UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Suggestions and Feedback UBB.threads 6.x or 7.0 Wish List

Perhaps these would be better suited to send to Infopop, but my suggestions of the moment are:

Mandatory Registration Fields: Like in UBB.classic, the ability for admins to make custom registration fields mandatory or optional.

Military Time Clock: The ability to choose military time in UBB.threads.

Import Birth Dates: For users who have transitioned from UBB.classic to UBB.threads. UBB.threads does not currently import birth dates. A user could be underage and there is no proof that they registered a particular birthdate to bypass COPPA. (What I really want here is my calendar to populate with birthdays *grin*)

Collapsible Categories: The ability for Admin to specify collapsible categories by default. A user could decide to expand it by pressing the + symbol themselves. Cookies would control it from then on and remember their settings. I have several new forums I'd like to add to three categories, but I don't dare because the Main Index page would be frightfully long for visitors and regulars who don't know how to use the collapse feature. Not to mention it might speed the board up since it doesn't have waste time generating the forums within user specific categories that don't apply to everyone. Alternately, sub-categories within a category.

Mark as Edited? Option for Admin only: I'd like to be able to restrict users from editing their posts without a time stamp after the grace period I specified in the "edit config" menu. I have it set to 30 mins but it doesn't matter b/c they can just uncheck the Mark as Edited box. Sometimes I have controversy on my site. It would be nice if they couldn't edit their postings with out an "edited by: ___ @ such and such a time and date" like in .classic. (I know, when in Rome... but I really like .threads and would like to see it get better!).

Thats my wish list for UBB.threads 6.x or 7.0. I'm sure I'll think of more as I get accustomed to my new BB.

Thanks for looking (and considering)!

[:"blue"]Short spiderable URLs like in UBB.classic 6.7 using HTML files (modified from my original suggestion)

Forums (collapsed mode)
http://www.ubbthreads.com/forums/ubbthreads/postlist.php/collapsed/sb5/forum-name/0.html (page 1)
http://www.ubbthreads.com/forums/ubbthreads/postlist.php/collapsed/sb5/forum-name/1.html (page 2)

Forums (expanded mode)
http://www.ubbthreads.com/forums/ubbthreads/postlist.php/expanded/sb4/forum-name/0.html (page 1)
http://www.ubbthreads.com/forums/ubbthreads/postlist.php/expanded/sb4/forum-name/1.html (page 2)

The "sb" part of the URLs should indicate the sort method. For example, sb5 is last post descending, sb4 poster ascending, etc.

Threads (flat)
http://www.ubbthreads.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php/1337/1.html (page 1 of thread of post #1337)
http://www.ubbthreads.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php/1337/2.html (page 2 of thread of post #1337)
http://www.ubbthreads.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php/1337/all.html (show all)

Threads (threaded)
http://www.ubbthreads.com/forums/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php/1337.html (post #1337)
http://www.ubbthreads.com/forums/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php/7674.html (post #7674)

Public user profiles
http://www.ubbthreads.com/forums/ubbthreads/showprofile.php/2.html (user #2)

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• Sub-forums
  
  
  
• Remove all dead hyperlinks
  
  
  
• Remove all blank fields from user profiles
  
  
  
• Make the forum navigation bar go to thread level. (showing the title of the thread)
  
  
  
• Add closed and moved icons to legend
  
  
  
• Remove mark all read confirmation screen
  
  
  
• Show a list of users online in the main index and the forums [b]
  
  
  
• [b]Add back in the search to show results as posts or categories
  
  
  
• The ability to search the memberlist
  
  
  
• Stylesheet preview
  
  
  
• Signature Preview
  
  
  
• Pagination routine for page numbers in memberlist
  
  
  
• Do not show hot topic icon on polls and event topics

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FYI: The problem with the birth dates is with the importer, not with UBB.threads itself. I'm to blame. The forthcoming Threads version of the universal importer (you might want to read about the Classic version, which will share quite a bit of code...) will properly import both underage status and the user birth date.

[]Sky YYZ said:
Perhaps these would be better suited to send to Infopop, but my suggestions of the moment are:
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Yep don't want to burst any bubbles but suggestions like this are meant at Infopop. We are the official hack site for UBBThreads however for feature suggestions and such you need to visit this link.

http://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=UBB6

Otherwise I can assure you threads like these posted here are sure not to be looked at. While people like Dave and Rick frequent here alot they can not be expected to follow suggestions on features when not posted in the proper place. I am sure it is hard enough keeping and prioritizing the feature requests posted in the proper place without tracking down suggested posted on other sites

Charles:

Thank you. Would it be advisable to keep a backup of my UBB.classic BB and execute the import again using the forthcoming importer? Or would that mess things up?

Omegatron:

Duly noted. I registered and posted same at UBBcentral.com. I apologise; I should have realised that.

Happy New Year!

Jason

No need to apologize at all

Just pointing out it would not get the attention it deserves. I think all of us as customers have a voice in how our product is developed and what suggestions get taken into account. People post feature suggestions over here all the time and everytime some one here posts the same thing as me. They need to be over there to be added to the suggestion list.

The importer will outright refuse to re-import members that already exist, so unfortunately you'll need a custom solution if you wish to update your existing member records.

C'est la vie.

More features for user profiles:

• let users change color, fonts
  
• ad lists about likes/dislikes (links, drinks, other users, you name it).
• ad image librarys with the option to show then in public or to specified friends among the other users
  
• diarys and guestbooks.
  
• basically all these cool stuff you can find in all these dating communities and such.
  

More specified user groups:

• I´d like to control exactly what a user in a group can do of all the things possible in threads
  
• extra profile items, enter what forum
  
• save private messages for how long
  
• create new forums in specified categories (user could start their own "clubs" with various themes) with options on color, fonts etc.
  
• subcribe to newsletters
  

More stuff for the forums

• Member forums with separate attachement-folders that only specified members can browse.
  
• Option to Include images, movies, mp3s, etc, to be shown in the messages as standard and without need of a mod.
  
• Option to control forums to be spiderfriendly or not.
  
• Option to put attachment folders on other servers to spread bandwith on more servers.
  
• Spelling for multiple languages (huge mod, I know! :lol: )
  
• Webbased chat with hotlinked image postings, greamlins, etc.
  

Automatic forum cleaning without need for setting up cron jobs:

• delete old messages every night
  
• optimize tables
  
• delete old threads
  
• move posts to archive forums and delete all replies.
  

Overall I would like more "community" features and the ability to control who can do what. This would be super for us who would like to make a $ (or £, € or whatever) on our forums.

Why not have the ambition to let the best forum system grow to be the best community system om the market?

Wouldn´t that really be the way to go in the future?

Gregori,

As I posted above it is best to post these things at the Infopop suggestion forum as that is the proper place for suggestions.

On a side note I don't think they will be replacing the industry standard of cron tasks anytime soon You can accomplish everything posted in your cron section with the proper scripts and other scripts you make but they must be run on a cron script.