Post by Ancient Goddess on May 10, 2005 11:58:18 GMT -5
As some of you may have noticed from that message at the top of the board, the site will be down for a bit (up to 24 hours) for the upgrade. What is included in this upgrade? Some of the new and useful features:
General Features
Usernames will no longer be case sensitive.
The "cell highlight" hack will become a standard feature of all boards. You will be able to choose what color you want the highlight to be for both the main page and for boards (or you can choose no color to leave it standard).
Karma (optional feature). Each user can have their own karma, which other users can praise or smite a user to increase or decrease the users karma.
Reserved words will no longer effect staff members
An option for going to the "home" page of the board will be added to the forum jump.
If a user creates an account with the same username as someone who was deleted, the new user will not be able to edit or delete the older users posts. This will be based on a registration date check versus the time of the posting.
For dates, "Yesterday" will also be added in addition to the already existing "Today." Posts may show up as something like "Posted on Yesterday at 12:22 am"
All email addresses will have spam protection on them which will help make it so that spam bots will not be able to pick up your email address.
Drop down menus are now used to change between different pages for viewing boards and threads. This allows you to specify any page you want, especially useful for boards and threads with many pages.
Profiles
Signatures will be displayed on the view profile page
When a user's email address is changed -- by either an admin, or the user -- a new randomly generated password is sent and emailed to that user.
Last known IP address of user saved in profile
Disable / Enable account
Last login date
In addition to member groups, users will be able to have their own custom title.
You can choose if you want to see people's signatures when reading threads
You can opt to not display avatars when reading threads
Birthday will become a required field in the profile. As we do not allow users under the age of 13, an age check will be in place which will remove accounts of users under this age.
Home
The "Last Post" column will display what the most recent thread is.
In the Info Center we will add "Most users online ever was X users on X date"
Info center will display today's birthdays
Posting / Polls / Modifying
Moderators of a board will be able to change the name of any guest posts.
Add checkbox that a mod can select to sticky a post when it is posted / modified.
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Report to moderator link will be displayed at the bottom of posts. Moderators will have quick access to view any posts that have been reported by users.
Attachments
We are adding a new attachments feature so that you can upload files with your posts.
You can choose whether or not to enable/disable the attachments feature.
You have the option to set maximum upload limits.
For each board you can specify who can post attachments (members / members and staff)
Categories
A new "hide category" option will be available which will make any category marked as hidden not show up in the list of categories, and all boards inside that category will be hidden. All boards can be accessed if the URL of the boards is known.
Boards
When viewing the threads on a board, you will be able to click on the number of replies. Doing so will popup a small window showing which users have participated in the thread and how many posts each person has made. The list of users will be sorted by who made the most posts in the thread.
An option will be added to choose who can create polls (guests (? not final) / members / admins)
Admins can choose which boards to disable post counts on, so users can't gain post counts by posting on certain boards.
A "who's online" box will be added to every board at the bottom.
The "new" image will link directly to the last page in a thread.
Administrator will be able to set how many posts it takes to get a "hot topic" or "red hot topic" icon.
A new "hide board" option will be available which will make the board not show up in the list of boards for your forum, but can be accessed if the URL is known.
Any board that does not have any posts made in it will display a message saying there there are currently no posts.
Login / Register / Password Reminder (8)
An option will be available such that people can register for an account but will not be able to use that account until an administrator has approved them (or someone who is given the power to approve accounts).
On the register page, an activation code will appear which the user must type into a text box. This is to prevent people from utilizing scripts to mass register accounts.
Password reminder emails will contain the IP address of the user who filled out the password reminder form.
All users will be able to go into invisible mode. Administrators and Global Moderators will see these users as online with "(invisible)" after their name in the users online area.
When a user accesses a page which requires that they be logged in, instead of giving an error message it will display a login box so that the user may login and continue.
If someone attempts to login to an account more than 10 times unsuccessfully within a 10 minute period, that user will be banned from the forum for a period of an hour.
You will be able to get your password reminder sent to you just by entering your email address -- you won't need to remember your username.
When registering you may specify your desired password instead of receiving a random password via email. You will receive an email with an activation code that you must use to activate your account.
Any other questions (and a list of more features) can be found/answered here
With this upgrade, there will be a change of format. I'm not certain what format will be used yet, but I'm working on it even as we speak. So expect a different look when visiting after the upgrade.
For the most part, the changes don't sound bad.
General Features
Usernames will no longer be case sensitive.
The "cell highlight" hack will become a standard feature of all boards. You will be able to choose what color you want the highlight to be for both the main page and for boards (or you can choose no color to leave it standard).
Karma (optional feature). Each user can have their own karma, which other users can praise or smite a user to increase or decrease the users karma.
Reserved words will no longer effect staff members
An option for going to the "home" page of the board will be added to the forum jump.
If a user creates an account with the same username as someone who was deleted, the new user will not be able to edit or delete the older users posts. This will be based on a registration date check versus the time of the posting.
For dates, "Yesterday" will also be added in addition to the already existing "Today." Posts may show up as something like "Posted on Yesterday at 12:22 am"
All email addresses will have spam protection on them which will help make it so that spam bots will not be able to pick up your email address.
Drop down menus are now used to change between different pages for viewing boards and threads. This allows you to specify any page you want, especially useful for boards and threads with many pages.
Profiles
Signatures will be displayed on the view profile page
When a user's email address is changed -- by either an admin, or the user -- a new randomly generated password is sent and emailed to that user.
Last known IP address of user saved in profile
Disable / Enable account
Last login date
In addition to member groups, users will be able to have their own custom title.
You can choose if you want to see people's signatures when reading threads
You can opt to not display avatars when reading threads
Birthday will become a required field in the profile. As we do not allow users under the age of 13, an age check will be in place which will remove accounts of users under this age.
Home
The "Last Post" column will display what the most recent thread is.
In the Info Center we will add "Most users online ever was X users on X date"
Info center will display today's birthdays
Posting / Polls / Modifying
Moderators of a board will be able to change the name of any guest posts.
Add checkbox that a mod can select to sticky a post when it is posted / modified.
Report to moderator link will be displayed at the bottom of posts. Moderators will have quick access to view any posts that have been reported by users.
Attachments
We are adding a new attachments feature so that you can upload files with your posts.
You can choose whether or not to enable/disable the attachments feature.
You have the option to set maximum upload limits.
For each board you can specify who can post attachments (members / members and staff)
Categories
A new "hide category" option will be available which will make any category marked as hidden not show up in the list of categories, and all boards inside that category will be hidden. All boards can be accessed if the URL of the boards is known.
Boards
When viewing the threads on a board, you will be able to click on the number of replies. Doing so will popup a small window showing which users have participated in the thread and how many posts each person has made. The list of users will be sorted by who made the most posts in the thread.
An option will be added to choose who can create polls (guests (? not final) / members / admins)
Admins can choose which boards to disable post counts on, so users can't gain post counts by posting on certain boards.
A "who's online" box will be added to every board at the bottom.
The "new" image will link directly to the last page in a thread.
Administrator will be able to set how many posts it takes to get a "hot topic" or "red hot topic" icon.
A new "hide board" option will be available which will make the board not show up in the list of boards for your forum, but can be accessed if the URL is known.
Any board that does not have any posts made in it will display a message saying there there are currently no posts.
Login / Register / Password Reminder (8)
An option will be available such that people can register for an account but will not be able to use that account until an administrator has approved them (or someone who is given the power to approve accounts).
On the register page, an activation code will appear which the user must type into a text box. This is to prevent people from utilizing scripts to mass register accounts.
Password reminder emails will contain the IP address of the user who filled out the password reminder form.
All users will be able to go into invisible mode. Administrators and Global Moderators will see these users as online with "(invisible)" after their name in the users online area.
When a user accesses a page which requires that they be logged in, instead of giving an error message it will display a login box so that the user may login and continue.
If someone attempts to login to an account more than 10 times unsuccessfully within a 10 minute period, that user will be banned from the forum for a period of an hour.
You will be able to get your password reminder sent to you just by entering your email address -- you won't need to remember your username.
When registering you may specify your desired password instead of receiving a random password via email. You will receive an email with an activation code that you must use to activate your account.
Any other questions (and a list of more features) can be found/answered here
With this upgrade, there will be a change of format. I'm not certain what format will be used yet, but I'm working on it even as we speak. So expect a different look when visiting after the upgrade.
For the most part, the changes don't sound bad.
