Post by Honey on Jun 7, 2005 8:55:56 GMT
Hi everyone,
The forum will be upgraded within the next 36 hours or so and you can expect to see us offline for a day or 2.
Features to expect when we are back online -
* Karma (optional feature). Each user can have their own karma, which other users can praise or smite a user to increase or decrease the users karma.
* For dates, "Yesterday" will also be added in addition to the already existing "Today." Posts may show up as something like "Posted on Yesterday at 12:22 am"
* All email addresses will have spam protection on them which will help make it so that spam bots will not be able to pick up your email address.
* Drop down menus are now used to change between different pages for viewing boards and threads. This allows you to specify any page you want, especially useful for boards and threads with many pages.
* Signatures will be displayed on the view profile page.
* When a user's email address is changed -- by either an admin, or the user -- a new randomly generated password is sent and emailed to that user.
* Last login date will be shown in profile.
* You can choose if you want to see people's signatures when reading threads.
* Birthday will become a required field in the profile. As we do not allow users under the age of 13, an age check will be in place which will remove accounts of users under this age.
* The server times will no longer default to east coast time. Everything will be based off of GMT. All user profiles will be updated accordingly to keep them in the correct time zone.
* Location will be shown in mini profile
* Registration date shown in mini profile.
* We are introducing a new system to replace the notifications system. Using the bookmarks system, you will be able to bookmark different threads and have quick access to them from your profile screen.
For each bookmark, you can specify whether you would like to receive a PM, an email, or receive no notification when a new post is made in the thread that is bookmarked. You will only receive notification that a thread has been updated one time until you view the thread again. This means that if 10 people post before you get back to a thread, you still only get notified once. Once you view the thread, you may then receive notifications again. An option will be available to set what your default notification action should be for threads you bookmark. For example, you can set your default action to be to PM you. Then any time you bookmark a thread in the future, it will automatically set that bookmark to notify you by PM of any updates.
* In the Info Center we will add "Most users online ever was X users on X date"
* Info center will display today's birthdays.
* Ability to add more options to a poll (so you can have more than 8 responses -- maximum of 30)
* Report to moderator link will be displayed at the bottom of posts.
* We are adding a new attachments feature so that you can upload files with your posts. (Although I haven't read up much about this yet, I know we are limited to the amount of attachments).
* When viewing the threads on a board, you will be able to click on the number of replies. Doing so will popup a small window showing which users have participated in the thread and how many posts each person has made. The list of users will be sorted by who made the most posts in the thread.
* A "who's online" box will be added to every board at the bottom.
* The "new" image will link directly to the last page in a thread.
* There will be a "quick reply" box at the end of threads.
These are just some of the features! I know Ryan will have a few tricks up his sleeve to add more www.walla.com/i/wu/s/v/clipart/smiley_big/1.gif
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At least we still have the More Sunset Beach yahoo group to use when the forum is going thru the upgrade www.walla.com/i/wu/s/v/clipart/smiley_big/8.gif
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The forum will be upgraded within the next 36 hours or so and you can expect to see us offline for a day or 2.
Features to expect when we are back online -
* Karma (optional feature). Each user can have their own karma, which other users can praise or smite a user to increase or decrease the users karma.
* For dates, "Yesterday" will also be added in addition to the already existing "Today." Posts may show up as something like "Posted on Yesterday at 12:22 am"
* All email addresses will have spam protection on them which will help make it so that spam bots will not be able to pick up your email address.
* Drop down menus are now used to change between different pages for viewing boards and threads. This allows you to specify any page you want, especially useful for boards and threads with many pages.
* Signatures will be displayed on the view profile page.
* When a user's email address is changed -- by either an admin, or the user -- a new randomly generated password is sent and emailed to that user.
* Last login date will be shown in profile.
* You can choose if you want to see people's signatures when reading threads.
* Birthday will become a required field in the profile. As we do not allow users under the age of 13, an age check will be in place which will remove accounts of users under this age.
* The server times will no longer default to east coast time. Everything will be based off of GMT. All user profiles will be updated accordingly to keep them in the correct time zone.
* Location will be shown in mini profile
* Registration date shown in mini profile.
* We are introducing a new system to replace the notifications system. Using the bookmarks system, you will be able to bookmark different threads and have quick access to them from your profile screen.
For each bookmark, you can specify whether you would like to receive a PM, an email, or receive no notification when a new post is made in the thread that is bookmarked. You will only receive notification that a thread has been updated one time until you view the thread again. This means that if 10 people post before you get back to a thread, you still only get notified once. Once you view the thread, you may then receive notifications again. An option will be available to set what your default notification action should be for threads you bookmark. For example, you can set your default action to be to PM you. Then any time you bookmark a thread in the future, it will automatically set that bookmark to notify you by PM of any updates.
* In the Info Center we will add "Most users online ever was X users on X date"
* Info center will display today's birthdays.
* Ability to add more options to a poll (so you can have more than 8 responses -- maximum of 30)
* Report to moderator link will be displayed at the bottom of posts.
* We are adding a new attachments feature so that you can upload files with your posts. (Although I haven't read up much about this yet, I know we are limited to the amount of attachments).
* When viewing the threads on a board, you will be able to click on the number of replies. Doing so will popup a small window showing which users have participated in the thread and how many posts each person has made. The list of users will be sorted by who made the most posts in the thread.
* A "who's online" box will be added to every board at the bottom.
* The "new" image will link directly to the last page in a thread.
* There will be a "quick reply" box at the end of threads.
These are just some of the features! I know Ryan will have a few tricks up his sleeve to add more www.walla.com/i/wu/s/v/clipart/smiley_big/1.gif
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At least we still have the More Sunset Beach yahoo group to use when the forum is going thru the upgrade www.walla.com/i/wu/s/v/clipart/smiley_big/8.gif
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