UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Suggestions and Feedback What feature do you want most of all in UBB.threads 6.4?

[:"pink"]The feature I want most in UBB.threads 6.4 is a UBB.classic style poll feature. Rick, could you please take it into consideration? [/]

He he...

I think I know who "unknown" is.... Pink?

I agree... the Classic Poll feature is pretty cool.

[:"pink"] Other features that I want in the future:

• Calendar (including the display of birthdays at the bottom of the main index)
  
• User-defined time format
  
• Display of users browsing the whole board on the main index, and the display of users browsing a forum in the display of a forum
  
• Sub-Forums
• Font and underlines UBBcodes
  
• Selectable avatars
  
• Hybrid Display (remember my graphical representation of it?)

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• LastPost by in postlist
• Date format like, Today, Yesterday, Monday, Thuesday ...
• Calender

I can't read your pink letters so I can't take your request into consideration

Highlight them. Or use Frosted, which pink letters appear black for some reason.

Or is this just a joke?

Also, I would like a feature where you can mark all read automatically after a certain time defined by a user.

hehe

It is tough to read on the default sheet here.

There's a bug in the frosted stylesheet that omegatron found.... it causes the font colors to get overridden.

T'was a joke. I tend to be a dork sometimes

[]Scream said:
T'was a joke. I tend to be a dork sometimes [/]

No way.

What I would like to see in the 7 version (not 6.4) is pure normalization in the database. With the upcoming release of MySql 4.0 and the ability to use nested queries, this would allow greater flexibility in querying the data. In version 8 we can have stored procedures - at that time 4.1 would be out.

Ability for users to have the date displayed in their local format rather than that of the board i.e. on here to display 16/03/03 rather than 03/16/03.

Also, in the user list, add a homepage icon to replace the full display of the URL (this would be ideal for long URLs)

Did you see I posted a mod to do that? Or are you requesting it as a feature because it's a cool mod.

Yes, I did see the mod. I am requesting it because it is cool.

Josh, if it's cool...shouldn't that have been instead of ?

he he

ack - I got UBBCode Dyslexia.


<- this is my favorite Threads Graemlin. he he

Oh yes! Let's have some new features the users really notice (you know most of the changes in the last updates were almost invisible).

My feature wish list (priority in this order):

1) Sub-Forums
2) Calendar
3) Sub-Forums
4) Calendar

More

• Make the lock (closed) icon shown next to the thread icon (instead of overwriting the thread icon)
  
• Add a moved topic icon (shown next to the thread icon)
  
• Add A poll icon next to the thread icon to indicate a poll (if the UBB.classic poll feature gets added)
  
• Add a little flame icon next to the thread icon to indicate if the thread has over X replies
  
• Show what the closed, sticky, moved, poll, and flame icons mean in the legend (Currently the legend only shows the colors for new posts and old posts)
  
• Add the ability to search the user list
  
• Show when and where a user was last seen (when viewing thier profile)
  
• Show the date a user registered and thier location at the bottom of thier post (instead of the left side)
  
• Signature preview

Abillity to send private messages to any groups of users.

ability for moderators to edit posts with polls would be nice

[]DetR6oit said:
ability for moderators to edit posts with polls would be nice [/]

even admins can't do this right now, so that would be a good one to add.

Sub-forums have come up alot. Anyone care to elaborate in how they envision these working? I've got a few ideas in my head but not sure what everyone else is thinking. Is this basically a forum on the main page that when clicked on opens up several more forums, like going to another main index screen that only contains forums within that forum?

No idea when this will get in, but it's been asked for enough I think it needs to be discussed in how these will actually work.

I think I've seen this at various sites.

On the postlist screen, the regular forum is there, but up top there's like a small category of additional forums to click down into for subforums.

example:
http://www.sitepointforums.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=90

I think if you're logged in, there's quite a few threads under that one anchored thread at the trop of that forum. But you can see the 2 forums above that.

On the forumsummary (ubbthreads.php) page, the forum is there with its description and below the description is links to subforums.

I don't know if I'd ever use it, but interesting anyways

Like Allen already pointed out, the top level forum should contain subforums, but also all postings of all its subforums.

So if you open the postlist for forum1 you will get links to the subforums forum1.1, forum1.2 and already see all posts of forum1, forum1.1, forum1.2.

A click onto subforum forum1.1 then displays just a subset (like a filter) of its parent forum1 posts.

Example of a sub-forum

BTW, make it expandable/collapsible

Oooooh

Check out Here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/index.php?

Scroll down to where it says "vBulletin Code Hacks @ vBulletin.org". It's got the arrow icon next to it.

Clicking it redirects you to a URL. That's a really cool way to put other elements of your site... into the forum listing. Like a chat room photo gallery etc... Currently I use HTML in forum descriptions and give the forum a "space" as the name to get that desired effect.

I like that.

Hm. That is nice. Id also like to see the editing of posts with polls.

Ok, I think I can do this. Will probably start off with limited nesting. Meaning you will only be able to make subforums one level deep. To nest further than that will require alot more complexity and will probably have to wait until a later date.

Sounds great . One level of depth will be fine.

Nice one - always good to see the words 'Ok, I think I can do this.'

just to stray from the current discussion and to mention a new feature.. almost EVERYONE on my site has been asking for this. They want the feature that vbulletin has where when you reply to a thread, the post icon has a "dot" or other indicator. I too find this would be very useful as on a forum with 1000-2000 new posts per day, sometimes it is nice to just quickly glance for those icons knowing which threads to pop into.

At least maybe have this as an option.. I dunno. There may already be a hack for this, I haven't been keeping up on those. But it would be great to see as that has been the biggest suggestion by everyone that I've heard

Oh so it keeps track if you've participated in the thread?

Gardener's hack (which listed all the participants) could probably be adapted to keep track of this.

Off topic: Why is your Avatar Cheese? You just made me hungry Jeremy.

OT: Well, cheese is one of my favorite foods, and the members on my forum like to rag on me about it... so to entertain them I made it cheese, lol

he he
Everyone's got clever avatars lately. I still use my ugly ol' mug.
Gotta get something clever one of these days.

I can't really envision how this would look. Is it another column next to the post icon?

[]JoshPet said:
he he
Everyone's got clever avatars lately. I still use my ugly ol' mug.
Gotta get something clever one of these days. [/]

Josh - not sure what you are wearing in the photo, but it always looks like the top of a space suit - put a helmet on, and you wouldn't look out of place at Cape Canaveral

Back on topic

Quick Reply Box
(increased the post count on my forums by at least 25% overnight)

Mmmh, 98% of it are spam, i suppose.

So please make it optional, so that it can be disabled.

No - only 97% if it

He he
Back off topic... to the moon. Houston we have a problem.



To prove I'm not an astronaut... here's the whole photo. It's goofy.
http://pettitfamily.net/showphoto.php?photo=2542
Taken at Disney's California Adventure park about a week after it opened.

Were you too afraid to go on a real rollercoaster so you had to take a picture that looked like you went on one?

LOL

I love Rollar Coasters.

That one in California launches you from the water, zero to 60 in a few seconds. Then the loop de loop is mickey's head.

OK - Here's me on a real rollar coaster - Lochness Monster, Williamsburg VA
http://pettitfamily.net/showphoto.php?photo=3534

Here I am (front/right) at Disney MGM Sudios' Rock-n-Roller Coaster.
http://pettitfamily.net/showphoto.php?photo=3327

Sure! Those probably aren't real either. They're probably virtual rollercoasters where you never leave the ground

LOL

California Adventures. Front car, back row.
http://pettitfamily.net/showphoto.php?photo=2518

I'm the master at steering topics off course aren't I? LOL Pink Jazz is gonna shoot me.

I think that one was actually broke. It was probably just sitting on the repair track when all the rollercoasterphobics took the opportunity for a picture to make it look like they were on one that was actually going somewhere!

One feature I think would be neat would be custom multi-forums.

A custom multi-forum would be something where a user make their own "forum", except that it's really a catch-all board for several forums. IE the user makes "Custom Board 1" which when entered contains all the posts of forums number 5, 14, 23, etc. Would be handy in systems that have a large number of forums to peruse. Also, the custom forums could be set to contain something different that specific forums -- IE threads posted today, threads with your name in it, threads with specific search terms in it, however I realise that might make the processing a little heavy.

I'm considering writing a mod for it, but in my first attempt I encountered trouble with that danged Board= variable in the URL, but now that 6.3 is getting rid of it, I may write the mod when it goes out of beta.

[]Scream said:
I can't really envision how this would look. Is it another column next to the post icon? [/]

Here is a screenshot from one of the vb forums I use... notice the dot that is placed on top of an image... this is by far the most handy feature I've seen from vbulletin, although they do use two icon columns... but you will see what I mean by you can just glance quickly and see what threads you've replied to

Example of forum

[]JoshPet said:
I'm the master at steering topics off course aren't I? LOL Pink Jazz is gonna shoot me. [/]

What we need is the forum moderator or admin to tell us all off for going off topic

he he
Yeah, that might come in handy.

Also, could you please add page numbers to search results (currently there is only previous and next buttons to navigate the search results). Also could you add the pagination technique to the user list (i.e. 1 2 3 4 5 ... 28 29 30)