Board Thread:General Discussion & Requests/@comment-26272757-20160823184635

This afternoon I have searched for useful features to use here, but most of them are fun, but quite useless. I've listed the ones that I found the least useless or even OK:


 * A function that reveals the IP adresses of anonymous users. This way we can easily see the different anonymous users and we can see which anon does which edits and comments.
 * A feature that can send a message to a blocked person with the reason why he got blocked. When an admin blocks someone, he can strike this option, and then someone can see why he got blocked and know what he did wrong, so he won't do it again when he gets unblocked. Because he knows the reason for his block, he could also leave a message to an admin to tell him why he shouldn't be blocked, because the admins have made a mistake, etc...
 * A script that makes a list of all users who got a special rank (Admins, rollbacks...) with the dates they received and lost the rights, and how long they held them. This way we can easily put those dates in the historical events page and the Retired users section on the User rank page.

Other stuff

 * The bug where we couldn't add categories to the Flags Collage is fixed. We just forgot to close a gallery.
 * The bug that changes European into Europe an can't be fixed, but it doesn't matter. You can't see this when you visit the page, only when you edit it.
 * I've been busy to make all links to a user page (even message wall and contributions) the same color as the user's color (request by TTigerTT). All link colors should work now.
 * Give all inactive users a gray link color. (request by TTigerTT) I personally like this idea, inctive users will have an own link color, active users too, and then all the users with special ranks too. I will look if I can make this, but probabl not as it seems to be hard. Then Werner must do it or we ask it, or we just let it how it is. 