Proboards Version 4

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this is a copy and pasted post of the proboards.com staff this is what he said about version 4

I know some of you may be wondering what is coming next for everyone here. Well, about three months ago we released ProBoards Version 3. As many of you know, this was a significant upgrade with many new features that were made available. We are now looking towards version 4 which is another complete rewrite of the ProBoards code.

The next version of ProBoards will not only be a complete rewrite of the board software, but much more. My goals for ProBoards Version 4 is as follows:




Increased speed
I am looking to significantly increase the speed of the forum software.

New features
There are over a hundred new features that are planned for the new version. Yes, you read that right, over a hundred.

New Help Guide
I plan on releasing a new help guide with a great amount of detail on how to perform various functions on the board, meant for users who are new to the boards.

New Web Site Design
The main ProBoards site will be redesigned and have all new content to reflect these major changes.



Now, I can hear two main questions being asked:

When will PBV4 be released?
I am not setting any tentative date on the release of PBV4. I will say that I have already started work on it. I will not say how far it is, or how close it is to completion. I am allowing myself enough time to thoroughly test every single attribute of the board system before it's release as a final product -- and thus, no date will be set for release until it is near 100% completion.

What are the new features going to be?
Like I said.. there are going to be over a hundred. I'll make a list of most, but not all, of them:



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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Censored Words (3)
An option will be added to reset the censored words list.
In the censored words list you will be able to use the "=" character.
Option to make only "full words" matched censored. For example, if you put ass=butt in your censor, you don't want "grass" to change into "grbutt"

Admin Features (22)
Headers and footers will be revamped to be easier to use. Each board will have it's own page for editing the header or footer of that board.
A "global header" will be created which you can insert code in that will display on every single board.
A download header and footer data option will be available which will provide an easy way for members to backup their headers and footers.
Deleting a user who is a moderator will instantly de-mod them from any boards they are a moderator at.
When you delete a user, you will be given the option to ban that user as well. With a single click of a button you will be able to instantly ban that user by their email address, username, and IP all at once. The work is instantly done for you.
You will be able to mass delete posts by a particular user, or mass delete threads started by a particular user.
Administrators will be able to mass IM based on member group.
A "Recycle Bin" will be created where deleted threads will go. Threads and posts will stay here for 5 days, and you will be able to move them back while they are still there.
The password protection feature will evolve slightly. You will be able to create multiple username/password combinations which may be used to access a board. This way you can create many accounts, and if you want to revoke access to a board from one user, it will be easy.
All boards may have sub-boards, that is a board that is "underneath" another board.
An option will be available to force users to register before they can view your board.
On the board settings page you will be able to preview the colors you enter.
A checkbox will be added next to "Background Image" on the board settings page which will be for if the administrator wants a fixed background.
The news fader code has been rewritten to fade more evenly through the color spectrum as well as to fix a small flash that sometimes occurred in the fader of some boards.
When moving a message, you will be able to choose whether or not to leave a "Moved: ..." message on the board the topic was moved from.
Option to enable a "quick reply" box at the end of threads.
Ability to select how many posts to display per page on the board and inside threads.
Option to disallow images in signatures.
Add search by registration date option to member search.
Add search for users who have no posted in X days to member search.
Ability to have as many ranks as you want with certain post count requirements to get to each.
Customize board images will have an option to reset back to the original icons.

Instant Messaging (3)
Inbox and outboxes will have cell highlight identical to that of the boards (feature mentioned earlier).
Users will be able to keep an address book of users so that they may easily select who they want to IM.
A "check all" checkbox will be added to the inbox and outbox pages.

Ad-Free (2)
Ad-Free will contain extra details such as telling you how many ad-free credits you have applied for each month
Any board that is ad-free will have the option of removing the PayPal link at the bottom of their board. A button will be provided on the Ad-Free page in the admin area which you can use to buy additional credits.

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.



That is a whopping 98 features listed right there, and by no means is that the complete list of new features for this new version.

[Fuzzle]

WOW!!

That sounds cool!!!