Do you think those may be added in the future if you are able to find the right way to implement them? Yes, I know not all of them may get into version 6.3 (perhaps 6.4, 6.5, and going on...) but we can hope that they come in the future without reducing speed.

Rick, which of my feature suggestions do you think would take the shortest time to develop properly?

And Rick, I ACTUALLY like how you delay some features to keep UBB.threads fast and reliable. I hate how the competition (I can't say thier names) quickly implements features and makes their boards slower.

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

[This message was edited by Pink Jazz on November 19, 2002 at 02:23 PM.]

[This message was edited by Pink Jazz on November 19, 2002 at 02:24 PM.]

The Integrated Index Page at Threads Dev will give you a "who's online" box that you can display on your index page. To speed up querries Just Dave (the author of IIP) caches the who's online data.

Maybe who's online info in the main and forum sections could be cached. It wouldn't be up to the second accurate, but it should be close enough for most users without adding a lot of delay to a Threads board.

Da LAN Tech

I asked in my previous post of which of my suggestions would probably be added first?

Rick, do you have an answer?

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

All of the suggested changes are great, but I want something a bit larger in scope.

UBBThreads currently emails you when a user has responded to your message. The ability to *reply* to this email posting, and have it inserted into the appropriate forum&thread would be great.

The administrator would define a pop3 mailbox, and UBBThreads would have a cron process that would check this mailbox say once a minute. When a new message is found, UBBThreads reads the forum and message that the email is in response to by looking at the subject (its encoded).

If you've ever watched the traffic with sites such as EGroups or YahooGroups, the activity is amazing.

When people aren't forced to leave their email, they are more likely to contribute.


= Jim =

Sub forums (collapsed)

Sub forums (expanded)

Hybrid display idea and a button to reply to nobody in particular

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

[This message was edited by Pink Jazz on December 01, 2002 at 04:33 PM.]

I would love if Ubbthreads got the following:

- An optional overview blok (perhaps above categories) that showed ALL the new headlines of topics/replies for the user logging on. The user should be able to enable/disable this from her my home settings.

- A wysiwyg editor a la www.richtextbox.com that also allows for upload and insertion of images in the edit phase.

- A webservice interface. This would allow for consistent integration efforts that could be robust across version upgrades. The first interface function should be stuff like login/logout, new posts, pm's avalible yes/no, etc. Think about this rick. It would help you to keep other developers at an arms length, enforcing an integration standard.

- The hybrid display idea (as in vb3) suggested above is also an idea that rocks!

Regards,
Tim

I saw the new memberlist in 6.2, and it is missing a button for viewing the names that start with non-alpanumeric characters

Another good feature would be a signature preview. A calendar would be nice too.

Rick, do you know what might be possible in version 6.3? The #1 feature I want is a UBB.classic style poll feature

Examples:
<[Pink Jazz]>
$$$ Man
@($)%^*

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

Pink Jaz:

Those characters can be added to the language string for the alphabet/number sort. If you want them, add them.

Not everyone wants or needs a ton of characters that are not allowed in the first place.


~Dave
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