I know UBB.Classic 6 has this feature but Threads doesn't and the board I moderate on is having a few people with private messages being sent to them they don't want. Currently the only option is to totally disable recieving private messages but this means they don't get messages from people they want.
Thanks for all of the suggestions thus far. Keep them coming. Starting to see some new faces in here which is great <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> I'll offer this so people don't get too discouraged if a suggestion doesn't make it in right away.
I keep a list of every feature that has been suggested. Over the history of .threads development we add features a bit at a time. Obviously we could go all out and add a ton of things at once but this can lead to a long beta period, things that don't play nicely under heavy loads, etc. So, we add a few at a time and see how that works out, and what needs to be changed before adding some more.
The good news is the past several versions have really concentrated on database changes and code cleanup. Probably 75% to this area and 25% to new features. Now that we've done that we can concentrate more on new features.
Just wanted everyone to know that this forum is watched and we do keep track of what everyone is asking for but it might not get in right away. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> But keep the suggestions coming.
------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
Move the "View recent messages · Past 24 hours · Past 48 hours · Past 7 days" to the top of the page. This is one of the most used features at all and scrolling the whole page to find it is not "user friendly".
I would have to say at this point that the #1 feature I'm looking forward to is Reply to all. I think this is the big one because it's a major structural change, and one that seems only natural to add (as an option of course). It's also an option that would be of great help to fellow Infopop customers who are thinking of progressing from Classic to Threads.
My #2 option would be to toggle the repeating subject line in all posts. I would truly welcome the possibility of allowing only the thread author to set the subject (as in Classic).
As for other features I think sticky posts, who's online, and several "cosmetic" enchancements would be nice. I like the one that Pink Jazz posted a link to where there's a row of user icons at the top of each post.
Would it be possible to have someting like the UBB.classic once had? An icon displaying, new or old thread along with if its a new topic thats hot since you last visited and an old topic thats hot since you last visited.
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| Hot Icon | Topic Icon | Thread | Posters | Posts | Views | Date |
I just happened to love that feature when I used the UBB.classic on the server.
<font size="" face="">Allow the administrators to specify who can post a poll and who can vote on a forum-by-forum basis (perhaps change permissions to No Access, Read, Read+Vote, Read+Vote+Write, Read+Vote+Write+Start Polls). More things on a per-forum basis if possible!</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Add IP-address searching capabilities for administrators.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Add an ignore list, much like the address book, that blocks private messages from undesirable users.</font></li>
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My big idea for further down the line, perhaps 7.0 or later...
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<font size="" face="">Make the script work with PostgreSQL! You don't know how much this would help one of the boards where I Moderate/Admin. We have typically 200+ users online at peak times...</font></li>
USER SELECTABLE DATE FORMATS! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
On a board I inhabit the users have just spent a week and over 200 posts arguing over what date format to use on their shiney new threads installation. American vs European, it's the old conundrum - which would so easily be solved if we could pick our own. Pretty please?
P.S. I forgot to say that solution is really easy ! Just change the darktable in something like "bulbtable" in ubbthreads.tmpl like shown: <pre> <!-- echo <<<UBBTPRINT --> <tr> <td valign="top"> <img src="{$config['images']}/{$forum[$c][$f]['boardfolder']}" alt="" /> </td> </pre>
and add .bulbtable in the CSS file.
Isn't it ? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> I did it in 1 minute and works perfectly
I would still LOVE to see a reply-by-email added to UBBThreads. If I could respond to a forum message without leaving my email client, that'd be great.
Within the expanded, threaded view, it'd be cool if you box each thread, so that it was definitive as to where one thread ended, and another began.
Add a field to user table that states "last accessed" (anything from reading a forum to posting a message; any activity). This way I could see when a person last visited the forum. You could then eliminate the "Who's Online" table, and just select against this column asking for those who have visited within the last 10 minutes.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face=""> UBBThreads currently emails you when a user has responded to your message. The ability to *reply* to this email posting, and have it inserted into the appropriate forum&thread would be great.
= Jim =</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Exactly! Then add all the message bounce and spam handking in MailMan and UBBthreads would be unequaled in this market!
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IMO this could be improved as both Classic and Open Topic deal with this issue better. In Classic/Open Topic you can take a core word like F#$% and anything containing this string of four letters shows up as ****.
In Threads all you need to do is add "er" at the end or "mother" at the beginning and bingo - you're tricked the censor feature. Now technically you could make a list of several hundred (or thousand) banned words, but this doesn't seem to be a reasonable way of dealing with the issue.
I'm not saying the Classic/Open Topic approach is perfection itself (no censor system used in any software is), but I think it's much, much better than the one currently employed in Threads.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Vexalith: _USER SELECTABLE DATE FORMATS_! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
On a board I inhabit the users have just spent a week and over 200 posts arguing over what date format to use on their shiney new threads installation. American vs European, it's the old conundrum - which would so easily be solved if we could pick our own. Pretty please?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Would this be the http://trekbbs.com by chance? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
Maybe this is looking to far forward, but make chat rooms part of the threads package. Maybe for version 7.0 perhaps even 8.0. You could add a link in the menu bar that says "Chat" and up pops a screen with all the available channels. You just pick the one you want and voila! You can use the existing users and banned database fields and add fields for the chat room channels and transcripts (2 fields). Plus users that are already logged into the forums don't need to provide usernames or passwords to get into the chat.
This is an excellent idea of mine, but only because it would save a lot of money on a professional chat software licence that isn't threads because I already have the threads license <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />
If infopop wanted to make it worth their while, they could offer a chat solution that would integrate with their products. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
My vote / suggestion was that they should add JustDave's hack into version 6.2.1 whenever that comes out. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
It would be nice when submitting a post to have (for moderators/admins) the option to tick a box that "closes thread after post" to save having to go back and edit a post just to close a thread.
.. and who watches a dead duck? Not even it's mother, she just flies off depressed. - Alan Partridge
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by MattUK: Another idea:
When moving a post, have the system automatically add MOVED: to the subject line rather than leaving an empty message behind in the old forum.
.. and who watches a dead duck? Not even it's mother, she just flies off depressed. - Alan Partridge</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Excellent idea. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> This is a very simple tweak, I posted instructions here.
I hope we will see a Subforums feature soon <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> . So you can have a parent forum f1 and several subforums in it f1.sf1, f1.sf2, ...
The parent forum will contain/display all posts of all its child subforums.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by MattUK: It would be nice when submitting a post to have (for moderators/admins) the option to tick a box that "closes thread after post"</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">This is a very useful feature and has been available in UBB Classic for ages. I agree that it would be a great addition to Threads, and shouldn't take much time to incorporate.
Here some ideas I had that I really like about phpbb and would like to see them in UBBT-
1. Email from the site, allows people to send email directly from the site instead of howing members email addresses
2. Forum notifcation. Allows emmbers to subcribe to Forums and recieve notifcation if there is a new post, this is GREAT for getting return traffic to the boards
3. Post notifcation. Anytime, anyone who posts to a thread will be automatically subscribed (setting for auto on or off) where if anyone else posts to the thread everyone is notified that is subscribed to the thread. This is another GREAT way of getting folks to come back.
4. The Moderator CP, allows mass moving of posts, delting and pruning.
5. Integrated Spell Check, there is a program called PHP Spell for phpbb that could easily be modded to work with threads and is all internal, no copy or poasting and no 3rd party site to use.
6. Wordlets ;-)
7. Ability to disable Threaded mode completely. I know some use this but to me it is troublesome, I would really like a UBB Classic w/mysql but hey.
8. Instant Messanger for the My Home/Whos Online. It is great having the address tell you which of your friends are online but without any way to directly contact them it is of no practical use.
UBBT is a great program and thanks for all your hard work on making it even better!
And this PhPBB is absolutely free with an option to view only the new replies since last. Not to be nasty and ugly but truly it would behove UBBT to take a look at these free programs and take note. Frankly I have abandoned my bought 229.00 UBBThreads because this free program has so MANY features over UBBT.
Weston, please keep in mind that when Rick codes UBB.threads he tries to keep the best speed/features ratio thus it can take slightly longer to add features.
Of course its easy to say that this product has this or that that threads lack but it is not Infopop's policy to pack functions regardless of the quality of the coding <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
All I can say is be patient, 2003 has just started and will bring many new cool features in UBB world.
Again I am not trying to be ugly but the PHpbb2 program runs circles around Threads and it is absolutely free. The speed and security are all there as well and this is not the only free software out there that also beats Threads to a pulp.
I am only bringing this up not to convert anyone but to let the staff know that they are way behind the FREE competition. Feature for feature I feel very ripped off. But that is the last comment I will make. IF it makes the people who are making changes to the program mad enough to go look at the competition I perhaps have spurred them into adding some MAJOR features that really shine!
When I pay for a program I would expect it to at least meet the competition and not lag well behind!
7. Ability to disable Threaded mode completely. I know some use this but to me it is troublesome, I would really like a UBB Classic w/mysql but hey.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Wordlets were useful in Classic because otherwise you had to dig through dozens of files and alter the code itself. But in Threads you have all the texts in a separate file for each language, so the only change wordlets would bring is that they would allow you to type in the new phrases in the CP as opposed to a text file.
As for disabling threaded mode as an admin option, I'm all for it. It would be great if the admin could choose which way he wants his site to operate - with or without threaded mode.
Can we PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE RICK have this huge bandwidth saver which Open Topic has just implemented?
This POST REPLY pop-up screen is a phenomenal idea. It also looks neat - nice and simple. It's just fantastic - why didn't they think of this before???
I'm really impressed guys. It's great typing this message in a small window with the topic in the background. This would make a great option for Threads.
Weston, design-wise I think that software is really good, and the features are also great. But if you're serious about your board - never go for a freebie! Never, ever risk that. Second-rate support and security is not the way to go.
Back in the day my main qualm about Threads was the initially amateurish design. I even wrote that if you'd put Threads and a freebie side-by-side and asked someone which the freebie is... most would probably point to Threads.
But that's all history now. Threads is the upcoming software to go with - the best of the best. Rick is doing a tremendous job, and so are many other people here such as JoshPet for instance.
I don't know about you, but I'm very pleasantly surprised with this latest change in Open Topic, and I'm hoping that the great design will now hit Threads (especially this 'post reply' pop-up).
Weston, I run 7 phpbb2 sites with over 30,000 posts and users... The point is that this is a "Suggestion of new ideas for the enxt version of UBBT" not a whine thread. You are off topic.
Weston, I hate to tell you this, but the cold hard fact is that UBB.threads is behind on features because Infopop wants to keep thier products stable and reliable. PhpBB is one of the most unstable messageboard systems out there
BTW ARMYOCS, are you planning to switch to Threads?
Pretty-pink jazz > Boring-brown country music
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Boeing 767-400 > Airbus A330
Delta Airlines > All other airlines
HP printers > All other pritners
[This message was edited by Pink Jazz on January 09, 2003 at 07:46 PM.]
