Post by PMJ on Apr 3, 2005 15:46:07 GMT
Around April 30th, all Proboards are eing automatically upgraded to Proboards Version 4. All posts, profiles, boards and other existing information will still be here, but some amazing new features will be added.
Here are some of them:
General
-Usernames will no longer be case sensitive.
-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.
-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.
-For displaying dates and times, you will now be able to specify 4 different options that will let you control the date and time. These options include am/pm or 24 hour time options, time zone choices, what format to display the date in (e.g. Jan 1, 2000, 01-01-00, etc), and options to reverse the month and day fields.
Profiles
-Signatures will be displayed on the view profile page.
-A notes section will be added so admins/mods can add notes that no one else can see.
-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.
-You may choose to not receive any emails from the board administrators (mass emails will not send you mail)
-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.
WARNING TO USERS UNDER 13: Change your profile so that you are 13, then you won't be deleted!
-The server times will no longer default to east coast time. Everything will be based off of GMT. All user profiles will be updated accordingly to keep them in the correct time zone.
-Location will be shown in mini profile.
-Registration date will be shown in mini profile.
-Clicking on "profile" at the top will allow you to view your profile. An option to edit your profile will be on that page.
-Staff members have the ability to disable a user's account so that they can not use it. If you disable a user's account, you can specify a number of days for it to last, so that after that amount of time they may use their account again.
View Members
-The top posters page is no longer limited to 1 page. You can view all pages to see where all members rank in terms of posts.
Calendar
-An option to set who can view the calendar (Guests / Members / Admins and mods)
-Ability to choose who will be able to add entries to the calendar.
-Edit calendar entry ability.
-Improved method for navigating from month to month (won't have to click 5 times to go 5 months ahead)
-Automatic addition of birthdays to the calendar.
Home Page
-Automatic addition of birthdays to the calendar.
-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
-When you want to use a UBBC code, such as bold, you will be able to highlight text from your message and then click on the bold icon. The UBBC tags will be instantly added around the text you highlighted.
-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.
-Ability to add more options to a poll (so you can have more than 8 responses -- maximum of 30)
-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
-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
-Announcement threads - a sticky thread, except one that shows up across all forums.
-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)
You 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
-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).
NOTE: Which will not be used here!
-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.
Censored Words
-An option will be added to reset the censored words list.
-In the censored words list you will be able to use the "=" character
-Option to make only "full words" matched censored. For example, if you put ass=butt in your censor, you don't want "grass" to change into "grbutt"
Ranks
-For user ranks (example: New Member, Junior Member) you can specify how many stars each rank gets.
Here are some of them:
General
-Usernames will no longer be case sensitive.
-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.
-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.
-For displaying dates and times, you will now be able to specify 4 different options that will let you control the date and time. These options include am/pm or 24 hour time options, time zone choices, what format to display the date in (e.g. Jan 1, 2000, 01-01-00, etc), and options to reverse the month and day fields.
Profiles
-Signatures will be displayed on the view profile page.
-A notes section will be added so admins/mods can add notes that no one else can see.
-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.
-You may choose to not receive any emails from the board administrators (mass emails will not send you mail)
-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.
WARNING TO USERS UNDER 13: Change your profile so that you are 13, then you won't be deleted!
-The server times will no longer default to east coast time. Everything will be based off of GMT. All user profiles will be updated accordingly to keep them in the correct time zone.
-Location will be shown in mini profile.
-Registration date will be shown in mini profile.
-Clicking on "profile" at the top will allow you to view your profile. An option to edit your profile will be on that page.
-Staff members have the ability to disable a user's account so that they can not use it. If you disable a user's account, you can specify a number of days for it to last, so that after that amount of time they may use their account again.
View Members
-The top posters page is no longer limited to 1 page. You can view all pages to see where all members rank in terms of posts.
Calendar
-An option to set who can view the calendar (Guests / Members / Admins and mods)
-Ability to choose who will be able to add entries to the calendar.
-Edit calendar entry ability.
-Improved method for navigating from month to month (won't have to click 5 times to go 5 months ahead)
-Automatic addition of birthdays to the calendar.
Home Page
-Automatic addition of birthdays to the calendar.
-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
-When you want to use a UBBC code, such as bold, you will be able to highlight text from your message and then click on the bold icon. The UBBC tags will be instantly added around the text you highlighted.
-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.
-Ability to add more options to a poll (so you can have more than 8 responses -- maximum of 30)
-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
-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
-Announcement threads - a sticky thread, except one that shows up across all forums.
-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)
You 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
-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).
NOTE: Which will not be used here!
-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.
Censored Words
-An option will be added to reset the censored words list.
-In the censored words list you will be able to use the "=" character
-Option to make only "full words" matched censored. For example, if you put ass=butt in your censor, you don't want "grass" to change into "grbutt"
Ranks
-For user ranks (example: New Member, Junior Member) you can specify how many stars each rank gets.