<font size="" face="">Show the users browsing the whole board at the bottom of the main index, and show the users browsing a forum at the bottom of the forum you are in</font></li>
<font size="" face="">From the previous suggestion, bold the moderators and bold+italicize the administrators</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Font UBBcode (in the format of [font:fontname]Insert Text here[/font])</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Instant Font UBBcode button (where a window pops up, and you type in the name of the font)</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Underline and strikethrough UBBcodes (including instant UBBcode buttons for them)</font></li>
<font size="" face="">The ability to reply to a thread to nobody in particular (Read more here)</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Selectable avatars (for the admins who do not want remotely loaded avatars only)</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Replace the MM/DD/YY date format into the format of UBB.classic, UBB.x, and OpenTopic</font></li>
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Pretty-pink jazz > Boring-brown country music
Dixie Narco vending machines > Vendo and Royal Vendors vending machines
<font size="" face="">I think the ability to Organize Graemlins... (order them) would be nice.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Also, for boards that have added alot... it would be nice to have a variable where the posting page only displays X number of Graemlins...then there would be a link to "view more graemlins". Which opens in a little JavaScript window. Clicking them in the little window still inserts them back into your post.
<font size="" face="">The config option (or an option when posting) to include attached images at the bottom of the post.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">The ability to require other fields (including custom ones) during registration.</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Shameless plug.. but I think alot of users would like my birthday mod added in as a standard feature. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /></font></li>
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I'm sure I'll think of more as we go. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
Suggestions are good. We don't see them all with the very next version. But eventually most of them materialize.
That's the nice thing about Rick and Infopop.. they do listen. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> David Dreezer keeps up with the whole product line very well too.
I especially like your selection about the ability to let people choose from "stock" avatars.
It seems alot of forum software has that... and it does seem to be much requested. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
Good catch. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> Will point out to Rick. Thanks! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
Dave, I thought this was your hack from way back. But now I see... it gets the array of search terms from the language file. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" /> Neat, and flexible.
Now what you told me on the other board makes sense. So you could change this: $ubbt_lang['USER_SORT'] = "a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z";
and add in:
@,$,#,&,* etc.. ??? The only one that might "blow up" is % right?
Ya learn something new every day. <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 Conrad: Um, how about the "who's online" feature? Isn't that still a hack? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">What do you mean? Where it lists the names on the Main Index (or the top of each page as I do)?
Yeah, that's still a modification. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
<font size="" face="">Show birthdays at the bottom of the main index</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Calendar</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Instant messaging buttons on the bottom of the posts through AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo (Part of the post extras buttons)</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Move the registration date, number of posts, and location display to the bottom of posts (like in Infopop's other products)</font></li>
<font size="" face="">On the forums, show who was the last person to reply right under the date and time of the last reply (like in OpenTopic and UBB.x)</font></li>
<font size="" face="">Hot Topics (More than X number of replys, indicated by a red flame right next to the post icon)</font></li>
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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="">Dave, I thought this was your hack from way back.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Yep the language string user sort was a little moment of clear thinking of mine... LoL it happens sometimes. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
two versions of ubbthreads: one with and one without target _top so that it is possible to decide which one I want to use (Problems with displaying a forum in a hp with frames)
more info in the statistic-footer: who is online with names (like classic) and the maximum of online users of the day
group-management: we created a new group. If we want to change several users to an new usergroup it isn´t possible at the moment to shift for example "praktikant" (first step when you register in our forum) to user. (I tried this with the group-management function) If you try this the browser (Netscape and IE) collapses and you have to shutdown the browser.
colour-management like ubbclassic
That are my suggestions for now.
Best regards,
Michael
www.boxster-group.de powered by ubbthreads <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" />
I'll chime in on a couple of these. Showing the actual member names that are online on the various screen requires extra queries or JOINs (complex queries). This is one of those things, like many features, where speed vs. functionality needs to be taken into consideration. At some point this might be added in, but as new features are added many of them require new queries to be added or JOINs. These type of things needed to be added slowly over the course of a few versions. This allows us to see a performance curve and see if we can add in more without totally bogging things down on busy boards.
As for not displaying the subject in replies. The one thing to remember is .threads is a flat AND threaded forum. So, what will happen is the subject may be changed somewhere along the way during the course of the thread. The admin might decide that at the point of the subject change the branch has gone off the original topic and split this into a new thread. Some users will toggle back and forth to threaded mode from flat mode to see what post is actually being replied to and the subject sometimes is the key. Things like this however are very easy to change in the templates as it's a matter of removing the HTML that displays the subject line.
------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
Yes, it's understandable that the "who's online" feature will bump up the required system resources, though I think this feature is adequate when it just tells you who's online in general (without breaking this down into specific forums).
I think that overall this feature looks really good on some sites I know, especially when there is a little note next to it that states what the all-time record is for concurrent users online.
As for the constantly repeating subject-line, it's good to know that this can be dealt with by modifying templates (personally I find it distracting because it's so repetitive most of the time).
***Rick, maybe if you include the option to 'reply to nobody in particular' then you could include something that also removes the subject-line from subsequent posts? These two issues seem to go hand-in-hand.
Now imagine seeing "UBB.threads 6.3 suggestion thread" at the top of each post in this thread... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> Arrhhh!
Do you think those may be added in the future if you are able to find the right way to implement them? Yes, I know not all of them may get into version 6.3 (perhaps 6.4, 6.5, and going on...) but we can hope that they come in the future without reducing speed.
Rick, which of my feature suggestions do you think would take the shortest time to develop properly?
And Rick, I ACTUALLY like how you delay some features to keep UBB.threads fast and reliable. I hate how the competition (I can't say thier names) quickly implements features and makes their boards slower.
Pretty-pink jazz > Boring-brown country music
Dixie Narco vending machines > Vendo and Royal Vendors vending machines
Boeing 767-400 > Airbus A330
Delta Airlines > All other airlines
HP printers > All other pritners
[This message was edited by Pink Jazz on November 19, 2002 at 02:23 PM.]
[This message was edited by Pink Jazz on November 19, 2002 at 02:24 PM.]
The Integrated Index Page at Threads Dev will give you a "who's online" box that you can display on your index page. To speed up querries Just Dave (the author of IIP) caches the who's online data.
Maybe who's online info in the main and forum sections could be cached. It wouldn't be up to the second accurate, but it should be close enough for most users without adding a lot of delay to a Threads board.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">I asked in my previous post of which of my suggestions would probably be added first? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">My guess would be that Rick and the gang are focused on getting 6.2 out the door before they commit to any 6.3 features. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
All of the suggested changes are great, but I want something a bit larger in scope.
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.
The administrator would define a pop3 mailbox, and UBBThreads would have a cron process that would check this mailbox say once a minute. When a new message is found, UBBThreads reads the forum and message that the email is in response to by looking at the subject (its encoded).
If you've ever watched the traffic with sites such as EGroups or YahooGroups, the activity is amazing.
When people aren't forced to leave their email, they are more likely to contribute.
- An optional overview blok (perhaps above categories) that showed ALL the new headlines of topics/replies for the user logging on. The user should be able to enable/disable this from her my home settings.
- A wysiwyg editor a la www.richtextbox.com that also allows for upload and insertion of images in the edit phase.
- A webservice interface. This would allow for consistent integration efforts that could be robust across version upgrades. The first interface function should be stuff like login/logout, new posts, pm's avalible yes/no, etc. Think about this rick. It would help you to keep other developers at an arms length, enforcing an integration standard.
- The hybrid display idea (as in vb3) suggested above is also an idea that rocks!
Those characters can be added to the language string for the alphabet/number sort. If you want them, add them. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
Not everyone wants or needs a ton of characters that are not allowed in the first place.
What I'd like to see is a better way to control who is allowed in and who is not. I have had problems in the past with users causing problems. No problem banning them but they come right back with a new handle about 99% of the time. So, I try banning by IP and the only thing that accomplishes is keeping them from posting. They can still read messages and they can still read privates. If someone is banned they should not have any access at all to the boards.
Also, it'd be nice to be able to view ip addresses of all users in the userlist if you are an admin. Or to be able to do a search for an ip or a block of ip's and see all users registered with whatever ip or block yoiu might specify.
Currently if someone comes in I have had to chage the users password and change their e-mail so they are unable to retrieve a new password. This is a major pain to have to do this.
Simply put.... If someone is banned then they should be fully banned or at least let's have a choice of what they are to be banned from.
The birthday from JoshPet is great and my people have loved that one. That would be great to be included as well as his contact form. We might go as far as being able to choose who to contact with the form if there are multiple admins.
One more thing I'd like to see is a way to limit the access of forum moderators. In the past I had a moderator delete her entire forum of posts because she was mad about something. I caught all kinds of flack about this. I would also like them not to be able to change the forum descriptions and they shouldn't have the ability to ban a user.
Ok.... I think that's enough for 1 post..... Been a while so I thought I'd make it big.... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />
I'd like to see it capture the most recent IP someone has logged on from. Why? Because I have a couple of user names that I am 99% sure are the same person, in violation of our board rules and today both names logged in within minutes of each other. Due to restrictions I've placed on them, they are unable to post, so I have no capture of their IP. With this feature, they would, if the same person, have logged the exact same IP.
I would like to see what is already a modification availabel to UBBs at UBBDev.
It allows you to see ID changes. If someone logs in at their PC, changes their ID and logs in it logs who they were, who they changed to along with a time and date stamp.
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I got this idea from IRC Servers (Internet Relay Chat) That I used to install...They could take all of the hack/mods and run a script at setup that explains each one and asks you if you'de like to implement it or not...Then your software is automatically installed with whatever hacks/settings you want. Would be much easier for us with a hundred hacks to update everytime...Of course this would be a hella lotta more work...but it'de still be pretty cool <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> ...or even a hacks config pannel in the Admin section to add/delete there
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Jim Jones: All of the suggested changes are great, but I want something a bit larger in scope.
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.
The administrator would define a pop3 mailbox, and UBBThreads would have a cron process that would check this mailbox say once a minute. When a new message is found, UBBThreads reads the forum and message that the email is in response to by looking at the subject (its encoded).
If you've ever watched the traffic with sites such as EGroups or YahooGroups, the activity is amazing.
When people aren't forced to leave their email, they are more likely to contribute.
= Jim =</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Hehe yeah, I was looking for a mod/hack that would allow you to reply or send a fresh email and have it posted to a forum
I'll third that - I remember using that feature is discus (a version of forum software) 3 or 4 years ago, so it is quite possible - but I do remember that it was not possible from a standard installation and that the server had to support certain functions to enable it to work.
The easier it is to make people post the better...
ok i'm completly new to threads.. so this is were you all say "it already does that you just don't know how to use it!!"
But i think a CRITICAL mod should be so you can see threads that have had replies AND threads that have head replies that you have partaken in (started or replied to)... using like a dot in the light buld or something...
See my forums are already getting pretty busy and its already difficult to remember what posts you are active in or not.. and its too many to use favourite posts.
Anyhow... just an idea <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
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.
each | == a cell
| 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.
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<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
Dixie Narco vending machines > Vendo and Royal Vendors vending machines
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[This message was edited by Pink Jazz on January 09, 2003 at 07:46 PM.]
If we had the money I would but right now we are strapped. We use Threads for our general forums for our magazine.
I would love to have it on all our portals but we will need to wait for the moola ;-)
I totally agree on the stability issue, I have had problems with phpbb and support is hit or miss at best. With Threads I am guaranteed support and that is a nice fuzzy "I need uptime guarantee" type of feeling ;-)
Oh and adding on to my request above the most important thing would be to at least show the menu bar <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 Clint Gaskin: Dunno if anyone has asked but I would like a option to go back to the post or forum after making a post sticky or moving a thread.
Regards Clint</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Yeah, waiting for that to refresh is a pain. I always open that function in a new window.... so I can close it and go back to what I'm doing. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />
*> Add an option to make someone a moderator of all forums at once.
*> When searching users have some way of adding them to your address book or sending them a PM. Basically some interaction between the viewing users function in the admin and in the acutal board.
*> Allow for looking up the IP a user registered from as well as the current looking up a user that registered from a certain IP.
*> A "user tracking feature" - So it could be enabled on a per user or even per group basis and all activity (from all the ip's) that user performs are recorded in a per user log. (We get some trouble makers <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> )
*> The Admin notification e-mails for new users should include the new user name.
*> The Admin notification for screen name changed should include the old and proposed changes so it can be used for tracking.
*> Add a User Group Delete function. Which should have the option to delete all users in that group or not.
*> The delete inactive users option should give you the number of users its going to delete and the option to see the list BEFORE it does it.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by JoshPet: 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" /> </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">This won't actually get into 6.2.1 but it will require an altertable but it will get into the next release with an altertable <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
------------------- Rick Baker UBBThreads developer
Here, we are using DHTML for these popup menus. For best results, you need IE 5.5 or higher, or a Mozilla based browser. Many users here are using Opera, which does not support this. plus there are still many people using IE 5.0/5.01, which has limited support for DHTML. And there are some Netscape 4.x users out there, which has poor DHTML support. The bottom line is, having those popup menus may just require and implemantation of a browser detector.
Pretty-pink jazz > Boring-brown country music
Dixie Narco vending machines > Vendo and Royal Vendors vending machines
Pink Jazz, the majority of my users are on IE6, though a significan numer is still using IE5.x (my stats don't differentiate between any of the IE5.x versions).
How does it run here on OT? Is there a browser detector in place?
Also, are there any "side-effects" to using DHTML apart from the requirement to have a recent browser version? Does it use up more system resources (user or server) or anything like that?
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Conrad: Pink Jazz, the majority of my users are on IE6, though a significan numer is still using IE5.x (my stats don't differentiate between any of the IE5.x versions).
How does it run here on OT? Is there a browser detector in place?
Also, are there any "side-effects" to using DHTML apart from the requirement to have a recent browser version? Does it use up more system resources (user or server) or anything like that?
--------- Go Cougs!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Yes, there is a browser detector here.
BTW, what about the Opera users? There are quite a lot of Opera users, which doesn't support this. The Opera users here are viewing the old interface. Without the browser detect, they could have problems using OT.
IMO it may be possible that Infopop will implement a browser detector in Threads, but that will likely be in the future.
Pretty-pink jazz > Boring-brown country music
Dixie Narco vending machines > Vendo and Royal Vendors vending machines
DHTML, as a standard, has been around for a long time. But it wasn't supported very well until recently. I scripted a DHTML drop down menu on my site (I used it to replace the normal Threads menu) and it renders correctly in IE, NS (even some of the 4.7x versions), Mozzila, Safari, Konquerer, etc. So I don't really think that using DHTML would be a big issue for Threads.
Browser detection is pretty simple. I use to use it to determine which java applet my server would send out to a client (anyone who believes that Java is platform independent has never used it...).
Personally I think that the posting pop up menu here is incredible! If there is any chance that this could be scripted into Threads then it should be done! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" />
...and since this is the Threads 6.3 suggestion list I'll post this here: Please, please, get rid of the frames in the admin panel! If you change your menu to anything other than the default then you cannot break out of the frame set once you go into the admin section. The entire page tries to load into the top frame.
I hate frames so much that I won't bookmark a site that uses them -so why am I forced to use them to admin my own boad?...
Check out the pull down menus on my site Josh. They work on an Ibook running Safari <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 Dalantech: Personally I think that the posting pop up menu here is incredible! If there is any chance that this could be scripted into Threads then it should be done! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" /> </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Ditto that! If it's ok with the OT people then I hope Rick will add this pop-up post message screen to Threads. Great design, great feature, great bandwidth-saver.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Dalantech: Check out the pull down menus on my site Josh. They work on an Ibook running Safari <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
Yeah, those work for me with Safari. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" />
When I come here to infopop community with Safari.... clicking the "Login" link does nothing. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" /> I can browse... but I can't login, thereby can't post.
Maybe I need to surf myself over to the Open Topic support forums.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Teelie: Blocking or ignoring private messages.
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_.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">I'd like to add to this, the ability to forward a PM to another user, and also the ability to report it (which would include the date & time the PM was sent as well as details of who sent it & the content) to a moderator/admin.
Wow this is a long thread and hopefully I don't post an idea twice now.
My suggestions for 6.3:
1) If you create a category it would be nice if you can also add a image. I created a forum named 'german stuff' for example and entered the name this way: <img.....germanflag> German stuff. In the forum overview this is displayed correct but within the database its causes a mess cause the category title is not handled as text only, its needed also to add forums under the category and this results in a PARSER error.
2) delete user groups from the admin panel
3) make forums visible to all but password protected for entering.
3) mass move of postings for an admin. move X posts (markable) to another forum.
4) where should new registered users start? myhome or forum overview? make this setable sitewide for a new user.
5) whosonline for forum and categories
6) changeable design of the emails
7) if you click on optimize database the forum should be closed automatically so that you don't need to do it manually before. afterwards it should be open again.
8) make a forum closed, forum open function in den main admin panel like in the old ubb classic. its nerving with this combo box <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
9) write a description which stylesheet variable changes what. At the moment its like try and error ;-)
10) mass change of stylesheet. I created a new stylesheet which ALL users should take or which only a group of users should use. It would be nice If I can set this using the admin panel.
11) If you've created more than one design for subcategories its really making me angry that the stylesheet is then always the same.
Example. board 1-20 default design, take stylesheet from myhome
board 21 special design, take special stylesheet.
At the moment this is not correct and a wrong stylesheet can mess up the whole design.
12) Custom rights for admins. Full Admin = all choices. Limited Admin = create forum but not allowed to delete one for example.
13) Wooow, one more came up my mind. I've seen the pool feature and this is a really stupid one. In the classic version it is only possible for every member to vote once. This makes sense. Within threads everytime a user gets a new ip he/she can vote again. This makes every poll senseless cause then I can manipulate very poll connecting and disconnecting. I don't know how this is in the states but in germany you normally get a new ip address everytime you connect to you isp.
Wow, thats what came up in my mind last 10 minutes and I am sure that I can finde more but for the moment I think that these suggestions will take up to version 11.3 to implement <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
Waiting for the next version....
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[This message was edited by [UCE]iCEMAN on January 27, 2003 at 01:02 AM.]
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Jim Jones: 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.
= Jim =</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Isn't this against the idea of a forum? I'm not installing a huge forum and spend hours to configure it and then add this function to my board preventing people to come and visit it. Why should I visit your page If I can answer threads of my interest via email?
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Maze: 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.
How does this sound?
_Maze_</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Best idea I've seen here so far !!!
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Pink Jazz: 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?
[This message was edited by Pink Jazz on January 09, 2003 at 07:46 PM.]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">I don't think that you should start a discussion here whats best and which forum has which feature the others don't have. Its all about the question what do you need it for.
I think I am the only german guy that uses threads for a hobby page and I am sure that also phpbb for example would fit my needs but I decided for myself to buy a pro product. At the moment for sure threads has less features and I am also missing many that are quite standard already within other boards but If I see this forum here then I am sure that they will find the way into threads with the difference that then they are well implemented and stable <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
Keep on Rick and Josh you're making a good work.
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Hehe its seems that page 6 within this posting is mine <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" />
Another idea: I switched from ubbclassic to threads and I missed a function in the import script to automatically import the gremlins.
Everyone knows that much postings get another meaning without an ending <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> or other gremlin at the end. It was a hard and stupid work to get the into my new threads board and it would be nice if they were also added automatically. Nothing important for me anymore but maybe it will help others trying to migrate from one to the other...
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Keep on Rick and Josh you're making a good work. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Thanks but I can't take any credit, it's all Rick. I'm just a tester. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
How about an idea that I mentioned some time ago about the admin having two passwords: a) one that could be used in a safe environment, opening up all admin functions b) a separate password that could be used when travelling or simply away from the office, which would only allow regular posting functions to be accessible.
I would like to see the ability to turn email address checking off. There aren't many of us, but I run Threads internally and most of mny users have exchange style email addresses. I've had to hack every version of threads to make it work correctly, and now they've gone and changed the code for 6.2.1 making it difficult to accomplish this. Grrr..
Against the idea of a forum? Isn't email a means of communication? Huh? The point of a forum is to faciliate discussion, the means for which this is done is irrelevant.
Some individuals are not as apt to engage in conversation because the enviorment is foreign or they're just plain lazy. Any means for which we can ease the medium of exchanging conversation, I am all for it.
I realize that you may have spent a good amount of time on your layout and customizations, but on a good forum where the exchange of ideas is the focal point, that eye candy is just a novelty.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by [UCE]iCEMAN: </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Jim Jones: 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.
= Jim =</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Isn't this against the idea of a forum? I'm not installing a huge forum and spend hours to configure it and then add this function to my board preventing people to come and visit it. Why should I visit your page If I can answer threads of my interest via email?
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if you don't want people to visit your forum they will maybe never see which interesting other stuff you offer.
If this is not interesting for you then a maillistlist or newletter with answer function will fit your needs.
In my opinion my forum should bring people together. They should be only, read posts of interest and have the chance to see what else is offered within the forum.
Via email the people will only see postings or replies to the current thread they have an eye on or?
If people visit your page and there are never others online they will maybe never join it again cause they do not see that there might be interesting stuff going on via emailpostings.
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my moderators reported me that they can't add users to a group using their user number cause they can't search for it. If I check a userprofile I can see the user number so I think it must also be possible to add this to the searchfunction for my moderators or?
At the moment they can search for usernames but not for membernumbers.
Can you implement this in the next version Rick?
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it is possible for an admin to logon as the user to help him/her in case there are any problems. Why isn't it possible to do so if the user is a moderator.
Sometimes it would be nice to give also moderators little help.
Rick can you please make it also possible for an admin to logon as the user if he/she is a moderator?
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Will 6.3 be the next release, or will we have another bugfix release before 6.3?
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1. Better polls system, since upgrading to threads, my previous polls are now usless, and I really need them back.
2. The ability for a user to re-request their "activation" email if they don't get it.
3. The ability to edit users based on more criteria, for example edit non approved users, and list more information, such a IP address etc.
4. Force more fields in registration, currently all they NEED to enter is their email address. Classic allows you to require details such as names etc, i would like to be able to force certain fields on registration.
5. I would like "admin fields" in a user account that only the admins can see, for example, details about membership dates, fees paid etc.. simple to do, and VERY useful.
6. Username of last person to post.
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