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</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????

<img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />

Brew
CustomShowCars.com
OldHouseForums.net
PoliticalForums.net

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

http://www.drugbuyers.com

[This message was edited by dbuyers on November 17, 2002 at 06:15 PM.]

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)

nòóx
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• <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" />

Maze

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.

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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.

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Rick Baker
UBBThreads developer

Rick,

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.

Thank you,

adrienne

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.

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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" />

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.

Chuck S
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Will the new version have who posted last? I miss that feature more than all others.

</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" />


~Dave
ChattersOnline.com

</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" />

Josh
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</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.

/Gardener
www.rollspel.nu

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.

One other small thing... any chance you could finally nail the difference between "forum" and "board". For example...

Favorite Forum! ok
Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Board wrong

I don't mind what you call them, just call them the same thing! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

Yes, being consistent in the use of forum vs board would be appreciated.

/Gardener
www.rollspel.nu

I had cleaned all of the forum/board stuff up at one point but then it looks like I messed up when adding some new things.

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Rick Baker
UBBThreads developer

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.

Thank you!!

A public beta will be out this week - they usually appear on Friday afternoons from memory....

So a weeks time.

I guess the beta will run for a month or so...

Amy

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.

Chuck S
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Well if we say next Friday - and it appears Monday, we will all be very happy - if we say Monday, and it is Friday, we will all be annoyed.

I am sure there is a name for this theory <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Just checked back...

6.1 was released as a beta on Wednesday August 21st, and the official release was Monday September 23rd.

So that means 6.3 beta should be released in mid-April <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

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.