A List of Features

[Zangoose]

Here is a small list of features for Proboards V4. (By the way, Proboards is the host that I use, and V4 is the version number. So, this board is a part of a Proboards Version 4 forum. Please keep on mind that this list was originally for administrators (forum owners), so some of the features wouldn't mean anything to regular members. Therefore, I cut the list down for things that members would know about. Thank you for the Proboards Support Board for this list.

General Features

• Karma.
  
  • Each user can have their own karma, which other users can praise or smite a user to increase or decrease the users karma.
    
  
  
• If a category or board name is too long to fit in the jump, the forum jump at the bottom of the page will cut the name short and put "..."*
  
• 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

• 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.
  
• Staff members have the ability to disable a user's account so that they can not use it. (Watch out )
  
• If you disable a user's account, you can specify a number of days for it to last, so that after that amount of time they may use their account again.
  

Bookmarks

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.
  
• Moderators of a board will be able to change the name of any guest posts.
  
• Ability to add more options to a poll (so you can have more than 8 responses -- maximum of 30)
  

Attachments

• We are adding a new attachments feature so that you can upload files with your posts.
  

Boards

• 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.
  
• The "new" image will link directly to the last page in a thread.
  
• Any board that does not have any posts made in it will display a message saying there there are currently no posts.
  

Login / Register / Password Reminder

• An option will be available such that people can register for an account but will not be able to use that account until an administrator has approved them (or someone who is given the power to approve accounts).
  
• On the register page, an activation code will appear which the user must type into a text box. This is to prevent people from utilizing scripts to mass register accounts.
  
• Password reminder emails will contain the IP address of the user who filled out the password reminder form.
  
• All users will be able to go into invisible mode.
• Administrators and Global Moderators will see these users as online with "(invisible)" after their name in the users online area.
  
• When a user accesses a page which requires that they be logged in, instead of giving an error message it will display a login box so that the user may login and continue.
  
• If someone attempts to login to an account more than 10 times unsuccessfully within a 10 minute period, that user will be banned from the forum for a period of an hour.
  
• You will be able to get your password reminder sent to you just by entering your email address -- you won't need to remember your username.
  
• When registering you may specify your desired password instead of receiving a random password via email. You will receive an email with an activation code that you must use to activate your account.
  

Censored Words

• Option to make only "full words" matched censored. For example, if you put ass=butt in your censor, you don't want "grass" to change into "grbutt"
  

Instant Messaging

• Users will be able to keep an address book of users so that they may easily select who they want to IM.
  
• A "check all" checkbox will be added to the inbox and outbox pages.
  
• Option in IM Preferences to get a popup message when you have a new IM.
  

UBBC Code Changes

• The emote ubbc tag (/me) is being replaced with a blockquote ubbc tag.
  
• We are introducing a new [irc] ubbc tag to link to IRC servers.
  
• A new tag will be created which will allow you to post ubbc tags without them being processed.
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  So, (and that's not all of them :)) there you go. Hope this helps and/or convinces you to join this community!
  
  [color=red]*[/color]These do not apply to us, as the forum jump is not enabled on this forum.
  
  -Zangoose