<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" />
