Future features

If you have any ideas for future features on the project, please add them here.

Large features

Have an API so other apps can access our data and do fun things.
- Provide webhooks
Voting statistics (tons of fun stuff here!)
Auto-generate a contest based on a flickr tag (consider the huge number of photos that could involve. Possibly only store photos that actually get voted on in our DB. Or just only allow tags with a certain number of photos).
Contest engine is modular (Normal contest vs bracket contest)
Social networking integration
Make our site cooliris enabled. Simple or full featured.

Search feature within each contest
Have contests centered around a Map (maybe require geocoding). The Map can be the primary contest listing and as you scroll around, different photos show up.
voting type (thumbs up or thumbs down, stars, etc)
anonymous contests
add ability to have categories within contests
inclusion/exclusion (users, photos, voters)
add ability to have a specific list of voters. "panel of judges"
Email notifications
Users can flag photos
Invite people to specific contest or whole site?
Post-contest report? tell user about stats. maybe give them suggestions for improvement?
During beta, put a voting thing on the front page that let's users vote on their favorite features, new features, etc.

Use the configure plug
Maybe have an "upload photo" button that actually directs them to flickr to upload a photo
Set up the system to each condition module requires a /views/extras/condition/foo.ctp view that renders how it is displayed. A similar function should exist to map code to the controller. That way, we don't have to worry about dealing with anything specific to each condition.
Have a timer for contests that are time based. This will tell users how much time they have left for a) submitting and b) voting.
link to flickr thread

Handle a photo being deleted or replaced (only an issue if we store URLs directly... which we should).
Check that all sizes of a photo are available BEFORE letting someone add it to the contest. If those sizes are "private" normally, then notify the user that we're showing bigger versions of a photo that normally aren't available.

When you go to submit a photo to DPChallenge, there are some check boxes where you "agree" that you followed certain rules. Maybe this would be a good way to get people to follow rules that we can't strictly enforce. Like saying "Yes, i agree that I followed the editing rules and didn't photoshop the heck out of this image"... And other such things.
Maybe have an "add my own paramater" section that is just a text box. When they submit it it can do two things:
1. Send us feedback for new parameters
2. Display under the Rules section as a non-enforceable parameter. Basically a "suggestion". It probably means that the admin will manually delete your photo if it doesn't fit that rule. Things like "not too much photoshopping"

Submission Deadline
Explicit
Type (Photo, illustration, etc)
Only submit X number of photos
One photo per category? (Categories within contests? or should they be separate contests)
X number of photos per unit of time
Only add photos if you've voted
Only submit if you have NOT voted
Nominate another photo for contest?
Minimum number of views
Minimum number of favorites
Minimum number of comments
Certain tags
Photo is already in a certain group
Taken in certain time range
Taken within certain geographic area (and geotagged as such)
Can't be in any other contest by X admin
Can't be in any other ACTIVE contest by X admin
EXIF data must be viewable by public
Maybe have anonymous submissions?
Ability to add an "Exceptions" list that goes beyond the normal parameters (exceptions can be for removal or addition)

Only vote if you're in group X
Only vote if you've already submitted a photo
Only vote if you're friend's with the submitter
Only vote if you've been a member for X amount of time or have X amount of photos
Only vote on X number of photos
Only vote X number of times per unit of time
Can't vote on your own photos
Ability to add an "Exceptions" list that goes beyond the normal parameters (exceptions can be for removal or addition)

When laying out a contest, only show most commonly used option and a "More +" button
Only show options that are relevant. Make the contest creation screen as simple as possible at all times. Lot's of javascript to show only necessary info
AJAX browsing through photos -- FirePHP might be helpful
Very "web 2.0" front page with entrance points into the various sections of the sit
Mouse over lightbox. In other words, make the whole screen go black or white except for the photo.
Admin interface (filtering photos for each contest, viewing all the contests you are running)
DPChallenge has features that show a voter how many votes they have cast in a given contest. Having a "percent voted on" indicator might encourage people to try to vote on all the photos in a given contest just so they could have that bar at 100%. I know it would motivate me. :)
Possibly have cool iris integration
Allow users to add comments to photos from our site!

I'd definitely like to re-do the UI at some point.

Take a hint from these sites

If we ever implement a login system where we want to allow no-flickr users:
- http://code.google.com/p/oka/