[Suggestion] Review content

[Sar]

Hi there,

I would say this is one of the most wished feature, which vB (still) didnt manage to implement.

Please consider about review content, where users can rate, write comments and add new products.

 

[Sar]

We would be willing to provide (joint) payment for such addon.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Note: In February 2012, LiquidPro decided to not do a Review Addon.

Sorry guys, development on this never really started and has been shelved in order to focus on Simple Forms and a new project. I'll update the thread if we ever pick up development again.

Looks like there is was interest in a Review Addon.
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/liquidpro-features-gather-for-review-system.14841/

 

[Alpha1]

Thats highly interesting. I can't reply there, because I have not bought XenForo yet.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I can provide curry service .... PM (ahem PC) -> that thread.

 

[Alpha1]

I have 11.000 GARS review entries, in 200 GARS categories. A reviews addon would optimally perform well even with such size.

Include one or more fields for affiliate links to amazon, abebooks, google affiliate, etc.This would allow admins to make money from their reviews and even use the reviews as an affiliate bookstore. (or whatever product the admin wants)

This could be taken one step further and auto-populate reviews with affiliate feeds. (similar to how popshop fetches affiliate feeds) The result would be entries that are waiting for reviews and have some standard information per product that comes from the affiliate feed. Then users can purchase the products through the affiliate links and hopefully post reviews in the entries.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Thinking at a more abstract level, could another solution be to give more incentive to have 3rd party modifications?

Sure. Ideas ?

Unless I am missing something really obvious, vborg and modification for other platforms rely on the members kindness and intimate knowledge & coding skill with no tangible benefits.

Well that about sums up the situation perfectly. Altruism and Today's modern world don't mesh well together.
But that's what is being relied upon.

 

[Niteblade]

We would be willing to provide (joint) payment for such addon.

I'd be willing to contribute to the pot of money to get this coded.

 

[snowman]

Big thumbs up for review type capability!

 

[HydraulicJack]

+1 PLEASE HURRY (as much as one can and get it done correctly!)

 

[Alpha1]

Over time I have expanded the feature list, as many have provided input on another site. Hopefully it will be of use here as well:

A review is basically the same as an article, but has custom fields functions, possibility to add predefined questions to those fields and rating functions. The author gives ratings. Users can respond to the review with comments and with ratings. This yields an average user rating. Examples of review software: jreviews, ireviews,

• Reviews should have different sections, so you could for example have sections for movie reviews, restaurant reviews and product reviews.
• permissions per section
• The overview of reviews of each section, should allow for different display options, to be set by the admin.
• A review can be in multiple categories/sections.
• Reviews should have:
• Author ratings, with pretty AJAX stars, bars and other pretty rating scales. Author ratings can be turned off.
• Member ratings. Member ratings can be turned off.
• Combined rating averages.
• Rating value should have an alt text. For example: if you choose to have ratings with 1 - 5 stars, then hovering over a 5 star rating could state 'excellent', while hovering over a 1 star rating could stat
• Admins should be able to define rating questions and custom fields.
• Custom fields should allow:
  1. fields that work like tags. i.e. clicking on the word 'spaghetti' in a custom field would lead to all restaurants that serve spaghetti.
  2. fields with AJAX autofill functions.
  3. single line text fields
  4. multiple line text fields
  5. mandatory fields
  6. tickbox fields
  7. payment methods icons
• Images with text wrap and image caption
• Image carousel or another solution to allow a large number of images to be displayed.
• Google maps integration. (show/browse all vendors/hotels/restaurants on a map)
• Product video playing inline (youtube, vimeo, etc)
• Amazon.com & other major affiliate network integration (automatically pull prices from Clickbank, Commission Junction and Amazon and add affiliateID to purchase link)
• Automatic population of fields from amazon/other affiliate networks by ISBN or productID: image, product title, author, description, product details(up to weight)
• Allow paid listing trough subscriptions and paid expanded listings. When a user pays for an expanded listing more custom fields become visible. For example: url, extended description, products & prices, offers, photos, Google maps, logo, etc.
• A 'featured' widget that shows x companies. Companies can buy a listing in this widget.
• Allow online and offline payments.
• Allow users to claim listings. (for example: a restaurant owner can claim the listing for his restaurant and buy features for it)
• When users claim listings or when listing owners buy expanded listings, first then let them agree to T&C.
• After the user has agreed to it, also send a notification by email that they have agreed to the T&C.
• Setting to moderate all edits & content posted by listing owners. (to avoid spam & unwanted content)
• Allow users to post feedback to reviewed company. (visible in the listing, but separated from normal comments)
• If the listing is claimed, then send this feedback to the owner. (email/pm) This feature can be bought by the listing owner.
• Permission setting to hide comments to listing owner.
• Permission setting to hide listings not owned by user.
• Ability to compare prices of all vendors that sell product X
• Summary charts for all restaurants that serve Y. i.e. a table that lists those restaurant, with the data from custom fields, as the admin defines.
• Search for restaurants that have specific data in custom fields X, Y and Z.
• Use rich snippets so that Google will show reviews & ratings
• Reviews should be loaded with interactive AJAX/jquery functions.
• XF Editor for users and admin side
• Infractions & moderation tools
• Reputation/likes
• New entries & comments in 'What's New'
• Searchable with xf search engine / Sphinx
• Subscribe to entry
• Tags
• Usergroup permissions
• Use of xf attachment system
• xf postbit is shown
• xf avatar is shown
• profiles link to xf profile
• design can be integrated
• GARS importer
• Allow for thousands of categories

 

[Marcus]

the best thing would be to only come up with three things a review type should do. Otherwise its too much work to begin with. Question is, what are the most important things?

 

[Digital Doctor]

Note: LiquidPro is no longer developing this addon.

 

[Alpha1]

LP mentioned in February that his reviews product will not be developed. It was already on the back burner in September, so it did not come as a shock.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Review

I really like the cnet reviews system. I had not checked it out for some time, so I dont know if it is new or not.

What do you like about it ?

Just wanted to add, that I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE if a system was in place with Xenforo as described above.
Have been researching Xenforo, and if my big board, with VBSEO can be transferred, I'd consider that, but it would be a no brainer for me if there was a nice review section like described above. If anyone has any info, please post here or PM me.

PM'd.

Review

Cool development on the "Review" front.
An Addon for book reviews that should be tweakable to review anything.
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/book-reviews-by-waindigo.31586/
other Review threads:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-style-site-review-critique-forum.16038
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-review-system-would-you-invest.30194/

Review Addon ideas:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-review-content.3236/#post-48681

 

[Alpha1]

What do you like about it ?

http://reviews.cnet.com/surround-sp...r-bar/4505-7868_7-35191181.html?tag=cnetRiver

• It looks clean, modern and professional. Lots of mootools / jquery functions, without making your head spin.
• has a 'where to buy' / pricegrabber function.
• shows previews of user reviews.
• multipages

http://reviews.cnet.com/surround-speaker-systems/energy-power-bar/4852-7868_7-35191181.html

• quick sign in with Y! G+ FB
• good rating scale with clear explanatory mootools tooltips.
• simple and straightforward interface. Just 4 fields and submit.