This forum is a new forum with the release of 7.0. Many questions in this area can be answered by our customers as well as our staff. So, if you have any questions that you need an answer to help with your decision, go ahead and ask here.

I'd like to have a forum where users can upload a photo. I don't see a link above to attach a file. Is that allowed? I see the "enter an image" link to a url but I'd like for an image to be uploaded directly.

Also I tried updating my profile an uploading an avatar but I get a little red x in a box even though it fits specifications of smaller than 80 x 80. Thanks,

This particular forum doesn't have file attachments enabled. The test forum does however so you can test this feature that will allow you to upload multiple file attachments.

File attachments can be enabled on a per forum basis, so you can allow them in some and not in others.

The avatars was an incorrect path setup on my part. Should be fixed now.

I'm in Classic 6.7.2. A group of my users have been asking to be able to hide post counts (the subject can be disruptive) or to have this feature disabled entirely. I can't seem to find out if this is possible or not in 7.0. Any other info about the new user profile experience is also welcome. Thanks.

You could disable the post count listing by editing the template files and deleting the appropriate line.

Thanks. Does that mean turning it off for the entire board or per profile by user preference isn't possible in 7.0?

There were some good suggestions by users about other criteria for determining titles used on other boards. Post count tends to promote spamming and "me too" posts by those who want to get a higher title quickly, or to climb to the top of the freqent poster lists. Something based on activity, for example, such as one point every day you are active, which rewards both seniority and frequency.

Limiting the number of posts per day is a more radical concept, would be interesting to see the effect on discourse. Is this possible to set?

Those aren't possible, yet ;)...

You could make a modification request (or a few) at UBBDev and see if any private developer can build a couple of quick modifications for you in the meantime.

I am thinking seriously about purchasing the product, and I read on some forum that there are problems in relation to local time synching, and would like to know if there was a way to automatically synchronize discussion board time and email date and time stamps to ur local time in relation to where your user base is in the World - baring in mind that my hosting company is also on the other side of the Globe....

thanks, Naz.

Well, the UBB reads the time as read out by your server, and you as an admin can set your "base" offset in the CP (so if your server timezone is say EST and you wanted it to be GMT you could set that) then users can offset their accounts off of the board offset (so if you offsetted your server time to GMT, they could offset the board time to their timezone, such as PST)

Am i right to think that UBB lets you send emails to addresses for your entire User-base automatically after the admin has verified the post, or when a post is added to a specific sub-forum for which the entire User-base needs to be informed....

thanks, Naz