Post by KitaWita73 aka CC on May 13, 2005 10:08:22 GMT -5
Hey everybody, hope all is goin' well with yall today. I'm makin' this post to make you all aware that within the next day or two the board will be goin' through a major upgrade courtesy of proboards. Anyway, once the board is back up after the upgrade, you will have to re-active your account. Word of caution about this though...if you originally signed up for the board usin' an AOL email, the activation code will more than likely go into your AOL email spam folder. However, if you wish to change your email address to have your code sent to anotha email address account, you are more than welcome to do so. Yahoo and hotmail email accounts are the best to use, IMO.
Let's see...what else...ummmmm...oh yeah here's a list of some of the 120 new features that will be included with the upgraded version of the board:
General Features
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.
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.
Numbers that are displayed such as number of posts on a board, number of posts a user made, etc will contain commas (so 10000 becomes 10,000)
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.
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
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 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.
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 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.
Bookmarks
We are introducing a new system to replace the notifications system. Using the bookmarks system, you will be able to bookmark different threads and have quick access to them from your profile screen.
For each bookmark, you can specify whether you would like to receive a PM, an email, or receive no notification when a new post is made in the thread that is bookmarked.
You will only receive notification that a thread has been updated one time until you view the thread again. This means that if 10 people post before you get back to a thread, you still only get notified once. Once you view the thread, you may then receive notifications again.
An option will be available to set what your default notification action should be for threads you bookmark. For example, you can set your default action to be to PM you. Then any time you bookmark a thread in the future, it will automatically set that bookmark to notify you by PM of any updates.
Calendar
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
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
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.
Ability to add more options to a poll (so you can have more than 8 responses -- maximum of 30)
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.
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.
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
On the register page, an activation code will appear which the user must type into a text box.
All users will be able to go into invisible mode.
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.
Instant Messaging
Inbox and outboxes will have cell highlight identical to that of the boards (feature mentioned earlier).
Users will be able to keep an address book of users so that they may easily select who they want to IM.
A "check all" checkbox will be added to the inbox and outbox pages.
Option in IM Preferences to get a popup message when you have a new IM.
These are the basics for right now, but if anything else is added, I will post it here. The good thing is that right now my Carl Thomas board is bein' updated, so once it's done, I'll have an idea of how things will look and how I'll need to reset everything as far as the look of the board and whatnot so that I'll know exactly what to do once this board gets upgraded.
Also, if you're not clear on one or more of the features that have been added here, don't hesitate to post your question in this thread. I'll try to answer it in the most clear way I can. Well, tis all for now.
Let's see...what else...ummmmm...oh yeah here's a list of some of the 120 new features that will be included with the upgraded version of the board:
General Features
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.
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.
Numbers that are displayed such as number of posts on a board, number of posts a user made, etc will contain commas (so 10000 becomes 10,000)
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.
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
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 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.
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 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.
Bookmarks
We are introducing a new system to replace the notifications system. Using the bookmarks system, you will be able to bookmark different threads and have quick access to them from your profile screen.
For each bookmark, you can specify whether you would like to receive a PM, an email, or receive no notification when a new post is made in the thread that is bookmarked.
You will only receive notification that a thread has been updated one time until you view the thread again. This means that if 10 people post before you get back to a thread, you still only get notified once. Once you view the thread, you may then receive notifications again.
An option will be available to set what your default notification action should be for threads you bookmark. For example, you can set your default action to be to PM you. Then any time you bookmark a thread in the future, it will automatically set that bookmark to notify you by PM of any updates.
Calendar
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
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
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.
Ability to add more options to a poll (so you can have more than 8 responses -- maximum of 30)
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.
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.
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
On the register page, an activation code will appear which the user must type into a text box.
All users will be able to go into invisible mode.
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.
Instant Messaging
Inbox and outboxes will have cell highlight identical to that of the boards (feature mentioned earlier).
Users will be able to keep an address book of users so that they may easily select who they want to IM.
A "check all" checkbox will be added to the inbox and outbox pages.
Option in IM Preferences to get a popup message when you have a new IM.
These are the basics for right now, but if anything else is added, I will post it here. The good thing is that right now my Carl Thomas board is bein' updated, so once it's done, I'll have an idea of how things will look and how I'll need to reset everything as far as the look of the board and whatnot so that I'll know exactly what to do once this board gets upgraded.
Also, if you're not clear on one or more of the features that have been added here, don't hesitate to post your question in this thread. I'll try to answer it in the most clear way I can. Well, tis all for now.