Here you can keep up with the progress for the 6.2 version that is currently under development.
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<font size="" face="">Reworked the entire system to use the Userid in all tables instead of username.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Reworked all scripts so they will generate no warnings when run with full warnings on (still not totally finished but close).</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Reworked the Sticky posts to eliminate several bugs with them.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in an alphabetic/numeric sort into the members list. Thanks to JustDave.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in an option for users to change their display names if the admin allows it. This can be set to immediate change, or a que where all changes must be approved by an administrator.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added the default tableprefix into the config editor as a read only value.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a confirmation screen when choosing to delete an entire thread.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in an option to mark all posts as read.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added the instant UBBcode into the private messaging system. Thanks to Gardener.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in a config option that requires users to verify their email before their account is activated. If used with user registration approval, admins will get notification of the new user after their email is verified. Accounts that do not have their email verified within 24 hours will be deleted.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a config option to turn user ratings on and off.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Reworked all of the templates to use a table open and close wrapper. This allows for modifying the look of the whole site just by changing the open/close table wrapper instead of editing every template.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in a pagination routine for the postlist.php screen for threads with many pages. (ie. 1 2 3 4 ... 10 11 12 instead of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12)</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Reorganized the edit config screen into sections with links to jump to each section.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Changed the front page to show the subject of the last post along with who posted it for each forum.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Changed the way new posts are flagged on the postlist screen. Instead of using 2 different colored icons, it now uses a different colored table cell for the new post along with bolding of the line. This makes it so admins can upload new post icons of any color.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Made an option to turn on/off the display of each forum's moderators on the main page.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in a new option to log all mysql errors along with the time,script and username to daily files. Thanks to Dave_L.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in a new admin function to view or delete the mysql error log files.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in an option to log any activity in the admin section that actually changes something. Also a script for admins to view these logs. Thanks to Gardener.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Reworked favorite forums. These will no longer display in the "My home" area. Instead there will be a toggle on the main forum listing page that will allow users to display all forums or only their favorite forums.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a graphic next to each category title that will allow users to collapse or expand entire categories.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Redid the category order function. Now the numbers assigned do not have to be consecutive. This will allow users to add categories add a later date that will fit in between current categories.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a reply with quote option.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Removed the option to have replies to your post emailed to you. Replaced this with a profile setting to have any posts in one of your favorite threads emailedto you. This will allow any registered user to subscribe to a thread which is much more flexible than the previous setting.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Updated admin/deleteuser.php to remove all favorite and reminder entries for a user when they are deleted.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Updated approvepost.php and admin/doapproveposts.php to send out the emails for favorite entries when posts are approved.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Updated deletepost.php and admin/doexpirethreads.php to remove all favorite and reminder entries.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Updated domovepost and domovethread to make sure users still have access to the thread in the new location that have the thread marked as a favorite.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added an option to add a thread to your favorites when posting or replying.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a new option when moving a thread to leave a pointer at the old location of the thread.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added an option to include a reason for moving a thread when leaving a pointer to the new location.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Made the Favorite thread and Reminders links into toggles. This means clicking once will add the thread/post to your favorites/reminders. Clicking again will remove it.</font></li>
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------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
[This message was edited by Rick Baker on November 02, 2002 at 09:13 AM.]
Nice <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> But what's the difference between using usernames and user IDs in the queries? Faster maybe?
Josh noted a couple of the reasons for going with ID's instead of usernames. It definitely makes things alot easier refering to the user's number as the username doesn't need to be encoded when used in a URL. Speed is definitely an issue as the ID is the primary key in the user's table so it will make JOINs with that table a bit faster.
------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
Will the main forum screen show not only the author of the last post but also the thread title (as in Classic and every other proper bulletin board software)?
Keep watching the changelog, it's always changing. That bit was added to the changelog yesterday afternoon <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face=""> Added in an option for users to change their display names if the admin allows it. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">The new display name will allow spaces. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
Switching to user numbers seems like a good idea. Maybe you can tie that in with the UBBC layout to make the two systems match. That way if people upgrade between the two the user numbers would remain the same.
A frequent complaint about UBB.classic is that the user numbers are displayed, and also required for searches. They should be for internal use only. In that case, it dosn't really matter whether the numbers are the same between classic and threads.
There are so many really good new things already for this version that I must pay for a member area extension. I'll just have to go beg for the money now...
Just the account verification alone would justify for the cost, I'll never have to weed through all those bounce mails again. Well, sort of. =]
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">It would be cool to be able to use markup in the Forum name and desc. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Good Idea. FYI.... you can use HTML in the forum Description now....
I've included some bold text, red text and even some images in the forum description on my site.
could we see the quote button added in this version? That is a pretty major feature that IMO should be added as a standard option. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by MSULA: could we see the quote button added in this version? That is a pretty major feature that IMO should be added as a standard option. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Rick has experimented with it before, and Rick or Dave did not like the way it worked. It will probably not be in 6.2, but hopefully they will find a workaround in the future.
Pretty-pink jazz > Boring-brown country music
Dixie Narco vending machines > Vendo and Royal Vendors vending machines
Still no real idea yet. We're only a few weeks past the 6.1.1 release so not that far into development yet. As we get a little closer and figure out what else needs to or will be going in we'll have a better idea and be able to give an idea of a private then public beta.
------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
Could you add the feature for users to view the categories expanded or collapsed as the dafault setting (just like the feature users to view topics flat or threaded as the default setting) in the User Control Panel?
Pretty-pink jazz > Boring-brown country music
Dixie Narco vending machines > Vendo and Royal Vendors vending machines
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Could you add the feature for users to view the categories expanded or collapsed as the dafault setting (just like the feature users to view topics flat or threaded as the default setting) in the User Control Panel? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">So far it seems as if it remembers for each user how they were last left.... what is collapsed stays collapsed....what is expanded stays expanded.
This way you can close off categories that aren't typically active, but leave active categories open. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">¤ Added a new option when moving a thread to leave a pointer at the old location of the thread. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">I think a lot of people will enjoy this feature. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> (Myself included)
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Any chance of 6.2 having the option to disable the little admin/mod. flags?  </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Conrad - that's the type of thing that you easily remove from the templates. You've got that option now. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
For example.. in showflat.tmpl file, you just need to remove this: {$postrow[$i]['UserStatus']}
*OR* you can cheat and upload a 1x1 pixel transparent graphic named adm.gif and mod.gif to your images directory. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
Impressive list! But I want more! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
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<font size="" face="">An ad attachment feature when sending private messages would be great!</font></li>
<font size="" face="">An optional extra subject field in posts. This could be used to let the user via scroll lists or, better, buttons indicate predefined topics when making a new post. These topics should be seen in the post list but also be added to the search page, to enable predefined topic searches. This gives the user more accurate results than with regular searches.
Admin should be able to set this feature on or off, and specify the topics, individually for each forum.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">More advanced user profiles. The profiles should be more dynamic, allowing users to use UBBcode. More features like a personal diary and guest book, personal picture album, etc.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Make the view/read rights incluude not only forums, but also user profiles.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">With numbers instead of usernames, I would like to have the option to strip specified forums from all fields showing usernames. This to give registered users an anonymous forum.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Option to set a forum to "private replys only" wich changes the reply link to a PM link. Optional if a PM created as a reply from such a forum should show recipents username or not: this should be connected to the "anonymous forum feature" mentioned above.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">All in all: make UBBT be more of a modern platform for a web based community, rather than "just" a forum system. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /></font></li>
I'd *guess* that it's probably feature frozen at this point.
The infopop newsletter that went out the other night said we were potentially a few weeks away from a beta in the members area. <Fingers Crossed <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> >
But that also means that 6.3 will be on it's way to the drawing board. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> That's the great things about software with frequent updates. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
I appreciate the feature set may be frozen.. but im watching with keen interest all the changes as I may decide to switch our board across to threads from classic.
It would be nice to be able to have extra fields in the registration for users to add details about themselves, but be able to define if those fields are viewable to users on the site.. Users hate giving their real names as they can be displayed, but I would still like to know who they are.. so maybe the option for admins only to see certain defined fields would be good?
You should post it in the Feature Request forum too... as I believe Infopop logs and tracks feature requests. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
Hi Rick, how do the pointers look like (the ones that point to moved threads)? Also, once they've been around for a couple of days for everyone to see, will they disappear automatically?
Rick, if I may suggest one small change. It would be really great if the censor feature could work like it does here on the Infopop Community Forums. What I mean is having certain words replaced with **** , even when they are part of a longer word. So that ****er or ****ing would also be "starred out" and not appear in full.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Rick Baker: Basically these give the new location......snip
Rick Baker UBBThreads developer</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Rick who????
that would be a great thing for the board owners. There are a lot admins that do not like some worrds or URL's to be sent by PM's... like some URL's of competitors promoting other boards
Is it possible not to remove the email notifications for direct replies. I made the experience that user do not like to have features removed.
It would be be cool if there is an profile option to set email notification to: -none -direct reply to a post only -any reply in a thread
This is then the default setting in the post window, but can be changed there.
The question is also, if in the latter case every posts should be sent to, or only one notification as long as the user does not visit the forums.
So there could be 4 options, but this is surely to complicated: - none - direct reply only - any reply in thread (only once between visits) - any reply in thread (all)
<font size="" face="">Removed the option to have replies to your post emailed to you. Replaced this with a profile setting to have any posts in one of your favorite threads emailedto you. This will allow any registered user to subscribe to a thread which is much more flexible than the previous setting</font></li>
<font size="" face=""></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">That's definitive a new feature I don't like at all. Will there be an option to get replys to my posts emailed (like now)?
At the moment it looks like I have to put all the posts I ever wrote into my favorite-list to get an reply emailed. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />
Obviously the change with email replies will be added upon. This whole thing did need to go through a fundamental change however because the old way was limited to only have replies to your post emailed to you instead of any replies in the thread. So if someone didn't reply directly to your post then you wouldn't get the reply. We've tried to make some of the features more useful and these will be improved upon as they are used and we get feedback.
Favorite forums, now you can choose to only show them on the main screen. The current way in 6.1.1 and previous they weren't truly useful.
Favorite threads, now having the option to get new posts in the thread emailed to you. In 6.1.1 and previous they weren't very helpful in that you would only see them in your "My Home" and no option for replies. Also, with the old way of getting replies to your posts there was no way to go back and turn this off if you no longer wanted replies.
------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
[This message was edited by Rick Baker on November 19, 2002 at 06:54 AM.]
One more response to this thread. Please, if you can, keep feature suggestions in the feature suggestions forum. Any suggested features here will end up getting lost as we move on to newer versions.
------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
I'd like to second nòóx and Maze's comments. I would have put this in "feature requests," but since I'm replying to something that's already here...
I operate a photography forum, where the main "subject" of a thread is a photograph. My members are interested in seeing comments and critiques to their photos. People who comment on the photos are interested in seeing responses to their own comments, but not responses to everyone else's comments. In other words, they like the way it's working now <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
I like the fact that you're adding more options, but I hope we won't lose something in the process.
Definitely understandable Adrienne. While trying to add some flexibilty sometimes we need to take a step back in order to keep going forward (I know, an old cliche <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> ). Luckily this doesn't happen to often. With this feature, it does allow others to get emails about a thread even if they didn't start it. So, that's a plus.
The reason the option to have replies to your post was removed is that it couldn't really work with the new feature. If you added that checkbox and then also added it to your favorites then on certain posts you would get duplicate emails. One for a reply to your post and one for a new post in the thread. And with no way to stop getting replies to your own post it was very limiting.
Again we'll definitely improve upon this but in order to do so we'll need to get some feedback after users have used the new method. This is something that's been asked for quite a bit and is a pretty old feature request that we wanted to put in. Eventually we'll get to the point where we should be able to have this flexible enough to fit everyone's needs.
------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
Hi...Thank for the great effort it's going from good to better to best...
In the extra information table : I was thinking if you could... Add a summary of like... How many users loged today.. Which day had the max users loged .... What was the time that had the max users at the same time... Total posts...or total posts of each forum... Birthday of users.... Whos is loged right now....
And if possible..scrolling text to show the lates subjects
Thanks for reading
Abdullah <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
There was a very simply hack done over at UBBDEV that emailed all replies to any post you started or replied too no matter who replied etc. This hack has worked great from the first install and on every version since. I think it would be a good starting point as the only downfall is it will email you when anyone replies to any thread you ever replied or started. You could code in a toggle for people to toggle this on or off in their profile or you could put a toggle when they post to use this or not. Seems like a very easy way to go about it considering this is a very suggested feature and you seem to be backpeddling on this one. Now I am going to have to add every thread I reply or start in my favorites. NOT. I will simply apply the hack. I would rather as a BB user know if anybody replied to a thread versus none.( which it would be if someone had to move a thread to favorites every time.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by omegatron: Rick,
There was a very simply hack done over at UBBDEV that emailed all replies to any post you started or replied too no matter who replied etc. This hack has worked great from the first install and on every version since. I think it would be a good starting point as the only downfall is it will email you when anyone replies to any thread you ever replied or started. You could code in a toggle for people to toggle this on or off in their profile or you could put a toggle when they post to use this or not. Seems like a very easy way to go about it considering this is a very suggested feature and you seem to be backpeddling on this one. Now I am going to have to add every thread I reply or start in my favorites. NOT. I will simply apply the hack. I would rather as a BB user know if anybody replied to a thread versus none.( which it would be if someone had to move a thread to favorites every time. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Would you be able to toggle this for each thread you replied to? I wouldn't want email from every thread but specific threads and that's what Rick has accomplished at this point with 6.2
The other nice thing I like about Rick's current approach is that if I no longer wish to recieve email about a particular thread I can just remove it from my favorites.
Rick has stated that this isn't a feature that's completely finished and it will be built appon in the months ahead. I think the feature should be judged after it's had some real use and real feedback can be offered on improving it. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Now I am going to have to add every thread I reply or start in my favorites.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">just noting that in the current beta, threads that you start, or reply to, automatically get added to your favorites, if you have that option set in your profile.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Warlady: Will the new version have who posted last? I miss that feature more than all others.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">The Main Index will have who posted last, as well as subject of the post.
Last Post on the Postlist page was discussed... but it's pretty demanding.... Rick had said:
"Right now it's a speed/query thing. Since we have the ability to change names now, this would really need to be done by a JOIN. Since if you stored who made the last post in the table that might not match up with their current display name. So, it would either require storing the Uid and then adding an extra query to grab the current display name or a JOIN. The extra query is bad as it would add at least 10 queries per page on the postlist screen. And the JOIN would be fairly complex in this script.
Eventually, would like to get this in but I need to make sure that it's done properly so it doesn't make a big database hit."
So as typical of threads..... when it can be done in a good way, without affecting speed or performance... we'll see it. And that's good. We don't want slower forums because of too many features.
If your site isn't that big, and can handle the extra load.... then there's a modification for it at threadsdev.com. I'm using it now myself... I'm sure someone (aka JustDave) will update it for 6.2 once there's a public beta release. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Since if you stored who made the last post in the table that might not match up with their current display name. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Why not store the current Display Name and when a user updates his Display Name, all threads with this name is also updated. The added update query won't make that big impact on the profile editing page, and there will be no extra impact on the postlist page.
I like the sound of the new favourite threads = e-mail option. What I'd like to see is this logic applied to favourite forums. So instead of having the separate subscriptions area in My Home, we just have the option to have all posts in our favourite forums e-mailed to us. This would make the system more logical and intuitive for new users, since "favourite" always means "notification" if they so desire.
I know this has been asked and answered many times... but not for a while now.
Is there a rough estimate to the 6.2 UBB.threads release date (Jan-Feb? March - april??)? I'm very interested in buying this message board, but not until this version has been released as it has things I want.
Well keep in mind that that is not always true. It was true with UBB
However Threads is kinda different. 6.1 was released on a Monday if memory serves me. I got an email a Wednesday or Thursday from Infopop saying it would be released in a week so waiting till Friday would make them liars. If they hold true to the newsletter they sent our should be any day.
Monday's a logical day of the week for releasing a new version. If there are problems (and there always are), then everybody's in the office for the next few days to deal with them. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
I just cant wait untill 6.2 is released. I have been testing the br2 and so far I havent had any problems for the most part. I am hoping we would get 6.2 as a Christmas present.
