What do you want for Christmas?

[antpeks]

Hi, the main problem of all classifieds sites it that you don't exactly know which ad si still actual. So i miss option to update my ad, put it again on the first place after certain time. I don't know how to explain it but for example after 48 hours your ad is not on the front page but your offer is still actual so you login, go to your ads and simply update it and this put your ad on the first place again and everybody will know that your item is still aviable and 30 day expiration starts again. This looks very important and useful to me.

I go totally with Flap, nice would be is OSclass mails the user to put the ad on top againa something like: you ad is now on page 3, click here to put it on top again. I see a lot of classifieds sites where a lot of fake ads are posted, and then not only by admin, so some sort of phone verification would be great. HOw i see that happen:

When the user signs up, he gets a message on its cellular and needs to type in a code send to him by sms. offcourse there will be a issue with the SMS provider, but for example Mollie.nl or targetsms.nl or even smsdiscount.com or ZONG integration.

A other feature that would be great is:

- at the sign up collect ip adres date and time in the useradmin, so when there are illegal ads, ads that require police assistance, or fraudulent ads, then those data can be send to the authoprities.
- also at every login the data ip adres, date and time should be collected, for misuse of the system.

[kingsult]

- A lost password system for the users. If a user loses his pw, he gets an email...
- possibility to limit the size of the uploaded files... or automatically reduce size and resolutions for scalability reasons
- setting up a time limit for the ads


Thanks Santa,

[Flap]

I think that time limit can be set for each category. When you create it, you can set expiration in days. Or am I wrong?

[irishrage]

Child Categories

Example:

Furniture & Interior
          |
Antiques
Carpets

 

[_CONEJO]

- A lost password system for the users. If a user loses his pw, he gets an email...

This is already done. Not sure if it's on the last version or on the next one, but it's on developer branch.

- possibility to limit the size of the uploaded files... or automatically reduce size and resolutions for scalability reasons

That's a good idea. We'll take a look at it.

- setting up a time limit for the ads

This is already done, Flap is correct. You could specify the time-limit on the admin panel.

Child Categories

Example:

Furniture & Interior
          |
Antiques
Carpets

 

This is done. You could add subcategories on the admin panel. Click on "Add new category", then choose its "parent category". We know, it's not supe-intuitive, we'll change that, but it should work.

[beebo]

Ideas:

 - Users can choose a city from a drop-down menu when they get on the site, so all the ads will automatically show up according to that city.
 - add re-captcha when sending a contacting seller.

[Juan Ramón]

Well, as I see on the comments it should be a good option to add recaptcha to all forms. However, the city feature is a nice feature... we'll should implement in future versions!

[antpeks]

I would love a mass mailing feature to the users of the site. The advertisers. I think something like that would give the script huge benefits for the webmasters. In case of important measures they could send out a email to all users.

Peter

[Juan Ramón]

Ok, this could be done with a plugin maybe... I'll take a look into that.

[_CONEJO]

Umm... Mailing... I made some mailing systems before. It's a little tricky if you don't want to get blacklisted as spammer, but yeah, I like the idea. I'll think about it and maybe include it on the core and offer an interface to expand it with plugins or release it directly as a plugin.


Thanks!

[antpeks]

If i may react i think it is a basic part of any website, specially classified site to keep the user posted, on special deals, free posting of ads, new categories like that.

One other part i think is neccesary is user verification, and fraud prevention, it would be nice to see some sort of verification thru a other system then email, mayybe sms verification, there are a couple of parties that work worldwide. I think that could bring a real differnce between OSclass and the rest out there.

[RoyalC]

[joking]
for me on christmas i want you to have 10 hands because you'll have a lot of work to do
[/joking]

mass import ads in csv format.

thnx.

[Swede]

I would like to have a a good banningfeature.

By IP
By user
By mail

[_CONEJO]

[joking]
for me on christmas i want you to have 10 hands because you'll have a lot of work to do
[/joking]

mass import ads in csv format.

thnx.

We thought a while ago about it, but we discarded the idea since it will need to be in a specific format. That means, you need your program to export your data in a valid CSV. If you could offer your point of view, we maybe reconsider it

[_CONEJO]

I would like to have a a good banningfeature.

By IP
By user
By mail

Hi!

We're working on it! Check the development here : https://github.com/osclass/OSClass/issues/56