Dear,

Informative and changes with UBB 6.3.1 we discover
  • user can add an avatar image. this is pictue which will be showed on each
    post of you. possible that you can use your own picture for it.
  • with you can "post a reply with quote"
  • with you can "report this post to a Moderator", which can be done
    without membership and which can be do to each reaction in a topic.
  • it looks like that the current topic URL links
    for topics ("http://81.17.37.55/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000216;p=2")
    and
    for user ("http://81.17.37.55/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile;u=00000732")
    stay the same. so no broken links.
  • it looks like that on our example UBB the problem with too long lines is over. At
    least we know that the layout can be nice like in the earlier days.
    during the "print-friendly view of this topic" our information is also processed in
    another way.
    original post with layout frustations
    print-friendly version without layout frustations.
  • It looks like that "Today's Active Topics - 24hours?" or "Yesterday's Active Topics"
    is still not possible. We have put a question about it on the Infopop board (see below)
  • Jump to New Posts link Located at the top of each topic - when clicked, it takes users
    to the posts in that topic that were made after their last visit to the board. Also known as
    the "blue arrow".
and this are the relevant release notes from Infopop 6.3.0 and 6.3.1
First, our input are only suggestions.
Some TO-DO's and some remarks:
  • sometimes we have problem with adding post. It has to deal with the way HTML code
    is interpretating.
    Possible that Henri can turn off HTML in messages per forum, when we want it.
    For newbies it can very frustating, that he gets such unexpected errors like
    Sorry, we do not permits this HTML tag: Parenthesis in HTML tag
    Above problem can cal already happen with symbols like "<" and ">".
    There are some changes made to HTML. Possible disabling isn't necessary.
  • the forums beta and suggestions get also moderators.
  • the forum COM scripting gets a second moderator.
  • possible to get a central location on "http://kixtart.org" board to upload files.
    Our suggestion is that all moderators get access to same location. They maintain it
    together.
    Possible that Henri creates a directory for it, makes a URL link to a index.htm
    file and sends all moderators the username/password combination.
  • In a poll from Henri in the past we see
    - 94% is using kixtart
    - 94% find this board useful
    - 76% rate the speed of this board as fast and only 6% as slow. slow? with a
    mean speed of 4mbps we are very happy.
    Mostly a slow response and/or performance has to deal with what you are doing on
    your own system. During a heavy download (above 10mbps) we must have some patience,
    but a complete page returns.
  • cj's remark about "searching by member name, IDK everyones ID and it is
    extra steps to find them"     is
    with our favorite page Statistics - BB Specials for
    TOP50 members much easier.

    For a search by registered you still have only member number.
  • possible questions about read-hits can't been solved.
    from Infopop we get following answer:

    There are no topic view count features available in UBB.classic. That feature is available
    in all of our other message board products, however (UBB.threads, UBB.x, and OpenTopic).
    We cannot include that feature in UBB.classic simply because the architecture of the ap-
    plication will not support it (that is a fancy way of saying that because UBB.classic is
    a flat-file system, any boards that are of even moderate size would suffer in terms of
    performance if we added this feature).

    Ted O'Neill
    CEO, Infopop Corporation
  • URL links in message on board appear to be broken now is a topic on this
    board, which handles about problems with latest upgrade. We hope that their
    will no problems this time with it.
    Still we doesn't understand why Infopop should change those link specification.
    A previous reaction of us was:

    Why is "Infopop" changing links to topics at all. In our opinion it
    should and must be transparant. By previous upgrade the old link points
    to the old contents which can't be upgraded by members. Specified links
    in reactions aren't upgraded also which isn't also very bad.

    A short investigation on another board (above reaction contains URL link) shows, that
    the URL defintions are the same.
Question from us on Infopop board:
  • "Today's Active Topics - 24hours?" or "Yesterday's Active Topics" list?and related topics on this board are
    Today's Active Topics - 24 hours? www.infopop.com
    Today's Active Topics - 24 hours? www.UBBDev.com
    btw: Howard Bullock receive earlier as reaction from Infopop. Howard's question
    was
    quote:

    This feature is problematic for bulletin boards such as http://Kixtart.org that are global in nature. The feature starts a fresh page of topics at midnight local time which happens to be in the middle of the day for many active users. The more active users would appreciate a way to change this behavior to return a list of active topics within the last 24 hour period. This way regardless of where in the world we are we can get a quick list of topics that need our attention any time of the day.
    Infopop's reaction was
    quote:

    Howard,

    We looked at the situation, and at this time there isn't a one-line code fix that would
    correct the problem.

    Our UBB project manager is aware of the situation, and he informed me, we will try to
    incorporate a fix in the next major UBB version release.

    Please let me know if you have further questions or concerns.
    Kind regards,

    Customer Support Lead
    Infopop Corporation


[ 04 August 2002, 11:48: Message edited by: MCA ]
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