Post by Admin on May 6, 2009 16:07:35 GMT 9.5
As some of you are already aware, a new version of Proboards, Version 5, has been in the works for a while now. The new program will be released starting April 30 and should be finished by May 7. The updates will be scheduled numerically by server, (we're on sever 28). The down time for each server being updated is expected to be anywhere from 10 to 24 hours. There will be an announcement posted 24 hours before our board is scheduled for updates.
How will Version 5 effect you? Here are some of the new features:
Usernames will no longer be case sensitive.
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"
In addition to member groups, users will be able to have their own custom title.
You can choose if you want to see people's signatures or avatars when reading threads.
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.
Registration date, last login date, and location will be shown in mini profile.
Spell check.
Ability to post on the calendar.
Automatic addition of birthdays to the calendar.
The "Last Post" column will display what the most recent thread is.
In the Info Center we will add "Most users online ever was X users on X date"
Info center will display today's birthdays.
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.
Ability to add more options to a poll (so you can have more than 8 responses -- maximum of 30)
Report to moderator link will be displayed at the bottom of posts. Moderators will have quick access to view any posts that have been reported by users.
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.
A "who's online" box will be added to every board at the bottom.
The "new" image will link directly to the last page in a thread.
All users will be able to go into invisible mode.
Users will be able to keep an address book of users so that they may easily select who they want to PM, and a "check all" checkbox will be added to the inbox and outbox pages for easily deleting old messages.
Option in PM Preferences to get a popup message when you have a new PM.
Abiltiy 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.
How will Version 5 effect you? Here are some of the new features:
Usernames will no longer be case sensitive.
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"
In addition to member groups, users will be able to have their own custom title.
You can choose if you want to see people's signatures or avatars when reading threads.
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.
Registration date, last login date, and location will be shown in mini profile.
Spell check.
Ability to post on the calendar.
Automatic addition of birthdays to the calendar.
The "Last Post" column will display what the most recent thread is.
In the Info Center we will add "Most users online ever was X users on X date"
Info center will display today's birthdays.
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.
Ability to add more options to a poll (so you can have more than 8 responses -- maximum of 30)
Report to moderator link will be displayed at the bottom of posts. Moderators will have quick access to view any posts that have been reported by users.
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.
A "who's online" box will be added to every board at the bottom.
The "new" image will link directly to the last page in a thread.
All users will be able to go into invisible mode.
Users will be able to keep an address book of users so that they may easily select who they want to PM, and a "check all" checkbox will be added to the inbox and outbox pages for easily deleting old messages.
Option in PM Preferences to get a popup message when you have a new PM.
Abiltiy 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.