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Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Thread Started on May 27, 2005, 4:48pm »
Greetings

The forum has now upgraded to proboards v4. It means that the forum has some new features.

I've [bolded] the ones that are important. :)

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General Features (12)
Usernames will no longer be case sensitive.
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.
An option for going to the "home" page of the board will be added to the forum jump.
If a user creates an account with the same username as someone who was deleted, the new user will not be able to edit or delete the older users posts. This will be based on a registration date check versus the time of the posting.
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.
Numbers that are displayed such as number of posts on a board, number of posts a user made, etc will contain commas (so 10000 becomes 10,000)
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.
For displaying dates and times, you will now be able to specify 4 different options that will let you control the date and time. These options include am/pm or 24 hour time options, time zone choices, what format to display the date in (e.g. Jan 1, 2000, 01-01-00, etc), and options to reverse the month and day fields.

Profiles (17)
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.
Disable / Enable account
Last Login Date.
You can choose if you want to see people's signatures when reading threads
You can opt to not display avatars when reading threads
You may choose to not receive any emails from the board administrators (mass emails will not send you mail)
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
Clicking on profile at the top will allow you to view your profile. An option to edit your profile will be on that page.

Bookmarks (4)
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.

View Members (2)
The top posters page is no longer limited to 1 page. You can view all pages to see where all members rank in terms of posts.
A new caching system will be used so that when you view the members list it caches the results for 15 minutes so that subsequent requests for pages are sped up significantly.

Calendar (5)
An option to set who can view the calendar (Guests / Members / Admins and mods)
Ability to choose who will be able to add entries to the calendar
Edit calendar entry ability
Improved method for navigating from month to month (won't have to click 5 times to go 5 months ahead)
Automatic addition of birthdays to the calendar.

Home (3)
The Last Post column will display what the most recent thread is.
In the Info Center we will add "Most users online ever was X users on X date"
Info center will display today's birthdays

Posting / Polls / Modifying (6)
When you want to use a UBBC code, such as bold, you will be able to highlight text from your message and then click on the bold icon. The UBBC tags will be instantly added around the text you highlighted.
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.


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This thread was created so that you can read about some of the new features.

If you're having troubles with the new system, or just curious, please; here is the place to ask questions. :)
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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #1 on May 27, 2005, 5:09pm »
Well, everything looks nice i must admit. Hehe, i'm trying out the new Quick Reply funtion too.

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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #2 on May 27, 2005, 5:13pm »
I'm glad it's working alright. I really like the quick reply function. Especially on the Quiz Board. :-D
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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #3 on May 29, 2005, 10:47am »
I think the Karma function is going to be really great. For the first time one can really award a person who posts an interesting post. :)

FYI: Exalt will give the person a Karma point, while Smite will take a Karma point from a user. I do hope that people will not abuse this function by "Smit-ing" everyone and everything. I think we should be very careful about "Smit-ing". Instead, we should ignore the bad posts (The Mods and Admins will PM the user who posts unnecessary things) and eagerly award the good posts. :)

Anyhow, there are some pretty nice features. For instance, you can press the number of the total amount of posts on one thread, and see who has posted in that thread and how many posts they have contributed with!

Nova :)


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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #4 on May 29, 2005, 12:48pm »
Yes, the karma function should not be abused. Everyone should be very careful with it and only give someone "points" or take them away when the poster deserves it.

Also, I think I'm going to change "exalt" & "smite" to something different. Suggestions are muchly appriciated. :)

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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #5 on May 29, 2005, 2:51pm »
Well, smite does have a nice ring to it. If you change it think of osmething Middle Earth like.

Also why is the Hall of Fire unable to access? Are you just not through with the changes there? It's fine if your not, i was just wondering.

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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #6 on May 29, 2005, 2:53pm »
It seems that The Hall of Fire isn't accessible to anybody, except for Oro. I suppose there's something 'wrong', but we're working on it. :)

If anyone has the same problem, or not, please do tell. :)
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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #7 on May 29, 2005, 3:01pm »

Quote:
Well, smite does have a nice ring to it. If you change it think of osmething Middle Earth like.



Yeah, that was what I was thinking about....Anyway, if you have any suggestions, don't be afraid to Pm me. :)

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That's odd, I mean that you can't access the Hall of Fire. I'll see what I can do....But in the meantime you just have to be patient, I guess.....

:) Hopefully it'll be easy to fix.
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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #8 on May 29, 2005, 11:30pm »
patient? Me patient??? careful least I smite you. No, i'm only joking. T'would go aganst my honour.
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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #9 on May 30, 2005, 8:09am »
Heh. I did not mean it like that. =P

Anyway, would anyone care to try again now and give me some response?

Thanks. :)
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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #10 on May 30, 2005, 6:23pm »
WOW!

Long time no see and I like the changes a lot! I really like this quick reply thing. It's fun. lol. Now, seriously, guys. *claps hands* Great job on the site. That was an excellent move, I think. I still don't get the karma thing. I've read over it a few times, but I'm sure I'll get it soon. Again, great job! :)

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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #11 on May 31, 2005, 7:23am »
Hi

Great to see you again Eowyn. Indeed, it has been a while. :)


Quote:
Great job on the site.

Well, we didn't do anything actually. It's all thanks to Proboards. :)

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The Karma function is a bit difficult to understand. Let me try to explain it.

If someone has written a great post which you approve of, you should click on "exalt". When you do that, the poster will be given one point. (One point for each "exalt")

However, if there is a rather silly post you see and you don't approve of, you should click "smite". This will take away one point from that person's karma.

So, it all comes down to which poster has best karma. Many points= Good. Points with a - in front of it, is not so good.

As I said before, we should be very careful with the karma points. Only give and take points from a poster when he/she truly deserves it. Personally, I don't think karma points should be given away/taken away on quizzes etc. I think they should be given in a situaton when for example there has been written a most excellent RPG post, post about Tolkien books, post in the Hall of Fire and so forth.

All in all, it should be hard to gain points. One should really deserve it, if you know what I mean. :)


I hope you have a better understanding of the system now. :)

Lovely to see you again.

Cheers,
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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #12 on May 31, 2005, 9:55am »
I've changed the words exalt and smite into two icons.

The cheering; adding a point to a poster's karma.

The pointy finger; taking away one point from the poster's karma.

(I'm going to try to add a short description to the images. But we will see. )

Also, when you have 10 karma points you'll get this yellow button. Twenty karma points = 2 yellow buttons and so on.

So, what do you think?
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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #13 on May 31, 2005, 2:54pm »
Most excellent to see you back Eowyn! We have missed you loads! :)

Oro: I really do like the Karma icons. They are perfect. :)

The Hall fo Fire doesn't work though. Not for me anyhow. How can I gain access again?
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Re: Proboards v4 - Info, Comments & Questions
« Reply #14 on Jun 4, 2005, 9:23am »
Hello AUS'ers! Long time no see :D

*Waves*

I like the upgrade, lots of cool new stuff, good Job Nova & Oro!

I have noticed I am also unable to access The Hall of Fire :(
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