Feature List - TranquilTort/Ask-Meeple GitHub Wiki

Feature List for board gaming Ask-Meeple.

Account Creation

• Optional authentication for access (guests can view content).
• Users are prompted to login if interacting with features that require authentication.
• Those features would be asking a question, commenting, or posting a review.
• Check each time for authentication when doing one of the three above things.
• Login prompt displays form that takes in a username and password.
• Separate pages for login and create new account.
• Login page will have a link to 'create new account' page (not redirect to).
• Once logged in, user can go to that user's homepage with that user's posts.

Post Creation CREATE

• Requires login.
• Redirects to a form that requires a post title, post body, optional post tags, image URL
• Upon post, user is directed to a page with feed of posts.
• Viewing posts does not require login.

EDIT

• Requires login.
• User must be original poster to edit the post.
• Redirects to a form with fields filled in from original post.

DELETE

• Display a button for the original poster
• This will delete the post and all comments associated with that post
• Clicking on button will have a pop-up for confirmation.
• After deleting from database, remove from HTML.

Commenting on Posts CREATE

• Requires login.
• Displays comments form and comments underneath post when comment button is clicked.
• Post comment upon clicking on 'Submit' button.
• Viewing comments does not require login.

EDIT

• Requires login.
• User must be original poster to edit the post.
• Displays a form underneath that comment, pre-filled in with existing values.

DELETE

• Display a button for the original creator of comment.
• Ask for confirmation when choosing to delete.
• This will delete the comment, no changes to the post's content.

Searching by title/tag

• On main page, have a search bar on the navigation bar (navigation bar will be on every page).
• It will be just an input field and a button.
• Only return results that directly match a string or tag.
• After a search, redirects user to a page with search results.
• Does not require login to search.

Grouping by tag

• Have a sidebar with clickable tags.
• Clicking a tag will result in a search, using that tag as the search term.
• Tags will be defined beneath specific posts, as specified by the user making the post.
• On homepage display, questions/posts will be ordered by most recent.

Bonus Features

Voting on Posts

• Requires login.
• Thumbs up for upvote, thumbs down for downvote
• Points will be displayed.
• Search will be ordered by upvote/downvote.

Voting on Comments

• Requires login.
• Thumbs up for upvote, thumbs down for downvote
• Points will be displayed.

Replies to Comments

• Requires login. (discuss this after other implementations)