UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums General Suggestions and Feedback Feature Request for UBB 7 - Group Permissions for Shout Box

Can you add Group Permissions for the Shout Box.

yes please

Most items should be group based, so that we can restrict features to certain people - maybe those who have paid a small membership fee.

Different Shout Boxes per Forum as well

But seeing as though the Shout Box appears to cause resource hogging issues for some sites that would surely bring them to their knees.

I'd like to see the shoutbox being group based as well, so one could remove users from the group if they abuse it...

I don't really like the idea of a forum only shoutbox though, it can be resource intensive for one; not to mention that the shoutbox is really meant as a quick place to post something globally.

Making the shoutbox a per forum thing would also make it harder to closely monitor it.

I agree with your thoughts Giz but I can also see where a large board could use it to their advantage as well.

When your site gets 1,000+ posts per day then there is no way a single Admin or Mod can watch it, you have to have multiple Mods at least and depending on your board it could be used as quick group announcements that only apply to those specific forums.

But currently the way it's implemented it does not appear it is resource friendly to use it in that manner regardless of what suggestions we make to use it or not.

You could use a certain IRC modification *ahem* and setup multiple channels

You could if you were willing to move your site to one of a very limited few (at additional cost) that allow IRC

When searching for a new host provider one of the first things they often tell you is they DON'T ALLOW IRC

But hey it's a possibility

You don't HAVE to run an IRC Server; that is way out of scope of the irc chat addon at ubbdev... Just becasue I choose to run an IRC server for my network doesn't mean you or anyone else does...

The addon is simply a java applet that connects to one of the millions of FREE IRC servers.

Again, you do NOT HAVE TO RUN an IRC SERVER to use the IRC CHAT ADDON as the chat addon is an IRC Client capable of connecting to IRC Servers.

I know of NO host which woudl not allow users to use a java irc client as the host that is forwarded is that of the users who connect as the java applet is run from the users machine.

Not to mention, if you wanted to run an irc server, you could just rent a shell account and forward an A record from your domain to there, thus not hosting an irc server on ones standard hosting

Cool, thanks for the clarification.

Also, you could get a large list of various free irc servers (well I don't know of any that pay, but still) at SearchIRC, not to mention I allow users to use my network if they'd like

Will this feature be incorporated in the next version? Only registered/logged in users should have the ability to see the Shout Box. It is a resource "hog" but users love it. This would help out...

It should only allow shouts by logged in users; non-logged in users should only be able to see it