An idea I was thinking of would be to allow users to merge accounts. I'll explain below.

Say I join http://blah.virtualforums.co.uk. I think it would be cool if I could go to my profile, and beside "Modify Profile", click on a "Merge Account" link.

On this page, there should be two input boxes. In the first one, I would enter "support". In the second one, I would enter "cr0w".

After submitting, I would return here, to find a div floating at the top right of my screen, saying "Merge Account Request".

Upon clicking the div, it should take me to a page showing which forum & username the request is coming from, then the option to accept or reject the request.

If I reject, a div appears on "blah", saying "Merge Request Declined", which takes me to a page showing details.

If I accept, however, an alert appears on "blah" saying "Merge Request Accepted". When I click on this, I get taken to a page with a bunch of checkboxes, asking me what I would like to transfer. Things like my signature, avatar, contact information, display name, timezone, etc.

I think it would be really sexy, and would save quite a bit of time.

I was going to ask ross just to auto register me on every forum!

Good idea though..

I like it!

Posted By Michael on 2nd Jan 08 at 1:26am

 

I was going to ask ross just to auto register me on every forum!

Then you'd still have to enter your time zone info, gender, display name, signature, avatar, contact info, privacy settings, IM info, etc.

Not necessarily! - I could ask him to set those to a default!

Sounds like a good idea but it should have a limit. It could get annoying getting asked all the time if you are a big forum.

Posted By Reverse Blade on 2nd Jan 08 at 1:29am

 

Sounds like a good idea but it should have a limit. It could get annoying getting asked all the time if you are a big forum.

Good point; make it a profile option to be able to either enable, disable, or enable once the merge feature. That way, you could just set it to "Enable Once" when you're about to merge the account, then it auto-resets when you've merged.

I reckon 3 options: Permanently on.. merge once... permanently off.

I know I would use this feature,and would want it on permanently!

Posted By Michael on 2nd Jan 08 at 1:33am

 

I reckon 3 options: Permanently on.. merge once... permanently off.

Read up.

Damn it... I should read better! >.>

That would make life much easier. Add it Ross

Wait, wtf, some loser actually made a site called blah. Who would do such a childish thing? *runs away*

this sounds like an amazing idea would take a hell of alot of coding though tbh.

and to transfer data from one website to another is pretty hard.

Posted By Danny on 2nd Jan 08 at 1:44am

 

this sounds like an amazing idea would take a shit load of coding though tbh.

and to transfer data from one website to another is pretty hard.

Doubt it is... just copying a row in a database to another table in the database... (or something like that! )

Seriously guys, why the need for swearing?

Also gray, I hope you know that's a waste of database space...plus it's kinda rude.

meh, you are right. Deleted it. Surprised I got the confirmation code right in order to delete it.

Swearing is cool I guess if you aren't insulting members, but on a support site like this, I agree with crow. Leave it at home xD. We need to be professional

Sorry about that cr0w your right

Rather than floating divs giving information like that could I do it via the PM system? It'd be a lot less work that way although it'll still be quite a lot of work to prevent any security holes appearing.

I think the PM system would be more effective way to confirm the merging.

It's an idea i really like the sound of

PM system would be best!

I've decided to do this with password authorization and (for now at least) it'll only apply to new accounts. A link will be added somewhere on the register page where a user can choose to "Import" an account from another forum.

Hawt, thanks Ross.