New Websites!
We've just unveiled our brand new design across our websites. This includes this website, our revamped
forum directory, our new server status monitoring page and our support forum.
I'd like to thank our designer, slip, for all of his work, as well as everyone else who contributed ideas and tested it. If you do find any problems with the new site(s), then just head over to our support forum and let us know.
Embed Videos, RSS 2.0 Feeds, UBBC Docs
We've supported the use of embedded YouTube videos for quite a while, but we've now made them easier to use and have added support for Google Video. As this makes our UBBC system very advanced we've added a new
guide to ubbc tags which lists and explains all the tags available to you along with some examples.
For more information on how to use our [flash] tags as well as to find out about the other parts of this upgrade, visit our support forum via the link below.
Email & PM Topic Notifications
Users can opt to receive notification to certain topics via either a new private message or as an email. The whole system where users can add and remove notifications is
AJAX
based so that a topic can be bookmarked without the user having to load a new page or navigate away from the topic.
User Reputation & Improved Templating
We've introduced a
user reputation
system (also known as karma or fame) which enables users to give one another a rating. Users with a higher reputation themselves have more influence over someone else's reputation. You can view a full demo of this system on our
support forum
We've also improved on our templating system to give you better control over your forum without the need for complicated javascript.
Private Conversations
Our new private
conversations
system takes a whole
new approach
to users communication with one another. The new system works in a similar way to
in that you get a topic view of related messages, you can label messages and there is a quick reply option.
Send Emails/Newsletters to Members
A new
feature
has been introduced enabling admins to send an email
to all members who have validated their email address & chosen to receive forum emails.
