[div style="font-style: italic; font-family: Verdana;"]My question is why did you do it?[/div][font style="font-family: Verdana;" size="2"]
Well.....the old board was okay, but it lacked a lot of stuff that people wanted. This one has all the same features the old board had, plus a few additional options. It takes a little getting used to, but I hope ya like it.
[/font][ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Advanced permission and user management.[/li][li]Supports multiple languages at once, including Canadian, eh![/li][li]Tracking of new and old unread topics, not just from your last visit.[/li][li]Designed for optimal performance and scalability.[/li][li]Multi-media output. ([acronym title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language"]XHTML[/acronym], [acronym title="Extensible Markup Language"]XML[/acronym], [acronym title="Really Simple Syndication"]RSS[/acronym], [acronym title="Wireless Application Protocol"]WAP[/acronym])[/li][li]Multi-language support from a large community.[/li][li]Search: [ul][li]Search the entire forum, a category/board or within a topic.[/li][li]Search within your personal messages.[/li][/ul] [/li][/ul][h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Forum Settings[/h3][ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Word censoring, either full word or partial.[/li][li]Ability to break up long words.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Boards and Categories[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Group boards into collapsable categories.[/li][li]Set categories as non-collapsable.[/li][li]Reorder boards within categories, or reorder categories.[/li][li]Create child boards under other boards. (sub boards)[/li][li]Assign moderators to boards.[/li][li]Allow certain membergroups to access a board, including guests [em]only[/em].[/li][li]Configure permissions for each membergroup on the board level.[/li][li]Ability to indicate new posts to child boards but nothing new in parent.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Member Registration[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Require registration before forum entrance.[/li][li]Require a user to agree to terms before they register.[/li][li]Disable member registration completely (allowing only moderators to register people).[/li][li]Require email authentication by sending an authentication link.[/li][li]Require a moderator to approve registration.[/li][li]Register new members from the admin center.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Member Navigation and Authentication[/h3][ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Password reminder option, by email with confirmation. (doesn't automatically reset your password.)[/li][li]Both cookie and session based authentication (works without cookies.)[/li][li]Cookies can be set local to a path, global to all subdomains, or normally.[/li][li]Adjustable expiration time for authentication cookies.[/li][/ul][h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Statistics[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Several board statistics (accessible by permission.)[/li][li]Tracking of member's online time in seconds.[/li][li]Tracking of topics, messages, new members, and hits per day.[/li][li]Individual member statistics accessible from their profile.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]News and Announcements[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Ability to create announcement boards (members receive a notification of topics automatically.)[/li][li]Member option to disable receiving announcements.[/li][li]Email or private message your members by membergroup.[/li][li]Show a news ticker or news fader.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Communication[/h3][ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Ability to send a topic to a friend.[/li][li]Private messaging system for registered users
[/li][li]Ability to view a "printer friendly" version of topics.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Membergroups[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Create membergroups to group members on permissions, access rights, and/or appearance.[/li][li]Assign several membergroups to a single member, with one membergroup as the primary group.[/li][li]Define membergroups that are auto-assigned based on the amount of posts a user has.[/li][li]Determine the maximum number of personal messages a membergroup is allowed to have by group.[/li][li]Assign graphical symbol(s) to a membergroup - by primary group.[/li][li]Determine which membergroups are allowed to access a board.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Banning[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Ban members based on their username, email address, IP address or hostname.[/li][li]Support of wildcards for email address, IP address, and hostname.[/li][li]Include a ban reason (viewable for the banned user).[/li][li]Include a ban note (only viewable by the admins).[/li][li]Chose between full ban, 'no post' ban, or registration ban.[/li][li]Include an expiration time for bans.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]External integration[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li] Integrate parts of forum software into existing website using SSI or PHP. [ul][li]Recent topics or posts.[/li][li]Recent news posts in a board.[/li][li]Recent polls.[/li][li]Several forum statistics.[/li][li]List of users online.[/li][li]The menu bar.[/li][li]News.[/li][li]Search.[/li][li]Login/logout.[/li][li]Today's events/birthdays/holidays.[/li][/ul] [/li][li] Export forum data using XML/RSS [ul][li]Latest members.[/li][li]News.[/li][li]Recent posts.[/li][/ul] [/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Wireless access[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Support for WAP, WAP2 and I-mode protocols.[/li][li]Browse through boards/topics/messages with reduced page size.[/li][li]Ability to login and logout (not with WAP 1.)[/li][li]Ability to see new topics/boards with new replies.[/li][li]Ability to jump to first unread reply.[/li][li]Ability to post new messages (not with WAP 1.)[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Theming and Templating[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Default templates are XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.0 compliant.[/li][li]Admin can add smileys and smiley sets.[/li][li]Members can choose which smiley set they wish to use (or none.)[/li][li]Themes can be installed by way of the "latest and greatest themes" panel.[/li][li]SSI can have and show layers and the like from the template system.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Posting Features[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Spell Check.[/li][li] Quick Reply [ul][li]Members can disable it or collapse it.[/li][li]Can be used with "Quote".[/li][li]Also contains "Spell Check".[/li][/ul] [/li][li]Vast number of "bulletin board codes" to use (including rtl, acronym, and others.)[/li][li]Optional editing grace period before a post is shown as modified.[/li][li]Built-in "Karma" management (optional)
[/li][li]'Insert Quote' feature on posting screen to quickly quote previous replies.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Polls[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Can be added or removed to existing topics.[/li][li]Ability to set expiration date.[/li][li]Ability to hide results till expiration of poll.[/li][li]Ability to hide results until after people have voted.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Attachments[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Allowed on a per member group or board basis.[/li][li]Optional restriction on what filetypes may be uploaded.[/li][li]Ability to restrict such that only registered members can view them (disables hotlinking, mostly.)[/li][li]Images can be embedded into posts.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Calendar Support[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Shows Birthdays, Events and Holidays.[/li][li]Display calendar information on board index.[/li][li]Link an existing topic to the calendar.[/li][li]Allow only certain members/groups post events.[/li][li]Event poster can edit event.[/li][li]Events can span multiple days.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]Moderation Tools[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li] Ability to lock and unlock a topic. [ul][li]Topics which are locked by an administrator can not unlocked by anyone else.[/li][/ul] [/li][li]Ability to allow members to use moderation on just topics they posted.[/li][li]"Report to moderator" link.[/li][li]Delete or modify posts.[/li][li]Ability to Merge/Split topics.[/li][li]Move or delete topics.[/li][li]Sticky or unsticky topics.[/li][li]Moderation log which shows moderation activity and disallows log removal outside of 1 day.[/li][li]AJAX editing: [ul][li]Edit a post without page reloads.[/li][li]Double click to edit topic subjects on message index.[/li][/ul] [/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]User Profiles and User Options[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Ability to hide user's email address from the public.[/li][li]Select favorite theme among the activated forum themes.[/li][li]Select their smiley set from the ones available.[/li][li] Email notification [ul][li]New topics per board.[/li][li]Single topics.[/li][li]Private messages.[/li][/ul] [/li][li]Options to hide other members' avatars and signatures.[/li][li]Ability to download and resize uploaded avatars.[/li][li]Personal text, avatar, signature, and all the niceties of forums can be used and are kept up to date in all your posts.[/li][/ul] [h3 style="font-family: Verdana;"]User Resources[/h3] [ul style="font-family: Verdana;"][li]Icons for topics you've posted to.[/li][li]Show new replies to [em]your[/em] posts.[/li][li]Collapsible 'Additional Options' on post screen.[/li][li]Ability to view most recent messages.[/li][li]List all topics that have new replies since your last visit.[/li][li]See who is browsing the same boards or topics as you.[/li][li]Topics that span multiple pages have the page numbers listed as well as an "all" link.[/li][/ul][font style="font-family: Verdana;" size="2"]
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