Brian Posted November 25, 2002 Report Share Posted November 25, 2002 For those of you that are using some of the other "skins" available on the forum, I have moved you over to the standard skin. The other skins will go away for now but may come back in the future. This is due in part to the forum software is about to be upgraded for us by the team at Invision power, the guys that take care of the forum for us. Quote Link to comment
Brian Posted November 26, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 I'm going to order the upgrade today, I had some questions for the Invision Team and it seams the only thing that would be affected by the upgrade would be the skin's according to them which I already deleted from the system for now. The logo may change back to their logo for a little while and the emoticons might also be effected since I did insert new ones into the board. So please bear with us through this change as it should be a minor one for most but better security and features for the mod's and myself to work with. Quote Link to comment
cerealk Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 Cool! I have been using the blue skin since the beginning, are we keeping that one? Quote Link to comment
Brian Posted November 26, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 What you see right now is the default skin so yes :ph34r: Quote Link to comment
cerealk Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 oooooohhhhhh bluuuuuuue I like bluuuuuuue (blue meanies voice) Quote Link to comment
Brian Posted November 27, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2002 Ok well that went fairly smooth, the forum has been updated as far as the software is concerned. You will see the basic's have been moved around just a touch and the moderators will in time discover new features. Here is a list of what all just took place and will happen upon the final release when the team upgrades us one final time in the future: Here's the final feature set (of course this won't effect everyone): Other: [NEW] Events Calendar Other: [NEW] COPPA compliance Private Messages: [NEW] Forward Message Private Messages: [NEW] Graphic display on allocated storage size remaining Private Messages: [NEW] Message Tracking Private Messages: [NEW] Carbon Copy Feature Private Messages: [NEW] Save as draft feature Private Messages: [NEW] Ability to receive email notification of any new private messages Private Messages: [NEW] "Select all read messages" link Private Messages: [iMPROVED] Cleaner interface with a more logical structure Private Messages: [iMPLEMENTED] Email notification of new PM's Posting: [NEW] Ability to remove, or change an attachment when editing Posting: [NEW] Ability to add or remove the "Edit by" line (group setting) Posting: [NEW] Ability to restrict the time edits are allowed Posting: [NEW] Root forums can accept sub forums and remain postable Posting: [NEW] Admin ability to stop quote embedding Posting: [NEW] Group Promotion; admin option (per group) to allow a member to be promoted to another group based on posts Posting: [iMPROVED] Improved Code Buttons Posting: [NEW] Ability to set an independent poll question to the topic title Posting: [NEW] Admin ability to allow and tags in polls Moderation: [NEW] IP Management center: Look up IP address, find all users that match an IP or find all posts made under an IP Moderation: [NEW] Ability to view / unsubscribe all users from a topic Moderation: [NEW] Ability to merge two topics into one Moderation: [NEW] Ability to split a topic into two Moderation: [NEW] Ability to move a topic directly after posting Moderation: [NEW] Admin option: View Topic History; produces topic overview and any related entries from the moderator logs Moderation: [iMPROVED] Re-written Moderators Control Panel: Includes topic by topic selection to move/prune/pin/unpin/close/open and delete Search: [NEW] Search flooding added (by member group) Search: [NEW] View results as posts Search: [iMPROVED] Increase in speed and effiency Admin: [NEW] Ability to set a limit to auto prune topic subscriptions Admin: [NEW] Ability to set up custom profile fields Admin: [NEW] Ability to change the active user list cut off minutes Admin: [NEW] Ability to add individual members to the post moderation queue Admin: [NEW] Ability to add a group as a moderator. Admin: [NEW] Upload permissions can be set on/off for each group in each forum. Admin: [NEW] Enhanced template editing system Admin: [NEW] Template editing: Compare tool Admin: [NEW] Template editing: Search tool Admin: [NEW] Template editing: Restore tool Admin: [NEW] Template editing: Change text area box size tool Admin: [NEW] Template editing: Quick HTML entity look up tool Admin: [NEW] Template editing: Macro look up tool Admin: [NEW] Template editing: Ability to edit sections independently Admin: [NEW] Template editing: Full safe mode upload/download functions Admin: [NEW] New macro system giving more flexibility in skinning design Admin: [NEW] Statistics center, giving daily, monthly information for posts, new topics, registrations and topic views Admin: [NEW] Auto redirect to Admin CP after successful log in Admin: [NEW] Redirect choice added; 'HTML' for servers unable to process 'location' and 'redirect' Admin: [NEW] Quick Help system; offering more information on the more complex Invision Board ACP features Admin: [NEW] CSS Editing: Preview Tool; preview a CSS definition with an easy to read definition breakdown Admin: [NEW] CSS Editing: Find Tool; Search the templates for a CSS definition usage Admin: [NEW] CSS Editing: Upload a stylesheet straight from your computer. FTP not required Admin: [NEW] Emoticons: Upload an emoticon from your computer to the board. FTP not required Admin: [NEW] Advanced Member Search Functions, query by last posting date, last active date, email, IP and more Admin: [NEW] Ability to change a member's username Admin: [NEW] "Mission critical" administration logging Admin: [NEW] Bulk emailer; email members based on group, last online and post count Admin: [NEW] mySQL tool box; includes table information, optimize, repair, analyze, check, export and quick query functionality Admin: [NEW] User Group option to allow users to post in "closed" topics Admin: [NEW] Ability to set a default language Interface: [NEW] Ability to download a copy of the topic in HTML or Microsoft Word compatible format Interface: [NEW] Quick log in box for guest users Interface: [NEW] After log in, you're taken to the page you logged in from Interface: [NEW] Users browsing forums feature (can be switched off) Interface: [NEW] Users browsing topics feature (can be switched off) Interface: [NEW] Yahoo! Icon linked to Yahoo! Messenger Console Interface: [NEW] MSN Icon linked to MSN Messenger Console Interface: [NEW] Ability to choose posts per page and topics per page Interface: [NEW] Report post to moderator link on each post Interface: [NEW] Who posted featurette Interface: [NEW] "Browse Buddy"; a floating 'pallete' launcher Interface: [iMPROVED] Base skin font sizes increased Interface: [iMPROVED] Edited by line now in viewers time zone Interface: [iMPROVED] Pinned topics have their own HTML rows and start / end rows Interface: [iMPROVED] PM Pop up contains a direct link to the latest message (saves a few clicks!) Interface: [iMPROVED] Printable Version of topic HTML makeover Active Users: [NEW] Admin Group ability to view "anonymous" users Active Users: [NEW] Admin Group ability to view online user IP addresses Active Users: [NEW] Link to topic with topic name a user is browsing Registering: [NEW] Anti "Flood Bot / DoS" control when registering, forces user to input a random numeric string shown in images Registering: [NEW] Error messages printed above the form, no more hitting "back" to correct the form! Subscriptions: [NEW] Ability to "auto track" topics you participate in Subscriptions: [NEW] Ability to receive notification of new topics in a forum via "Forum Subscription" feature Subscriptions: [iMPROVED] Viewing current subscriptions list grouped by forum Subscriptions: [iMPROVED] Frequency of emails for tracked topics increased to 1 per board visit Quote Link to comment
cerealk Posted November 27, 2002 Report Share Posted November 27, 2002 wow it is going to take a while to check all those out! Quote Link to comment
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