After quite a bit of work, I've got my notes straightened out enough to make a checklist of everything I'm going to work on. There will be a finalized checklist and ETA after I finish the previews. This is more a rough draft.
Initialization
Preview Schedule
I plan on releasing one preview a day, starting today. I'll be doing other programming simultaneously. Most of these will be pretty easy to do, so 1/day is realistic.
Home Page
Games Page (games forums)
Topics Page (nongames forums)
Articles Page (inc. sorting)
Articles by User
Questions Page
Chats Page (the improved "Newest Posts")
Streams Page
Help Files Page
Special Features Page
Examples of Headers
Examples of MyCards
Nostalgic Mode
Viewing a Forum mach 2 (add in new features)
Viewing a post mach 5 (add in new features)
Viewing Question Blocks
Viewing a Stream
Viewing a help file
User Profiles Page
Viewing a profile
MyCard Editor
Article Editor
Viewing a News Story
Viewing a Tip
Viewing a Blog Post
Viewing a Review
Viewing a List
Organization
Determine Theme settings from previews
Determine Aesthetic Overseer Tools from theme settings
Finalize checklist and ETA
Programming
Basic Functionality
Finish Main Template
Viewing a Post
Making a reply
PVO Update
Post Editing upgrade
New Post (current system basically but simplified and less glitchy)
OP Editing
New forum sorting/Topic sorting
Integrate Invisible forums
Integrate permission-specific forums
Render sticky/lock/tagged/etc posts
Render mafia/aliens (will probably just copy over, no point messing with this too much)
Post Types
Set up Quick Questions
Set up Article Editor
Display List
Display Review
Display Blog
Display News Story
Display Tip
Articles page/sorting algorithm
Set up Stream Feature
Display
Familiar Faces
Games Page
Topics Page
All Chats
All Streams
Homepage
Special Features
Nostalgic Mode
Control
Setup Categorical Navigation
import quicklinks
MyForums (link w/mobile)
Options --> Account
Watchbar system
New Top Header options (text bubbles)
Live
Notifications
User Features
Setup Medals
Setup Badges
User > MyCons selection
User Profile
Levelling/Upgrade system
MyCard Block System
MyCard Editor
MyCard streaming in posts/profiles
All Profiles page
Incentives VIP
AJAX Newest Replies/watchbar
Custom filters
PM 2.0
Set for costume access
Image Uploader
Blocking (no this isn't a site-wide feature, it's for VIP's only)
Misc
Permissions System
Import/Set up Moderation tools from above
Help Files Page
Write Help files
Tentative ETA
There's a lot here, but it's still somewhat difficult to figure out how long each item will take until I make the second checklist. Conservatively, we're looking at between 4-6 months, so a final launch is probably going to be around:
August/September 2013
I can't realistically see it happening earlier than mid-June, even if I stay motivated and have good luck throughout.
