And it would be great to also have the "Most users ever:" thing added to that. It looks great on some other boards I visit.

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Pink Jazz made this, as a suggestion. Very cool.



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Hi,

following features woul den nice:

two versions of ubbthreads: one with and one without target _top so that it is possible to decide which one I want to use (Problems with displaying a forum in a hp with frames)

more info in the statistic-footer: who is online with names (like classic) and the maximum of online users of the day

group-management: we created a new group. If we want to change several users to an new usergroup it isn´t possible at the moment to shift for example "praktikant" (first step when you register in our forum) to user. (I tried this with the group-management function) If you try this the browser (Netscape and IE) collapses and you have to shutdown the browser.

colour-management like ubbclassic

That are my suggestions for now.

Best regards,

Michael

www.boxster-group.de powered by ubbthreads

Good ideas, Pink Jazz.

Josh, if the "who's online" feature is still a hack then it would be great to finally see it incorporated into an official release.

What do you guys think about NOT having the thread title appear in every subsequent reply? It really makes things look messy.

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I'll chime in on a couple of these. Showing the actual member names that are online on the various screen requires extra queries or JOINs (complex queries). This is one of those things, like many features, where speed vs. functionality needs to be taken into consideration. At some point this might be added in, but as new features are added many of them require new queries to be added or JOINs. These type of things needed to be added slowly over the course of a few versions. This allows us to see a performance curve and see if we can add in more without totally bogging things down on busy boards.

As for not displaying the subject in replies. The one thing to remember is .threads is a flat AND threaded forum. So, what will happen is the subject may be changed somewhere along the way during the course of the thread. The admin might decide that at the point of the subject change the branch has gone off the original topic and split this into a new thread. Some users will toggle back and forth to threaded mode from flat mode to see what post is actually being replied to and the subject sometimes is the key. Things like this however are very easy to change in the templates as it's a matter of removing the HTML that displays the subject line.

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Yeah,
My users change the subject line all the time as the conversation goes. It wouldn't work on my board.

A bunch of my regular users use threaded or expanded mode.



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Thanks Rick.

Yes, it's understandable that the "who's online" feature will bump up the required system resources, though I think this feature is adequate when it just tells you who's online in general (without breaking this down into specific forums).

I think that overall this feature looks really good on some sites I know, especially when there is a little note next to it that states what the all-time record is for concurrent users online.

As for the constantly repeating subject-line, it's good to know that this can be dealt with by modifying templates (personally I find it distracting because it's so repetitive most of the time).

***Rick, maybe if you include the option to 'reply to nobody in particular' then you could include something that also removes the subject-line from subsequent posts? These two issues seem to go hand-in-hand.

Now imagine seeing "UBB.threads 6.3 suggestion thread" at the top of each post in this thread... Arrhhh!

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