Auth into the future

[RyanTG]

Some ideas for the future:

• Rate places (a star rating is probably best). And it's visible to all.
• Check into a place. This might be sort of useless. But some people might want to have a record of how many times they played at a place.
• Mark a location as a favorite (and remove a place from the favo list). And then they can do a search just for their favorites.
• Email users when a machine has been added/removed to one of their favorite spots. A daily digest might work. This should probably be opt-in. And it may be a bad idea, due to the occasional errors people make when adding/removing. We don't want them to receive an email saying, "Adams Family was added; Adams Family was removed; The Addams Family was added."
• When adding a high score, the "initials" section is automatically filled in with their username. And each user can track their own high scores (like the high scores page will highlight their own scores). We can also make it so only logged in users can add a high score (or did we do this already?). (strikethroughs indicate completed ideas)

Just some ideas!

[RyanTG]

More future ideas:

• Simple profile page for users. On it, they can see how many machines they've added/removed, how many comments they've left. And which regions they've made their updates in. And it will list their favo locations.

[gibbousGH]

I'd like to see push notifications when a pinball machine is nearby!

[scottwainstock]

Thanks @gibbousGH, that's a good idea. I added issues to create this feature in iOS and Android.

pinballmap/pbm-android#63
pinballmap/pbm-ios#55

[RyanTG]

This would be related to "favorite locations"... a user suggested: "sending email updates when a chosen/followed location gets updated with new games or comments"

But email updates for new games or comments should be opt-in (two separate options).

[RyanTG]

• User can delete their own scores, should they choose.

[RyanTG]

We should just track things in their own issue. closing.