Just installed and tested zikula very impressed so far. Well done to all concerned!
I go back to phpnuke before it forked to postnuke and I have covered some of the more recent
CMS like Mambo.
I recall making a few suggestions over the years and finally zikula came up with stripping the
CMS to the core making it less overweight.
In more recent years the user management of these
CMS has been lacking. I have one site that has 14000 registered users. But I have no idea how many are active users. And how do I breakdown the high volumes of traffic against the activity of the registered users. The problem is very simple we need to know which of our registered users are regulars, those who come back after long periods of absense and those who have forgotten about the site and would never go back unless they were reminded. I'm not looking for a feature request here
but I hope the developers see my point. 10 years down the line what do we do with large user regs. Probably half of them the email address are closed or disapeared. Sending out a newsletter to remind them gets interpreted as
spam. It would be better for a user management system to help maintain the membership list on a day to day basis.
What would the user management do
Each month any account that has not been active a email reminder is sent out not all at once but say spread out over the month based on the day of the month the user had joined. A reminder message with the option to revisit or delete/susspend the account from public view to private. Bounces are susspended and can be reactivated on return with a new email address. My only concern with delete is that the forums messages may get deleted because a user is deleted. This is a common problem with messageboards and forums sharing the
CMS. The messages could be very important for a topic.
Maybe worth considering as a module or part of the core.
