For what it's worth, here is my .02
- The new version of UBB should have the same feature set that the 6.5 release has. Anything less would be a letdown for the people who are use to the way UBB looks and feels now.
- XML compliant script and full use of CSS.
- Every element on a page should be contained in a separate variable. As an example the $instant_ubbcode variable is a pain in the backside -no way to really move the graemlins, ubb code, and font colors to different locations on the page without creating new variables for them. UBB would be easier to "skin" if the elements on the page are seperate...
- The way that data is presented to the user of the forum needs to be selectable. As an admin I should have the ability to choose different templates for each forum, so that an article doesn't look like a forum post, which doesn't look like a blog, etc. Then people could script different templates for different uses and provide them for download at Threads Dev or here at your site.
At the risk of sounding like I'm bragging you can check out some of the things that I've mentioned at my site:
Redesigned posting pages Article templates Using Threads for your index page Note: That's not the IIP mod, it's a script that I wrote from the old add ons that use to come with Threads.
A post in the database is just text, so controlling the way it is presented is easy -you just change the template that you are echoing out to the client. What UBB needs is an easy way for an admin to control the way that the data is being presented -without it UBB will never be more than just a forum (unless you do a lot of hacking).
