New Feature List
Someone asked me to draw up a list of all the new features that the vBulletin offers.
Wow. I'll try to begin.
Wow. I'll try to begin.
- Greatly enhanced PMing, you can see it's much more complex and powerful than UBB. It'll also do a javascript alert whenever you get a new PM, so you know instantly.
Who's online
Polls
HTML/color/font/etc options for text formatting
We can search and crossreference IP addresses so as to root out multiple screen names for the same person.
Search that actually works, and is pretty complex
Thread subscription
Member list
Lots more statistical functions about who does what, who has how many posts, etcetera
Lots of profile options
Uploading of files (currently only for mods/admins)
Ability to ignore others' signatures, etc
Buddy lists
PMs to multiple people
This
Hidden Forums
User Groups
Post Previews
Mark forums read
Subscription to forums instead of just threads
Indication of which threads you have posted in (indicated by the slightly opened folder icon)
Merging, splitting, invisibility, moving with redirects, sticky threads, mass moves, mass prunes, etc (mod stuff, but it's really nice)
check the message length before you post so you won't lose data if it's too long
Seeing the number of views a thread has recieved
Some stuff we don't have turned on: individual message titles, icons, thread ratings, avatars (NO we will not be enabling avatars)
Changing of the time zone of the board to your own
Announcements
Post sort order is individually set, you can set your own defaults as to how you wish to view posts within a forum with much more specificity than in UBB
The List function, which is cool
email feature that doesn't require the public showing of a user's email address, it's just a field
reporting of inflammatory or otherwise 'bad' posts to mods/admins through the clicking of the little lightning bolt in the bottom right of a post
we can add custom vb codes to change text and stuff... haven't yet
fully customizable interface, we can rewrite and reposition stuff at will.
multiple skins (user selectable) --- coming soon, maybe...
ignoring other posters (essentially 'windowshades' their posts, so that you see that they posted, but won't see their post if you don't want to...
etcetera.
Comments
EDIT: Why does it always thank me for posting?
EDIT 2: What does the "arrow pointing down" graphic mean next to a thread title?
Originally posted by Nebagakid
what is this User Group thang all about?
EDIT: Why does it always thank me for posting?
EDIT 2: What does the "arrow pointing down" graphic mean next to a thread title?
if you click it, it will take you to the first post in the thread that you have not read.
that's what the little blue or grey aqua dots indicate on each post: whether or not you've read it
Originally posted by Jonathan
if you click it, it will take you to the first post in the thread that you have not read.
that's what the little blue or grey aqua dots indicate on each post: whether or not you've read it
genius, pure genius!!!
Originally posted by Jonathan
Someone asked me to draw up a list of all the new features that the vBulletin offers.
Wow. I'll try to begin.
This
That is damn scary. Eat your heart out, NSA! Quick, what am I holding in my left hand right now...
EmAn has a pretty big lead, but Brad is charging hard.
Questions: What exactly happens after you subscribe to a thread or forum? What notification do you get? Just more explanation would be great.
Are there already hidden forums, and can I know about them? Last one that was eliminated, I had been on here for over a year and all of a sudden I'm hearing about this phantom forum that I had never heard ANYTHING about. Not fair...for anyone. (steps down off soap box)
You didn't answer Nebagakid's question about User Groups. I'm curious too.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Originally posted by Jonathan
Some stuff we don't have turned on: individual message titles, icons, thread ratings, avatars (NO we will not be enabling avatars)
what is an avatar? and why can't i have them turned on? dictionary.com mentions something about Vishnu?
Originally posted by torifile
EmAn has a pretty big lead, but Brad is charging hard.
Don't worry, I'll make sure I don't lose my lead
Originally posted by thuh Freak
what is an avatar? and why can't i have them turned on? dictionary.com mentions something about Vishnu?
It's a pic that you can include under your username.
few users choose their avatar for accuracy to passport photo... unless the world is full of anime characters, transformers, and clip art critters
if you could select an icon (in the broadest sense)... usually limited to less than 80 x 80 pixels, occassionally animated, but vaugely representative of some ideal, would you still choose to use your photo?
would you secretly relish the public face of another? vicariously living the online life as mythological or fantastical creations doesn't seem unusual to many gamers
not many users pick their real name for login... why register as a name from your favourite film, song, whatever? avatars just add another mask
Originally posted by EmAn
Don't worry, I'll make sure I don't lose my lead
You keep telling yourself that.
Originally posted by EmAn
Don't worry, I'll make sure I don't lose my lead
EmAn, you need to drop out of school (or go to a "school" like Brad does) and just post, post, post. He's cheating...
"Yeah, I agree"
"Whatever."
"He's right."
"That's really not fair."
...posts that we're used to. Come on!
Originally posted by Nebagakid
Yeah, so, is no one gonna answer my question about these so-called "user groups"?
user group??
Originally posted by Nebagakid
Yeah, so, is no one gonna answer my question about these so-called "user groups"?
Your not a member of the USER GROUP?
User groups are a way to give certain permissions to a whole load of users at once. For any forum with limited permissions, user groups can be used to override those permissions.
Groups can be open or closed, with open groups letting anyone in automatically who wants, and closed groups requiring the group moderator to add users to the group. I think on vBulletin you can have people automatically join a group at a certain # of posts, enabling you to do things like allow avatars for those over 1000 posts.
Amorya
Originally posted by Amorya
I think on vBulletin you can have people automatically join a group at a certain # of posts, enabling you to do things like allow avatars for those over 1000 posts.
Are you hinting at something?