ProBoard's 4.5 upgrade

[Naj]

If you haven't noticed we are in the midst of a system upgrade.

Here are the changes coming:




Upgrade in Progress!

ProBoards Version 4.5



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New Feature List The following changes are being made to our service:

New thread sort options (ascending or descending):
Order by subject
Thread creator
Replies
Views
Post order
Revamped poll system with many new options:
Ability to select multiple answers
Auto locking polls at a given time
Ability to hide results until users have voted/poll is locked
Ability to retract votes
New sub-board permissions:
Ability to have all subboard posts appear in its parent board
The ability to hide subboards
Vastly improved speed on post and member searches:
1,000 member limit for top posters has been removed from large forums
Member lists can be sorted in any order
Search posts speeds increased dramatically
Listing of all users online over the entire day added.

Calendar entries displayed at the bottom of the page are now in date order.

Gradients can be automatically generated for your forums colors.

Ability to add a poll to an existing thread.

Ability to set default listing order to a board (date, subject, etc).

Ability to request a forgotten password by email address has been added.

Character limit in posts and personal messages has been in been increased from 25,000 to 60,000.

Category access can now be granted based on membergroup and/or post count related ranks.

Improved page jump, decreasing load times on large boards/threads/member lists.

Other small software fixes (eg "on Today" now displays as just "Today").



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[Khaya]

I was shocked (in a good way!) when I visited LA again!
I love the better pagesearcher. And the memberlist really increased.
And it's not like with other upgrades of things it slows my computer ;D

Better, better! ;D

Apr 14, 2008 12:49:57 GMT -5 Naj said:

1,000 member limit for top posters has been removed from large forums

I don't get it. Is this the reason we have far less members now?

[riche]

I was surprised by the "we're upgrading" message, luckily it didn't seem to last too long. Any performance improvements are welcome. If new code makes the boards generate more quickly then all proboards users benefit.

The drop in member numbers is a surprise.

The loss of the page drop-list in a thread is a shame, it was a quick way of getting around.

[babyv16]

I noticed some changes..I like it!

Does that mean that the members who don't post as often will be booted out of here?

[riche]

Apr 14, 2008 15:58:31 GMT -5 @babyv16 said:

Does that mean that the members who don't post as often will be booted out of here?

I don't know what happened to the member numbers but I am not aware of any such thing being the case.

[Naj]

There should be no effect on the total number of members or if they don't post. It looks the the upgrade created an automatic board member recount which now reflects the total number of members we currently have as registerd and active. The reason the number was inflated was because I used to go thru the membership and weed out any username that had not at least "logged on" to the board for over three months. That's different from those who have usernames and log in and lurk but who never post. The latter wouldn't be affected.