that's kind of an experiment to see how we like it (or not). I kind of agree with you concerning the leagues section, but the others are fine with me tbh.
so i don't know whether to keep it or remove it again.
Yeah the leagues subforums are enormous, its too much to list. If you have like 10 max subforums, then it is ok in my opinion. The hardware section with the Wheels section is a keeper.
Janezki, is that warning system like a 'yellow card' and 'red card' deal? I am just wondering how it works... and if someone has a warning, does it show publicly? You can test on me, but you better remove it!
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I am not sure what other features have been added other than the quoting stuff. So I searched around
Read here for all the details of this new version of VB 3.6
This is the first of a number of posts we will be making over the coming week introducing you to what's new in this new version of vBulletin.
Take some time to wander around the forums and you'll find new features and useful changes throughout the system. Of course, you won't be able to see everything until you play with it as an administrator and there is far too much to squeeze into a single announcement, so we'll be posting new information daily. Be sure to check back each day for an update!
Let's start with an important change...
System Requirements
vBulletin 3.6 now requires PHP 4.3.3 or later and MySQL 4.0.16 or later. These minimum versions are still several years old, so the vast majority of people should still meet the requirements. Check the main page of your admin control panel if you're not sure what versions of PHP and MySQL are on your server!
Now, let's get into some of the more interesting changes....
Part 1 - Wednesday May 31st
Multi-Quote
The much-requested multi-quote feature allows users to tag multiple posts that they wish to respond to by clicking a small button on each post. Once the user clicks the reply button, each tagged post is quoted.
To increase usability, by default, only posts within the current thread are automatically quoted. If you wish to quote posts in other threads with multi-quote, you simply need to click a link on the reply page, and the text of those posts will be added without a reload.
Mark Forums Read with AJAX
If you wish to mark a forum read, you can simply click its status icon on the index page and the change will be processed without a reload. You can even mark individual sub-forums as read in the same way.
Quote Tags Link to Quoted Post
When quoting a post, the ID of the post is automatically included with the [quote] tag. When the quoted text is viewed in a thread, a small icon links back to the quoted post.
Example:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kier The output generated by the Archive is now buffered before being sent to the client. Plugins for the Archive that generate output must be adapted in order to work correctly.
New Buddy/Ignore List Editor Saves with AJAX Along with a new interface, your buddy and ignore lists are saved with AJAX to prevent an unnecessary reload. Additionally to make the interface even easier to use, vBulletin searches for matching users as you type their names.
Options Backup and Restore
If you have ever tried to setup a test board before making changes to your real board, you have probably run into the problem of trying to move your option changes from the test board to the live board. Now, you can backup your options to an XML format and restore them to any other board. Options that might cause problems if moved (such as the cookie path and domain) are automatically skipped from the backup/restore process.
Private Message Preview in Notification Emails If you have elected to receive emails when receiving a new private message, the email will now contain more than just the name of the user who sent you the message. The title and body of the message will be included. Any BB codes in the message will automatically be converted to an equivalent plaintext version using the new plaintext bbcode parser.
Example output might look like this:
Quote: Dear Mike,
You have received a new private message at Test Forums from admin, entitled "Demo Private Message".
This is the message that was sent: *************** This is a demo private message with *bold text*.
---Quote (Originally by Mike)--- Quoted text ---End Quote---
Message previews in thread subscription emails also include the improved plaintext representation.
Auto-Resize Oversized Image Attachments
If a user attaches an image that has dimensions larger than the administrator allows, the image will automatically resized to fit. This is similar to the auto-resizing of avatars that vBulletin 3.5 performed.
‘Reason for Editing’ Available on Quick Edit You may now include a reason for editing without having to click through to the full editor.
Unique Unsubscribe Link in Emails Thread and forum subscription emails now include a link for unsubscribing that is unique to each user. When using this link, unsubscribing from a thread or forum no longer requires logging in.
Plugin Manager Sorted by Product
The plugin manager now defaults to sorting its results by product, rather than by hook location as in vBulletin 3.5. You may re-sort the results by hook location if you would prefer the old view.
Save Search Preferences with AJAX Changing your search preferences on the advanced search page no longer requires a page reload.
The "infraction system" as it's called (the yellow and red card icon which janezki showed earlier) and allows for applying levels of penalising. From simple warnings to automatically reducing forum-permissions (in any desired detail / amount of levels of severity) when the user has scored too many points.
Points are given per infraction (can be 0 up to whatever level of penalty is desired).
The levels of severity (the amount of gathered points) can be linked to limiting forum permissions. So it can be set to limiting some permissions when a low number of points has been scored, up to severe limiting (ban) when a lot of points are scored.
At the moment the points are not linked to any consequence, but it's just a matter of creating some additional usergroups to put it in effect (so don't start thinking the points don't mean anything if you get any).
Points and warnings also can expire after a while, or not, depending on the expiration setting when the infraction was given.
EDIT - additionally, you can't see warnings or points from other users. It's an option though, but i turned it off.
only thing that i have to suggest, is some more administrating over in the skins section; there should be seperate threads for WIP skins, and the completed ones; and all threads that are created otherwise should go through the admins so we wont get all these look at my latest skin threads which just get moved anyway.. just my 2 soon to be removed pennies
Still about the leagues section on main view. It isn't easy to read, because you need to read all to find the one you're looking for. Of course I have my version of how it could be done
(basically make the links to the subforums arrenged in a table alike fashion)
