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#130089 - 10/22/02 04:46 PM 6.2 Changelog
Rick Registered: 06/04/06 Posts: 7883 Loc: Aberdeen, WA	Here you can keep up with the progress for the 6.2 version that is currently under development. Reworked the entire system to use the Userid in all tables instead of username. Reworked all scripts so they will generate no warnings when run with full warnings on (still not totally finished but close). Reworked the Sticky posts to eliminate several bugs with them. Added in an alphabetic/numeric sort into the members list. Thanks to JustDave. Added in an option for users to change their display names if the admin allows it. This can be set to immediate change, or a que where all changes must be approved by an administrator. Added the default tableprefix into the config editor as a read only value. Added a confirmation screen when choosing to delete an entire thread. Added in an option to mark all posts as read. Added the instant UBBcode into the private messaging system. Thanks to Gardener. Added in a config option that requires users to verify their email before their account is activated. If used with user registration approval, admins will get notification of the new user after their email is verified. Accounts that do not have their email verified within 24 hours will be deleted. Added a config option to turn user ratings on and off. Reworked all of the templates to use a table open and close wrapper. This allows for modifying the look of the whole site just by changing the open/close table wrapper instead of editing every template. Added in a pagination routine for the postlist.php screen for threads with many pages. (ie. 1 2 3 4 ... 10 11 12 instead of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12) Reorganized the edit config screen into sections with links to jump to each section. Changed the front page to show the subject of the last post along with who posted it for each forum. Changed the way new posts are flagged on the postlist screen. Instead of using 2 different colored icons, it now uses a different colored table cell for the new post along with bolding of the line. This makes it so admins can upload new post icons of any color. Made an option to turn on/off the display of each forum's moderators on the main page. Added in a new option to log all mysql errors along with the time,script and username to daily files. Thanks to Dave_L. Added in a new admin function to view or delete the mysql error log files. Added in an option to log any activity in the admin section that actually changes something. Also a script for admins to view these logs. Thanks to Gardener. Reworked favorite forums. These will no longer display in the "My home" area. Instead there will be a toggle on the main forum listing page that will allow users to display all forums or only their favorite forums. Added a graphic next to each category title that will allow users to collapse or expand entire categories. Redid the category order function. Now the numbers assigned do not have to be consecutive. This will allow users to add categories add a later date that will fit in between current categories. Added a reply with quote option. Removed the option to have replies to your post emailed to you. Replaced this with a profile setting to have any posts in one of your favorite threads emailedto you. This will allow any registered user to subscribe to a thread which is much more flexible than the previous setting. Updated admin/deleteuser.php to remove all favorite and reminder entries for a user when they are deleted. Updated approvepost.php and admin/doapproveposts.php to send out the emails for favorite entries when posts are approved. Updated deletepost.php and admin/doexpirethreads.php to remove all favorite and reminder entries. Updated domovepost and domovethread to make sure users still have access to the thread in the new location that have the thread marked as a favorite. Added an option to add a thread to your favorites when posting or replying. Added a new option when moving a thread to leave a pointer at the old location of the thread. Added an option to include a reason for moving a thread when leaving a pointer to the new location. Made the Favorite thread and Reminders links into toggles. This means clicking once will add the thread/post to your favorites/reminders. Clicking again will remove it. ------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer [This message was edited by Rick Baker on November 02, 2002 at 09:13 AM.]
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#130090 - 10/24/02 06:14 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Nice But what's the difference between using usernames and user IDs in the queries? Faster maybe? The Name's Bond .. James Bond
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#130091 - 10/24/02 07:32 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	I am going to convert from Classics to threads very shortly. I was wondering when 6.2 will be released? I may want to wait for it. Musky I won 37 Spelling Bees' in school.......... but I flnuked EVEYR typing couSrse I tOoK.
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#130092 - 10/24/02 07:42 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	It will allow the change of username's easier and eliminate problems with special characters. Josh Measurection.com Admin \| ThreadsDev.com Moderator Register to see my How To/Site Help Library Forum at ThreadsDev.com. My threads 'tweaking' abilities are for hire.
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#130093 - 10/24/02 08:11 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	No immediate timeframe on 6.2. We're still fairly early in development. Once we get into it further we should be able to get an idea. ------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
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#130094 - 10/24/02 08:14 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Josh noted a couple of the reasons for going with ID's instead of usernames. It definitely makes things alot easier refering to the user's number as the username doesn't need to be encoded when used in a URL. Speed is definitely an issue as the ID is the primary key in the user's table so it will make JOINs with that table a bit faster. ------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
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#130095 - 10/25/02 12:48 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Will the main forum screen show not only the author of the last post but also the thread title (as in Classic and every other proper bulletin board software)? --------- Go Cougs!
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#130096 - 10/24/02 01:00 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	It's missing from the changelog... but I think Rick mentioned this over at ThreadsDev that the name of the post would be included. Josh Measurection.com Admin \| ThreadsDev.com Moderator Register to see my How To/Site Help Library Forum at ThreadsDev.com. My threads 'tweaking' abilities are for hire.
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#130097 - 10/25/02 05:44 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Thanks Josh, hope Rick takes this into account and includes it in 6.2. It makes the forum summary screen so much better. --------- Go Cougs!
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#130098 - 10/25/02 07:52 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	I've been running a hack of this myself for some time.... and we have at Threadsdev as well. Yes... this is a Classic feature I do like. Josh Measurection.com Admin \| ThreadsDev.com Moderator Register to see my How To/Site Help Library Forum at ThreadsDev.com. My threads 'tweaking' abilities are for hire.
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#130099 - 10/25/02 08:07 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Keep watching the changelog, it's always changing. That bit was added to the changelog yesterday afternoon ------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
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#130100 - 10/25/02 02:34 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Could you please add a memberlist search, and also allow spaces in usernames. Pretty-pink jazz > Boring-brown country music Dixie Narco vending machines > Vendo and Royal Vendors vending machines Boeing 767-400 > Airbus A330 Delta Airlines > All other airlines HP printers > All other pritners
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#130101 - 10/25/02 03:00 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	quote: Added in an option for users to change their display names if the admin allows it. The new display name will allow spaces. Josh Measurection.com Admin \| ThreadsDev.com Moderator Register to see my How To/Site Help Library Forum at ThreadsDev.com. My threads 'tweaking' abilities are for hire.
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#130102 - 10/25/02 03:48 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Switching to user numbers seems like a good idea. Maybe you can tie that in with the UBBC layout to make the two systems match. That way if people upgrade between the two the user numbers would remain the same. --------- Go Cougs!
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#130103 - 10/25/02 06:09 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	A frequent complaint about UBB.classic is that the user numbers are displayed, and also required for searches. They should be for internal use only. In that case, it dosn't really matter whether the numbers are the same between classic and threads.
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#130104 - 10/26/02 10:34 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	There are so many really good new things already for this version that I must pay for a member area extension. I'll just have to go beg for the money now... Just the account verification alone would justify for the cost, I'll never have to weed through all those bounce mails again. Well, sort of. =] /Gardener www.rollspel.nu
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#130105 - 10/29/02 08:57 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	My 2 highest requests: public names, and account verification. Thanks Rick! Jason TheDieselStop.Com Complete source of information for all diesel-powered Ford vehicles.
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#130106 - 10/29/02 09:56 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Hi, It would be cool to be able to use markup in the Forum name and desc. Thanks, Andrew
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#130107 - 10/29/02 10:51 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	quote: It would be cool to be able to use markup in the Forum name and desc. Good Idea. FYI.... you can use HTML in the forum Description now.... I've included some bold text, red text and even some images in the forum description on my site. Adding UBB Code here would be a neat idea. Josh Measurection.com Admin \| ThreadsDev.com Moderator Register to see my How To/Site Help Library Forum at ThreadsDev.com. My threads 'tweaking' abilities are for hire.
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#130108 - 10/30/02 10:12 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	could we see the quote button added in this version? That is a pretty major feature that IMO should be added as a standard option.
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#130109 - 10/30/02 02:17 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	quote: Originally posted by MSULA: could we see the quote button added in this version? That is a pretty major feature that IMO should be added as a standard option. Rick has experimented with it before, and Rick or Dave did not like the way it worked. It will probably not be in 6.2, but hopefully they will find a workaround in the future. Pretty-pink jazz > Boring-brown country music Dixie Narco vending machines > Vendo and Royal Vendors vending machines Boeing 767-400 > Airbus A330 Delta Airlines > All other airlines HP printers > All other pritners
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#130110 - 10/30/02 02:37 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	It's in Just forget to update the changelog which I will do this evening. ------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
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#130111 - 10/30/02 03:03 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Do we have any sort of ETA for 6.2? November? December? --------- Go Cougs!
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#130112 - 10/30/02 03:33 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Still no real idea yet. We're only a few weeks past the 6.1.1 release so not that far into development yet. As we get a little closer and figure out what else needs to or will be going in we'll have a better idea and be able to give an idea of a private then public beta. ------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
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#130113 - 10/30/02 05:02 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Could you add the feature for users to view the categories expanded or collapsed as the dafault setting (just like the feature users to view topics flat or threaded as the default setting) in the User Control Panel? Pretty-pink jazz > Boring-brown country music Dixie Narco vending machines > Vendo and Royal Vendors vending machines Boeing 767-400 > Airbus A330 Delta Airlines > All other airlines HP printers > All other pritners
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#130114 - 10/30/02 07:49 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	quote: Could you add the feature for users to view the categories expanded or collapsed as the dafault setting (just like the feature users to view topics flat or threaded as the default setting) in the User Control Panel? So far it seems as if it remembers for each user how they were last left.... what is collapsed stays collapsed....what is expanded stays expanded. This way you can close off categories that aren't typically active, but leave active categories open. Josh Measurection.com Admin \| ThreadsDev.com Moderator Register to see my How To/Site Help Library Forum at ThreadsDev.com. My threads 'tweaking' abilities are for hire.
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#130115 - 10/31/02 04:53 AM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	Any chance of 6.2 having the option to disable the little admin/mod. flags? --------- Go Cougs!
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#130116 - 10/31/02 10:28 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	quote: ¤ Added a new option when moving a thread to leave a pointer at the old location of the thread. I think a lot of people will enjoy this feature. (Myself included) Josh Measurection.com Admin \| ThreadsDev.com Moderator Register to see my How To/Site Help Library Forum at ThreadsDev.com. My threads 'tweaking' abilities are for hire.
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#130117 - 10/31/02 10:32 PM Re: 6.2 Changelog
Anonymous Unregistered	quote: Any chance of 6.2 having the option to disable the little admin/mod. flags? Conrad - that's the type of thing that you easily remove from the templates. You've got that option now. For example.. in showflat.tmpl file, you just need to remove this: {$postrow[$i]['UserStatus']} OR you can cheat and upload a 1x1 pixel transparent graphic named adm.gif and mod.gif to your images directory. Josh Measurection.com Admin \| ThreadsDev.com Moderator Register to see my How To/Site Help Library Forum at ThreadsDev.com. My threads 'tweaking' abilities are for hire.
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#130118 - 11/01/02 05:42 AM

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