sites Table:
A table storing paysite name, paysite affiliate url, pretty/fake url (to be shown to surfers on mouseover for example), # clicks sent to that site (by day,month,year), which category(s) it belongs to and which sponsor it belongs to.

Better Mass-Site Editing Controls:
You know how hotmail has a check box next to each email and one at the top that lets you check all the boxes? A LL script could use this feature too. You could then pull up say Teen sites or Bob's sites, click the check button to check all of them off, and either edit, delete, de-activate, approve, blacklist or even move them all to a different category. With one click.

Option to turn on/off click tracking: Not everyone needs it, and hard-links seem to be the way to go anyways.

Easy Way to Mass Review:
Right now all these scripts require you to click on "Edit" to make changes approve/ban the site. That's OK, but it means you have to do this one-by-one for every site. What would be very cool, is to turn on a feature that let's you edit say 1-X number of sites on a page. Or when you show all sites in your queue, have all the fields already editable, and a "Save" button at the bottom.

Better Database Backup, Import/Export Tools: should have at least some simple tools to backup or at least let you download your database from the admin. Also, stuff like Exporting all your Partners email addresses to a file, for example.


So, you guys are gonna give me a nice discount for all these ideas, right?

[Mishi]

Originally Posted by Verbal

Hi Mishi, checking out your script now (looks impressive!).

Thanks! (back)

Originally Posted by Verbal

Couple other ideas:

Sponsors Table:
Basically a table containing each sponsor's name, url and a text box for notes.

Sponsor Sites Table:
A table storing paysite name, paysite affiliate url, pretty/fake url (to be shown to surfers on mouseover for example)

Have that!

Originally Posted by Verbal

# clicks sent to that site (by day,month,year), which category(s) it belongs to and which sponsor it belongs to.

DL has overall stats from the begining of time. That is my most loved feature and most hated implementation. Will be seriously overhauling this part.

Originally Posted by Verbal

Better Mass-Site Editing Controls:
You know how hotmail has a check box next to each email and one at the top that lets you check all the boxes? A LL script could use this feature too. You could then pull up say Teen sites or Bob's sites, click the check button to check all of them off, and either edit, delete, de-activate, approve, blacklist or even move them all to a different category. With one click.

Sort of have this...there are a lot of filtering capabilities.

Originally Posted by Verbal

Option to turn on/off click tracking: Not everyone needs it, and hard-links seem to be the way to go anyways.

Agreed. Static pages do appear to be the way to go. I so wish there was a way to "split" a link so it could go two places, lol.

Originally Posted by Verbal

Easy Way to Mass Review:
Right now all these scripts require you to click on "Edit" to make changes approve/ban the site. That's OK, but it means you have to do this one-by-one for every site. What would be very cool, is to turn on a feature that let's you edit say 1-X number of sites on a page. Or when you show all sites in your queue, have all the fields already editable, and a "Save" button at the bottom.

I think my brain just exploded.

Originally Posted by Verbal

Better Database Backup, Import/Export Tools: should have at least some simple tools to backup or at least let you download your database from the admin. Also, stuff like Exporting all your Partners email addresses to a file, for example.

Agreed. I've not bothered with a lot of this sort of thing, because I didn't want to re-write PHPMyAdmin. But the deeper I get into things, the more I realize the need.

Originally Posted by Verbal

So, you guys are gonna give me a nice discount for all these ideas, right?

How's about tree-fiddy and a ham sammich?