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Looking forward to seeing movement again

I'm just ready for my license. I'm very close to having the money for it. Gotta do some more web design work for people first.

Facebook connect and/or user blog would be nice, (Maybe?)

Yeah, I'd love to see some implementation of social logins (Facebook/Twitter primarily). If adding Twitter we could even integrate a twitter plugin to relay the users feed to their profile.

SirDude, when will you update the 7.6 changelog thread so we have a look at what has been changed, updated, etc.?

Please put API definition in the first priority.
Please DO NOT build-in any 3rd party login system.

With API , every 3rd party login system is possible.
Everyone can implement his/her FB/twitter login system.

I suggest define an OAuth-like authorization system.

Thanks SD for the update on changes. Looks promising with the search function.

I'm so relieved that SirDude is involved and to see where he's taking 7.6. It's looking like a super strong update. I can't wait to get my hands on it!!

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to start posting where we're headed.

It really takes a lot of just offline brain games for me allow things to settle..

THEN it takes time to distill my thoughts into a cogent post or two or three

for all you people who've asked for beta access, i haven't forgotten you either.

i just want to find the best way to do it.

for example: there are certain features that when done, might even be released HERE / LIVE for everyone to see / play with.

i know for certain, that the search feature as installed here is broken ( try advanced search and see )

so i see no reason to _NOT_ both fix it and release the new version here..

so in a way, you are all guinea pigs for certain features as they are deemed solid...

Will there be a like feature in 7.6 that will allow users to like a post?

Man oh man, if I could like a post SD your last 2 change posts would be liked.

The ship has a rudder.

LOL that it does.

Man, reading this just made my day. Glad to see so many of our suggestions incorporated.

Something that jumped off the list at me: Adding users to an existing private topic opens a wide gamut of privacy concerns.

I would never ever post to or even read a private topic if I knew that another person could be added afterwards.

I agree 100%, the only way I would think of liking it is if only the person who created the topic can add, a notification in the pm was made that xxxx was added, and the newly added cannot look back through the topic.

by the time 7.7 feature set is solid, this can probably be decided to add or discard.

i was spitballing, based upon requests for it in the past.

so, i guess there needs to be back/forth on the issue, which is fine with me

_NOT_ adding it is much easier anyway

edit: i can think of a case that would not present an issue. person creates a PM.. adds 5 users to it.. hits send...

then does a face palm and wants to make it 6 users.. he's screwed.. so there are times when it would be desireable. and not broach any privacy concerns

Another "NO" vote for "adds" to private threads.

Delete, start over. You're adding features to make life easier, not to predict and make up for human fallibility.

I'd like to see it added, however only the original author can add to it... Perhaps add a check to see how many posts are in the topic and if more than a few it won't allow?

well -- we won't visit it until 7.7, so maybe we're beating a currently dead horse anyway

we're adding other things to 7.6 as well

I would certainly welcome finer grained control of the sidebars but I understand that might be a fairly large request.

As far as sidebars I would like to see perms applied for reg and guest to at least active topics and posts. Some communities want people to be registered before displaying certain forums. The active topics and posts ignore perms and there for become useless for sites that need that.

I definately agree that I don't think I like the add a person to a private topic, but I really do like the idea of what gliderdad has said there. It is a pita for me if I want to use that because half of my forums are restricted to all but about 10 people. So I can't really use the active topic discussion one..

Dunny

Personally, I find the ability to add people very handy at times. You shouldn't be discussing things with someone anyway if you think there is a possibility that person might add the name of someone you're gabbing about. In my opinion it should be left, but changed so that you can disable or enable it to your own likes. Why take something away that another uses all the time? I used it quite frequently to discuss different ideas of what I want to do with the forums and only want a certain few to know about it in the early stages. Much easier than created yet another "admin" or "moderator" type group for only a couple of people. Just my 2 cents worth.

Exactly. Do not have it so anyone in the conversation can add as that could result in some embarrassing moments.

lol -- well i reiterate

we won't do anything until 7.7 on this anyway

If I understand you correctly Sirdude, when you click on the defined URL it will take you to that forum page containing the defined website, a kind of implementation of a browser engine which allows you to display the URL within the forum post. If not then could this be something that could be added to your 7.6 list.......

"Searching will allow by topic only or by body only, but not both"

>> Don't see the real reason. If it's speed-related then why not add as info "this will cause a slow search"


"since people rarely change the subject or the posting icon"

>> Indeed, we even edit that feature out. Would it be possible to make these items optional? Also as standard, even when removing ALL icons from the CP, you always have the option of a blank or the book.gif. It'd be nice to actually be able to limit to one single icon (and then not show the choice). (It's just we don't want a christmas tree forum.)


Oh and... good luck executing those plans in the time frame you've set yourselves. I would be extremely impressed.

I would love the opportunity to disable .sigs for newbies, at least until they've had a certain number of posts. Then at least the spammers will have to post actual spam in their posts, not secretly in their .sigs.

That is possible already.

With site permissions you can set the maximum length of the signature, and you can upgrade them to a group when they reach a certain amount of posts that allows a signature.

SD, a few things on the SEO topic which I'm sure you have on your list but I'm going to repeat them anyways are the use of rel canonical tags and missing meta descriptions. I'm not sure how to handle the later on multiple pages. Might need to see how the other modern boards handle this.

I also think that trying to mod_rewrite the urls so they are shorter, maybe sans the ubbthreads.php/topics would be wise too, as a lot of attention is going into shorter semantic urls.

"Previous Management" (ala Groupee) deemed that it had to stay "ubbthreads.php" for "brand awareness"... I'm not sure how current ownership feels about that however...

I'm not sure what the right answer to this is, but I'd like to be able to drilldown pages by forum in GA. Since the forum is neither in either the title or url it's not possible to do this.

I think adding a GA section in the admin would be nice. I believe one way of doing this is with custom variables. You could have the variable change by forum. You could also have a variable for logged in and logged out. Then do all the analysis with custom segments.

I know this seems like a lot of hokus pokus but the reality is for a large forum with a lot of different traffic sources these analysis can be useful.

Maybe I can do this as a plugin. SD?

I've created a small hack to do what I described above. I'll post a link to a tutorial tonight.

I don't think the "ubbthreads.php" is needed....

Would be great to have ubbthreads.php eliminated so please oh please Sirdude, eliminate it from the address.

well, it will probably have to be optioned

some peeps love their perceived SEO, based upon pre-crawled uri's

soooooo... i'm all for hiding it ala the way wordpress and MANY sites now do.. but there may be those who want to hold on to the old way for dear life too

agreeed,we can't have any bad URL's as a result.... not a real priority as this point...

Option works for me. My site is brand new and not launched yet so no crawling yet. Therefore I would love to start it off without ubbthreads.php in the address.

My users are all going nuts because they can't embed images in a reply to a gallery forum. As far as I can tell this just isn't possible.
Any chance a small feature like this could be squeezed into the 7.6?

Thank you!

Another small change that would be nice is the query parameter in a site search being passed in the url so that can be tracked in GA.

Ok sorry I have another. It would be great if all posted links that were internal had the "nofollow" removed.

We add people to PM's roughly three times a month as a matter of course - but only as an admin function which cannot be executed except by exactly two admins, which is to say not all admins can do it.

We only add them if everyone in the PM agrees and the PM starter requests it.

To give you some idea of our traffic so you can compare the requests to busy, we average about 450 - 500 posts a day. PM count is roughly 20 - 30 percent of our post count. This is our off season - it will start picking up now and will likely peak in February at around 1,500 posts a day.

For whatever it is worth, we compartmentalize what an Admin can do by using MySQL Workbench and only issuing scripts to who we want to have scripts. Only one person is allowed to write new scripts and only two have them all, for control and security purposes.

I would think that Sir Dude and Gizmo know exactly what I am talking about.

Larry
www.marriageadvocates.com

LOVE the list, SD - thanks!!

Not sure if others would thing this would be useful or not.

I am spending more time on Facebook these days because of business stuff, the one feature that I miss when I am posting on my forum is the "Tag" feature. On FB when I want so make sure a person sees the post I "Tag" their name in the post. I find myself on the forum wishing that feature was there. I see quite often on the forum, "I hope or I am sure XXXX will see this and respond" If there was a way we could link their user name and they they could get some type of notification that they were mentioned in the post and a Link to it, I think that would be great.

Terrific to find all of this activity.

Glad you are holding off for later discussion re:'adding users to existing PMs'. As many times as I've done the face palm, imo privacy concerns win, err, unless the newly invited could only read going forward. (Could be useful for admins only?)

7.6 list looks exciting and ambitious! Thanks SD et al!
mig

I love all the new enthusiasm and input its great to read so much activity well.

With regard to adding members in a running private message my input would be the follow using recent experiences.

ive had several world wars coming from private messages as i have a policy of not getting involved with them and private is private.

The mentality of members is really unbelievable they want to kill each other and tell she said he said.

Ive worked really hard over the years enforcing that private is private. And i can just see a group of members starting a private message about a member then a few months down the line inviting the person they have been talking about and then world war.

If you can protect the malicious side of it then it could work but for my self there is probably more hassel with adding members in a existing private message.

I would like to see a Grouping option for contacting moderators because what's great about private messages is that you can see who's read them.

just my feed back
because good members dont need policing only the bad.

This is great news (the sale of UBB into stronger hands) and the appointment of new developers and programmers.

It would be great if UBB would produce and update the list of current programmers working on the script with their official titles for the members to reference.

This would be good for developers and users alike since customers would have a list of coders to PM when they have questions.

RE: Like

Are we planning to use a FB integration at some point? If so, will we have the option to utilize the internal version vs a Facebook version? Or is the internal version using Facebook?

this internal version is just counting UBB likes or you could even rename it to Thanks..

FB is a separate thing

Thank you for the "likes" When displaying the like: x in the profile, can the number link to the posts likes were given/rec'd?

This may have been discussed, but I think a lot more people would use the FB "like" function if it didn't record and display them on the topic. Most people on forums like to remain anonymous.

is there a way to anonymously Like to FB with no account?

i don't get the idea..

expand further

When you click the "Like" icon in a post, it leaves the person's name with a link to their FB page next to the FB icon.

ok, so it is just another type of FB Like option. i see what you mean.

there are different types of buttons where it could be anonymous, so i'll look @ it.

it will _still_ register with FB, but won't show in the forums that you specifically liked it..

Well, the FB like "links" to the user no matter what, it's not anonymous. You could just have it not show their picture however and it'd "Seem" anonymous...

it can be made to show differently in UBB however. the current one we have is optioned to show a link to those who recently liked it upto a limit..

versus just showing a total like count only.

so it would be 'anonymous' that way

regardless of what i do here, the like and tweet ( and plus one ) buttons will _NOT_ show for any forum that isn't GUEST readable.

Just showing a "Like" count would be perfect.

RE: Portal Enhancement

Would like to see this come to the normal forum pages versus just the main portal page (or maybe have a separate section for just the forum side of things).

+1 here.
I know SD stated there needs to be more addressed on islands and this is just a stepping stone.
But don't get me started on more options for placement of islands nor custom islands per forum.
I have been on that soap box for years.

expand on this please.

Ok, I want forum stats above the forum list; so i'd select "above forum" (or something) and that island would show above the forum content (below would do similar)...

The item was posted as:

So we take that to mean only in the portal page interface.
Not in the forum pages. Something such as the ad content option does now.

you mean ubb=cfrm?

ultimately... alternative templates too at some point

we're talking about 7.6, however in this thread.. i don't see this happening for this release

just use community introduction for that for the short term.

I just went through (again) the change log updates. Hat tip SirDude.

Happy Holidays all!

Larry
www.marriageadvocates.com

How about in the user profile there could be a text area (like an expanded comments area) for the user to add in a mini-commentary, review, feature, picture of their dog... whatever. Kind of a "blogging junior" approach. It would adhere to the forums settings.

Once completed, users could post their "blog" alert in a shout box format, or as part of their user info in a post.

From the admin side, there could be predetermined categories for "Whats New" items, such as commentaries, reviews, etc. Any posting could be monitored with an alert like the current notify button. Whats New could have the option for admins to approve before posting.

This capability would further tie users into the community, provide constant news input, and provide an interim blogging capability.

Absolutely loving the 7.6 updates so far!

Re: Calendar Events

Would it be possible to include locale specific date and time with calendar events? My site includes a lot of live streaming events and it would be very helpful to our international audience to know exactly when they need to tune in their time.

you can do that quite easily with a custom ubb code tag in your event description for now. even in 7.5.6

the calendar / event overhaul is planned for 7.7+

Not quite sure I follow how a custom ubb code tag fills this gap?

I contributed an Events Island a couple of years ago which pulls upcoming calendar events and displays them neatly in an island. When the date of the event is "today", it gets highlighted in the island.

The issue with this is two fold:

1. Each event is considered an "all day event"
2. The date of this event is wrt the server date/time. Unless users happen to live in the same timezone as the server, then this is always "wrong" for them.

So when my users in the US see an event in Tokyo that occurs in the evening of Dec 23, by the time this event is highlighted in the island for them, the event is already over.

By having start/end date and times in the events table, I can accurately query, display and highlight events for users worldwide, wrt to their locale.

you would have javascript tweak the custom island ( manipulate the DOM ) after the fact based upon getTimezoneOffset ( user browser supplied ). note, you'll have jQuery loaded by the board, so all the $('select me') goodness will be there

i misunderstood that you had a precompiled CI, but the idea still translates ( i think )

you may have to modify the event island to not be so specific (ie: just do it in GMT), if you have offsets over 12hrs different. that way 'today' would be easier to modify based upon who's browsing. then the jQuery would do it's magic



Anyway.. we won't be doing anything with calendar ( major ) until a later release

This may have already been discussed ... there are so many pages to read through, I could have missed it.

Has there been any discussion of a search feature for PMs? As an admin, I would like to be able to search my PMs by name and even a title or post content search.

>>> http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthre...for_#Post247522

I'm tired of the teasing. Starting to feel like I'm sitting at the bar waiting for the bartender to serve me the most amazing beer I've ever tasted. Mr. Bartender spent 30 minutes explaining how wonderful the beer is. I finally tell him, "Dude, pour the damn beer please."

There have been some back steps over the last two years.
But this time it looks like we are making progress.
Of course like the say:
The proof is in the pudding.

Whooho back on a roll, I am thinking of pulling up my old website again and launching my board games in the future.

I would rather have it right on release than to have to go do several updates to fix things.

I have the "Like" feature installed on my forum. So far the response has been good except for the original placement of the "Like" button. It isn't a full FB Like with the linking and that is fine with me. This is just a little bump, hey I like your post.

yes, and the modified placement was done according to the feedback from your board as well, Val

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What is/are the difference(s) in 7.5.6 p1 and p2?

Just another fix/change to further secure things a bit more.

In short, P1 isn't going to stop you from being hacked; P2 will...

Captcha change:


Thank Youuu!
I have always had problems reading it. Especially with the rough gradient background.
In fact I had contemplated changing the ttf file and make backgound1 and 2 both be the smooth one.

Permissions:
Extra treat

I have always harped on this feature that if we have permissions for same we should be able to do so in a gallery forum.
It was always confusing that the standard permissions apply to the forum but they did not work if you elected the one time option to be a gallery forum.
Now with that said I hope we could also undo the new allowed permissions in a gallery forum if need be.

Nice surprise!

of course you can. just edit the forum permissions to NOT allow polls, which is how it should have been all along

Ooooh!!!
Keep going Bucko.

Of course sooner or later you will need to say that is enough for this version release.

Looking good!

Approve topics option added where needed:

Wow I thought this might have been a difficult item to deal with between topics and replies.

Thanks for the recognition.

I thought this might have been put on the back burner with so many other items to deal with.

sorry if this is a repeat question (i get confused with the various versions and threads...)

just wondering if 7.6 is going to be iphone / mobile-friendly?

Nothing more than 7.5 thus far

iphone / android / mobile -- is in 7.7

gotcha - i'll stay patient

I manually disabled anything else than the 'book' icon, even got rid of the always selectable 'empty' icon. I hate it when the forum turns into a christmas tree. But I presume that will be covered. People can choose the icon, but the admin will be able to choose WHICH are available.

Really must say I'm looking forward to the release SD. Great work judging from those posts you're doing!