Here you can keep track on the progress of 6.4 that is currently under development.
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<font size="" face="">Added in an option to save database queries that are used frequently from the admin section.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in an option to delete a group that is no longer needed.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Reworked the entire poll system to the style of UBB.classic, this supports multiple questions within a single poll, options for users to vote for more than 1 option, start/stop time and a few other options.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a calendar system that can be used for showing public/private events and birthdays.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a config option so admins can choose who can add public events to the calendar.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a new profile option for birthday along with a setting to have this displayed in the user's profile and in the calendar.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a user display preference that allows them to choose what format they want their times displayed in.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added JoshPet's modification to only show a homepage icon on the member list to prevent long url's from stretching the tables.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a column to display the user's avatars on the member list.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added an option to show the user's age when displaying birthdays.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added an option to show today's birthdays on the main forum listing.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Modified the online table to store things a bit differently. This allows for showing the number of users viewing each forum on the main ubbthreads page without adding any extra queries.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in an option when viewing a user's profile to ignore a user. Posts from ignored users will still be shown to preserve the flow of a conversation, however the body of ignored user's posts will be set to "You are ignoring this user."</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a new option to allow users to select from a predefined set of avatars for their picture.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added an option when creating/editing a forum to select an image to be displayed next to the forum on the main page.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a birthday image next to the user's username on showflat/showthreaded when it is their birthday.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a new option when creating a main topic that creates a calendar event for a specified day for that topic. Events will not be displayed on the calendar if the topic is in a forum that a user doesn't have read access to.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Reworked the search engine. New options include searching only subjects or subjects and body. Searching for keywords by a particular user. Searching between a date range, older than a certain date, newer than a certain date. Showing a preview of the post body with the results. More complex searches using + (required word) and - (posts that don't contain a word).</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Cut 2 queries out of postlist.php</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Cut 1 query out of showflat.php.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Cut 1 query out of showthreaded.php</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Cut another query out of showflat.php if there are no unread posts in the thread.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Made some modifications to the indexes on the Posts table. This will substantially reduce the number of rows needing to be searched on the postlist/showflat/showthreaded screens.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added option to make a post sticky when creating it by selecting a checkbox.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Moved all thread management tools, move thread, stick/unstick thread, delete thread, (un)lock thread and (un)keep thread out of the edit post screen and down to the bottom of showflat/showthreaded. This will make managing threads a bit quicker and easier for admins/moderators.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added an option for users to choose if they want their signature attached to a post when creating it or editing it.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added in a config option so admins can specify how long users are displayed in "Who's Online" after they have been inactive.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Modified movepost/movethread so it returns you to the original forum instead of the forum you moved the post/thread to.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Reworked the forum listing under the subscriptions portion of the user profile so it lists what category each forum belongs to. Useful if you have forums with the same name under multiple categories.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Created a new send_mail function for sending out emails. Modifed each script that sends out email to call the function instead of mail() directly. This will give a central place for any future mail modifications instead of needing to edit multiple scripts.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Created a ubbt_setcookie function that all cookies are now set with. This gives a central location for any special cookie modifications.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Made some changes so posts with polls in them can be edited. The poll itself is not editable, but any text within the post will be.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a maintenance section into the "My Home" area. Added a link to the "My Cookies" utility and move the "Mark all Read" from the navigation bar into this section.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Reworked the navigation menu. Added a welcome username line and made the nav links into 2 lines to prevent stretching on lower resolutions.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Made it possible to make a post without a post icon.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added new config options to designate the total # of views or replies for a hot topic.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a new table cell on the postlist page to display the hot topic icons, sticky posts, posts with polls, closed topics, or posts with attachments.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a new icon on the postlist screen in the new table cell that helps designate topics that are attached to a calendar event. Thanks to Joshpet for the image.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a configurable caching system to cache some things that don't change that often. At this point, that includes total # of users, newest user and today's birthdays. This cuts off 3 queries from the main page when used.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added the configuration for the cache settings into the admin -> editconfig area.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Using the new caching table, added a stat to the main page that shows the max # of users that were ever online.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a new option into the admin section to add/remove from the list of availalbe avatars users can choose from.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a new option into the admin section to add/remove from the list of forum images that can be selected when creating/editing a forum.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added the name of the person who created the calendar event when viewing events for a particular day.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a pagination routine for jumping around between pages within a forum. This is basically a change in the display to something like 1 2 3 4 ... 48 49 51.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a new icon that designates a moved thread. (Thanks to Joshpet fot the image)</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Changed the red sticky icon to a yellow one to match the color of the stock icons. (Thanks to Joshpet for the image)</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Made some changes so an admin user can change their display name without going into the display name change que.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Made some changes so admin users can have special characters in their display names even if they are turned off for normal users.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Made changes so the first user (main administrator) to register can have any special characters they want in their display name even if it's turned off in the config file.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added an admin config option to enable/disable the display of birthdays on the calendar.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Added a display length limit for the location field on showflat/showthreaded to keep people from scewing the display width. Thanks to JustDave for the fix.</font></li>
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------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
[This message was edited by Rick Baker on August 13, 2003 at 12:25 PM.]
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Rick Baker: + Added a new table cell on the postlist page to display the hot topic icons, sticky posts, posts with polls, closed topics, or posts with attachments.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Does this create a new table cell on the very left of the screen, just as in Open Topic? Can this cell be also used to display new/old topics by means of lightbulbs (or other icons)?
I knew everyone would be excited. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> I am too. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
Keep in mind that this is the changelog - feature requests and the like burried here as replies will most certainly get missed. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />
Be sure to post feature requests in the Feature Suggestions Forum - as that's where they are logged and tracked. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
You stand the best chance of making sure your needs and wants are counted there. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
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[This message was edited by JoshPet on August 02, 2003 at 01:37 AM.]
[This message was edited by JoshPet on August 02, 2003 at 01:37 AM.]
That question came up at Threadsdev, and Rick responded that they decided not to include sub-forums at this time. It came down to trying to keep some similarity between the products and this was a feature that would have created some headaches for people moving between products.
Plus he would like to make them multi-level deep. You can see his post here. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by JoshPet: It came down to trying to keep some similarity between the products and this was a feature that would have created some headaches for people moving between products.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">I never realized that this was such a concern, especially since threaded mode can't be switched off for those also moving between products. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
Are sub-forums a difficult issue from the technical POV, or is there a chance that someone will introduce the idea at Threadsdev via a hack?
Also, does anyone know whether there are plans to introduce this feature in Classic or OT?
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by MattUK: When is this going into Beta?
.. and who watches a dead duck? Not even it's mother, she just flies off depressed. - Alan Partridge</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">No timeline that I'm aware of. The old answer "when it's ready" will apply. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
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Rick, This is remarkable progress. Just in this realease alone, you've added in things that I've been literally DREAMING of since version 5.5. I'm incredibly excited about this release. <img src="http://www.customtacos.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headbang.gif" alt=" - " />
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Rick Baker: + Made it possible to make a post without a post icon.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Will there be an on/off switch in the CL for this, so that the admin can set a default post icon for posts where the author doesn't choose any?
The events & calendar system is something I have wanted ever since starting my site, and was about to pay a programmer to write me one! SO WELL DONE GUYS! If you want some suggestions on things to include, just yell as I have loads of ideas.
CANT WAIT! Roll on september
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Mmmm....sounds like you guys are implementing some really great features for us as owners and for our users. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Rick Baker: + Added a new table cell on the postlist page to display the hot topic icons, sticky posts, posts with polls, closed topics, or posts with attachments.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Good move, this will definitely help from the aesthetic point of view.
Will the post icon selected by the user also have its own cell/column as it does in OT?
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Conrad: Good move, this will definitely help from the aesthetic point of view.
Will the post icon selected by the user also have its own cell/column as it does in OT? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">I did a hack like that for my own site, lol. I missed it so much on my old ubb.classic :/ Works great too but i believe this official version will be better.
Once 6.4 comes out I could use with some help in creating the extra column for the user-selected post icon. But as you mentioned I'm hoping that 6.4 will already take care of this.
Iceman,
Subforums are a great (and inevitable) option, but 6.5 looks like a more reasonable timeframe for this feature.
Overall I think everyone here is excited about Rick's plans for 6.4, and now that the "engine" is as fine-tuned as it can be, we can definitely expect new features to added at record pace.
For me personally there's one feature that I'd like to see added to the changelog (hopefully 6.5): the dhtl options that are available in OT. IMHO nothing has improved OT as much as this new addition.
In any case I'd like to see a new pop-up window for new posts (dhtml or not) as this would be a tremendous bandwidth saver.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Added a new option to allow users to select from a predefined set of avatars for their picture. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Hopefully we can upload our own avatars here and it would be even better if we could create categories; I have approx. 200 avatars and categories would be very useful; why don't make this option perfect at once?? Can wait some time longer..
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by MattUK: When is this going into Beta?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Wow, things are definitely moving fast if the ETA is mid-September.
Are there any other beta boards that we can take a peek at to see how things are going?
To add on to what Dave said <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> There will be a few altertables you will need to run during an upgrade from 6.1 to 6.4.
------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
I've deleted the long list of feature request posts that have been posted to this thread. The feature set for 6.4 is set in it's current form.
Please post your feature requests for future versions in the appropriate forum, thanks <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
So many things so many (or even few) people asked for. I'm looking forward to this! Guess all we've ever dreamed of is there. Except for the chat app/instant message service, but that's something on its own.
There's no schedule other than "when it's ready".... infopop usually doesn't post release dates. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
Not 100% sure about photopost, but I don't think there will be any issues as everything is based off user number. So i think as long as you're using photopost with 6.3, you'll be safe with your existing photopost. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
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See my last post in this topic about avatars. I also am curious if we can allow only certain users, e.g. a created group, to have avatars. Like that we can finally reward the people who donate to our site. And how about the url option for avatars; will that still be possible?
I am not sure if these options are there or not, if not, just let me know and I will ask again in the appropiate forum... Of course I do hope however they are included in 6.4
The admin can upload avatars. There are currently no category/ group abilities.
From the user's perspective... in their profile they can upload an avatar (if you allow it) specify a url, or choose a stock avatar.
You can play with it at My Beta Test Board. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
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