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IPB Integration of Skype Moodmessages
Background
Since Moodgeist stores a users moodmessage but doesn't show to which user which message belongs to. Ofcourse this is a big plus from the privacy point of view. In Skype aswell you need to be authorised by the person to view their moodmessage. But Moodgeist only stores the moodmessage if you allow your Skype status to be shown on the web. So with this setting also you could reflect the wish of the user that his/her moodmessage can or cannot be searched for in the case I am searching for a specific user. This however can be debated so I'll leave the comments part open for this.
Idea
The idea came from the fact that a lot of users don't like the "label" or the title which is given to them automaticly by the IPB forum software after they have reached certain number of posts. This can be changed by the user if the forum administrator allows the user to do so, however this is not the case at the Skype Forums for example. So why not change that plain old boring text to a user customizable message in this case their moodmessage.
Implementation
Certain parts have to be changed but the implementation of this idea wouldn't require to much work on neither sides.
Changes at Moodgeist.com
For this idea to work a new search link needs to be added to the moodgeist website for example the following
http://www.moodgeist.com/do/view/users/<user>/ ; showing the users mood message(s) in the normal moodgeist style http://www.moodgeist.com/do/view/users/<user>/compact ; showing compact version http://www.moodgeist.com/do/view/users/<user>/rss ; RSS feed http://www.moodgeist.com/do/view/users/<user>/xml ; XML output http://www.moodgeist.com/do/view/users/<user>/50 ; showing the latest 50 messages
Changes as IPB
This one would a bit trickier since you need to customize the source code a bit for it to automaticly read and include that text which is recieved from moodgeist. But this would be a small mod which wouldn't be hard to implement.
Other areas in IPB where it could be added
Title is not the only page where this could be added.
Signatures
Signatures is a nother cool place where the users mood message could be added. This would be a better place to add since this offers possibility for rich content to be shown aswell.
Profile Page
The profile page would a nother place where this could be shown, with the same advantage as the signature has.
Third party sites
Third party or even personal sites could opt to show their own mood or the moods of other friends or family.