Comments field, and any future plans?

[GuruMeditation]

I was just wondering if there are any future plans to extend the comments field slightly?

Obviously I know it should remain lightweight as it's a part of the core, but I'll chip in with my personal wishlist for it.

Basically my number one wish is for the ability to link comments to member accounts. This would enable us to output their profile picture next to their comments, link their name to their profile, and basically output any information stored within their profile page (gender, age, location) alongside their comment, if desired.

The ability to use permissions, roles / dynamic roles to determine who can can edit / post / delete their comments.

An option to enable comment quoting on reply (like you can do with this forum). We could then use our own markup to style it etc.

Finally, an easy way to determine what page comments are connected to. This would allow us to create a new page and loop through all the pages with comments, thus creating a very basic forum-style page. The latest version of muut follows along those lines by utilising comments to create a central hub or basic forum.

Personally I reckon with these additions we will be able to use PW to easily create something like you see on the Muut page above.

Thanks.

[woop]

I basically wrote my own comments system using regular pages. Works great and gives me full control of the content. The new Lister Pro is a great way to moderate them, too. Probably less lightweight than using the comments module, but I like to keep things consistent. I simply set the article as the parent page, and then sub-threads as children of other comments for that article. Makes it easy to manage using the admin. I'm currently writing a import script to get all my content from Disqus into this system, which is pretty straightforward thanks to the API.

[GuruMeditation]

I basically wrote my own comments system using regular pages. Works great and gives me full control of the content. The new Lister Pro is a great way to moderate them, too. Probably less lightweight than using the comments module, but I like to keep things consistent. I simply set the article as the parent page, and then sub-threads as children of other comments for that article. Makes it easy to manage using the admin. I'm currently writing a import script to get all my content from Disqus into this system, which is pretty straightforward thanks to the API.

I actually do have a similar system to you in place at the moment for testing, but I'd much personally prefer the comments field to do it if I could. Plus I know Ryan's code will be secure, whereas mine might contain holes that I've not yet discovered.