Version 4 Features!

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Here are the new features that will be in version 4 of proboards...some people cant wait (like me) for it so I posted it
Note: some stuff is for staff members only so u might not understand it

General Features (10)
Usernames will no longer be case sensitive.
The "cell highlight" hack will become a standard feature of all boards. You will be able to choose what color you want the highlight to be for both the main page and for boards (or you can choose no color to leave it standard).
Karma (optional feature). Each user can have their own karma, which other users can praise or smite a user to increase or decrease the users karma.
Reserved words will no longer effect Administrators and Global Moderators
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)

Profiles (14)
Last known IP address of user saved in profile
A notes section will be added so admins/mods can add notes that no one else can see
Disable / Enable account
Last login date
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 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
The "notification" screen will have its contents moved to the profile area.
Clicking on "profile" at the top will allow you to view your profile. An option to edit your profile will be on that page.

View Members (1)
In addition to our current options, a photo-album mode will be added which will display users with their avatars.

Calendar (5)
An option to set who can view the calendar (Guests / Members / Admins and mods)
Ability to choose who will be able to add entries to the calendar
Edit calendar entry ability
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 (3)
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

Posting / Polls / Modifying (6)
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.
Add checkbox that a mod can select to sticky a post when it is posted / modified.

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[Echo-ediS]

whoa dude thats alottua stuff,thx for the info its definately worth waitin fo

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And there's still more.....


Instant Messages (1)
Option in IM Preferences to get a popup message when you have a new IM.

Profiles (2)
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.

Member Groups (3)
Every member group will have their own specific powers that you can assign to them.
You will be able to assign a color to member groups, so people in that member group can have their name appear in a different color.
You can decide which member groups are considered "staff members" for the View Staff Members page.

Admin Features (8)
Search Members will add a search by member group option.
Option to disable the Info Center
Ability to disable the Calendar
Ban members will have an option to ban the person for a certain period of time.
Choose to have text links or image links
A list of all boards not currently in any category, but existing, show in reorder boards.
Logo will be able to be linked to somewhere, eg your website
Instead of the confirm page after saving, it will direct to the main admin page, where there will be a 'status' box saying what has been updated.



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Some notes on the member groups changes:

Right now most of you get custom titles by putting a person into a particular member group. In V4, you can do this by assigning a custom title to that user. The mini profile will show the user's name, member group, and custom title. This way users can still have their stars for how many posts they have made, along with their own title.

Member groups will all have their own powers that you can assign to them. By default, the only member groups on your board will be "Administrator" and "Global Moderator." You will be able to add as many more as you like, each with their own unique set of powers. This way you are no longer restricted to a set of only two groups that you can assign powers to.

When the V4 update comes along, all member groups besides Administrator and Global Moderator will become custom titles instead of member groups -- with one exception. If a user is in a member group that is set to have access to a particular category, that user will stay in their member group.

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and some more...

1) Attachments
Yes, you heard me right. Attachments. You will be able to attach files to the messages you post. These will be available for download for those viewing the forum (not to guests, only members). Every forum will have 100KB of free space that they can use for attachments. Administrators will be able to decide who should be able to post attachments (Members & Staff, or just Staff -- sorry, no guests posting attachments!). For those who want more space than the free 100KB, there will be plans available as a paid feature. The maximum file size that will be allowed is not yet set in stone, but will most likely be approximately 1 megabyte. When posting an attachment, the person must agree that the file that they are uploading does not violate any copyright laws and they take full responsibility for posting it.

2) Advanced Moderation Mode
Wow, sounds cool, doesn't it? But... what does it do? Advanced Moderation Mode will be a mode that you can turn on or off for the member groups at your forum (remember, each member group can have their own powers as announced previously). When AMM mode is enabled, when browsing your forum you will see extra options enabled. When you go to view a board and it lists all the topics, check boxes will appear next to each of the topics. At the bottom of the page you will be presented with options which will include sticky/unsticky, lock/unlock, remove topic(s), and move topic(s). This will allow you to manage multiple threads all at once.

3) New Date Formats
In your profile, you will have more customization over how dates and time are displayed. You will be able to choose between am/pm and 24-hour time (e.g. 17:53 = 5:54pm), you can choose to display month second (DD/MM/YY for those Brit's out there). Also, the "Time Offset" will change to a drop down box which will list the different time zones (e.g. PST, EDT, GMT, etc etc etc) and you simply can select which time zone you are in.

4) New UBBC Code: ...
Confused yet? This new feature will let you type UBBC code in your post and have it displayed on the screen. For example, if you want to show someone how to use bold in UBBC, you can type to the person: To do bold, just type [b]text you want to make bold[/b] (of course the "noubbc" tags won't show up, but the bold ones will).


source- proboard support forums!

[kwiks90]

:cool: cant wait :cool:

[Echo-ediS]

cool dude

[HeartbreakCrip69]

wow sounds good

[iNjECTi0N]

This is going to be a huge improvement, Proboards will be awesome.

[2 Fast]

it does sound gd i cant wait!!