New upgrades

[BSC RPG]

It's not a competition thing. It's a for fun thing... There's nothing meant by it.... I saw a cool thing on another board and added it. Personally I like it. It's not meant to see who's posting and who isn't. It's a for giggles thing....As far as I know it isn't supposed to be accurate. I'm still trying to figure it out...What clock are you referring to? The post count is still visible...

[Logan]

I think Brie means the clock that appeared at the top of the page. I miss that being there too!

And if the meters aren't meant to be accurate, I don't see any point in having them. They are cute, but they could be confusing to new members and we'll be forever explaining that they don't really mean anything. The possible confusion concerns me more than any allusions to competition.

[Captain Hawke]

The clock at the top of the page can't come back. It was part of the header. It is incompatible with the skin I'm using.... If the clock comes back, I'd need to go back to the old skin I was using to bring it back...If nobody likes the RPG mod I'll get rid of it.

[Skyler]

IMHO on the RPG Stats..... to confusing, they imply to much in our RPG setting. We do not rely on stats for our characters, and for new members that have a background in RPGing, especially the old Table Top Dice Chuckers, it could be confusing. I know of one such member that joined several years ago that was unsure of how to post at first because of the old table topper coming out in him. For the grey beards in the group, its hard to understand RPG and not have stats to do everything, or not having to make ability checks for your actions. I know they are meant to be in jest, but, the less confusing we can make it, the better I say.

again, just my opinion....

[BSC RPG]

*sigh* Damn.. ok, it's gone....

[BSC RPG]

Inside V5: More New Features!

With development of Version 5 in full swing here, we have many new and exciting features that are being added. Here are just a few of the literally hundreds of new features that we are adding:

Split Threads

Ever had a time when a topic's discussion went from on-topic to off? With the Split Thread feature, you can take posts out of an existing thread and create a new thread from those posts.

Merge Threads

Sometimes there are multiple threads discussing the same topic on a forum. You will have the ability to merge these topics into one single thread with this handy feature.

Personal Messages: Conversations

Currently when you exchange messages with another member of your forum via our Personal Message system, each message shows up as it's own item in your Inbox and Outbox. In Version 5, each conversation you have will group together and function more like a thread does. This will allow you to read your entire conversation from one single page instead of needing to go back and look for previous messages.

Threads: "Look Inside" Option

In Version 5, you will have the ability to "see" into a thread without actually clicking on it. After hovering your mouse over the subject of a thread for 1 second a small box will appear with a preview of the message that is inside the thread!

# of People Viewing Thread

In addition to the current feature which lets you see how many people are viewing a particular board, you will also have the option to display how many people are reading a particular thread.

Password Protected Boards: Remembering Passwords

For those of you with password protected boards, it can be a pain to enter that password every time you come back. If you are logged in (not a guest), once you enter a password for a board it will remember that password for you, automatically allowing access to that board in the future. If the password for the board is changed by an administrator, you will then need to enter the new password to gain access.

Multiple Member Groups

In version 5, you will be able to join multiple member groups. This gives additional flexibility to forum administrators in managing their members -- anything from restricting access to categories/boards, doing mass PMs to different groups, etc.

Sub-sub-sub-sub-boards

There are no limits in the next version on the number of sub-boards any board can have. For those of you who have very complex forums, organizing your forums into many sections will be very useful.

New UBBC tags

We will be adding the following new tags, and more may be announced later:

[..spoiler] ... [/..spoiler] - Hides part of your message unless people click on it to display it. Useful for when you want to reveal something (e.g. plot details in a movie) but don't want to spoil it for people if they don't want to see it
(I put the .. in the codes so you can see the text...)

[..youtube] ... [/..youtube] - Allows you to embed YouTube videos in your posts

In addition to the new tags, some changes to existing tags:

[..code] ... [/..code] Will be wrapped in a div that will prevent it from scrolling the page to the right and too far down, and provide an easy way to copy the code to your clipboard.

We will be announcing many more features over the coming weeks!