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Old 05-07-2008, 12:35 PM   #1
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Default Cool New features of the JKF!!!

Some of you may have noticed that we have updated the forum software to include some cool new features that I know you will just love.

I have highlighted a few of these great features, of which some are already available and others are soon to come with specific conditions.

It takes a long time to perform an update as large as this but even longer to setup all the new features. I will be spending the next few days fine tuning the settings and it will mean that some features may be temporarily unavailable and it may also require the forum to be switched off; however; that will only happen when it is absolutely necessary.

Throughout this time, you will be able to continue as normal on the forum however; if you notice something that used to work but now doesn't, please email or pm me as soon as possible.

We'd like to thank you all for your continued contribution to the JKF and as a thank you, we would like to reward our dedicated and posting members with some new features. We'd also like to thank you for your patience while everything is being completed and finalised.

I will keep you updated on all the major steps and soon, will bring you a concise list of features, how they are used and who will have them.

For now, I have included as follows, a few details from the vBulletin forum on what some of these great features will be and how they can be used.


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Old 05-07-2008, 12:40 PM   #2
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Inline Spam Management and Prevention Tools

Forum spam is an increasing problem for many boards. Unfortunately, due to the visible-source nature of vBulletin and most other forum systems, most preventative measures we might add to the system can simply be reverse-engineered and worked around by persistent spammers.

Therefore, 3.7 contains a new set of tools to help clean up spam and deal with spammers.
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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.

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Thread Prefixes

Long requested by users, threads can now have administrator-defined prefixes to their titles.




Thread prefixes are divided into groups by the administrator, allowing different prefixes to be available in different forums.


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Reciprocal Friendships Between Users

As part of our 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.



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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 communicate publicly via their profile pages.



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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 you to just board staff and people on your buddy list if they you choose privacy.

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User-Created Social Groups

To further social cohesion between users and to encourage people to make friends, vBulletin now includes a facility to allow users to create their own social/interest groups.



These groups are enhanced by having their own public messaging system, and the ability to add pictures to the group from user albums.




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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.

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After Modification:


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Inline Editing of Profile Field Values

The 'About Me' tab of each member's profile page has edit controls, allowing you to quickly change values without leaving your profile page.

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Attachment Viewing Lightbox

Clicking on an attached image will now open a lightbox rather than open a new window, with the image scaled to fit the browser viewport. A click on the image in the lightbox will open it in a new window as before.


PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS AN UNUSUAL FEATURE AND AS YET, ARE UNSURE IF IT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ALL MEMBERS - MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW
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New Human Verification Systems

In addition to the image verification system available in previous versions of vBulletin, 3.7 introduces the means for the administrator to choose the verification system employed on their board.

They may choose to use the popular RECAPTCHA™ system, or to define a set of questions and answers for their visitors to deal with.


THIS FEATURE IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE NOW AND ALL NEW REGISTERING MEMBERS WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS NEW VERIFICATION STEP TO PROVE THEY ARE LEGITIMATE PEOPLE AND NOT BOTS.
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There are plenty more new features in vBulletin 3.7.


Here is a brief list of some of the ones we haven't yet touched on:
  • Visitor tracking on profile pages
  • Automatic resizing of attached images to match filesize or pixel dimensions
  • Enhancements to custom bbcode system
  • Custom icons per forum
  • ATOM support for RSS Poster Robot
  • Hooks to allow attachments to be passed through a virus scanner
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Please note that not all features will be available to all members. We will be making some features available to members who have a specific post count and membership duration as well as specific activity. More details will follow.

The above posts were written by the vBulletin administrator Kier and should not be confused with me Kiera. It is merely coincidence that our names are very similar.
Bearing that in mind, these posts were written for an administrator audience and not a user audience. Some pictures are from the administrators perspective and not the users perspective and are included for example purposes only.

Please contact me on kiera@jewelkilcherforum.com or via pm or by posting in this section of the forum if you have any questions or comments.

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This is exciting! I love the idea of being able to tag threads!!

Also the thread prefixes sound cool, too! And user galleries...

Thanks for all your work, Kiera!
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