Subsim forum software upgrade scheduled March 16-17, 2009

[danlisa]

LMAO! I never finished my sentence.

Ahem.....I'm no longer getting email notifications about PM's or Thread Subscriptions.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Could you post a list of new features ?

I've noticed some of the obvious ones but, don't want to miss out on others.

Sure, I'm going to list some of the more user-oriented here:



Thread tagging: A new way to facilitate searching and grouping of threads, it is now possible for users to add tags to threads they post or read.



Tags can be added when creating a new thread, or to an existing thread by any user (with appropriate permissions).



Any users who then click on these tags will not only find all thread that have the same tag as the one clicked, but will also contribute to the building of a search tag cloud, which gives users a quick guide as to what has been searched for recently and most frequently.






Reciprocal Friendships Between Users

As part of the new social networking system, users can now request that people on their buddy list confirm their friendship, after which time a person's list of confirmed friends will be viewable to other users.



Public Messaging

While private messages between users have been in vBulletin since version 2.0, vBulletin 3.7 introduces the public messaging system, allowing users to comment publicly on their profile pages. This is just for comments, people, and it is public.



User Picture Galleries

vBulletin users can now create albums and upload pictures to their account. The ability to view these albums and pictures can be limited by the user to just board staff and people on their buddy list if they want privacy.



Post porn, public or private, and you will be gone. I mean it





New Member Profile Page

In order to accomodate all the new features in vBulletin 3.7, the member profile page has been completely redesigned from the ground up.

The new page presents information in a far cleaner and more logical manner, while dividing up information into manageable chunks using a tabbed interface.

Individual profile field categories can be displayed alone in blocks in the right column, in addition to appearing by default in the 'About Me' tab.








I'll list more as they come to me.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Dowly

So, Nealster, is the picture album thingy open for all or?

Try it now, you should be able to post picture albums without moderation.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Sooo.. umm... does the nudity rule apply if there's nudity for purely artistic reasons? Say, I go behind the neighbour's window (nobody said anything about voyeurism) and paint a pin-up poster of her.

That's what e-mail is for

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by sharkbit

I just discovered that too!
A royal pain in the patootie!
Why make such a great tool more difficult to use? I've seen some complaints that people don't use the search function enough and now it is a little more difficult.

Some of the confirmation images are a little difficult to read. It took a couple of tries earlier. Maybe it is just a little too early in the morning.

Oh well, crying fit over. Maybe I just need to get used to it.

I'll switch that off, thanks for pointing it out. It is an option to keep spambots off, or keep them from burning up server resources and slowing the forum down for real users. As long as that is not a problem, we can search w/o captcha.

Neal

EDIT: Ok, should be off now.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by danlisa

LMAO! I never finished my sentence.

Ahem.....I'm no longer getting email notifications about PM's or Thread Subscriptions.

Hmmm... it's working for me, can you check if your ISP is blocking the new server?

[Onkel Neal]

Another new feature. People who get thrown in the Brig could have their photo albums erased, their custom profiles reset, and end up with limited posting privledges while on probation. The life of an ex-con won't be as easy as before. There will be mental scarring.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Linton

The quick links no longer takes me to the subsim front page or to the amazon link.

Yeah, that stuff has to be added in manually. Starting on it now, thanks for posting it

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Another new feature. People who get thrown in the Brig could have their photo albums erased, their custom profiles reset, and end up with limited posting privledges while on probation. The life of an ex-con won't be as easy as before. There will be mental scarring.

So the brig has been upgraded to a Gulag?!

HunterICX

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Another new feature. People who get thrown in the Brig could have their photo albums erased, their custom profiles reset, and end up with limited posting privledges while on probation. The life of an ex-con won't be as easy as before. There will be mental scarring.

Hmmmmm....diabolical.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Try it now, you should be able to post picture albums without moderation.

Ok. Will try it out when I can be arsed to do some new stuff.

[Jimbuna]

How about restoring the ability to view who is online in one screen as before?

[Onkel Neal]

Yes sir, that's on my list.

Loving how wicked fast this new server is.

[Jimbuna]

It's certainly looking good at this end....just love some of the additional features

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Hmmm... it's working for me, can you check if your ISP is blocking the new server?

No notifications here either. All usual culprits checked.